Sentences with phrase «of ocean communities»

Erik Zettler of the Sea Education Association, Tracy Mincer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Linda Amaral - Zettler of the Marine Biological Laboratory explain that plastic has become the No. 1 form of ocean debris, causing serious concerns about its impact on the health of ocean communities.

OceanObs ’19 will specifically seek to advance these outcomes by extending the themes in order to reach the full spectrum of ocean communities.

«I'm honored to join the Ocean Champions Board of Directors and look forward to connecting future leaders of the ocean community with this important organization.»

Not exact matches

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

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.

Ocean provides entrepreneurs opportunities to learn from other business leaders, be inspired, find funding, and engage in a community of risktakers.

Atlantic Sand Assessment Project — To help coastal communities recover from Hurricane Sandy, promote resilient coastal systems, and help build a national offshore sand inventory, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) sponsored offshore surveys to identify new sources of sand in federal waters from Miami, Florida to Massachusetts in 2015 and several site specific surveys in 2016 and 2017.

«We know that if the Enbridge pipeline is allowed to go forward that it will just be a matter of time before there is a major spill that devastates our marine environment and the cultural traditions, jobs and communities that rely on a healthy ocean,» said Chandra Herbert.

Speaker: To be confirmed TMA represents the largest maritime (ocean and water) technology community in the U.S and one of the largest BlueTech clusters in the world.

Two thousand years later, the average person lives on a lonely island of separation in the midst of a vast ocean of the divine offer of community.

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.

Across the Atlantic Ocean, the Netherlands - based nonprofit organization UTZ has devoted itself a similar mission: to advance the well - being of farming communities around the world while safeguarding natural resources.

Among these are the chain's iconic brand logo, its eye - catching, streamlined design, a brand positioning designed to capitalize on its family - friendly appeal while retaining its longstanding sports fan base, a regularly refreshed menu and ongoing series of limited - time offers, a commitment to featuring the most popular beer brands as well as select craft brews at the bar, familiarity among visitors to Rehoboth Beach, Del., and Ocean City, Md., and ongoing youth sports sponsorships, fundraising activities program and other community outreach efforts.

Community Well is a new pregnancy and childbirth resource center on the corner of Ocean and Alemany.

«Expanding Washed Ashore into the community provides an opportunity to engage more people beyond Shedd's walls with an artistic, powerful message that single - use plastic trash is one of the deadliest predators for our lakes, rivers and oceans,» said Kris Nesbitt, senior director of exhibits and experience development at Shedd Aquarium.

Also at 11 a.m., state Sen. James Sanders and other elected officials, community groups and advocates for a Community Peace March and Call to Action Summit in light of recent killings of teenagers in Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway High School, 821 Bay 25th St., and Ocean Bay Community Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel Drivecommunity groups and advocates for a Community Peace March and Call to Action Summit in light of recent killings of teenagers in Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway High School, 821 Bay 25th St., and Ocean Bay Community Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel DriveCommunity Peace March and Call to Action Summit in light of recent killings of teenagers in Far Rockaway, Far Rockaway High School, 821 Bay 25th St., and Ocean Bay Community Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel DriveCommunity Center, 57 - 10 Beach Channel Drive, Queens.

The workshop is sponsored by New York Sea Grant (NYSG) with additional funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Community Climate Adaptation Initiative Program and the Environmental Protection Fund under the authority of the New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Act.

He traveled the world extensively to research and lecture on the topics of education and pedagogy before returning to Ocean Hill - Brownsville and East New York to continue his father's life work and ensure the improvement of local communities.

To reach his current position Leppan had to pay his dues, working in the areas of food security, community - based resource management, and sustainable ocean resource development in both Canada and abroad (including a 6 - year stint in South Africa).

Therefore developing a better understanding of earthquake and tsunami behavior and potential is a priority for local communities, for the wider Indian Ocean, and for related subduction zones.»

George Petrie of the Seasteading Institute, set up to build ocean - going communities, explains why the life aquatic is the future for humanity

In fact, by the time Marco Polo set out to explore East Asia in the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.

«These new ocean bottom data, which are really coming out of technological advances in the instrumentation community, will give us new abilities to see through the ocean floor,» Eilon said.

The researchers looked specifically at the average fishing revenue in 106 Alaskan communities for 10 years before and after 1989, a year when the North Pacific Ocean experienced a significant shift in productivity and abrupt changes in the composition of marine food webs, while at the same time the global price for salmon dropped because of competition from farm - raised fish.

Initially, scientists thought that no species, let alone a bustling community, could survive the scorching temperatures and crushing pressures of these sites, most of which are located about 7,000 feet below the ocean surface in areas of seafloor spreading.

Steinman and his team's approach is «novel for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both oceans over many decades.

«The devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami caught millions of coastal residents and the scientific community off - guard,» says co-author Benjamin Horton, a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University - New Brunswick.

Around the Great Barrier Reef, warming ocean waters are becoming more acidic, bleaching the coral and threatening the rich community of life drawn to the reefs.

Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.

Most recently, he reported on the diversity of oceanic viral communities in a special issue of the journal Science featuring the Tara Oceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oOceans Expedition, a global study of the impact of climate change on the world's oceansoceans.

One of the top threats to any free - floating community is ocean waves.

The microbial communities in these sediments include aggregates of methane - oxidizing archaea called ANME (for ANaerobic MEthanotrophs) and sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) that live together symbiotically and help to remove some 80 percent of the methane released from ocean sediments.

A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of consideration for protection as sea ice recedes and industry poises to enter the increasingly accessible high northern latitudes.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

While ocean waves can differ from other waveforms, the research team gained important insights from the optical community and the study of how light waves interact.

Such ecosystems may therefore provide a unique refuge to protect shell - forming organisms from ocean acidification and prevent the collapse of these fragile marine communities, the authors say.

Each candidate must target research priorities from a list set by the scientific community, which this time included a return to Venus; probing of Saturn or its ocean moons; exploration of the moon's south pole; or returning a sample from a comet, among other options.

The results of this study demonstrate the importance of investigating the effects of ocean acidification in natural communities.

«Was this creature an important but usually unpreserved part of ocean life, or just a bit player among the Ordovician animal communities?

New research finds there is a distinct sound coming from a massive community of fish, shrimp, jellies and squid as they travel up and down from the depths of the ocean to the water's surface to feed.

«Until now, a global picture of ocean viral community patterns and ecological drivers was something we could only dream of achieving.»

Far - flung coastal communities accustomed to the Pacific Ocean's mighty onslaughts were flattened by Typhoon Haiyan, one of the most intense storms currently on record, with sustained winds ripping through their streets at around 320 kilometers per hour and gusts reaching 370 kph.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and member of the BIO5 Institute.

Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

Transport by these deep - reaching eddies provides a mechanism for spreading the hydrothermal chemical and heat flux into the deep - ocean interior and for dispersing propagules hundreds of kilometers between isolated and ephemeral communities.

«If I lived up on top of the hill, I'd say forget the beach community, let the ocean take that away, we'll have our beach,» he said.

Rising ocean temperatures will alter the productivity and composition of marine phytoplankton communities, thereby affecting global biogeochemical cycles.

The study site, Stardust Bay, faces a creeping part of the eastern Aleutian Subduction Zone, which is sandwiched between the rupture areas of historical earthquakes in 1946 and 1957 that generated tsunamis with devastating consequences to coastal communities around the Pacific Ocean.

Working out just how they do this will be important in understanding the likely impacts of ocean acidification on coral communities elsewhere, he says.

A new study published today identifies a set of features common to all ocean ecosystems that provide a visual diagnosis of the health of the underwater environment coastal communities rely on.