Northern birds migrate west to coastal ocean in winter; birds in the southwest and Mexico may be permanent residents.
These impacts have decreased the health and value of the California's coastal ocean and imply a need for a more systematic approach to marine conservation.
Employing about 160 people the main focus lies on interdisciplinary study of coastal oceans and marginal seas, especially on Baltic Sea related oceanography.
Myths of terrestrial fixes portend to continue the general population's disconnect from the coastal oceans.
Kelp forests occur worldwide throughout temperate and polar coastal oceans.
Most of it comes from the coastal oceans.
The primary focus of the faculty and students is on fundamental research designed to increase understanding of the processes that characterize the coastal ocean and the atmosphere.
The coastal ocean is host to a variety of dynamic and complex processes, and is profoundly influenced by human activities.
Changing temperatures in lakes, Puget Sound, and the coastal ocean could decrease food for fish.
These rocks are the sediment from a coastal ocean that covered the area during that time.