Sentences with phrase «of seabed»

In the 1998 amendments to the NTA, similar procedural rights were split between subdivisions H, which covers waste management regimes and the granting of such things as commercial fishing licences and subdivision N, which covers everything else, typically, petroleum exploration of the seabed and subsoil.

The deal sees Norton Rose advising the Crown Estate as the owner of the seabed around the UK on which the wind turbines will be developed.

The sale was made to the British Crown Estate, which owns most of the seabed off Britain's shores, regularly leases out its land to wind farm projects but has never invested in the turbines.

The first one repeats what has already been shown — that there is a long - term process of slow destabilization of seabed methane.

The oil and gas that it sucks up out of the seabed gets stripped of all its carbon dioxide before being piped ashore.

There are lots of old oil and gas wells in this part of the seabed, potential avenues for leakage.

Leases enabling developers to begin construction will only be granted by The Crown Estate — which owns almost all of the seabed out to 12 nautical miles, and development rights out to 200 nautical miles — once statutory consents and permissions are obtained.

If it does go ahead, it will include a massive new shipping terminal and the dredging of seabed along the coastline.

Just days ago I wrote here of another recent technical folly suffered by the North Sea Riffgat wind park, where its power transmission underwater cable worked its way out of the seabed to become exposed and thus at risk of becoming ensnarled with anchors or fishing nets.

Large regions of the seabed around the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are undersampled for water depth, including most regions under ice shelves.

It balances recognition of the inherent rights of a coastal state over its continental shelf with the interest of the international community in defining the limits of seabed beyond national jurisdiction, where the mineral resources are the common heritage of mankind and are administered through the International Seabed Authority.

Coordinates must be justified by scientific data, notably bathymetric data about the shape of the seabed and seismic data about the composition of the seabed.

The outer limits of the shelf are defined using the physical attributes of the seabed (depth, composition) as well as distance from shore.

John Diebold, a marine scientist who sailed the world's oceans for more than four decades using sound waves to study earthquake faults, underwater volcanoes and other normally hidden features of the seabed, died on July 1 at his home in Nyack, N.Y..

The engineering and design of offshore wind facilities depends on site - specific conditions, particularly water depth, geology of the seabed, and wave loading.

«GNS Science has been assessing the impact of the earthquake and this video shows a section of seabed on the Papatea Fault on the south end of Waipapa Bay which was raised by 1.5 metres.

In the interview, he discussed the merits of having an independent view of the seabed activity, noting that BP is potentially culpable yet controlling access to what could be a crime scene.

[5:19 p.m. Updated Below you can also read about new federal research concluding that strong hurricanes don't just pose a threat on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, but could threaten some of the thousands of miles of pipelines crisscrossing parts of the seabed in relatively shallow waters.]

Markey had sent letters to BP and the head of the Coast Guard seeking a feed of video of the seabed oil leaks that one of BP's submersibles is capturing — to allow independent scientists (and the public) to monitor and assess the flow.

The negative slope of the seabed creates a halosiphon (salt - driven) loop, with salty, warmer sea - water replacing cold fresh water from the melt.

The discovery points to the enormous persistent gaps in our knowledge of the seabed.

As NPR has reported, the flow of oil revealed in video of the seabed leak appears far larger than official estimates.

On the other, however, the big recent summer retreats of the floating sea ice on the Arctic Ocean have created new opportunities, not just to chart possible shipping routes, but to expand surveys of the seabed that might someday lead to deep - ocean Arctic oil and gas drilling.

Has anyone included the effect of these new creatures in projecting what the stability of seabed permafrost and hydrates may be going forward?

How fast that warming could affect the release of seabed methane?

Decide to either swim over the reef crest and down the wall or find one of the narrow grooves and follow them seaward being careful not to stir up the sedimentary sand of the seabed.

Fronds of soft coral resplendent in electric reds and purples cling to the huge boulders that sit on the sandy bottom of the seabed, wreathed in clouds of tiny glassfish.

Follow a path where bare feet trod as you climb the boardwalk as it meanders up the majestic cliffs of a seabed laid down eons ago.

The topography of the seabed will affect how quickly a wave will form and how it will be break.

Come and experience the beauty of the seabed and take a peak at the many schools of fish of all different colors, manta rays, sharks, turtles and dolphins!

But when their worst fears are realized and the cage breaks away from their boat, they find themselves plummeting to the bottom of the seabed, too deep to radio for help without making themselves vulnerable to the savage sharks, their oxygen supplies rapidly dwindling.

Boaty can also detect the amount of phytoplankton in the water and measure the depth of the seabed below.

When the zoobenthos die, their bodies are eventually buried in the sediment of the seabed, sequestering carbon in the process.

These are the areas of seabed immediately surrounding a land mass, where the sea is relatively shallow compared to the open ocean beyond it.

Large areas of the seabed in a Norwegian fjordsystem are polluted with hazardous substances.

To remedy this, researchers have developed models that point out the worst patches of the seabed.

These strange colonies were seen on an expedition to Tagoro volcano, near the Canary Islands, in 2014, two years after an eruption reshaped 9 square kilometres of the seabed.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

The study is the first to give a global overview of all current plans to mine the seabed, in both national and international waters, and looks at the potential impacts including physical destruction of seabed habitats, creation of large underwater plumes of sediment and the effects of chemical, noise and light pollution arising from mining operations.

In a computer model, the team used the available data to simulate the evolution of the seabed and the response of the gas hydrates during this period.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

The results of his work included a detailed description of the effect of breaking waves on the movement of water and on the shifting sands of the seabed.

Using core samples of the seabed in three locations, the scientists measured the isotopic ratio of nitrogen - 15 to nitrogen - 14 in the organic matter therein; the ratio can be used to estimate the extent of anoxia in these OMZs.

Using multibeam sonar, a recent expedition found that the foot of the slope north of Alaska lies much farther out than expected, potentially entitling the United States to new resource rights over hundreds of square miles of seabed.

Since 2001, the ISA has granted 26 mining exploration contracts covering more than one million square kilometers of seabed, with 18 of these contracts granted in the last four years.

Synolakis hired a boat and took depth measurements of the seabed in Palaikastro Bay.

The production of accurate coral reef models has only been made possible by scientists having access to high resolution multibeam sonar maps of the seabed.

In other countries, such as the USA, strategically placed protected areas have proved successful in protecting vulnerable areas of seabed while boosting the breeding and growth rates of scallops.

Geologist John Gorter of ENI Australia was surveying for offshore oil there when he spotted the plateau on a seismic profile of the seabed in the late 1990s.

Based on its extensive field programme, ECO2 recommends that overburden, seabed, and water column should be monitored with 3 - D seismic techniques, high - resolution bathymetry or backscatter mapping of the seabed, hydro - acoustic imaging of gas accumulations and outlets, video and photo imaging, chemical detection of dissolved CO2 in ambient bottom waters.