coastal areas

Coastline Processes Monitoring Being Done Through Innovative System

harminka — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:54:07 -0500

AZTI-Tecnalia, the Basque technological centre specialising in marine and food research, has developed a system for monitoring the coast in order to observe and monitor maritime processes along our coastline.

Coastal dead zones may benefit some species

harminka — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:41:45 -0500

A Brown ecologist has found that coastal “dead zones” may not be so dead after all. In a paper published this month in the journal Ecology, Andrew Altieri has found that the commercially valuable quahog clam thrives in hypoxic waters in Narragansett Bay – partly because the clam’s predators flee the low-oxygen areas.

Coastlines could be protected by invisibility cloak

harminka — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:03:23 -0500

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk of large water waves overtopping coastal defences.

Largest Gulf of Mexico dead zone on record

harminka — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:43:27 -0500

NOAA-supported scientists from the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University are forecasting that the "dead zone" off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico this summer could be the largest on record.

Stressed seaweed contributes to cloudy coastal skies

harminka — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:15:05 -0500

Scientists at The University of Manchester have helped to identify that the presence of large amounts of seaweed in coastal areas can influence the climate.

Caribbean coral tracks past hurricane activity

harminka — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 02:24:53 -0600

Improved knowledge of long-term changes in hurricanes is important because the population of coastal areas affected directly by landfalls of major hurricanes is increasing.

Daily wind patterns in coastal ocean

harminka — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:37:42 -0600

Environments resilient in the face of hurricanes

harminka — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 08:08:59 -0600