Sentences with phrase «shallow coastal waters of»

Offshore electricity generation, mainly from wind, has increased rapidly in recent years, notably in the relatively shallow coastal waters of Europe's North Sea.

7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja California, Mexico.

Not exact matches

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.

«Our goal was to sample in shallow water, and close to the bottom for larvae of coastal benthic invertebrates.»

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

They are highly productive shallow water marine and coastal habitats comprised of marine plants, and these threatened areas provide important food and shelter for animals in the sea.

Together with similar tracks found recently in other parts of the world, the Skye trackways reveal that sauropods spent lots of time in coastal areas and shallow water.

For most of their early history, these sharks lived in shallow, coastal waters.

The force had a small maritime element that operated six shallow - draft motorboats capable of patrolling coastal waters frequented by smugglers.

The inner coastal waters are shallow and are sheltered by a line of coral reefs, dotted with islets called cayes», extending almost the entire length of the country.

Prefer to feed in coastal bays and estuaries, as well as in the shallow water along the continental shelves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales prefers shallow, coastal waters and feeds over oceanic continental shelves around the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia during the summer.

It features a relaxed coastal ambiance with a long stretch of beach that offers shallow waters.

Or is there an economic motive for coastal property owners to do the cleanup because the new shallow / tidal water will be a food source and nursery for fisheries, toxic or not — so we could make it a safe clean part of the ocean.

Shallow coastal waters that cool quickly may provide lingering April ice in the Arctic in 120 years or so, justifying a sigmoid treatment of the source function at that time, but perhaps it is not appropriately applied to September data now.

In some parts of the coastal area, the conventional shallow and deep handpump tubewells are not successful because of very high salinity in ground water.

In some parts of the coastal area having very shallow immobile and continuous fresh water aquifers and scat - tered population, drinking water supply by means very low cost VSST and SST has been proved successful.

But in the coastal area, the salinity distributions in ground water and replenishment of water in deep and shallow aquifers are regulated by complex hydrogeolog - ical phenomena.

The four coastal states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia have 82 percent of the total Atlantic coast wind potential in shallow water... These four states also have some of the lowest construction costs for offshore wind turbines all along the eastern seaboard, and they're among the largest and fastest - growing electricity markets.

In parallel, the increase in air temperatures will exacerbate levels of thermal stress on coastal shallow water biota [7], with concerns that temperature spikes may exceed tolerance levels.

The temperature regime is very different to onshore permafrost and deeper oceanic hydrates, and sensitive to warming of the shallow coastal waters over the ESAS.

In some coastal areas of the ocean (and large lakes such as the North American Great Lakes), the combination of persistent winds, Earth's rotation (the Coriolis effect), and restrictions on lateral movements of water caused by shorelines and shallow bottoms induces upward and downward water movements.