'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
... Newport lab one that was felt more than 50 miles inland at the main OSU campus. "There's a lot of activity going on out there," Dziak said of the offshore quakes. "That was one of the few that did show up on conventional seismic equipment and drew the attention of the public. There are hundreds, even tho...$6 million appropriation to focus Sandia research on drinking water desalination, removal of arsenic
...s associated with the treatment and utilization of inland brackish groundwater. Several entities that do desalination research, including Sandia, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Naval Research, and others, will use the facility to study new desalination technologies, concentrate management and reus......s of Long Island, New York, can be rebuilt further inland when the beaches erode," said Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University. "But imagine the difficulties faced by families in Bangladesh. An area where about 8 million people now live would be underwater if...UC Riverside professor to spend year with US State Department
...o 21,000 students by 2010. Located in the heart of inland Southern California, the nearly 1,200-acre, park-like campus is at the center of the region's economic development. Visit www.ucr.edu or call 909-787-5185 for more information. Media sources are available at http://www.mediasources.ucr.edu/ ....ESA's minature Earth observer put to many uses
... research teams are investigating its use to study inland water bodies as well as coastal water sites. Ramon Pena-Martinez of the Centre for Hydrographic Studies of Spain's Centro de Estudios y Experimentacin de Obras Pblicas (CEDEX) explained how he was preparing to use CHRIS data in support of a project ...Freeing Nemo: Aquarium owners releasing non-native fish could endanger marine ecosystems
...rine fish was carried out in temperate coastal and inland seas of Russia in the 20th century. Sixteen species became established, with ecologically and economically devastating results, including harm to valuable fisheries, parasite introductions and the endangerment and extinction of native species. "Rele...'Springer' - A solution to water pollution?
...partners are also involved. Pollutants that affect inland and coastal waters include organic carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus, which reduce water quality and disturb the natural balance of organisms. They are deposited in waterways via sewage discharges and run-off from agricultural land. Conventional method...Lakes with zebra mussels have higher levels of toxins, MSU research finds
...nitially, water samples were taken from nearly 100 inland lakes in Michigan's Lower Peninsula, ranging from ...eat Lakes, as well as many other U.S. and Canadian inland lakes and rivers. Sarnelle's co-authors on the paper are Alan Wilson of the Georgia Institute of Tec...Ontario researchers see increase in taste and odour-causing algae problems
...significant, unprecedented changes to the algae of inland lakes, with important implications for water quality." Lake water that smells and tastes foul can be traced to a variety of sources, including chemical pollution and dead fish, but the most common cause is a group of algae called chrysophytes. These ...New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
...d Norman's Pond Cay. At the island, water from an inland pond with relatively high nitrogen levels flows through a natural mangrove channel and into the ocean. This outflow creates a natural nitrogen gradient as it mixes with seawater, with high concentrations near the channel mouth diluting within about 3...Pushing marine fish aquaculture forward
...t water, which decreases operating costs and makes inland aquaculture facilities with no ready saltwater sources feasible. Other research areas for the collaboration include developing technologies to allow completely closed aquaculture systems that do not release any polluted water or create any other envi...New fish species discovered in Venezuela
...he country's freshwater fish species. Comprised of inland and flooded forests, the vegetation around the basin is 85 percent intact and pristine, largely due to the indigenous Ye'kwana people, who carefully manage the area. The bloodfin tetra was named after the Ye'Kwana people in Bolivar State, Venezuela i...Weather extremes shed light on prairie's past and environment's future
... European explorers entering what they called "an inland sea" found a humid area with grasses up to 6 feet tall. Long before, the plains were bulldozed flat during four major glacial advances and retreats that left behind sands, nutrient-rich soils and rocks. Wide flat rivers drained the melting ice final...Biologists find unexpected rapid evolution in Caribbean lizards
...island to diverge from adjacent populations in wet inland forests. To determine this, the researches will have to analyze the DNA and develop phylogenies trees that represent evolutionary relationships and incorporate a time factor. This will help them see the patterns of species diversification over time...PNNL findings may help preserve Dungeness crab
...ion. Dredging vessels ply the river from the ocean inland each summer, sucking up huge amounts of sediment and the marine life living in it. The Corps also plans to deepen the channel from 40 to 43 feet in the stretch from Portland to about three miles from the ocean, which will involve dredging. The Corps...Society for Conservation Biology to hold 17th Annual Meeting in Duluth June 28-July 2
...orld in a region with an extremely high density of inland lakes, rivers, and wetlands next to urban, agricultural, and forested areas. The areas where land meets water are dynamic. Most are home to unique species and are exposed to many human and natural disturbances. Through this meeting, we will encoura...Roads pave the way for weed invasions
...and policy,Susan Harrison, about roads' effects on inland California foothillgrasslands. Gelbard and Harrison found that in areas with typical grasslandsoils, non-native plants were less abundant and native plants moreabundant at sites about a half-mile (1,000 meters) from roadscompared to sites less than 3...Roads pave the way for weed invasions
...nd policy, Susan Harrison, about roads' effects on inland California foothill grasslands. Gelbard and Harrison found that in areas with typical grassland soils, non-native plants were less abundant and native plants more abundant at sites about a half-mile (1,000 meters) from roads compared to sites less th...New age for Mungo Man, new human history
...ansion of freshwater lakes across what are now dry inland plains. By 45,000 years the system was beginning to change. By 40,000 years, at the time of both burials, the onset of drought conditions was associated with the expansion of Australia's desert dunes building to its maximum impact about 20,000 years ...Scientists find geochemical fingerprint of World Trade Center collapse
...tream from rivers, and currents carrying saltwater inland from the ocean). Explains Larry Clark of the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s division of ocean sciences, which funded the research, "The destruction of the World Trade Center and the resulting deposition of dust and ash into the Hudson River hav...