User contributions for Ris2131

22 November 2008

• 21:5621:56, 22 November 2008 diff hist +314‎ N File:California sea lion 7.jpg ‎ California sea lion showing its close encounter with a white shark.
• 21:5221:52, 22 November 2008 diff hist +432‎ N File:California sea lion 6.jpg ‎ Sea lions have strong front flippers that they can use to walk on. They are also capable of using their hind flippers for walking. They have external ears.
• 21:4621:46, 22 November 2008 diff hist +617‎ N File:California sea lion 5.jpg ‎ The best oceanographers in the world never studied at a university. Yet they know how to navigate expertly along oceanic fronts, the invisible boundaries between waters of different temperatures and densities. These ocean experts can find rich fishing in
• 21:3921:39, 22 November 2008 diff hist +393‎ N File:California sea lion 4.jpg ‎ Adult male California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) are around 200 to 250 cm in length and can weigh 200 to 300 kg, Females measure 150 to 200 cm and weigh 50 to 100 kg (Peterson and Bartholomew, 1967).
• 21:0821:08, 22 November 2008 diff hist +434‎ N File:California Sea lion 3.jpg ‎ A California sea lion being rehabilitated at The Marine Mammal Center, Sausalito, CA, after being found stranded on the beach suffering from domoic acid toxicity (The Marine Mammal Center)

19 November 2008

• 21:0921:09, 19 November 2008 diff hist +741‎ N File:California sea lion ecology.jpg ‎ NMML has conducted pup branding and observational studies of California sea lions for 20 years and has developed a very important long-term database to document the demography of this population through rapid growth from the 1970s through the 1990s. Recen
• 21:0521:05, 19 November 2008 diff hist +514‎ N File:California sea lion1.jpg ‎ A long-term goal of the San Miguel Island Research program is to understand how space and food resources are partitioned among the different age, sex and reproductive classes of pinnipeds and how behavior changes with population trends and environmental c
• 21:0121:01, 19 November 2008 diff hist +658‎ N File:California sea lion-pup.jpg ‎ Scientists, reporting in the current issue of the online journal Marine Drugs, state that an increase of epileptic seizures and behavioral abnormalities in California sea lions can result from low-dose exposure to domoic acid as a fetus. The findings foll

28 October 2008

• 01:4801:48, 28 October 2008 diff hist 0‎ File:Shrimp2.jpg ‎ uploaded a new version of "Image:Shrimp2.jpg": Abstract: The overall goal of this project is to adapt and demonstration a prototype marine Partitioned Aquaculture System (PAS) process for successful culture of high value marine shrimp and co-cultured

26 October 2008

• 20:3020:30, 26 October 2008 diff hist 0‎ File:Shrimp.jpg ‎ uploaded a new version of "Image:Shrimp.jpg": We use a wealth of natural products from wetlands, including fish and shellfish, blueberries, cranberries, timber, and wild rice, as well as medicines that are derived from wetland soils and plants.
• 20:2820:28, 26 October 2008 diff hist 0‎ File:Shrimp.jpg ‎ uploaded a new version of "Image:Shrimp.jpg": We use a wealth of natural products from wetlands, including fish and shellfish, blueberries, cranberries, timber, and wild rice, as well as medicines that are derived from wetland soils and plants.
• 20:2220:22, 26 October 2008 diff hist +486‎ N File:Shrimp anatomy.jpg ‎ Hemimysis is a small, shrimp-like animal about one-quarter to one-half inch long. It has stalked eyes, antennae, and an elongated body. Hemimysis is capable of changing its body color from reddish to ivory-yellow to almost transparent with a touch of ivor

22 October 2008

• 03:3803:38, 22 October 2008 diff hist +681‎ N File:Shrimp1.jpg ‎ Deep-sea shrimp. Upper left hand panel shows full color image. The other three panels show how the shrimp appears under blue, green, and red light. Unlike what was seen at shallower depths, this animal is not most camouflaged at blue wavelengths (which is current
• 03:3603:36, 22 October 2008 diff hist +1,014‎ N File:Shrimp2.jpg ‎ Recent research findings in the sciences (social and natural) indicate that the legal barriers to marine aquaculture development are directly related to social and cultural concerns of coastal and traditional fishing community members, as well as the phys
• 03:3203:32, 22 October 2008 diff hist +389‎ N File:Shrimp.jpg ‎ We use a wealth of natural products from wetlands, including fish and shellfish, blueberries, cranberries, timber, and wild rice, as well as medicines that are derived from wetland soils and plants.
• 03:2103:21, 22 October 2008 diff hist +935‎ N File:Spot shrimp.jpg ‎ Spot shrimp are the largest shrimp in the North Pacific, ranging from the waters off Unalaska Island, Alaska, to San Diego. Four other species of the closely related commercially valuable shrimp share all or part of that range with spot shrimp: pink shrim
• 03:0303:03, 22 October 2008 diff hist +935‎ N File:California freshwater shrimp.jpg ‎ Ecologically, the California freshwater shrimp occupy a role as detritus feeders that no other stream animal could fill. When you rip an important strand out of a food web, there’s no way to know how much damage will be done. The shrimp’s presence, or current
• 02:5402:54, 22 October 2008 diff hist +981‎ N File:Snapping shrimp.jpg ‎ Because deep-water environments are very different from shallow coastal areas, the organisms that inhabit them often have special adaptations. Abyssal ecosystems exist below the euphotic zone, where there is not enough sunlight to fuel photosynthesis. All
• 02:2802:28, 22 October 2008 diff hist +547‎ N File:Grass-shrimps.jpg ‎ These findings, published August 9, were a result of the NOAA sponsored 2003 workshop, "The Use of Grass Shrimp as an Indicator of Injury to Estuarine Ecosystems," which concluded grass shrimp to be more sensitive to contaminates than estuarine fish and a
• 02:2402:24, 22 October 2008 diff hist +546‎ N File:Grass-shrimp.jpg ‎ These findings, published August 9, were a result of the NOAA sponsored 2003 workshop, "The Use of Grass Shrimp as an Indicator of Injury to Estuarine Ecosystems," which concluded grass shrimp to be more sensitive to contaminates than estuarine fish and a current

21 October 2008

• 19:3019:30, 21 October 2008 diff hist +570‎ N File:Loihi and alvinocarid shrimp.jpg ‎ The two species of shrimp that live at the vent sites at NW Rota 1. They are seen here at Fault Shrimp vent. Notice the white bacterial mat at the top of the rock which provide food for the "Loihi" shrimp and the "alvinocarid" shrimp juveniles. Image cour