After the Exxon Valdez disaster, only about 8percentt of the spilled oil was recovered from the water through response operations; even if the massive on-shore effort is included, the total reaches only 14percentt.
A critical issue in the design of large floating structures, such as those being considered in the mobile off-shore base effort currently being pursued by the US Navy, is the nature of the ocean-wave field, viewed on scales of 2 km or more.
It is likely that these filters remove some legitimate fishing trips of short duration and may underestimate near-shore fishing effort.
Some of the mutineers decided to build a raft to carry them to the shore in an effort to establish exactly where they were.
Trimble's remarks were part of his attempts to distract attention from the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement and shore up his efforts to exclude Sinn Fein from the Executive and All Ireland Ministerial Council.
For much of the last two months, the focus of the response to the Deepwater Horizon explosion has been a mile underwater, 50 miles from shore, where successive efforts involving containment domes, "top kills" and "junk shots" have failed, and a "spillcam" shows tens of thousands of barrels of oil hemorrhaging into the gulf each day.
There's a lot at stake in next week's primary -- for everyone except Ron Paul, who isn't trying to win Florida and who spent large portions of the week shoring up his effort in the caucus states to come.
British colonists had encouraged sympathetic European settlers to move to the southern shore as part of an effort to drive out French Acadians who had lived there since the 1600s.
Convinced that he had a top-notch team on substance but that his communications effort needed shoring up, Mr. Obama personally recruited Stephanie Cutter, an experienced Democratic communications strategist, to run the effort.
We are probably at the end of the days when his reputation as a genial compromiser will allow him to put all his political effort into shoring up the populist conservative base and protecting the financial interests of the wealth wing of the G.O.P. Now it is time to deal with the rest of the American family.
Despite our uncertainty regarding underlying mechanism, evidence for adaptive population divergence, both genetic (current study) and ecological (Dill 1996; Shepherd 2000), supports the need for unique conservation and management efforts for shore- and stream-spawning kokanee in Okanagan Lake to conserve maximum evolutionary potential (Fraser and Bernatchez 2001).
