Sentences with phrase «of ocean reef»

Carole Kotkin is manager of the Ocean Reef Club cooking school and co-author of «Mmmmiami: Tempting Tropical Tastes for Home Cooks Everywhere.»

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Not exact matches

With all this ocean comes a variety of water sports, like scuba diving with manta rays off Islas Marietas, boating around Los Arcos» reefs, and parasailing off of the popular Playa Los Muertos, but Puerto Vallarta really becomes alive when the sun dips below the horizon; steamy salsa clubs light up the streets, and rowdy local bars supply a steady stream of cervesa for the thirsty traveler.

That bad news for reefs is also bad news for the rest of the ocean and for humanity, since we depend on the planet's seas.

A huge proportion of life depends on them — reefs cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor, yet 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycles in them.

Not only is the reef threatened by widespread bleaching as a result of rising ocean temperatures, but the project also requires the major expansion of the Abbot Point port in Queensland.

Coral reefs are dying: We've already lost half the world's coral because of human activity like dredging the sea floor, pollution, and emitting greenhouse gases that warm ocean waters and make them more acidic.

But perhaps more importantly, 25 % of fish species spend some part of their life cycle in reefs, despite the fact that they cover less than 1 % of the ocean floor.

The storm threatened to destroy years of work that's crucial to the future of coral reefs around the world and the health of our oceans.

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 acidificatReef», 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 acidificatreef 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.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

Lionfish University is made up of a group of divers dedicated to the preservation of the ocean's reefs and native fish populations, which are threatened by the Lionfish invasion in the Caribbean.

Presented by Chef's Roll and sponsored by Meat Livestock Australia, Front of the House, and MIC Food, the scintillating showdown saw Ryan Peters, Sous Chef at Ocean Reef Club take on Louis Robinson, Chef / Owner of Spice.

A traveling exhibit featuring massive, colorful sculptures of familiar ocean animals including reef fishes, sharks, octopus, penguins, sea lions and more made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from West Coast beaches.

THE Great Barrier Reef has been so severely damaged by record ocean heat that it will never be the same again in our lifetimes or those of our grandchildren.

A complex coral reef full of nooks and crannies is a coastline's best defense against large ocean waves.

There are clues that these species may fare better than their stony counterparts after a disaster, but more research needs to be done to understand how storms, warming waters and ocean acidification can alter the composition of reefs and whether these changes are permanent or short - lived, Lasker says.

Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.

The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

«We know that increased ocean temperatures are one of the major threats to coral reefs worldwide.

A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), sheds light on the ways SGD affects coral reef growth.

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

The 10 richest centers of endemism cover 15.8 % of the world's coral reefs (0.012 % of the oceans) but include between 44.8 and 54.2 % of the restricted - range species.

It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

Each programme covered a different type of ocean environment from the deep to coral reefs, so each interactive module broadly matched the subject.

Shallow coral reefs from the water's surface to 30 - 40 metres depth are the tip of the iceberg that comprises the ocean's extensive coral ecosystem.

«A glimmer of hope for corals as baby reef builders cope with acidifying oceans.»

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.

An international team examining the impact of ocean acidification on coral has found that a key reef - building coral can, over a relatively short period of time, acclimate to a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

So this work provides a glimmer of hope that coral reefs can attenuate the effects of ocean acidification.»

«The beauty of this study is that easily acquired measures of reef complexity and depth provide a means of predicting long term consequences of ocean warming events,» Dr Wilson says.

Back in the lab, they will analyze the mosaics to see how the reefs are changing over time, and how the variation of ocean conditions and human activities impact each reef.

However, with the onset of the monsoon the new ocean circulations patterns began to emerge that were not favorable to the islands» coral reefs.

Now they were using their days in Aquarius to zero in on the causes of ocean acidification, which may be contributing to the degradation of coral reefs.

The ocean around the Galápagos Islands has been warming since the 1970s, according to a new analysis of the natural temperature archives stored in coral reefs.

Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.

When a reef backsteps, the ocean - facing side of the reef breaks up incoming waves just enough to allow the reef to build up a vertical step.

Other speakers at the briefing included award - winning conservationist Jim Toomey, who created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, filmmaker Jon Bowermaster, an award - winning writer and filmmaker recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, and Luke Creswell, who co-directed the award - winning large - format films Wild Ocean and The Last Reef: Cities Beneath The Sea.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

Federal protection could slow the destruction of coral reefs, which are devastated by increasing water temperatures and the rise of ocean acidification

Among other examples of local and regional tipping points are the rapid collapse of coral reefs in the face of rising ocean acidity and the transformation of ecosystems by the extinction of a dominant species, or the introduction of a new one.

Scientists already knew that ocean acidification was preventing coral from producing the material that forms the building blocks of reefs.

As contemporary signs of global warming, Schneider and his colleagues point to rapidly melting polar icecaps, ocean acidification, loss of coral reefs, longer - lasting droughts, more devastating wildfires, and rising sea level.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument spans 140,000 square miles of ocean, island, and reef.

As corals die due to warming oceans (SN: 2/3/18, p. 16), the overall complexity of the reef also diminishes, leaving a coast potentially more exposed.

Bizarrely, the reef doesn't appear to be suffering from the effects of ocean acidification just yet.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.