Whales drawn to waters off Mississippi River Delta
...ight in the middle of one of the hottest areas for offshore oil development in the continental U.S," Davis sai... Management Service, which oversees development of offshore oil and gas deposits. The Endangered Species Act requires officials to monitor not only oil pollutio...Gulp! URI professor studies how sharks eat
...the shark. Rhode Island has its share of sharks -- offshore waters host Blue, Sandtiger, Hammerhead and Thresher sharks while the Spiny Dogfish, Smooth Dogfish, Dusky and Sandbar Sharks and lots of skates such as Little, Winter, Roughtail, Barndoor, and Clearnose swim closer to shore. Sharks have been clocked...... Crowley. Typically, he says, water sits offshore in layers: warm water heated by the sun on top and cold water on the bottom. But when wind pushes the warm top layer out to sea, the cold water upwells into the gap. "It's not uniform up and down the shore area, so you can get widevariations in wat...Using hard science to protect fragile seas
...here she routinely observes sea otters a few yards offshore noisily munching on Pacific sea urchins. The southern sea otter was hunted to near-extinction by 19th-century Russian fur traders. A tiny population was discovered along California`s remote central coast in the 1930s and has been given complete prot...Rutgers scientists to explore ocean depths off New York-New Jersey harbor
...m pollutants, the researchers will explore a major offshore dump site for municipal sewage sludge that was closed in 1992. According to Rona, a professor of marine geology and geophysics at Rutgers, past undersea investigations show that the canyon has great potential for discovery of unusual deep sea creatu...Whale of a Puget Sound problem lures UW researchers
...aran. Two of the Puget Sound pods, K and L, winter offshore and their behavior and location are a mystery. Th...haps the most serious problem is what is happening offshore in the winter," said Bain. "The pods are exposed to different things offshore. We'd like to test an......ng-finned squid (Loligo pealeii) during the winter offshore season and the seasonal trends in its age structur...dy was to assess whether an increase in the winter offshore fishery is causing the recent decline in the squid population inshore and, thus, a decrease in landi...White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds
...four sharks tracked for longer durationsall headed offshore into the central and eastern Pacific," noted Block...cording to the Nature study. "As the sharks moved offshore to the southwest, they increased theirdiving activity and experienced a broader range of ambient tem...Munching microbes aid environment, oil industry
...amples. Its challenging to gather samples from far offshore in the Gulf where these rigs are operating, and its hard to do good science when youre at the bottom of the ocean, Roberts explains. The EPA test is a fair approximation of Gulf conditions, but the goal is to correlate the data from near-shore and de...Media Advisory 2 - 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting: press conferences scheduled
...mine the economic and environmental feasibility of offshore aquaculture in the Pacific region. Participants: Kenneth D. Black, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Argyll, United Kingdom; Anthony C. Ostrowski, Program Manager, Finfish, The Oceanic Institute, Waimana...New research sheds light on earth's largest animals
...the California blue whales are just 30 miles or so offshore from San Francisco and Santa Barbara, where there is a lot of ship traffic, Mate said. But shipping doesn't seem to have much of an effect. Last year, Mate tagged a mother blue whale in the Sea of Cortz and waited for her and her calf to return to ...Wolves decline, moose increase
...of four on the island wearing a radio collar, just offshore in Lake Superior. "The Chippewa Harbor pack has been pushing the east pack aside and enlarging their territory," Peterson said. "A mild winter is always tough on the wolves, and this probably contributed to the confrontation. "We watched about 15 enc...Ocean aquaculture: Technology, business practices, policies & caviar
...usy Gulf region and for future leasing systems for offshore space. In addition, the single-point system shoul... enable researchers to monitor one of the furthest offshore aquaculture cages in the world. Cage aquaculture research projects in Hawaii and New Hampshire also ......re, wave height and direction, and currents at the offshore site. "This is a one-of-a kind platform for studying coastal processes in the Atlantic Ocean," says James Edson of WHOI's Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, who serves as project engineer. "It will be used by researchers, educators, and stu...Walleye fishery threatened; Puerto Rico aquaculture, calling ALVIN on ocean bottom
... impact of such fish farming operations. By using offshore aquaculture cages, Snapperfarm, Inc, and Dr. Danie..., at the University of Miami, hope to grow fish in offshore waters with minimal environmental impact. A group of Puerto Rico Sea Grant scientists will conduct a...GSA release 02-55: Dec. Geology & GSA Today media highlights
...Dr. Simone Alin, compared sediment cores collected offshore from Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, the s...oodall's chimpanzee research, with cores collected offshore from a deforested watershed just outside the national park. Changes in sedimentation rates, nutrien...January GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...early evolution of animals. Mapping active faults offshore Portugal (36N38N): Implications for seismic hazard...expression of several fault structures <100 km offshore Portugal (SW Iberian Margin), at the boundary between the European and African plates. High-resoluti...Coral smothering 'green tide' seaweed spreading on Florida reefs
...-rich, secondarily-treated sewage regularly pumped offshore each day. Caulerpa brachypus's explosive growt...s of gallons of insufficiently treated sewage from offshore outfalls, septic seepage and deep injection wells is stemmed. "At some point the state is going to h...New life discovered in deep ocean floor
...anogenic biomass in hydrate samples that came from offshore Oregon to the biomass present in hydrated sediment...-bearing sediment cores. Staff has participated in offshore drilling in 1999 and 2002, and drilling in the Canadian Arctic in 1998 and 2002. Colwell noted, "We...New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations
... winds from the northwest blow warm surface waters offshore and stir up deep, cold water nearshore. Every coup...eys by NMFS biologists have shed some light on the offshore phase of the rockfish life cycle. When they are released, rockfish larvae are very small and their a...