Sentences with phrase «open sea of change»

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The study focused on how the biodiversity and biological characteristics of fish communities changed in the marine reserve following a sustained period of sea warming in comparison to nearby sites open to fishing.

An open letter calls on Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to address the challenges posed by rising seas as a result of climate change

Climate change and the resulting loss of sea ice during the summer have opened new hunting territory for the killer whales in the eastern Canadian Arctic, but scientists knew very little about these animals until they tapped into the traditional knowledge of Inuit hunters who shared unique firsthand descriptions of orca hunting tactics.

The working group on coupled biogeochemical cycling and controlling factors dealt with questions regarding the role of plankton diversity, how ocean biogeochemistry will respond to global changes on decadal to centennial time scales, the key biogeochemical links between the ocean, atmosphere, and climate, and the role of estuaries, shelves, and marginal seas in the capturing, transformation, and exchange of terrestrial and open - marine material.

In the case of Arctic whales, the changes in sea ice might benefit their populations, at least in the short term: the loss and earlier retreat of sea ice opens up new habitats and, in some areas of the Arctic, has also led to an increase in food production and the length of their feeding season.

As new sea routes open and sea - level rises at increasing rates, it becomes ever clearer that amplified climate change in this remote corner of our planet will impact the lives of many around the world.

As far as contests go, the super-biggies aren't open yet to self - publishers, but this year saw a sea change in the RWA Chapter contests, some of which carry a fair bit of cachet.

What has to be kept in mind is that both Apple and Samsung are already into launching their second and third generation devices while the entire tablet demographics too has undergone a sea change with the opening up of a new segment comprising of low cost tablets of the likes of the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet.

With open - air overwater bungalows, enjoy ever changing and vibrantly coloured views of rice paddies, mountain streams, food forests as far as the eye can reach and even the sea.

The white pebble beach stretches into the open sea and changes its shape according to the direction of the wind and the waves.

Since that sea change, dozens of small hotels, homestays, and restaurants have opened.

You can change the water level by shattering windows, exploding walls and opening doors, the sudden influx of a few hundred gallons of sea water into a tight corridor or compartment aiding in drowning, electrocuting or unbalancing enemies long enough to gain the upper hand.

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Of course the opening of SFMOMA is the most exciting and will bring a sea change to the art world locallOf course the opening of SFMOMA is the most exciting and will bring a sea change to the art world locallof SFMOMA is the most exciting and will bring a sea change to the art world locally.

He said there had been a «sea change in public appreciation of the visual arts in this country» over the past 30 years and he was proud that Tate had played a part in the transformation «alongside other national and regional museums and the new galleries that have opened across the country in places like Walsall, Margate, Wakefield, Gateshead and Nottingham».

Despite the open questions, the Eckert et al. (2013) study is important because it provides a more solid timeline and integrated view of the evolution of euxinia in the Black Sea, which is highly useful for assessments of climatic and other drivers of temporal change.

As summer sea ice in the Arctic decreases, the snow / ice cover changes to open ocean, the amount of sunlight that is reflected drops from 80 - 90 % to about 20 %.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — A tense opening session of the 44th Pacific Islands Forum has been dominated by appeals from Pacific leaders for «real action» against the threat of rising sea levels associated with climate change.

For instance, Milly et al., 2003 (Open access) used computer simulations and results from the CMAP reanalysis of precipitation levels to calculate that climate - related changes in water storage on land were causing a sea - level rise of about 0.12 mm / year in the period 1981 - 1998 (although, they admitted they couldn't calculate an error bar for that estimate).

Second, these major changes in the Arctic will be explore as they are already affecting the rest of the world: (a) Sea Level Rise, (b) Opening of the Seaways, (c) Weather Extremes, (d) Ocean Acidification, (e) Thawing Permafrost, and (f) Changes in Governance and the Geopolitical Lanchanges in the Arctic will be explore as they are already affecting the rest of the world: (a) Sea Level Rise, (b) Opening of the Seaways, (c) Weather Extremes, (d) Ocean Acidification, (e) Thawing Permafrost, and (f) Changes in Governance and the Geopolitical LanChanges in Governance and the Geopolitical Landscape.

These new sea ice proxy records are needed (1) to fully prove the scenarios of a succession from an extended ice shelf to polynya / open - water conditions (cf., Fig. 6), (2) to reconstruct in more detail the changes in sea ice cover for early, middle and late LIG intervals characterized by very different external forcings and related internal feedback mechanisms, and (3) to allow a more fundamental proxy data / modeling comparison that results in model improvements and better reproduction of the LIG climatic evolution and prediction of future climatic scenarios20, 21,22,23, 64.

Declining Arctic sea ice reached a milestone in the summer of 1998 when the ice pulled back completely from the Arctic coasts of Alaska and Canada, opening up the Northwest passage through which the diatom may have passed, Reid and colleagues write in their report of the diatom's return published in the journal Global Change Biology in 2007.

The loss of sea ice changes ecosystems, opening the door to invasive species, and alters habitat and plankton blooms, affecting Alaska's commercial fishing industry, which leads the United States in the value of its catch.

Leads opening in the ice will change the fluxes of heat and light penetration through the sea surface and the lower trophic levels of the marine ecosystem.

Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Projected Changes in Timing and Extent of Sea Ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: U.S. Geological Survey Open - File Report 2010 - 1176

Douglas, D. C., 2010: Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Projected Changes in Timing and Extent of Sea Ice in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: U.S. Geological Survey Open - File Report 2010 - 1176.

This update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program includes recent news from each of SEARCH's three Action Teams as well as highlights from other activities that contribute to SEARCH goals, including the Sea Ice Prediction Network, the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, and the Arctic Observing Open Science meeting.

Going from lab to open seas introduces many more perturbing variables like unmixed local environment, real time dynamic changes, biological material, currents etc some of which have been examined.

Small additional biases, discussed above, from changes in sea ice and differences in warming rates of SST and air just above the open ocean (which it appears the Cowtan and Way dataset does not adjust for) might push up the bias marginally.

In addition to changes in the Arctic climate, the loss of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean could open up new regions to shipping, tourism, and oil extraction.

One of the perverse effects of climate change, and of the fact that the poles are warming up faster than the rest of the planet, is that Arctic sea ice is retreating more than we've ever seen before, opening up the Arctic sea to oil shipping and drilling.

Geologists are able to identify sea level changes that occurred world wide in all the open ocean basins and they use these to correlate and identify the ages of the sediments from basin to basin.

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The combat these changes, the report says that the should plan to keep air - conditioned cooling centers open longer during heat waves, move critical equipment in city buildings above sea level, and incorporate these climate change effects into design of new buildings.

The largest change in ridge length of the past 100 My occurred ~ 60 to 50 Ma (57), associated with the opening of the Norwegian - Greenland Sea, a significant global reorganization of spreading ridges, and extrusion of 1 to 2 x 10» 6 km» 3 of basalts or the Brito - Arctic province (58).

The launch of the SRA as an ABS licensing body this week marks a sea change for the legal profession, with the legal marketplace now opened up to non-law firms.