Sentences with phrase «shelf waters off»

They become most abundant in shallow, shelf waters off southern California from November to April and then off Oregon and Washington in May.

Already — not decades from now as scientists previously expected — corrosive shelf water off the continental shelf of the West Coast is eating away at the shells of tiny free - swimming marine snails, called pteropods, that swim near the ocean's surface and provide food for a variety of fishes, including salmon, mackerel, and herring.

Not exact matches

In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

I wave the water out of the brush, blow off the razor and it sits on a shelf up high to dry.

MELT OFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOFF Off the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glacieOff the coast of the western Antarctic Peninsula (shown), upwelling of relatively warm, deep water has been linked to the melting of ice shelves, which help buttress the region's glaciers.

A plague of oxygen - deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves off the Pacific Northwest and forcing marine species there to relocate or die.

They are now heading through relatively ice - free waters to the Larsen A ice shelf, where a giant iceberg broke off in 1995.

An off - the - shelf pressure washer will pump up 1.8 liters of tap water per minute, to a maximum of 190 liters, says Hunt, which will evaporate or fall down to the ground locally.

When that edge moves off the continental shelf into deep open ocean waters, the productivity drops off and the marine organisms that feed larger wildlife are out of reach, scientists say.

The shelves are thick platforms of ice that ride on top of the water off some parts of the coastline.

The Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 and the Wilkins ice shelf in 2008 both saw huge icebergs break off due largely to warming waters.

Fruit juices off the shelf and soft drinks containing carbonated water and artificials sweeteners are bad for your health on so many levels that they're almost not even worth discussing, especially in terms of a bodybuilding diet.

It contains around 92 % of water and it tastes great — a natural alternative to the off - the - shelf sugar - packed juices.

The reason is that the fat skimmed off of broth typically has water mixed in, which decreases it's shelf life.

After all the fabric flowers were made, I grabbed a 8 ″ x10 ″ canvas off the shelf and gave it a quick coat of watered down aqua paint.

Just a few months ago, an iceberg twice the size of Rhode island broke off this shelf and is floating north toward warmer waters.

In the waters off the Big Sur / Big Creek coast are a series of narrow and steep finger canyons that serrate the continental shelf.

The rise and fall of sea level over the millennia, coupled with natural karst topography and clear waters, results in a diverse submarine seascape of patch reefs, fringing reefs, faros, pinnacle reefs, barrier reefs as well as off - shelf atolls, rare deep water coral reefs and other unique geological features such as the Blue Hole and Rocky Point where the barrier reef touches the shore.

The surprise of seeing water presented this way is transformative and disorienting — the solid appearance of the steel is softened by the ripples of light that bounce off the pools on the shelves, and the U-shaped supports no longer seem to hold the shelves up, instead they appear to float down the length of the sculpture as their reflections catch on the surface of the water.

«the required changes in salinity are far greater than are observed on the modern mid-Atlantic shelf or even at sites at comparable water depths off the Amazon fan»

This isn't due to a warming ocean (though the deep water off the Antarctic coast line is indeed warming), but to changes in the winds that have forced more circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf.

When ice shelves already largely in the water break off from the continental ice mass, this does not have much direct effect on sea level per se.

The ice shelves themselves have a certain structure — they rest on the sea floor but as they extend out from the continent eventually the ice lifts off the sea floor (called the grounding point) and as the ice extends out further it is floating on top of the water.

The West Coast continental shelf's sharp drop off to great depths makes the fixed foundations used in the shallow waters of the wide East Coast shelf impractical.

Among the most comprehensive surveys ever done, it looked at floating glacier - ice shelves, which are connected to the land - based glacier from which they flowed, and tidewater glaciers that rest on land and break off into the ocean when they reach the water.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Ice loss culprits include the loss off buttressing ice shelves, wind, and a sub-shelf channel that allows warm water to intrude below the ice.

Consider oyster farmers in the Pacific Northwest, who have seen over 90 percent of their oyster «spat» (their term for baby oysters) die off when corrosive waters upwell from the deep Pacific onto the continental shelf.

Apparently, current predictions fail to include hydro - fracturing, a process in which meltwater on ice shelves force big chunks of ice to break off and fall into water.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.

Solar hot water heaters should be flying off the shelves in Massachusetts next week, as the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) will implement a new solar rebate program that will cut the cost of installing a solar hot water heater on a home in half.

* Turbine blades are formed of durable and lightweight composites * Rotational molding processes used with high - strength thermoplastic materials * Standard construction practices used to inexpensively build, deploy, and maintain nacelles * Assembled with carefully selected off - the - shelf drive and generating components including brushless generators, high reliability gear trains, and double graphite / ceramic face seals for rotor shafts * Self - cleaning screen for horizontally deflecting debris and fish away from turbine blades (also designing screenless, debris immune, and more fish - friendly turbine) * Yaw bearing for bidirectional operation in tidal waters

Other integrated features are 5 ATM water resistant capabilities, NFC sensor, GPS and it even supports Samsung Pay so that you can buy things off the shelves with a quick wave.

If you go buy one off the shelf that's a 5 - gallon a minute when you really need a 9 - gallon a minute and you have one person taking a shower in the master bathroom and another person goes to take a shower in the guest bathroom, you won't have (enough water pressure).»