Sentences with phrase «shelf regions at»

Using echosounders installed on the hull of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship Nancy Foster, the science team mapped canyons and shelf regions at high resolution over more than 380 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) of seafloor from south of Cape Hatteras to Baltimore Canyon, which runs from offshore North Carolina to the eastern tip of Long Island.

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Fruitickles will be unveiled by the British confectioner at the ISM 2017 trade fair in Cologne on 29 January before it arrives on retailers» and independents» shelves across the EMEA region (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) in May.

At least 62 percent of voters from every region of the state and every party agree that Spitzer should leave his political aspirations on the shelf next year and refrain from seeking statewide office, although he does continue to have a reservoir of support (more than 40 percent) among black and Latino voters.

Using the Great Barrier Reef as their study case, they estimated the evolution of the region over the last 14,000 years and showed that (1) high sediment loads from catchments erosion prevented coral growth during the early phase of sea level rise and favoured deep offshore sediment deposition; (2) how the fine balance between climate, sea level, and margin physiography enabled coral reefs to thrive under limited shelf sedimentation rates at 6,000 years before present; and, (3) how over the last 3,000 years, the decrease of accommodation space led to the lateral extension of coral reefs consistent with available observational data.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

«We have little data on the ocean and ice shelf conditions in this region,» says Fernando Paolo, a geophysicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

Pepper explains, «One of the exciting things about this approach is that it employs a widely used, well - supported, off - the - shelf bioinformatics software known as Stacks (written by Julian Catchen at the University of Oregon) as a «filter» to enrich for pairs of fragments that are likely to be alleles of a single, orthologous region, rather than paralogs or homeologs.»

REPORT MARCH 2015 - The Antarctic shelf seas are a climatically and ecologically important region, and are at present receiving increasing amounts of freshwater from the melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and its fringing ice shelves primarily around the Antarctic Peninsula and the Amudsen Sea.

«We find that the access of warm water to the glaciers and ice shelves in this region are almost controlled by a depth of about 700 meters [2,300 feet], which is just right above some of the warmest waters in the region,» said Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UCI and co-author of the new study.

The papers appeared i Journal of Geophysical Research and Geophysical Reseach Letters: Modeling the evolution of climate - sensitive Arctic subsea permafrost in regions of extensive gas expulsion at the West Yamal shelf

Jonathan Kingslake, an assistant professor at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, also raised concerns about the stability of the ice shelf and other Antarctic ice shelves amid changes underway in the region.

A high temporal resolution sediment core from the New Jersey continental shelf [19] reveals that PETM warming in at least that region began about 3000 years prior to a massive release of isotopically light carbon.

One inventory places the total Arctic Ocean hydrates at about 1,600 Gt C by extrapolation of an estimate from Shakhova et al. (2010a) to the entire Arctic shelf region (Isaksen et al., 2011)(see Figure 2.12).

This is still very early science, and we have some estimates of what may happen to those from modelling studies, from looking at the way in which the heating of the very upper layers of the Arctic Ocean is transferred down through the depth of the ocean - even in these relatively shallow Arctic shelf regions - and then into the sediments that would allow the methane hydrates to destabilise.

Most of the Preserve Kitchen line will be initially sold exclusively at WFM and hits store shelves this week in all regions except three (Midwest, Florida, and Pacific Northwest) but will roll out to all regions by spring.

I was talking to a supplier to Home Depot two years ago and he told me that in our areas or regions, the average shelf life of an item at a Home Depot store was 8.1 minutes or some such crazy number.