Sentences with phrase «ocean climate change»

She graduated with a bachelor's in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology and a master's in ocean sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects of ocean climate change on seabird populations.

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This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.
Saildrone's fleet of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens of sensors, measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.
Saildrone offers government researchers and private companies more easily accessible data on fish and wildlife populations, environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.
Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.
The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.
The scientific agency, which is part of the Commerce Department, studies changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts.
While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.
«You hear about all the bad things we're doing to the planet, to the ocean: the pollution, overfishing, global climate change,» Lowe says.
Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmosphere.
These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.
Climate change director Merran Smith said northern communities need to understand the risks of oil pipelines and tanker traffic to ocean and salmon stream eco-systems.
Climate change is warming the world's oceans, causing coral to die off at an alarming rate >>
A research team is reporting a «glimmer of hope» for ocean coral threatened by climate change, after successfully breeding baby coral on Australia's iconic...
Only a vibrant economy will permit us all to adapt to climate changes that nature brings and about which we can do very little, since solar variations, ocean currents, and volcanic eruptions are quite beyond our control.
A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.
In addition to climate change, animal agriculture is a major contributor to air and water pollution, water use, land degradation and deforestation, biodiversity decline, and ocean degradation.
Many brands produce their spirulina in toxic waters, and since our oceans are filled with mercury and toxins on so many accounts due to climate change and pollution, it's highly important to choose a brand of spirulina that has direct control over the growth and control of the production of their spirulina products.
Among the most visible and dramatic effects of climate change in Massachusetts is sea level rise and ocean acidification.
The leaders also agreed a «blue charter» to protect the ocean from pollution and climate change and a «cyber declaration» to combat online crime and threats.
DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announced the release of the final Ocean Action Plan, the first - ever comprehensive 10 - year blueprint to guide the protection and conservation of New York's ocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chOcean Action Plan, the first - ever comprehensive 10 - year blueprint to guide the protection and conservation of New York's ocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chocean resources from environmental threats such as ocean acidification due to climate chocean acidification due to climate change.
A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.
Researchers have previously suggested that extreme weather in the midlatitudes might be linked to climate change's impacts on the Arctic (SN Online: 12/2/11), particularly the dramatically decreased sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean.
The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.
Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier SHERRI GOODMAN, Senior Fellow, Wilson Center CHRISTINE GREENE, Cultural Ambassador, Pacific Rising GREG STONE, EVP & Chief Scientist for Oceans, Conservation International
Since these set of ocean currents are known to influence global climate, the researchers were interested to see if it correlated with rainfall in the Western Hemisphere, and how such a correlation could change over time.
Residents of low - lying islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans are among those who will feel the effects of climate change to the greatest degree in the coming decades.
When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.
Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.
In 2016, she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in part for bringing ocean and climate change science into K - 12 classrooms.
The Aquarius instrument will measure the ocean's salinity in a bid to better understand the global water cycle — and climate change
Not even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has managed to muster much enthusiasm for the technology: it recently estimated that the ocean's maximum contribution to the global energy budget would not exceed a paltry 1 to 2 per cent by 2050.
In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.
A machine off the coast of Japan will take a variety of measurements hoping to improve understanding of oceans, climate change and biodiversity
You could argue [on] the climate change [one], but [on nutrient] pollution we have used so much [fertilizer] and so much nitrogen compounds are loose in the environment, it is hard to recognize our coastal oceans anymore; of the species that are gone [and] that kind of thing.
THE food webs of ocean species are so varied that predicting the effect of climate change on marine ecology has seemed nigh - on impossible.
The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change
While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of ocean acidification.
These changes indicate that the ocean has absorbed more than 80 percent of the heat added to the climate system: this heating is a major contributor to sea - level rise.
Coral bleaching is the most immediate threat to reefs from climate change; it's caused when ocean temperatures become warmer than normal maximum summer temperatures, and can lead to widespread coral death.
In the analysis — this was [all] originally published as a scientific paper in Nature last fall and then we see it again here in Scientific American in a more a distilled form — what we show is that in terms of climate change, in terms of nitrogen pollution into our waterways and oceans, and in terms of biodiversity loss, we have already caused irreparable harm to the planet.
«Numerous changes in climate have been observed at the scales of continents or ocean basins.
Coral cores stretching back more than 6,000 years reveal that climate change in the Indian Ocean may mean greater droughts in Indonesia and Australia
The fresh water added to the ocean by these melting icebergs may have changed ocean circulation and climate.
Findings published today in the journal Nature Climate Change reveal that water temperature has a direct impact on maintaining the delicate plankton ecosystem of our oceans.
«Climate change will upset vital ocean chemical cycles, research shows.»
As climate change affects the ecology of the Pacific Ocean, many marine species will suffer, while two new reports indicate that certain fish and whales may successfully adapt.
The oceans near Antarctica that absorb carbon and protect our planet from climate change have been working robustly in the past decade, finds a new study published yesterday in Science.
Looking at shifts in Manley's winter temperatures from year to year, he says, gives a good reading of important natural cycles that influence climate, such as changes in ocean circulation like the North Atlantic Oscillation.
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