Sentence examples for reef light from inspiring English sources

The United States Navy flew their planes out of Key West, while Coast Guardsmen evacuated Alligator Reef Light, American Shoal Light, and Sombrero Key Light.

In the Florida Keys, Dennis passed to the west as a Category 2 hurricane producing winds of 59 mph on Carysfort Reef Light.

To capture settlement-stage S. partitus larvae as they settled to the reef, light traps were deployed intermittently from June 2001 until January 2004 in conjunction with two other studies [43], [56].

Obviously, a lack of downwelling red light is not a reason to stop seeing red, adding an exciting novel dimension to reef light ecology.

The most commonly used are PCs Power Compacts), Florescent tube bulbs (the best being T5s) and Metal Halides being the ultimate reef lighting system producing brilliant shimmering effects.

So on this 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez "fetching up" on Bligh Reef, I light a candle.

Scorpions, spiders, and other creatures also fluoresce when exposed to UV light, Reef and colleagues note, suggesting that the sunscreen effect has evolved more than once.

A detailed understanding of the development of coral reefs and their internal structure has important applications for predicting future reef trajectories in light of climate changes, petroleum exploration and reconstructing past environmental changes such as sea level.

Now, Kaniewska, Alon et al. have exposed the coral Acropora millepora – which makes up part of the Great Barrier Reef – to different light treatments and sampled the corals before, during and after their spawning periods.

It is a curious sensation to lie on a sofa in the tropical night reading a novel in the home of its writer and to realise you are in the book's very setting: the sitting room with its mahogany furniture, lamps and shutters; and, outside, the veranda, the drumming of insects, moonlight, purple mountains, red rocks, "a slumberous sea murmuring above the reef" and the lights of Guadeloupe.

More serious fishkeepers may keep small polyp stony coral, which is from open, brightly lit reef conditions and therefore much more demanding, while large polyp stony coral is a sort of compromise between the two.