Sentences with phrase «out to the ocean as»

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There is an ocean of people out there who have been cast aside by churches and holier - than - thou church - goers such as yourself that need to know that they are not alone and need a place to connect with other people who are on an authentic journey of faith.

As I type this very moment, I'm sitting under a giant palapa, gazing out to the ocean and watching the orange, now pink sun slowly sink down behind the mountaintops just across the bay.

Not to mention, as Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet so aptly pointed out, we treat the world's oceans more like a toilet bowl than a sustainable food source.

Of all the threats facing our oceans — from pollution from shipping to agricultural run - off and fishmeal production — one stands out as the worst.

Their story begins back in 1900 on a small isolated Pacific island known as Ocean Island with the discovery of a strange looking rock that turned out to be one of the purest forms of phosphate ever discovered.

Not just casually, as if he had taken four or five drinks of a winter morning to get out of bed, but as if the Pacific Ocean was pure gin and he had nosedived off the boat deck.

«Then, on the same trip, St. Patrick's Day, I put on green shorts and headed out into the ocean,» she said, as Judge continued to work on his tackle.

But, Pautzke thought, why not raise the fish in ponds until they actually felt the urge to go to salt water, use the streams merely as chutes to send them out to the ocean's rich feeding grounds, wait two years, and — presto — get back hundreds, thousands, even millions of big, healthy trout?

And it is a child's country, which is described by the water's soft, ambiguous edge, and it is bewildering to stand sentry there, unsuccessfully disguised as a heron, with your large white feet sticking out, to listen to (and wistfully try to recall) the wild laughter, the shrieks, the singular tuneless tunes children drone as they march in intent circles; and to watch them groping into their shadows for shells on the roily bottom or building improbable fortifications to keep the ocean where it belongs («What arc - you doing?»

In a secluded spot on the magnificent beach at Siasconset (for instance), looking out to Spain over 3,000 miles of unbroken ocean, a man is about as far away as he may hope to get from things in this shrunken world.

It's quite sad listening to Lambert now — he's so out of his depth he might as well be on the bottom of the ocean.

Sound: Babies love soothing sounds, especially heartbeats.Cradle her close to your chest so she can hear your heart as she did in the womb.Seek out a machine that plays «white noise» or has nature sounds like ocean waves.

You have taken care of Brad for the past eight years as he journeyed to Sherwood Forest, sailed across the ocean, and built kingdoms out of cardboard.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.

The process may also play a part in the mixing between atmosphere and oceans, as smaller bubbles tend to absorb gas faster than big ones and are better at spitting out aerosol droplets when they pop.

The researchers also separated out natural sources of VSLS — such as seaweed in the ocean — and those released due to human activity — such as industrial processes — in order to determine the relative importance of each.

This thin sliver of ocean reaching under the ice turned out to be 10 meters deep, and the camera came to rest on the bottom beneath it, revealing it to be muddy and strewn with pebbles — a flat, barren tract, devoid of any obvious signs of large marine life such as brittle stars, sponges or worms.

It also reinforces the notion, however, that deliberately seeding the oceans with iron — which has been proposed as a way to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere — might do almost nothing to change the CO2 content of the air.

For example, Honolulu stands out in the Internet Atlas as an important hub because of its mid-Pacific location, used to link countries across the ocean.

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

Volk: Well, yeah, some is going into the ocean, but as you point out, there are mysteries still there about what the land ecosystems are doing to the CO2.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

He argues that the fibers are «guilty until proven innocent» and says that textile and washing machine manufacturers, as well as sewage treatment plants, should be looking for ways to keep the fibers out of the ocean.

Even as the surface warms, the deeps remain cool, and this cold water will continue to periodically push the ocean out of the El Niño state.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

As a result there was an increase in moisture transport out of the Atlantic, which effectively increased the salinity and density, of the ocean surfaces, leading to an abrupt increase in circulation strength and temperature rise.

Confirming that the features are glaciers will require another visit to the red planet, but if they do turn out to be glaciers, they could reveal aspects of past and present climate on Mars, such as whether a large ocean ever existed, he says.

As the carbon makes its way downstream, some is released back into the atmosphere when it decays, while the rest makes it out to open ocean.

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.»

As such, according to our calculations, the hope that the ocean would someday run out of heat won't pan out in the long run,» Hellmer explains.

For the first time, these devices, known as ADS - B transponders, will enable air traffic controllers to locate aircraft that are far out over oceans, remote deserts or the poles where there is no radar coverage.

The research team ruled out places that would come into conflict with other human uses, such as high shipping zones and marine protected areas, and excluded ocean depths that exceed 200 meters, following current industry practice to keep their assessment economically realistic.

The more than 35 technology projects on display at the company's campus included its far - out virtual WorldWide Telescope (WWT), software that is helping the U.S. National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative cull data from deep - sea sensors as well as programs designed to make solitary Internet searches a thing of the past.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

As the D14L protein is also involved in plants developmental responses to light Paszkowski talks of a «gut feeling» that — with this ancient protein responding to light, atmosphere (through smoke detection) and soil environment (through fungal symbiosis)-- it could have been a developmental crossroads vital to plants» evolutionary leap out of the oceans.

Fertilising the world's oceans with iron has been controversially proposed as a way of sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to curb global warming.

«Ocean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton: Many species may die out and others may migrate significantly as ocean acidification intensifies.&rOcean acidification may cause dramatic changes to phytoplankton: Many species may die out and others may migrate significantly as ocean acidification intensifies.&rocean acidification intensifies.»

During the past years, scientists have found out how ocean acidification — in some cases combined to other factors such as rise in temperatures, eutrophication or loss of oxygen — affects isolated species.

Just as our moon's gravity squeezes and stretches the Earth a bit, causing the oceans to rise and fall, Saturn's massive gravitational pull squeezes and stretches its tiny moon, causing cracks on its icy surface to open and allowing water to shoot out.

Many of the deepest branches in Woese's tree, those that join nearest to the three - way junction of the kingdoms, turned out to belong to organisms that live at high temperatures, as in the fuming springs in Yellowstone Park or the volcanic vents that gash the ocean floor.

Sightings like Halpin's — that is, dolphins and other creatures like swordfish and loggerhead turtles finding themselves out of their usual waters — may become more common as ocean temperatures continue to rise.

Taking turns with his shipmates, Wiens swung bright - yellow ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones off the fantail, and lowered them gently to the water's surface, as the ship laid out a matrix of instruments for a seismic survey on the trench.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding between the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reOcean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific region.

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.

Eleven percent of the Earth's land habitats are now set aside as national parks to conserve their biodiversity and ecosystem services; in contrast, less than 0.1 % of the world's oceans are fully protected, the researchers point out.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

The next step will be doing more lab experiments to determine what the critical mass for mixing is, as well as to actually head to sea and find out what happens in the open ocean.

The researchers involved were surprised to learn that the ability to walk evolved from a gene found in creatures that can not, as past theories suggest that organisms evolved the ability as they first crawled out of the ocean.