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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
In the Marquesas, a Polynesian sacred enclosure or a place of worship . In Hawaii, it is called a "heiau".
Industry:Natural environment
Pertaining to sound, harmonics are multiples of the fundamental frequency (a single sine wave).
Industry:Natural environment
The process by which warm, less-dense surface water is drawn away from a shore by offshore currents and replaced by cold, denser water brought up from the subsurface.
Industry:Natural environment
The use of organisms such as plants or microorganisms to aid in removing hazardous substances from an area.
Industry:Natural environment
On May 26, 2000, President Clinton signed Executive Order 13158 on Marine Protected Areas (mpas) to strengthen the protection of U.S. ocean and coastal resources. This significant milestone in ocean conservation directs the Departments of Commerce and the Interior, and other federal agencies, to strengthen and expand a national system of mpas by working closely with state, territorial, local, tribal, and other stakeholders.
Industry:Natural environment
A fossil or modern species that possesses characters definitive of two or more different taxa, or that displays characters morphologically intermediate between two different taxa.
Industry:Natural environment
A member of the family Hydophiidae. Sea snakes are common in the Indo-Pacific. Related to cobras, these live-bearing reptiles are highly venomous but not aggressive by nature.
Industry:Natural environment
