Essays Tagged: "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"

El Nino

eet below the surface of the water, allowing the water to grow warm and expand.With the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather satellites, tracking shifting patterns of ...

(5 pages) 77 0 4.0 Apr/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Where Have All The Cod Gone

e to drag their nets for a long period of time. The foundation of FPI (fishing products International) by the government has lead to the big quotas being hired and the dragger's being built and ... maybe they were wrong now. Foreign fleets are part of the problem because they fish in international waters where the Canadian law doesn't, apply to them. That means that they can catch as muc ...

(3 pages) 1446 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Penguins With Sunburns: An Argumentative Research Paper on Global Warming

wing a global warming trend, an increased hurricane season in 2006 would seem normal. In fact , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "called for a very active 2006 season with 13-16 nam ... -2).What happened? The forcasters did not consider the possibility of an El Nino. Gerry Bell of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center said, "It turns out that ...

(8 pages) 96 0 1.4 Oct/2007

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Review on Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Seagrass Restoration in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Seagrass Restoration in the Florida Keys National Marine SanctuaryEIS Completed: August 23, 2004Prepared by National Oceanic and Atmospheric ... )Critique written by:Christine ConradisApril 28, 2009Background Information of Agencies InvolvedThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a federal agency with a goal is to keep ci ...

(10 pages) 9 0 0.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

Coral Reefs

/29Coral ReefsCoral reefs are very productive ecosystems that home enormous amounts of biodiversity and are also immensely important to modern society. These reefs are habitats for about 25 percent of ... pport more species per unit area than any other marine environment. They provide provide protection and shelter for many species of fish, and without coral reefs, these animals would have no place to ...

(6 pages) 1 0 0.0 Aug/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

'Climate change is a terrible problem... It deserves to be a huge priority' - Bill Gates

ge will lead to more persistent, harsher and longer heat waves. Thomas R. Karl, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climate Data Centre, suggests that heat w ... uch shifts also thwart the efforts of conservation communities, with the possibility to destroy the National Parks and pose a greater danger to our cherished but vulnerable wildlife. Therefore climate ...

(6 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science