Sentences with phrase «of coastal»

David Lagomasino, a remote sensing scientist at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center and co-investigator on the project, told Earther that the southwestern toe of Everglades National Park and Ten Thousand Islands — a vast network of coastal mangrove islets and marshes near Everglades City — were hit hardest by the storm.

Based on our preliminary epidemiological data, the disease quickly spread to most of the duck - producing regions in China including many of the coastal provinces and neighboring regions, Anhui Province, Beijing Autonomous City, Hebei Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Jiangxi Province, Shandong Province and Zhejiang Province (Fig. 1).

The role of coastal plant communities for climate change mitigation and adaptation C. M. Duarte, I. J. Losada, I. E. Hendriks, I. Mazarrusa, N. Marba.

With the high scenario, loss of coastal wetlands is almost total, particularly in California.

If we don't act, the world is vulnerable to devastating climate impacts, including flooding of our coastal cities, water shortages, and increased extreme weather.

Of the coastal blue carbon stored within mangroves, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows, 50 — 99 % is located in the soils below ground.

Migration and habitat use behaviors and their influence on population dynamics of coastal fishes, diadromous species, recruitment dynamics, habitat ecology, ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management

Their mushrooming growth can, therefore, rob large quantities of oxygen from big patches of the coastal ocean.

Biological oceanography of coastal seas, including physical - biological coupling, phytoplankton bloom dynamics, including HAB species, and nutrient dynamics on Georges Bank, the Gulf of Maine, and the slope sea region of the NW Atlantic.

Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.

Management strategies for rehabilitation and stock enhancement of coastal shellfisheries; studies of factors controlling recruitment of bivalve populations.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

Indeed, overfishing of coastal waters has encouraged many fleets to begin fishing deeper waters.

Thus IOI remains committed to a vision of globally integrated and fair international ocean policy and governance, anchored in the principle of UNCLOS and the emerging imperatives of the Blue Economy — namely the integrated economic, social and environmental aspects of coastal and ocean services.

We fill geographical gaps where consistent, long - term data were previously unavailable by sampling year - round the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the coastal ocean.

But even with advance warning, governments and the residents of coastal areas still have to properly prepare for the coming storms.

A swath of coastal Southern California was also record warm, a clear sign of how dry and hot it was in the area.

Two of NOAA's four mission goals are to «protect, restore, and manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through an ecosystem approach to management,» and to «understand climate variability and change to enhance society's ability to plan and respond.»

They knew that as soon as Irma passed the coast and the winds switched directions, all of the water slurped out of the coastal zones would be forced back into the bays — and then some.

Greenhouse gas, upwelling - favorable winds, and the future of coastal ocean upwelling ecosystems.

Today, a wide variety of approaches and ideas have already been proposed for the responsible use and enhanced protection of coastal regions in the future.

Global climate change and intensification of coastal ocean upwelling.

Our specific research axes then are set by the geography of the coastal margin.

The MARACOOS Region: Inland through the watersheds from Cape Cod Massachusetts to Cape Hatteras North Carolina, we seek, discover, share and apply new knowledge and understanding of our coastal ocean.

Climate change can lead to heavier rain from hurricanes and increased risk of coastal flooding due to storm surge.

In addition, dozens of coastal overwintering sites have already been lost due to urban, ex-urban, and — to a lesser extent — agricultural development over the past decades.

Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.

In the 1990s, residents of coastal California became alarmed that a once common butterfly seemed to be disappearing.

The loss of coastal sea ice is contributing to erosion and coastal flooding.

Given the rapid spread of coastal pollution, field studies on their multi-faceted effects on ecological processes in coral reefs deserve a high priority.

The environmental state of the coastal sea, adaptation to climate change and alternatives to conventional fuels — the current issue delves into important topics concerning the future.

The current rate of relative sea - level rise (the combined effect of land subsidence and sea - level rise) along parts of the coastal delta is nearly 8 to 9 mm per year.

This makes it difficult for scientists to study the evolution of a coastal ecosystem from its unsullied state to its current condition, says fisheries and restoration ecologist Hunter S.

According to the Land & Ocean Temperature Percentile map above, a region of coastal west Africa, part of Greece, northwestern Iran, much of the southern Philippines, and central and south central Australia were record warm for the period.

Instead, they are aiming to gather data for studies of the coastal zone.

(C) the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.), that are specifically designed to strengthen the ability of coastal, estuarine, and marine resources, habitats, and ecosystems to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification;

The bounties of coastal seas and estuaries began attracting people before the start of recorded history.

«We've probably misinterpreted some past records of coastal uplift and probably oversimplified past scenarios of earthquakes.»

The use of stone tools by macaques in Thailand has reduced the size and population density of coastal shellfish; previously it was thought that tool - assisted overharvesting effects resulted uniquely from human activity.

The coral reefs of the world are in crisis, endangered by a number of coastal threats such as overfishing, pollution, and coastal development as well as global threats such as climate change.

(2) include, in the case of a coastal State, a strategy for addressing the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the coastal zone that --

But as the world continues to warm, rising sea levels are going to drown many of our coastal cities, along with much farmland.

Pink and chum salmon runs along province's central coast haven't been doing so hot in recent years either, which raises questions about the long - term welfare of coastal grizzlies that feast on them.

Bauer also noted that for the first time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is expected to acknowledge the importance of coastal waters to the global carbon cycle in its next report, due out in early 2014.

Using subsidence stratigraphy, the team traced the different modes of coastal sedimentation over the course of time in the eastern Indian Ocean where relative sea - level change evolved from rapidly rising to static from 8,000 years ago to the present day.

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

That may mean making politically unpalatable choices like retreat from current ocean shorelines, an effort actually under way in New York via buyouts of some coastal residents.

And neither of those coastal sites can compare with someplace like Caral.

The federal agency provided a fixed - wing aircraft for surveillance of the coastal brushlands on April 14, and on April 18 an FBI helicopter joined the search as well.

Arthur Tuda, KWS officer in charge of the coastal region, said some of the ivory could have come from as far away as the Democratic Republic of Congo.