I've twice studied the North Pacific Gyre with Captain Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation.
Perhaps most important, though were five mummified Unangan hunter-gatherers from the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific ocean.
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In 1991 Pacific Andes identified a species that was among the most plentiful white fish in the north Pacific--the Alaskan pollock.
Data also showed a warming in the equatorial Pacific, cooling in the central North Pacific and general cooling the Southern Hemisphere.
Pacific Andes International is headquartered and listed in Hong Kong and has fishing rights in the North Pacific and South Pacific.
Its best estimate for the timing of the re-entry would have seen UARS come in at a point well out into the North Pacific.
The archipelago is a hazardous traffic median in the great circle route, the shortest path between ports on either side of the North Pacific.
The remarkable and invaluable ecological treasure that our north Pacific Coast represents is so much more valuable than whatever wealth the Alberta tar sands represents.
"The north Pacific, which drives U.S. climate, is still extremely out of balance, with warm waters in the west and cool waters in the east, " Patzert said.
Well, I met with the weather service, and I said, give me a picture of the weather storms in the North Pacific, and when do they occur?
On the other side of the north Pacific, temperatures are warm (shown in red and white) and sea levels remain high at four to 13 inches above normal.
This is the world's largest crustacean and the seven king crabs introduced here from the North Pacific by Russian scientists in 1961 have multiplied at an astonishing rate.
NOAA's tsunami research programme, five tsunameters have been deployed in the North Pacific and one in the South Pacific, with the actual detectors located at depths of up to 4km.
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Dr. TRENBERTH: It changes the way in which an El Nino gets manifested, and in some places - and certainly in the North Pacific - there's a little bit of a battle.
An estimated 3, 100 large vessels thread between the islands each year on their way west, and a similar number travel the eastward route across the North Pacific just south of the Aleutians.
"We've lost 17 percent of all plant life in the Atlantic, 26 percent in the North Pacific and in the sub-tropical oceans 50 percent or more of plant life has disappeared, " he said.
Most models set up to try to figure out what happened during the Late Cretaceous climate changes conclude that water sank from the surface to the bottom of the ocean around Antarctica or the North Pacific.
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En route to Australia, Plastiki will sail through the infamous North Pacific Gyre, now home to "The Great Garbage Patch, " named due to the high levels of waste that have been drawn there by ocean currents.
On a typical day a ToorCamper can attend a talk on breaking into Android devices or disassembling microprocessors with acid and silicate solution to divine the secret cryptographic keys Microsoft stores there, learn to build a Geiger counter and scuba dive in a kelp forest in search of the North Pacific giant octopus.
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There have been some unexpected responses, for instance markedly different phytoplankton communities and total biomass resulted from two iron addition experiments conducted a year apart at the same site in the north west Pacific Ocean.
Warnings for the system are presently issued by the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre based in Hawaii and the Japanese North-West Pacific Tsunami Advisory Centre based in Tokyo.
And this will further deepen obviously the economic ties amongst not just Mexico and the United States but also the North American and Pacific community more broadly.
Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, will chair the opening session and participate in the regional working group for the North and Central Pacific.
This is a formidable lobby in the Pacific north-west, which has been defined to a remarkable degree by 16 huge dams that blockade the Columbia river and its principal tributary, the Snake.
Logging has increased by 60% in the state since the 1980s, when the timber industry moved its operations over from the Pacific north-west in order to avoid continual warfare over old-growth forests and spotted owls.
The North Shore on the Pacific Ocean is surrounded by parks and is popular with families.
It will be accompanied by two destroyers --- the USS Decatur and the USS Russell -- at an undisclosed location in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator.
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In the global economy, however, small ponds are at a disadvantage: Whereas baseball's popularity mostly resides in North America and the Pacific Rim, soccer is watched by the entire globe.
If anything, says Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster in Georgia, the country is dividing between the more tolerant attitudes of the North East and the Pacific, and the rest, which are getting more southern.
Later that week, we drove north along the famed Pacific Coast Highway to the Getty Villa in Malibu, an offshoot of the Getty Center in Los Angeles that houses ancient Greek and Roman art.
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