From the North Carolina's Outer Banks to Maine's rocky coast, this comprehensive guidebook covers the ecology, wildlife, plants and ocean creatures in full-color photographs and vivid detail.
From an Indiana farm boyhood to uranium surveys in the American West, offshore seismic vessels, Arctic ice, African beaches, Southeast Asian pipeline landfalls, and the long strange business of building a life, Citizen of the World follows a geologist who kept saying yes to the next improbable assignment.
Small Dams: Planning, Construction and Maintenance has been written to provide a practical approach and guide to determining catchment yield and the amount of water required in a dam, advising on selecting and working with engineers and contractors, as well as outlining the cause of dam failures and how to remedy problems quickly.
A seagoing scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most mysterious environments on EarthThe open ocean, far from the shore and miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy mouths.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Ozeanographie, Meereskunde, Note: 1,0, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit geht auf die Hauptursachen des globalen Rückgangs der Fischbestände ein und diskutiert anschließend mögliche Maßnahmen, die getroffen werden können, um die Bestände nachhaltig zu schützen.
The California Current part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico.
The California Current part of the large, swirling North Pacific gyre flows slowly southward along the west coast of North America, stretching nearly 2,000 miles from southern British Columbia to the tip of Baja California in Mexico.
A seagoing scientist explores how life thrives in one of the most mysterious environments on EarthThe open ocean, far from the shore and miles above the seafloor, is a vast and formidable habitat that is home to the most abundant life on our planet, from giant squid and jellyfish to anglerfish with bioluminescent lures that draw prey into their toothy mouths.
Although climate change is reducing the extent of sea ice in the polar region, it also enlarges the operation time window and enables more ships to choose routes where ice is prevalent.
Although climate change is reducing the extent of sea ice in the polar region, it also enlarges the operation time window and enables more ships to choose routes where ice is prevalent.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of robust, innovative AI techniques like machine learning and deep learning in revolutionizing water management to achieve UN sustainability goals.
This contributed volume, the second in a set of two, details how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Earth observation systems can effectively improve the prediction of groundwater quality and support decision-making in arid and semi-arid regions.
This textbook provides a mathematical introduction to the theory of large-scale ocean circulation and is accessible for readers with an elementary knowledge of mathematics and physics, including continuum mechanics and solution methods for ordinary differential equations.
Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues - From Conflict To Cooperation This book Israeli-Palestinian Water Issues- From Conflict to Coope- tion authored by a group of leading Palestinian, Israeli and international water experts is a unique and timely document illustrating the imp- tance of mutual understanding, respect and amity among peoples d- ing a difficult period of stress, whose leaders, sadly, have not yet found the way of resolving the conflicts between them and of living in peace with each other.
This volume is the result of the dedicated effort undertaken by an international group of scientists and administrators, who have contemplated the challenge of the future of space-based earth science for the next decade.
It is known for milleniums, that water is forming the principle base for the total biosphere including human beings ('Thales [of Milet] says that it [the nature of things] is water' Aristoteles, Metaph.
"Dorthin zu gehen, wo noch kein Mensch gewesen ist“ – das ist nicht nur das Motto der Science-Fiction-Serie Star Trek, sondern auch das der meisten Meereswissenschaftler.
As connecting link between the Antarctic and the North Atlantic, the South Atlantic plays an important role in the distribution of heat in the North Atlantic and in the biogeochemical budget of all oceans.
The aim of this International Symposium on Dynamics of Vibro-Impact Systems is to provide a forum for the discussion of recent developments in the theory and industrial applications of vibro-impact ocean systems.
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of robust, innovative AI techniques like machine learning and deep learning in revolutionizing water management to achieve UN sustainability goals.
Global environmental change (including climate change, biodiversity loss, changes in hydrological and biogeochemical cycles, and intensive exploitation of natural resources) is having significant impacts on the world's oceans.
Aimed at graduate students, researchers and academics in mathematics, engineering, oceanography, meteorology and mechanics, this text provides a detailed introduction to the physical theory of rotating fluids, a significant part of geophysical fluid dynamics.
This contributed volume, the second in a set of two, details how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Earth observation systems can effectively improve the prediction of groundwater quality and support decision-making in arid and semi-arid regions.
This book presents a comprehensive and practical overview of machine learning-driven adsorption processes for pollution removal from wastewater, with a focus on modeling, optimization, and mechanistic insights.
This book presents a comprehensive and practical overview of machine learning-driven adsorption processes for pollution removal from wastewater, with a focus on modeling, optimization, and mechanistic insights.
This book comprises the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 5th scientific conference on Geosciences and Environmental Management (GeoME’5), held in Salé, Morocco, on June 19–21, 2025.
This book comprises the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 5th scientific conference on Geosciences and Environmental Management (GeoME’5), held in Salé, Morocco, on June 19–21, 2025.
Groundwater Geochemistry and Isotopes provides the theoretical understanding and interpretive methods for the use of geochemistry and isotopes in the practice of hydrogeology.
Groundwater Geochemistry and Isotopes provides the theoretical understanding and interpretive methods for the use of geochemistry and isotopes in the practice of hydrogeology.
The challenges that the world's running water systems now face have never been more numerous or acute; at the same time, these complex habitats remain absolutely crucial to human wellbeing and future survival.
