Sentences with phrase «when coastal waters»

Often when coastal waters disappear suddenly, an impending tsunami is to blame.

Not exact matches

«In rescuing these vulnerable turtles, which literally are on the verge of death when plucked from the surf, we reinforce our commitment to protecting all the wildlife of the Commonwealth, including its coastal waters, for the benefit of people today as well as future generations.

When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.

To track changes in coastal waters and predict when seafood species in the region may be safe to consume, it will be necessary to establish a «temporal data set» — that is, to measure the levels and distributions of contaminant radionuclides at a given location over time, he says.

They hunt in the coastal ocean at night, when shrimp and squid — their favorite foods — migrate upward from deeper waters.

But the process can become overwhelmed when too much of the contaminant is pumped into a waterway, allowing nitrate to flow to coastal waters.

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.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

«Eastern Australian salmon is highly vulnerable because their distribution is limited to shallow coastal and estuarine waters in southern Australia and New Zealand,» said Miranda Jones, the study's lead author, who was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries when the study was underway.

Eels migrate twice in their lifetime: once as four inch — long larvae from the Sargasso Sea to coastal waters and rivers of Europe and Northern Africa, and again after maturing for a decade or more, when they return to the Sargasso to spawn and die.

They «will be waiting» when meltwater comes, and will be washed out to coastal waters.

When marine biologist Sarah Fortune spotted bowhead whales rolling onto their backs in coastal waters near Canada's Baffin Island several summers ago, she was baffled.

Few studies have described the distribution and behaviour of krill in the coastal waters of the Antarctic Peninsula in autumn [3], [4], when adult krill are believed to migrate inshore to overwinter under the shelter of sea ice [5], [6].

Also, raw sewage may reach coastal waters when water runoff from big storms causes sewage treatment plants to bypass treatment.

That's when powerful winds drive ocean waters onto shore, flooding coastal regions.

This relatively sudden rise of normal sea level occurs when storm winds and tides combine to transport large volumes of water to coastal areas.

Cold stunning occurs when autumn cold fronts move through and chill coastal water temperatures more quickly than usual, causing cold - blooded sea turtles to go into hypothermic shock.

History in British Columbia Pacific White - sided dolphins were considered primarily a pelagic species until the mid 1980's when they became common sights in the coastal waters on the north - eastern side of Vancouver Island and north to Queen Charlotte Strait.

When Santa Ana conditions prevail, with winds in the lower two to three kilometers (1.25 - 1.8 miles) of the atmosphere from the north through east, the air over the coastal basin is extremely dry, and this dry air extends out over offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Rancho Santana's 2,700 acres along 2 miles of shoreline boast a unique Isthmus climate that creates steady but varied patterns of coastal breezes, which when paired with year - round warm ocean waters make the beaches» surfing conditions some of the most coveted on the planet.

Located within the culturally rich region of Andalucía, this small coastal resort has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to beachfronts, calm waters and luxurious accommodation.

Yes, you will need a «spring suit» wetsuit if you are attending CHICABRAVA anytime from late November - early April, when a combination of coastal currents and wind chill can make the water wetsuit worthy (as low as 65 degrees F).

From the water, the coastal scenery around Motuarohia Island, New Zealand is picturesque when the summer sky...

As she crossed the Gulf Stream, she briefly intensified to a Category 2 hurricane before devolving again to an extra-tropical storm when she crossed cooler coastal waters (in blue and purple).

When freshwater from a river enters a coastal ocean, a rotating mass of water called a bulge often forms near the mouth of the river.

When sea ice covers the coastal water in early spring, it prevents the spring bloom from starting too early, when it could be disrupted by storms, explained Jeff Bowman, a marine biologist from Lamont who is currently working at Palmer StatWhen sea ice covers the coastal water in early spring, it prevents the spring bloom from starting too early, when it could be disrupted by storms, explained Jeff Bowman, a marine biologist from Lamont who is currently working at Palmer Statwhen it could be disrupted by storms, explained Jeff Bowman, a marine biologist from Lamont who is currently working at Palmer Station.

When tropical cyclones — storm systems ranging in strength from tropical depressions to major hurricanes — form over the Gulf of Mexico's warm waters, they have a high chance of causing many deaths as well as widespread property damage in coastal communities.

When my editors assigned me to fact check Kate Sheppard's feature «Under Water,» part of my task was to come up with accompanying visuals that would illustrate how sea level rise could destroy coastal cities as we know them.

That random rippling sea - level already causes occasional flooding risk to coastal communities, especially when storms push walls of sea - water ahead of them in «surges».

# 1: «We know that some coastal areas in the northern Gulf were degraded by the BP spill, and when storms come, toxics that have accumulated in the bottom sediment could reenter the water column, as has been observed decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster.»

Higher sea levels give coastal storm surges a higher starting point when major storms approach and pile water up along the shore.