Sentences with phrase «with ocean impacts»

«The 2 °C target was all about warming and didn't involve consideration of ocean acidification in any direct way,» said University of Queensland professor Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, one of the lead authors of the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment chapter dealing with ocean impacts.

«This suggests new issues you could have with ocean impacts that people hadn't thought of before,» says Brian Toon of the University of Colorado at Boulder, who was not involved in the work.

Not exact matches

However, «With our open ocean pens, we are looking at a minimal environmental impact,» Kelly explains.

With a Masters in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she has experienced firsthand the devastating impacts of commercial seafood production on the oceans.

Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with Chicagoland restaurants on World Oceans Day, June 8, to decrease Chicago's contribution of plastic waste that winds up in our oceans and negatively impacts marine animals and pOceans Day, June 8, to decrease Chicago's contribution of plastic waste that winds up in our oceans and negatively impacts marine animals and poceans and negatively impacts marine animals and plants.

She has also written blog posts on Medium.com, participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that generated more than 800 questions, and engages regularly with oyster farmers to better understand the impacts of ocean acidification on shellfish farming.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

As millions of tons of fishmeal are used every year with much of it sinking uneaten to the ocean floor, Jing Wang and colleagues wanted to see what its impact could be on the mariculture «resistome,» or collection of resistance genes.

The dust — and the tiny bacteria and molecules it carries with it across the Pacific Ocean — is then mixing with other airborne particles like sea spray and smoke to have distinct and variable impacts on clouds and precipitation, Prather said.

They looked at how different planetary rotation rates would impact heat transport with the presence of oceans taken into account.

«The strong impact of ocean onto Antarctic ice sheet dynamics, or the knowledge that we have about it, is reinforced by our study,» said lead study author Hannes Konrad of the University of Leeds in an interview with E&E News.

Asahiko Taira, a JAMSTEC executive director, says that with their high fixed costs, «reductions will come out of pure research - related money,» though they will try to minimize the impact on the drill ship Chikyu, Japan's contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

Warm water is entering the Arctic from the Atlantic Ocean, with the impacts still unclear.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

In fact, the water around such animals flows with their go, new research has found, suggesting tiny swimmers may have a big impact on ocean mixing.

«Freshwater systems have been largely overlooked with regards to the impact of plastic; most studies thus far have focussed on the oceans.

By June 3, the top hat was capturing roughly 15,000 barrels a day — or three times early estimates, and the upper threshold after which BP's Tooms had calculated «top kill» would fail — with no discernible impact on the flow of oil into the ocean.

The crater was filled - in with fragmented rock, and later with more typical ocean deposits, as the energy from the impact lessened and the environment returned to normal.

This paper outlines a new framework for assessing errors and their impact on the uncertainties associated with calculating carbon sinks on land and in oceans.

From the ocean, the fresh water flows into the Greenland fjords where is influence local circulation with impacts on the production and ecosystem structure.

As a result, the region is already experiencing levels of acidity three-fold greater than the global ocean average, with devastating impacts on the state's US$ 270 - million shellfish industry.

The lab finding is «part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors will have effects beyond shell mineralization,» said Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification.

«Atlantic / Pacific ocean temperature difference fuels US wildfires: New study shows that difference in water temperature between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans together with global warming impact the risk of drought and wildfire in southwestern North America.»

Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific Ocean with dramatic global impacts on the climate, according to a new study.

But it is exactly their enormous bulk that had an international commission adopt restrictions protecting them from impacts associated with the international tuna purse seine fishing in the Eastern Pacific Ocean (EPO).

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

The impacts of ocean acidification, which is caused when carbon dioxide dissolves into seas and reacts with water, is a topic that scientists and governments are only just starting to grasp in meaningful ways.

Like other researchers with detailed knowledge of the ocean bed in the Rockall Trough, Lambshead claims he was not contacted by Shell's consultants during their three - year environmental impact study of the Brent Spar dumping ground (This Week, 26 August).

Fertilizing the ocean with iron to promote plankton blooms also gets high marks for danger because of the potential for unintended ecosystem impacts.

Many NASA satellites observe environmental factors that are associated with El Niño evolution and its impacts, including sea surface temperature, sea surface height, surface currents, atmospheric winds and ocean color.

-- To the maximum extent practicable and consistent with applicable law, every natural resource management decision made by the department or agency shall consider the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on those natural resources.

It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

Rising ocean temperatures are proving detrimental to both ocean species and coral reefs, with the impact on coral perhaps most noticeably seen in bleaching.

They will also hear from researchers looking at issues associated with ocean warming and acidification and associated impacts of coral reefs.

«With the hydrological cycle projected to change under global warming, impacting upper - ocean stratification and mixing, the results from this study have potentially important implications for understanding future tropical cyclone activity.»

By keeping reefs healthy, they are better able to cope with the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.

In a joint effort, scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), the Cluster of Excellence LabexMER (France), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (United States), the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France), the UK Ocean Acidification research programme (UKOA) and the German research network Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification (BIOACID) engaged with public and policymakers at COP 21.

The availability of both current and historical oceanographic data provides the commercial and tourism industries with increased insight into weather patterns and ocean conditions that impact the safety and efficiency of their maritime operations.

«As our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification was building up, we were able to broaden our focus from marine organisms to communities and ecosystems, addressing ocean acidification in combination with other environmental factors», says Professor Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR and coordinator of BIOACID.

With her colleagues from NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, she co-leads NOAA's Ocean Noise Strategy initiative which seeks to improve the agency's ability to address ocean noise impacts to the species and habitats in its tOcean Noise Strategy initiative which seeks to improve the agency's ability to address ocean noise impacts to the species and habitats in its tocean noise impacts to the species and habitats in its trust.

Rosati, A., K. Miyakoda, and R. Gudgel, 1997: The impact of ocean initial conditions on ENSO forecasting with a coupled model.

Roberts, M., et al., 2004: Impact of an eddy - permitting ocean resolution on control and climate change simulations with a global coupled GCM.

She is also a Nereus fellow, which means she is part of the collaborative Nereus program between six leading marine science institutes with the aim of undertaking research that advances our comprehensive understandings of the global ocean systems across the natural and social sciences, from oceanography and marine ecology to fisheries economics and impacts on coastal communities.

Kemball - Cook, S., B. Wang, and X. Fu, 2002: Simulation of the intraseasonal oscillation in ECHAM - 4 model: The impact of coupling with an ocean model.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

Worse yet is how the oceans have become poisoned with spilled fossil fuels and how those spills have impacted thousands of plant and animal species as well as the environment.