Sentences with phrase «on coastal sea»

With an overall length of 66 m, this versatile and stable vessel is suited for research on both coastal seas and open oceans (except for the polar regions).

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This would jeopardize the lives of many types of crabs, mussels, and sea snails that live in tidal zones and disrupt the diets of larger animals who rely on them for food, threatening entire coastal ecosystems in the process.

The report stresses that «If we continue on our current path, by 2050 between $ 66 billion and $ 106 billion worth of existing coastal property will likely be below sea level nationwide, with $ 238 billion to $ 507 billion worth of property below sea level by 2100.

They settled on an area south of the Mediterranean Sea where some oceanographers say a branch of the Nile River drained into what was called the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago.

If the Reed Sea was not Sirbonis, Israel nevertheless must at some time have frequented the coastal area of Sinai; perhaps on more than one occasion they found quail ready prey for snaring by hand.

Describe your perfect day — My perfect day would be on the beach with my fiancé John, we'd drive out the little campervan down to one of my favourite beaches in Cornwall of north Wales, go for a surf in the sea first thing then come back and make breakfast outside, then spend the day dipping in and out of water and soaking up the sun and going for long coastal walks.

Jeff and Joan Stanford tell the story of their unique coastal getaway, the Stanford Inn by the sea, an Eco-Resort on California's Mendocino Coast.

Wellfleet Bay conducts conservation science research and protects endangered, threatened, and at risk wildlife, including sea turtles, diamondback terrapins, coastal waterbirds, and Atlantic horseshoe crabs throughout the Outer Cape, and protects rare and iconic Cape Cod habitats on its 1,100 acre Sanctuary.

On the claim by the Minority Spokesperson on Trade and Industry that sought to suggest that there was no need for the FACTORY to have been revamped because it is located in a coastal community, Mr Kwesi Dawood thanked him for that information and responded that he will bring it to the notice of coastal dwellers whiles maintaining that the new Komenda Sugar Factory is farther away from the sea than the one built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame NkrumaOn the claim by the Minority Spokesperson on Trade and Industry that sought to suggest that there was no need for the FACTORY to have been revamped because it is located in a coastal community, Mr Kwesi Dawood thanked him for that information and responded that he will bring it to the notice of coastal dwellers whiles maintaining that the new Komenda Sugar Factory is farther away from the sea than the one built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumaon Trade and Industry that sought to suggest that there was no need for the FACTORY to have been revamped because it is located in a coastal community, Mr Kwesi Dawood thanked him for that information and responded that he will bring it to the notice of coastal dwellers whiles maintaining that the new Komenda Sugar Factory is farther away from the sea than the one built by Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah.

A report published Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) finds that sea level increases over the next century will have significant impacts on coastal communities.

«The sea keeps on rising, and the people need to protect themselves,» Ittu told researchers who studied adaptation in response to coastal erosion in Micronesia for the Loss and Damage initiative at the U.N. University in Bonn, Germany.

The new find helps shed light on the evolution of beaked whales as well as their competition: Soon after M. gregarius swam the region's seas, dolphins appeared on the scene, and their success in shallow coastal waters (where they now dominate), may have driven ziphiids to abandon foraging in surface waters.

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.

Maine EPSCoR Assessment and Guidance On March 12th, RCP completed an assessment of the University of Maine's Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network (SEANET)- a statewide effort to develop a transdisciplinary understanding of how social - environmental systems (SES) interact with sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) in Maine's coastal communities and ecosystems.

«While sea level rise sets the conditions for landward displacement of the shore, coastal storms supply the energy to do the «geologic work» by moving the sand off and along the beach,» writes Leatherman on his DrBeach.org website.

Dr Svetlana Jevrejeva from the NOC, who is the lead author on this paper, said «Coastal cities and vulnerable tropical coastal ecosystems will have very little time to adapt to the fast sea level rise these predictions show, in scenarios with global warming above two degree.

As a result, estimates of coastal vulnerability — which once focussed on sea level rise — now have to factor in changing patterns of storm erosion, more intense storms, and other coastal effects.

«It is a great honor to be recognized with this award for my work reporting on the state's vulnerabilities to sea level rise and coastal storms,» he said.

For the study «Doubling of coastal erosion under rising sea level by mid-century in Hawaiʻi,» published this week in Natural Hazards, the research team developed a simple model to assess future erosion hazards under higher sea levels — taking into account historical changes of Hawaiʻi shorelines and the projected acceleration of sea level rise reported from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

On this unseasonably warm March day, 160 students on a field trip from the Wicomico County gifted and talented program learned how climate change, sea level rise, and salt marsh migration will affect Maryland's coastal areaOn this unseasonably warm March day, 160 students on a field trip from the Wicomico County gifted and talented program learned how climate change, sea level rise, and salt marsh migration will affect Maryland's coastal areaon a field trip from the Wicomico County gifted and talented program learned how climate change, sea level rise, and salt marsh migration will affect Maryland's coastal areas.

In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal ice interpretation and prediction based on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local sea ice to parameters used in assessing global climate change in the Arctic.

The international team of co-authors, led by Peter Clark of Oregon State University, generated new scenarios for temperature rise, glacial melting, sea - level rise and coastal flooding based on state - of - the - art climate and ice sheet models.

Dr. Martone's analyses of the effects of sea otters on kelp forest ecosystems can help shape predictions of how climate change and trophic cascades, in concert with other drivers, affect coastal ecosystems.

Coastal altimetry, which provides detailed wave and sea level data in the coastal zone captured by specialist instruments called radar altimeters on board satellites, is at the heart of the project and scientists from NOC have been at the cutting - edge of this technique.

«So this shines a spotlight on a huge area of ignorance: what people were doing when sea level was lower than at present,» says Geoff Bailey, a coastal archaeologist at the University of York in England.

An unprecedented analysis of North Pacific ocean circulation over the past 1.2 million years has found that sea ice formation in coastal regions is a key driver of deep ocean circulation, influencing climate on regional and global scales.

On December 28, 2012, Governor O'Malley issued an executive order that requires State agencies to consider the risk of coastal flooding and sea level rise to capital projects.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

This question has become a political issue in other coastal states - notably North Carolina, where the state's Coastal Resources Commission issued a report, based on the latest computer models, advising coastal communities to plan for up to 39 inches of sea sea - level rise by 2100, well beyond historic norms.

For the residents of Towyn, a town on the North Wales coast, the engineers arrived too late to repair their sea wall, which was built 100 years ago to protect the coastal railway line.

Sea level rise is a significant threat to the world's coastal areas, but the threat is not the same everywhere on Earth — it depends on many regional factors.

The National Audit Office's report on British coastal defences last year highlighted breaches of Hurst Spit in Hampshire, which «are due mainly to the construction of concrete sea walls and groynes further to the west in Christchurch Bay, which interrupted the natural drift of replenishing material».

Warming and the seas — both on the rise Those ancient samples of sediment from 10 coastal wetlands in North Carolina provide some of the best evidence that sea - level rise closely follows warmer temperatures, Rahmstorf says.

«Policymakers in several countries, especially in coastal cities, are aware of the issue to some extent, but overall awareness on options to address sea - level rise is much [more] limited,» said Ancha Srinivasan, principal climate change specialist at the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines.

Because of their dependency on coastal environments, the changes in the sea level which occurred at the end of the Jurassic period — around 145 million years ago — had a drastic impact upon the environments they lived in.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

No one is more concerned than the Japanese, who are surrounded by seas; about 73 % of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use, as a result, the habitable zones are mainly located in or near coastal areas, so much so that, there are growing concerns in Japan of the impact of climate change on their coastal surroundings, prompting the Japanese government to set up an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to undertake a study on climate change, to provide future projections of coastal erosion based on representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios.

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

They focused on climate change and sea - level rise impacts in the coastal zone, and examined ways of how to better manage and cope with climate change.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Mayors of 21 cities in Florida on Friday called on the moderators of next week's presidential debates in Miami to ask candidates how they would deal with rising sea levels caused by climate change, a concern of the state's coastal communities.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Shared field expeditions on the lakes and coastal seas often felt like holiday trips with friends.

Several countries had already set up coastal tide gauges — essentially, a float attached to a pen that traced a line on a chart — and were calculating mean sea level, defined as the average of sea level measured at regular intervals between high and low tide.

The authors conclude that knowing the relative sea - level record for a coastal region on a subduction zone margin is the initial step in investigating paleoseismic history.

The Sunday Telegraph, for example, published a feature on 23 January about people living by the sea whose homes are threatened by coastal erosion.

The two - month program focused on the ocean as one connected system which consists of numerous users and stakeholders both for coastal land and the sea.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding the IOI Centre in the Islamic Republic of Iran will help to promote effective and wise management of ocean and coastal resources, eradicate poverty in coastal areas, organise efficient protection of the marine environment as a common heritage of mankind and facilitate exchange of knowledge and information, enhance the national scientific capabilities and carry out training and educational efforts, focusing its activities on the Persian Gulf area and cooperates with IOI Caspian Sea.

New research published this week in the Journal of Climate reveals that one key measurement — large - scale upper - ocean temperature changes caused by natural cycles of the ocean — is a good indicator of regional coastal sea level changes on these decadal timescales.

Research on marine benthos in different habitats coastal, continental shelf, and deep - sea.

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.