Sentences with phrase «of ocean issues»

While he's been supportive of a range of ocean issues, Congressman Van Hollen has focused his leadership on Chesapeake Bay conservation and clean energy.

The Senator's leadership extends across a range of ocean issues.

applications to improve management of marine resources, mitigate coastal hazards, and raise public awareness of ocean issues; government affairs for marine and coastal sciences

Not exact matches

While originally plagued with production issues — there was a recession at the beginning of construction, allegations of British spying in the middle, and technical issues toward the end — the carrier was deployed to the Indian Ocean during Operation Enduring Freedom and the initial liberation of Afghanistan.

Overturning Obama's Arctic drilling ban April 28 Trump issued an executive order overturning an indefinite ban on drilling in much of the U.S. Arctic Ocean and parts of the Atlantic.

Wallace said there is an ocean of data that creates security and content issues, and that requires the subjective perspective from a human being to decide which pieces of data or content make it to the smaller pool that is widely shared.

The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states using their military and economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.

«We have to listen to them,» he says in the April issue of Ocean Drive magazine, on which he graces the cover.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — As part of its commitment to a regionally tailored approach to safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today issued a Call for Information and Nominations for potential Oil and Gas Lease Sale 242, proposed for the Beaufort Sea Planning Area off Alaska in 2017.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

You use archeological and geological evidence to support your claim that a huge wave did rip through the middle east where noah was, the flood story evolved from that but then you have to deal with the issues of a tsunami large enough to reach noah from the indian ocean without destroying the entire world.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage - based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into «integrity issues.»

Yet a move across the ocean for five years, a divorce between Claire and her husband, Danessa's marriage, and birth of Danessa's two additional children after Carolyn's adoption have made for some interesting issues.

Somewhere in the midst of all of this, you'll also find my journey through sacroiliac joint dysfunction, autoimmune issues, Interstitial Cystitis, and any other drops in the ocean I find meaningful to share.

A tsunami warning was issued for the entire Indian Ocean and individual countries — including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India — after a massive 8.7 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia.

And though he's often seen as safe in his district, he does have a primary challenger: Democratic lawyer Blake Morris, a longtime Brooklynite and member of a group that has been increasingly harrying Felder about issues like Felder's attempt for a higher speed limit to speed traffic on Ocean Parkway, which critics say is too dangerous.

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

Three storms that raged near Bermuda in 1995 boosted the flow of CO2 into the air over part of the Atlantic Ocean by more than half, according to a report in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

Another possible issue with attribution science, he says, is that the current generation of simulations simply may not be capable of capturing some of the subtle changes in the climate and oceans — a particular danger when it comes to studies that find no link to human activities.

Trenberth cites issues from the low - resolution ocean model to the lack of important ocean - climate patterns such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation.

One of the biggest lingering issues in the global warming slowdown is the full impact of the natural temperature cycles of Earth's oceans.

But there may be a way to cut drag force by almost 30 %, according to computer simulations of turbulent ocean - water flows reported in the 19 May issue of Science by mechanical engineer Yiqing Du of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and applied mathematician George Karniadakis of Brown University.

«The main issue is that there is only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean and not all of them are suitable to sustain large breeding colonies» says Robin Cristofari, first author of the study, from the Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien (IPHC / CNRS / University of Strasbourg) and the Centre Scientifique de Monaco (CSM).

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

But a previous round in the 1980s - before global warming was an issue - attracted similar sums, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

The discovery, reported in the current issue of Nature Communications, logs a number of firsts: the first record of ancient tsunami activity found in a sea cave; the first record for such a long time period in the Indian Ocean; and the most pristine record of tsunamis anywhere in the world.

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.

And hopefully, international collaboration to reduce plastic litter will lay a foundation for broader cooperation on other significant issues affecting the health of our oceans.»

In addition, nearly half of the examined stories on ocean health issues cited potential solutions to problems described in the sample's articles.

This special issue contains a series of Reviews and News pieces that highlight some of the ways in which we see our oceans changing.

Marcia McNutt, editor - in - chief of the Science family of journals, joined U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on 1 June as he talked with high - school students about ocean protection and environmental issues.

A new report by the Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) sheds light on the many effects of litter in our oceans, and highlights the severity and scale of the issue.

«This suggests new issues you could have with ocean impacts that people hadn't thought of before,» says Brian Toon of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was not involved in the work.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

Other papers in the issue examine how deep sea sediments may affect seismic wave readings, and evaluate how the Cascadia Initiative's data collection from ocean bottom seismometers has improved over the first three years of the study.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

«Now is the time to speak up — we're looking for ideas,» said oceanographer Shirley Pomponi, the co-chair of a blue ribbon panel charged with advising NSF on the issue, here on Tuesday at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

The study, «Picocyanobacteria and deep - ocean fluorescent dissolved organic matter share similar optical properties» appeared in the May 17 issue of Nature Communications.

In an email to his staff last week, Larry Marshall, chief executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, «stated that up to 350 jobs could be eliminated over the next 2 years, including 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division, the bulwark of CSIRO's climate research,» Leigh Dayton reported in this week's issue of Science.

In the April 12 issue of the journal Science, Lutz and co-author Paul Falkowski, a professor in Rutgers's departments of Geological Sciences and Marine and Coastal Sciences, point out that the handful of samples taken thus far from the ocean's depths have introduced scientists to new strains of an anaerobic bacteria known as actinomycetes, which Lutz calls «fascinating organisms with profound medical possibilities.»

The researchers reported in a recent issue of Nature Communications that the effects of the Earth's tilt on the amounts of water in the oceans and in groundwater account for the changes in sea levels during this period, the Early Triassic.

In a paper released in the November 14, 2016 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, Repeta and colleagues at the University of Hawaii found that much of the ocean's dissolved organic matter is made up of novel polysaccharides — long chains of sugar molecules created by photosynthetic bacteria in the upper ocean.

Acoustic wireless information transmission through the oceans is one of the technologies enabling the development of future ocean - observation systems, a stepping stone towards gaining a better perception of so many pivotal issues the oceans seem to hold the key to.

Bell, one of the authors of a 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report that identified future areas for scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over a decade.

The Arctic Ocean is beginning to take on traits and forces commonly found in the Atlantic Ocean, according to a new study in the 7 April issue of Science.

El Niño, a periodic warming in the waters of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, will probably emerge in the coming months, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

«We are able to go back in time and analyze archived museum earplug samples that were harvested in the 1950s and examine critical issues such as the effects of pollution, use of sonar in the oceans and the introduction of specific chemicals and pesticides in the environment over long periods of time,» Usenko said.

In his research published in the December issue of the journal Geology of the Geological Society of America, Czaja and his colleagues Nicolas Beukes from the University of Johannesburg and Jeffrey Osterhout, a recently graduated master's student from UC's department of geology, reveal samples of bacteria that were abundant in deep water areas of the ocean in a geologic time known as the Neoarchean Eon (2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago).