APPENDIX 1 - IOSEA Turtles
... A Jama Mapun narrative tells that the fourth of seven “alim” (holy men who propagated Islam in the Philippines and are also known as the “Pitu Alim” or the Seven Brothers) lies buried on Lihiman Island (p.117, Casiño E (1976). The Jama Mapun: A changing Samal society in the southern Philippines). In ...
... A Jama Mapun narrative tells that the fourth of seven “alim” (holy men who propagated Islam in the Philippines and are also known as the “Pitu Alim” or the Seven Brothers) lies buried on Lihiman Island (p.117, Casiño E (1976). The Jama Mapun: A changing Samal society in the southern Philippines). In ...
Exploring the Possibility of Altered Ocean Circulation Patterns Using
... Using the Second Law to Predict the Feasibility of Various Scenarios Several methods have been investigated in the attempt to determine whether or not a significant change in ocean circulation is imminent. Shimokawa and Ozawa (2002) explore the issue as an initial-value-boundary-condition-type probl ...
... Using the Second Law to Predict the Feasibility of Various Scenarios Several methods have been investigated in the attempt to determine whether or not a significant change in ocean circulation is imminent. Shimokawa and Ozawa (2002) explore the issue as an initial-value-boundary-condition-type probl ...
Large Marine Ecosystems
... 2.6 Degradation and loss of habitat is of major concern in LMEs. Twenty per cent of global mangrove area was lost from 1980 to 2005. Loss continues at about 1 per cent per year, mainly driven by land clearing for development. By 2030, more than half of warm-water coral reefs are projected to be at ...
... 2.6 Degradation and loss of habitat is of major concern in LMEs. Twenty per cent of global mangrove area was lost from 1980 to 2005. Loss continues at about 1 per cent per year, mainly driven by land clearing for development. By 2030, more than half of warm-water coral reefs are projected to be at ...
Marine Reserves for the Mediterranean Sea
... Nevertheless, the Mediterranean Sea has a high level of biological diversity, and the coastal shelf below the 46,000 kilometers of coastline contains some rich and important habitats. The seagrass meadows, rocky intertidal zones and estuaries of the Mediterranean coastal zone are particularly import ...
... Nevertheless, the Mediterranean Sea has a high level of biological diversity, and the coastal shelf below the 46,000 kilometers of coastline contains some rich and important habitats. The seagrass meadows, rocky intertidal zones and estuaries of the Mediterranean coastal zone are particularly import ...
Coral Bleaching
... genus Symbiodinium, and live in coral tissue. They provide nutrients such as sugars and oxygen that are essential for the production of calcium carbonate (coral reef skeleton). Provide coral with beautiful coloration (without them corals are clear or white; phenomenon known as coral bleaching). More ...
... genus Symbiodinium, and live in coral tissue. They provide nutrients such as sugars and oxygen that are essential for the production of calcium carbonate (coral reef skeleton). Provide coral with beautiful coloration (without them corals are clear or white; phenomenon known as coral bleaching). More ...
Seafloor Spreading
... Until the mid-1900s, many scientists thought that the ocean floors were essentially flat and that oceanic crust was unchanging and was much older than continental crust. Advances in technology during the 1940s and 1950s showed that all of these widely accepted ideas were incorrect. ...
... Until the mid-1900s, many scientists thought that the ocean floors were essentially flat and that oceanic crust was unchanging and was much older than continental crust. Advances in technology during the 1940s and 1950s showed that all of these widely accepted ideas were incorrect. ...
Eriksen2014-Plastics-in-the-Ocean.pdf
... buoyancy and durability, and the sorption of toxicants to plastic while traveling through the environment [1, 2], have led some researchers to claim that synthetic polymers in the ocean should be regarded as hazardous waste [3]. Through photodegradation and other weathering processes, plastics fragm ...
... buoyancy and durability, and the sorption of toxicants to plastic while traveling through the environment [1, 2], have led some researchers to claim that synthetic polymers in the ocean should be regarded as hazardous waste [3]. Through photodegradation and other weathering processes, plastics fragm ...
Adrian Williams - Aquatic Ecology - Summary
... Vessels that may be utilised during construction may cause a low underwater noise impact. However, as large vessels already operate within these waters, fauna are likely to have become accustomed to such background noise levels. ...
... Vessels that may be utilised during construction may cause a low underwater noise impact. However, as large vessels already operate within these waters, fauna are likely to have become accustomed to such background noise levels. ...
pathways of effects for finfish and shellfish aquaculture
... effects in field situations is not well known. Where field studies have been conducted, data and conclusions are inconsistent, some suggesting high risk, others no risk to sensitive non-target species. Exposures and effects of therapeutants at aquaculture sites depend on application practices. Bath ...
... effects in field situations is not well known. Where field studies have been conducted, data and conclusions are inconsistent, some suggesting high risk, others no risk to sensitive non-target species. Exposures and effects of therapeutants at aquaculture sites depend on application practices. Bath ...
Appendix D. - Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment
... Greene, Geological Association of Canada. http://www.gac.ca/publications/view_pub.php?id=190 The coasts and oceans of the world are under increasing pressure from the effects of climate change and from multiple human impacts such as population increase, industrial development, fishing, and transport ...
... Greene, Geological Association of Canada. http://www.gac.ca/publications/view_pub.php?id=190 The coasts and oceans of the world are under increasing pressure from the effects of climate change and from multiple human impacts such as population increase, industrial development, fishing, and transport ...
A VISION FOR CIRCUMPOLAR PROTECTION
... species, bottom trawling or other large-scale commercial fishing operations6. With few such ecosystems remaining, scientists have a dwindling number of places where they can study how ecosystems function in the absence of large-scale human interference. In other areas, past whaling, sealing and over ...
... species, bottom trawling or other large-scale commercial fishing operations6. With few such ecosystems remaining, scientists have a dwindling number of places where they can study how ecosystems function in the absence of large-scale human interference. In other areas, past whaling, sealing and over ...
Antarctic Ocean Legacy: A Vision for Circumpolar
... species, bottom trawling or other large-scale commercial fishing operations6. With few such ecosystems remaining, scientists have a dwindling number of places where they can study how ecosystems function in the absence of large-scale human interference. In other areas, past whaling, sealing and over ...
... species, bottom trawling or other large-scale commercial fishing operations6. With few such ecosystems remaining, scientists have a dwindling number of places where they can study how ecosystems function in the absence of large-scale human interference. In other areas, past whaling, sealing and over ...
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... estimated $1.9 trillion per year. Their high rates of carbon assimilation may reduce local pCO2 levels by >50% during daytime. As a result seagrasses sequester “blue carbon”, storing as much as 19.9 Pg of organic carbon in the form of anaerobic, organic‐rich loams. They are responsible for an ...
... estimated $1.9 trillion per year. Their high rates of carbon assimilation may reduce local pCO2 levels by >50% during daytime. As a result seagrasses sequester “blue carbon”, storing as much as 19.9 Pg of organic carbon in the form of anaerobic, organic‐rich loams. They are responsible for an ...
Milky Seas: A New Science Frontier for Nighttime Visible
... transient nature of these events, being at the right place at the right time to conduct further experiments on these white waters has been something akin to chasing Captain Ahab’s Moby Dick. This paper describes the unlikely events which resulted in the first detection of a milky sea from low-earth- ...
... transient nature of these events, being at the right place at the right time to conduct further experiments on these white waters has been something akin to chasing Captain Ahab’s Moby Dick. This paper describes the unlikely events which resulted in the first detection of a milky sea from low-earth- ...
NOAA Full Name - UN
... NOAA was created in 1970 as a science-based agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its roots trace back to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1807), the Weather Bureau (1870), and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (1871). Its mission is “to understand and predict changes in the Ear ...
... NOAA was created in 1970 as a science-based agency under the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its roots trace back to the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (1807), the Weather Bureau (1870), and the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries (1871). Its mission is “to understand and predict changes in the Ear ...
Book_of_Abstracts_01Oct2011.
... The aim of this conference is to bring together early career scientists to present and discuss their research in an engaged, multidisciplinary environment and offer opportunities to discover potential synergies between wide-ranging topics, thereby fostering interdisciplinary research. Sessions are t ...
... The aim of this conference is to bring together early career scientists to present and discuss their research in an engaged, multidisciplinary environment and offer opportunities to discover potential synergies between wide-ranging topics, thereby fostering interdisciplinary research. Sessions are t ...
Print this article - Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals
... the need to focus studies on the role of oceanography in dolphin habitat selection on a regional basis. In addition, the distribution, abundance and foraging success of top trophic level predators in marine systems, such as sharks, seabirds, pinnipeds, and cetaceans, are determined by large-scale oc ...
... the need to focus studies on the role of oceanography in dolphin habitat selection on a regional basis. In addition, the distribution, abundance and foraging success of top trophic level predators in marine systems, such as sharks, seabirds, pinnipeds, and cetaceans, are determined by large-scale oc ...
appendix 18 - Lyttelton Port of Christchurch
... Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) is proposing a series of projects to recover from damage to Port infrastructure caused by the Canterbury earthquakes and to enhance part of the Port’s operations. The objective of this report is to identify the potential adverse effects the proposed projects may ...
... Lyttelton Port of Christchurch (LPC) is proposing a series of projects to recover from damage to Port infrastructure caused by the Canterbury earthquakes and to enhance part of the Port’s operations. The objective of this report is to identify the potential adverse effects the proposed projects may ...
Drivers of Population Dynamics in Bacterioplankton
... Bacteria are mediators of biogeochemical cycles and are in this way vital for maintaining life on earth. Their distribution, abundance and functioning are driven by environmental heterogeneity and dynamic change in abiotic and biotic factors. Both, freshwater lakes and oceans play central roles in t ...
... Bacteria are mediators of biogeochemical cycles and are in this way vital for maintaining life on earth. Their distribution, abundance and functioning are driven by environmental heterogeneity and dynamic change in abiotic and biotic factors. Both, freshwater lakes and oceans play central roles in t ...
Sustainability of deep-sea fisheries
... most of the oceanic epipelagic zone, and its food energy may pass through several trophic levels as it sinks, with a rapid decline in biomass before reaching the benthos. This varies, however, with season and region, and recent work is increasing our understanding of flux of production from the surfa ...
... most of the oceanic epipelagic zone, and its food energy may pass through several trophic levels as it sinks, with a rapid decline in biomass before reaching the benthos. This varies, however, with season and region, and recent work is increasing our understanding of flux of production from the surfa ...
the International Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
... and make the data accessible to all,” he says. Without GOOS, Dr Legler says, it would be very difficult for national scientists to really understand the changes taking place in the global ocean environment. “The ocean is a pretty important part of the climate system and we can’t rely simply on obser ...
... and make the data accessible to all,” he says. Without GOOS, Dr Legler says, it would be very difficult for national scientists to really understand the changes taking place in the global ocean environment. “The ocean is a pretty important part of the climate system and we can’t rely simply on obser ...
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology
... mediate opportunities for implementation. The five priorities ...
... mediate opportunities for implementation. The five priorities ...
BIG SCIENCE - Ocean Networks Canada
... • The deployment of the eleventh set of pigs in the Strait of Georgia for forensic scientists at Simon Fraser University to estimate timeof-death information vital to homicide investigations; • Collecting 3D photography of major vent fields at Endeavour for visiting scientist Tom Kwasnitschka from G ...
... • The deployment of the eleventh set of pigs in the Strait of Georgia for forensic scientists at Simon Fraser University to estimate timeof-death information vital to homicide investigations; • Collecting 3D photography of major vent fields at Endeavour for visiting scientist Tom Kwasnitschka from G ...
Improved water quality can ameliorate effects of climate change on
... occurs when a significant proportion of the zooxanthellae compliment is expelled from the coral animal (Brown 1997). Prolonged bleaching can be fatal to the coral host, and can devastate entire reef-scapes over vast areas of ocean (see, e.g., Sheppard 2003). The primary triggering condition for large ...
... occurs when a significant proportion of the zooxanthellae compliment is expelled from the coral animal (Brown 1997). Prolonged bleaching can be fatal to the coral host, and can devastate entire reef-scapes over vast areas of ocean (see, e.g., Sheppard 2003). The primary triggering condition for large ...
Marine geochemical data assimilation in an efficient Earth System
... In this paper we present a representation of marine biogeochemical cycling within a 3-D ocean based Earth system model, which we calibrate for the modern carbon cycle via a novel assimilation of marine geochemical data. In a further extension to the model we describe the addition of carbonate preser ...
... In this paper we present a representation of marine biogeochemical cycling within a 3-D ocean based Earth system model, which we calibrate for the modern carbon cycle via a novel assimilation of marine geochemical data. In a further extension to the model we describe the addition of carbonate preser ...
Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy. Marine biology differs from marine ecology as marine ecology is focused on how organisms interact with each other and the environment, while biology is the study of the organisms themselves.A large proportion of all life on Earth lives in the ocean. Exactly how large the proportion is unknown, since many ocean species are still to be discovered. The ocean is a complex three-dimensional world covering about 71% of the Earth's surface. The habitats studied in marine biology include everything from the tiny layers of surface water in which organisms and abiotic items may be trapped in surface tension between the ocean and atmosphere, to the depths of the oceanic trenches, sometimes 10,000 meters or more beneath the surface of the ocean. Specific habitats include coral reefs, kelp forests, seagrass meadows, the surrounds of seamounts and thermal vents, tidepools, muddy, sandy and rocky bottoms, and the open ocean (pelagic) zone, where solid objects are rare and the surface of the water is the only visible boundary. The organisms studied range from microscopic phytoplankton and zooplankton to huge cetaceans (whales) 30 meters (98 feet) in length.Marine life is a vast resource, providing food, medicine, and raw materials, in addition to helping to support recreation and tourism all over the world. At a fundamental level, marine life helps determine the very nature of our planet. Marine organisms contribute significantly to the oxygen cycle, and are involved in the regulation of the Earth's climate. Shorelines are in part shaped and protected by marine life, and some marine organisms even help create new land.Many species are economically important to humans, including food fish (both finfish and shellfish). It is also becoming understood that the well-being of marine organisms and other organisms are linked in very fundamental ways. The human body of knowledge regarding the relationship between life in the sea and important cycles is rapidly growing, with new discoveries being made nearly every day. These cycles include those of matter (such as the carbon cycle) and of air (such as Earth's respiration, and movement of energy through ecosystems including the ocean). Large areas beneath the ocean surface still remain effectively unexplored.