Sentences with phrase «waters along the coast»

This ecosystem, which alone provides 5 to 10 % of the world's catches, owes its exceptional productivity to the nutrients provided by upwellings of deep, cold, nutrient - rich water along the coasts.

Hurricane season may be enhancing the current problem, resulting in low water circulation in the southwestern Caribbean and thus creating a «warm pocket» of water along the coasts of Panama and Costa Rica, the researchers speculate.

Two different kinds of marine turtles, including logger heads, inhabit the waters along the coast of the Mayan Riviera where Playa Del Carmen is located.

Also offers fishing packages for sportfishing in the virgin waters along their coast.

Resource availability will be the key: during the summer, islands on inland marshes for breeding; and in winter, fish - filled waters along the coast and perhaps increasingly inland.

As more ships hit the waters along coasts, the noise pollution is blocking whales» ability to communicate over distances.

Not exact matches

The turnkey upgrade — which included retrofitting of fine screening technology by CST Wastewater solutions — was completed just days before the bad weather along Australia's East Coast dumped more than 160 mm of water on the council region within 48 hours

When the Morning Star is in southern waters and a cruise is planned, the Benoists often fly with their guests to Mazatlàn, board the boat there and then sail leisurely along the Mexican coast to Puerto Vallarta and other ports of call.

Along part of this coast a bluff of pale oolitic rock rises 30 feet out of the water.

«The N1 highway was a project secured under his government, some water treatment plants in some areas like the Cape Coast water were all undertaken by him along with his HIPC benefit toilets he built across the country.

The prime minister has urged people along the east coast to monitor rising water levels, as the tidal surge proves to be less extreme than first thought.

It is found along North America's east coast, breeding in the winter in waters off of Florida and migrating to summer feeding waters off New England and northeastern Canada.

But Chad Widmer, 37, a senior aquarist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium just south of San Francisco, studies jellyfish, and along the world's coasts, jellies seem to be exploding in size and number, pulsing through waters they haven't ventured into before.

Gas hydrates naturally form along the coasts of continents and in Arctic permafrost, places where water and gas mix at relatively high pressure and low temperature.

«No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels: Untraditional approach expected to save lives, businesses, and communities along East Coast shows rate accelerating at a pace in contrast to previously accepted data.»

Once a year, they migrate from the deep ocean to shallow water along the Pacific Coast of North America.

, where the public can make tax - deductible donations to support the analysis of existing water samples, or propose and fund new sampling locations along the West Coast.

In an Arctic strategy released in February, for example, the U.S. Navy said the Northwest Passage — a pathway across the Arctic along the Canadian and U.S. coasts — will be increasingly open during the late summer after 2030, and the Northern Sea Route — another route between the Bering Strait and Europe — could have nine weeks of open water then, compared with two weeks now.

The model also explained why certain volcanoes might exist further inland and have different compositions, despite the common thought that volcanoes should exist solely along the coast, as a result of water coming off the down - going slab.

Along the East Coast, the Gulf Stream provides a source of warm (above 80 degrees Fahrenheit, or 26.5 degrees Celsius) waters, which helps to maintain the hurricane.

«When springtime shifts in wind direction brought deeper, nutrient - rich water upward near the coast, a small population of P. australis became a big population, which was then washed ashore along the West Coast by late spring storms,» said co-author Barbara Hickey, a UW professor of oceanogrcoast, a small population of P. australis became a big population, which was then washed ashore along the West Coast by late spring storms,» said co-author Barbara Hickey, a UW professor of oceanogrCoast by late spring storms,» said co-author Barbara Hickey, a UW professor of oceanography.

It has caused tremendous damage to fisheries in the Black Sea after arriving in ballast water from its original habitat along the East coast of North America.

The sharks are much more common along the coast than in offshore waters.

Researchers found that acidified ocean water appears to have pitted shells (inset) on pteropods collected along the U.S. West Coast.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Part of the fresh water likely originates from melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet north of the Young Sound and is transported with the East Greenland ocean current along the eastern coast of Greenland.

The team observed a region of turquoise - colored, sulfide - infused water that stretched more than 200 kilometers along the coast of the Namib Desert.

In 2012, researchers reported that methylmercury could be found in fog water along the central Californian coast.

During the spring and summer months, deep ocean water rich in carbon dioxide periodically wells up along the California coast when surface waters are pushed offshore by strong winds.

«Areas of greatest vulnerability will likely be where deep waters, naturally low in pH, meet acidified surface waters,» such as areas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predicts.

That's because a current of cold ocean water moves from north to south along the West Coast, cooling the coastal Pacific and removing the threat of hurricanes, which form only when low pressure systems siphon off the energy from warm ocean water.

Climate change could further shift wind patterns and ocean currents, expanding cold water further north along the coasts of Isabela and Fernandina and driving fish populations higher, according to the new study.

In shallow waters of the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of western Africa, C. peregrina lives on and near corallike colonies of polyps called hydroids.

Researchers hope NEPAN will be the first link in an extensive listening network that would extend along the entire U.S. East Coast, and eventually to waters around the U.S., to monitor marine mammals, fish and ocean noise over time periods ranging from days and weeks to months and years.

Inside the NHC's Storm Surge Unit, forecasters try to gauge how waters will rise along the coasts and where the most serious flooding could develop.

The band of cold water off Chile's coast is produced by the Humboldt Current, a slow northerly ocean flow that runs more than 3,000 miles along the Pacific coast of South America, from southern Chile all the way to the equator.

That could set the stage for other offshore wind projects all along the East Coast as the federal government expands the waters available for new offshore wind farm development.

At least one previous study2 has hinted that warming waters are destabilizing methane - rich ices at moderate depths farther south along the US Atlantic coast.

Lowest readings of dissolved oxygen were found in late summers, as is the case in other estuaries along the Oregon coast, when incoming salty seawater settles longer in the estuary and warmer, drier conditions reduce the amount of fresh water from the Coos River.

«Our tide gauge station will become part of a network of stations along the coast of Sweden that will be able to monitor changes in the water level to millimetre precision well into the future,» says Gunnar Elgered, professor at Chalmers Department of Earth and Space Sciences.

Warm ocean waters along Alaska's coast have also contributed, Rick Thoman, climate science and services manager for the NWS's Alaska region, said.

«Early humans could have used watercraft and followed the coast of Asia north then along the southern coast of the Bering Land Bridge and crossing a short distance of water if the land bridge was already breached.

Strange green flatworms, also known as «mint - sauce worms,» collect together in shallow waters along much of Europe's Atlantic coast, forming what researchers call a «superorganism.»

A few hours before Hurricane Irma struck the Florida peninsula, water began retreating from bays and inlets along a stretch of its southwest coast.

In the North West US along the Pacific Coast the oyster industry has been having a hard time for the last two or three years, partly because of ocean acidification, which is related with the upwelling of deep water.

Corrosive waters affecting oysters in hatcheries along the Oregon coast were associated with upwelling (Barton et al. 2012), not anthropogenic CO2.

Warm water, by contrast, is the problem in other parts of Antarctica — at the Ronne - Fitchner Ice Shelf, for example, to the east of the Peninsula, or along the Antarctic coast to the west.

This circulation has significantly contributed to the biodiversity of the countries along the eastern Adriatic coast; the common bottlenose dolphin is frequent in the eastern coast's waters only, and the Croatian coast provides refuge for the critically endangered monk seal and sea turtles.

Although it can be a bit muddy, the scenic trail along the Oregon Coast offers sweeping views of the water and the chance to see different varieties of Oregon wildlife.

March 31, 2010 • President Obama announced Wednesday a plan to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling.