... air temperature, ocean temperature and currents, sea iceand glaciers, and winds. These impacts will affect humans and ecosystems and, in turn, the human and ecosystem responses will feed back ... Understanding Climate Change andPolar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop20 FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE ANDPOLAR ECOSYSTEMSObserved Changes in Polar Marine Ecosystems Polar marine ... in Understanding Climate Change andPolar Ecosystems: Summary of a Workshop10 FRONTIERS IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGE ANDPOLAR ECOSYSTEMSEcosystem Connectivity, Vulnerability, and Resilience...
... device (SPMD) and the polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS)—are being used to address these particular challenges. Both the SPMD (Huckins and others, 2006) and POCIS (Alvarez and ... Semipermeable-Membrane Devices andPolar Organic Chemical Integrative Samplers, McKenzie River Basin, OregonThis page intentionally left blank.Water-Quality Data from Semipermeable-Membrane Devices andPolar ... area location and data‑collection sites, McKenzie River basin, Oregon.Printed on recycled paperMcCarthy and others— Water-Quality Data from Semipermeable-Membrane Devices andPolar Organic...
... lysozyme innonpolar andpolar organic solvents, previously sug-gested the same mechanism of protein hydration. Io-nizable sites are hydrated first, followed by polar and nonpolar sites. However, ... thatthe curves can easily discriminate nonpolar and polar solvents. In nonpolar solvents, water is highly retainedat the enzyme surface, whereas in polar solvents, wateris only weakly retained.In ... possible to distinguish the effects of nonpolar and polar organic solvents on the dynamics of the water atthe enzyme surface. Water molecules in nonpolar sol-vents are retained for longer periods...
... v. Iceland; Federal Republic of Germany v. Iceland), ICJ Reports 1974, pp. 3 and 175; North Sea Continental Shelf (Federal Republic of Germany/Denmark; Federal Republic ofGermany/Netherlands), ... Extent of sea ice in the polar oceans 247xiPreface and acknowledgementsThis book represents part of the final outcome of a three-year interna-tional research project, Polar Oceans and the Law ... Consequently, each of the eight Arctic countries –Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and theUnited States – has adopted its own definition of the ‘Arctic’.6As...
... for, both polar regions. All three have substantial territorial and maritime claims in either ofthe polar regions, and have been leaders in the development of Arctic and Antarcticlaw and policy. ... of new legal, constitutional and cooper-ative arrangements; and 5. develop international agreements to use, conserve and manage resources and protect the circumpolar environment.25The main ... regulation of the polar marine environment 15524L. R. Kriwoken and R. P. Côté, ‘Developments in Australian and Canadian EnvironmentalManagement’, in L. R. Kriwoken, M. Haward, D.VanderZwaag and B. Davis...
... 7154The islands include Macquarie Island (administered by the State of Tasmania) and Heard and McDonald Islands (external territories of Australia); see Australian Antarctic Division, HeardIsland Wilderness ... agreed rules, standards and recommended practices and proce-dures’. This certainly reflects what has occurred in the Arctic, where Europeanstates have long attempted to regulate land-based marine ... estab-lished emergency response crews and vessels, the vast distances likely to beinvolved in any such operation, and the problems caused by polar climate and sea ice. In the Southern Ocean there...
... laws and regulations to prevent, reduce and control pollution of the marine environment from land-based sources, takinginto account internationally agreed rules, standards and recommended practices and ... organizations, in formu-lating and elaborating international rules, standards and recommended prac-tices and procedures consistent with this Convention, for the protection and preservation of the marine ... objectives and priorities should reflect the environ-mental and developmental context to which they apply. Standards applied bysome countries may be inappropriate and of unwarranted economic and social...
... broad and distinct cascades, connected by cross channels of ice, and uniting at their upper and lower ends, thus presenting many curious and ornamental groupings. On cutting through this ice, ... seven hundred francs in all; and the fermier extracts the ice, and sells it in Geneva and Lausanne. In hot summers, the supplies of the artificial ice- houses fail; and then the hotel-keepers ... down the slope, and there took his stand till such time as Mignot got a firm grasp of the tail of his blouse with both hands, I meanwhile holding Mignot's tail with one hand, and the long...
... noticed a tongue of ice that descended from the ice plateauinto one of these valleys – Upper Wright Valley. The ice came downoff the plateau and traveled perhaps 2 km before sublimation and ... 19the earth’s land surface. Nonetheless, in 1974 we did not foresee whata magnificent place to collect meteorites the antarctic ice sheet reallywas, and the evolution of this idea and its implementation ... the collection – and speculating onits significance 22710 Meteorite stranding surfaces and the ice sheet 27411 The future: what is, is, but what could be,might not 320AppendicesA The US–Japan...
... folding and function.The dominant roles of the buried polar contacts and ion pairs have beenreviewed by distinguishing between the inside polar contacts and the totalintramolecular polar contacts, ... Table 2 arehomodimers. Their Z score and rmsd values rangebetween 14.8 and 7.0 A˚ and between 1.07 and 2.38 A˚,Fig. 1. The crystal structures of ATs and BGs. The figures were produced using ... buried polar contacts and ion pairs inhyperthermostable enzymesIkuo Matsui and Kazuaki HarataBiological Information Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology...
... equilibrium lattice positions and the nearest neighbor distance and the mean melting curves of bcc binary alloys have been derived. This melting curve provides information on Lindemann’s melting temperatures ... thermodynamic lattice theory for analytical calculation of the mean melting curves and eutectic points of bcc binary alloys. This melting curve provides information on Lindemann’s melting temperatures ... CsTemperature T(K) Melting curve, present Melting temperature of Cr, Ref. 6 Melting temperature of Cs, Ref. 6Eutectic point, presentCr1-xCsxwell with the experimental value TE = 2127 K [7] and the...
... Niger (12.6909 /and 0.9362), Lower Niger (8. 4665 and 0.9578) and Niger South (4.1315 and 0.9987). The highest RMSE values and lowest E values were observed over Niger South and Lower Niger ... 4. Melting of the icecaps loss of habitat near the poles. Polar bears are now thought to be greatly endangered by the shortening of their feeding season due to dwindling ice packs. 5. Melting ... the recent drought and climate change? viii. Is glacier and Arctic Sea icemelting fast and level of sea rising? ix. Possible problems on account of hurricane, tsunamis and other climates"...
... melting temperature ofnanostructures depends on their surface. This indicates that theunstable surface of free-standing nanowires leads to a decrease inthe melting temperature.To understand ... interatomicpotential consists of two- and three-body interaction terms and were originally fitted to describe the crystalline and liquid siliconphases. This potential consists of sums of two- and three-bodyinteraction ... number and weak cohesion of the atoms near the surface, as compared withthose in the bulk, and the increasing dominance of the surfacewould decrease the strength of the structure.3.2. The melting...
... 4. Melting of the icecaps loss of habitat near the poles. Polar bears are now thought to be greatly endangered by the shortening of their feeding season due to dwindling ice packs. 5. Melting ... Standardized Annual Areal Average Temperature Variability and Trend Figure 16. Standardized Annual Areal Average Rainfall Variability and Trend Figure 17. Typical Temporal Variability and ... extreme, chronic poverty and vulnerable to droughts and increasing malnutrition rate, due to increasing food and water insecurity resulting from climatic, demographic and land use changes. Climate...