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  Mediterranean Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia.
The Mediterranean Sea is connected to the Atlantic Ocean by the Strait of Gibraltar on the west and to the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, by the Dardanelles and the Bosporus respectively, on the east.
As a result of the drying of the sea during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the marine biota of the Mediterranean are derived primarily from the Atlantic Ocean.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mediterranean_Sea   (1186 words)

  
 Great Lakes Fishery Commission -- Sea Lamprey Control
Sea lampreys are aquatic vertebrates native to the Atlantic Ocean.
Sea lampreys resemble eels, but unlike eels, they feed on large fish.
Sea lampreys attach to fish with a sucking disk and sharp teeth.
www.glfc.org /lampcon.php   (499 words)

  
 Great Big Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Great Big Sea (often shortened to GBS) is a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea chanties, which draw from the Island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage.
The band has also produced a DVD, Great Big DVD, which was released in 2003 in Canada and the United States.
In late 2005, the band released its long-awaited "traditional" album, The Hard and the Easy, on which they recorded their favorite Newfoundland party songs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Big_Sea   (320 words)

  
 Marine Education - USC Sea Grant Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Sea Grant Program at the University of Southern California's Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies has served the Southern California coastal region for 30 years, funding research, transferring results to government agencies and user groups, and providing information about marine resources, recreation and education to the public.
Sea Grant research and outreach projects cover a broad spectrum of areas, with particular emphasis on topics related to the "Urban Ocean," USC Sea Grant's thematic focus.
USC Sea Grant is part of the Pacific Area Sea Grant Network.
www.usc.edu /org/seagrant/seagrant.html   (113 words)

  
 Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea, a maritime folk-rockin' band from Canada's adopted child, Newfoundland, completely wowed a Philadelphia audience Friday despite a lukewarm warm-up band, perpetual sound problems, a mediocre performance space and a thirsty crowd.
But fortunately, Great Big Sea always puts on a dynamic show; from the opening bodhran beat of "Process Man" through to the second encore, the Painted Bride auditorium was filled with fun, unceasing energy and some very great music.
Great Big Sea certainly attracts the kind of fans who like to sing along and they always seem to know the words.
www.rambles.net /gbs_live.html   (1693 words)

  
 Great Big Sea, Sea of No Cares
Great Big Sea are Alan Doyle (vocals, guitar, bouzouki), Bob Hallett (vocals, fiddles, tenor banjo, accordion, bouzouki, mandolin, high and low whistles), Séan McCann (vocals, guitar, bodhran, shakers) and Darrell Power (vocals, bass, bones, mandola).
Yet it is the new material that has generated their country-pop success, not the ballads of the "Scolding Wife," seemingly a variant of the Child Ballad of the "Farmer's Curst Wife," or "Yarmouth Town," a crowd pleaser in any era with it's tale of easy, casual sex.
As for their original material, "Sea of No Cares" straddles narrative and the world of feelings as it describes a man falling in love and leaving his friends "getting cynically stoned" at the bar.
www.greenmanreview.com /cd/cd_sea_of_no_cares.html   (944 words)

  
 Sea Lamprey/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In their natural habitat, sea lamprey -- like salmon and alewives -- are ocean fish that spawn in fresh water.
But some sea lamprey have always inhabited Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, which are open to the Atlantic Ocean.
The sea lamprey is an agressive parasite -- equipped with a tooth-filled mouth that flares open at the end of its eel-like body.
www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/sealamprey.html   (311 words)

  
 Great Lakes Environment: Baltic Sea Partnership Program - Framework Plan
Although the Great Lakes and the Baltic Sea differ in that the former is a freshwater ecosystem and the latter a saline one, the two water bodies have a great deal in common.
Under the Great Lakes/Baltic Sea Partnership, the U.S. proposes to draw on the longstanding Great Lakes binational initiatives of the U.S. and Canada as a model to protect environmental quality and public health.
It is necessary to establish a framework for cooperation to reduce toxic substances in the Great Lakes and Baltic Sea ecosystems.
www.epa.gov /glnpo/baltic/plan.html   (2212 words)

  
 About Great Big Sea
In 1998, Great Big Sea released the song Lukey on an album called Fire In The Kitchen, which was produced by Paddy Moloney of Ireland's The Chieftains.
Also in 1998, to furthur promote the band outside of Canada, Great Big Sea released Rant and Roar on June 2 in the United States which consisted of songs from their first three albums (previously unreleased in the US), and was supported by an aggressive and very successful tour throughout the United States.
Great Big Sea had won the Entertainer of the Year award for five consecutive years at The East Coast Music Awards before withdrawing their name to allow other musicians achieve the recognition they deserve.
ca.geocities.com /jabrams752@rogers.com/about_gbs/about_gbs.html   (2241 words)

  
 Sea Lamprey-EATM Page
Sea lamprey predation, in combination with other factors (i.e., overfishing and hybridization with more common cisco species), led to the extinction of three endemics in the Great Lakes; the longjaw cisco Coregonus alpenae, the deepwater cisco C.
Sea lampreys also took a toll on the introduced salmon in the Great Lakes, much to the dismay of anglers and state fish agencies.
Sea lamprey assessment is required in order to improve the information used to select streams for lampricide treatment, to effectively apply alternative control methods, and to monitor the effectiveness of the whole control program.
www.iisgcp.org /EXOTICSP/lamprey.htm   (1500 words)

  
 audiography: The Beginner's Guide to Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea began as four good friends from Newfoundland who met in university and around the St. John's music scene, thought that there might be a place in the world for the unique strains of Newfoundland folk music.
Great Big Sea's self titled debut was first released in 1993 on an independent label, but was rereleased by Warner Canada after GBS met with huge success.
Sea of No Cares, also known as the Goldfish Album, was released in 2002 and was when GBS's sound turned away from their folk roots and went more poppish in style.
www.livejournal.com /community/audiography/532842.html   (2155 words)

  
 Sea Lamprey in the Great Lakes Region
Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) are predaceous, eel-like fish native to the coastal regions of both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission and its agents decided several years ago to reduce lampricide use by 50 percent by the year 2001, for three main reasons: commitment to healthy ecosystems, economics, and the need to integrate the pest management program.
Outlines the impacts of Sea Lamprey populations in the Great Lakes, research and treatments to protect native fish populations.
www.great-lakes.net /envt/flora-fauna/invasive/lamprey.html   (356 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Salty Sea Covered Part of Mars: 'Excellent' Site to Search for Past Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The sinuous curves seen in the face of this rock, known as the Upper Dells, are definitive evidence that standing water was moving on the Martian surface in the past.
An ancient sea also implies that early Mars was warmer than today, said University of Colorado geologist Bruce Jakosky, who was not directly involved in the finding.
The researchers cautioned that their results so far do not allow them to determine if the sea was deep and long-lasting, or if it was very shallow and receded rapidly.
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/opportunity_sea_040323.html   (1902 words)

  
 Hans Christian Andersen: The Great Sea-Serpent
It was a world with the strangest creatures, and some very horrid and big, with great gaping mouths that could gulp down all the eighteen hundred brothers and sisters, but neither did they think of that, for none of them as yet had been swallowed.
All the little fishes, and the great ones with them, from the level of the sea to the bottom, were thrown into a panic.
for the bottom of the sea, and went down with such haste that they reached it long before the telegraph was seen or known about down there; they poured in on the cod and flounders that lived peaceably at the bottom of the sea and ate their neighbors.
hca.gilead.org.il /serpent.html   (3038 words)

  
 EEK! - Alien Profile: Sea Lamprey
How to Identify: Sea lampreys are members of an ancient family of "jawless fishes" that were around before the time of the dinosaurs.
Sea lampreys are parasites as adults and use their raspy disc-shaped mouth full of teeth to strike and hold fast to fish.
Sea lampreys are limited to the Great Lakes and their tributary streams.
www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/caer/ce/eek/critter/invert/lamprey.htm   (806 words)

  
 Great Big Sea @ CanEHdian.com
Picture a scene in 1995 (when Great Big Sea were first breaking onto the scene).
Some Newfoundlad band named Great Big Sea were opening for the talented Bentall, and the only people that bothered to show up were students from Cornerbrook, Conception Bay and St.John's who were amazed that their any band from their home province would get a gig off "the rock".
This time the main act were Blue Rodeo, another great Canadian band, but the scene couldn't be different from Great Big Sea's first trip to the school, only months earlier.
www.canehdian.com /genre/celtic/artists/greatbigsea/main.html   (435 words)

  
 Great Lakes Ship Wrecks, Boats and other Books
Most of their stories are told as they were recorded in newspapers of the day, on life saving sttion reports, or later written down by the participants themselves, retaining the excitement and often tragedy, of the event as it unfolded.
Featuring 43 of the 350 lighthouses on the Great Lakes, it includes interesting stories of wrecks and rescues, lights and lighthouse keepers--some of whom had to climb to the top of a 98-foot tower every six hours to fuel the light with kerosene
Paddle's journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region.
www.seatalebooks.com /glake.shtml   (699 words)

  
 Great Lakes Environment: Baltic Sea Partnership Program -1999 Fellowship Reports
The main goal of the fellowship research project within the Great Lakes - Baltic Sea Partnership Program was to study the spatial distribution pattern of this exotic species in Lake Ontario by estimating its abundance and biomass values.
The purpose of his study was to investigate comparisons of spatial frameworks used for environmental assessments in the water drainage basins of the Great Lakes and the Baltic Sea.
Presentations and meetings were held at the International Joint Commission, the University of Windsor’s Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, Michigan State University in East Lansing and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Windsor University.
www.epa.gov /glnpo/baltic/fellrprt99.html   (1022 words)

  
 Great Lakes Sea Grant Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
A network of Sea Grant colleges and programs working in partnership with government and the private sector to meet the changing needs of Americans living in the Great Lakes region.
The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network leads the nation in efforts to coordinate, integrate and set priorities for fisheries extension activities at the regional scale.
Sea Grant programs in the Great Lakes continue to support research projects and distribute a variety of publications about aquatic invasive species.
www.greatlakesseagrant.org   (198 words)

  
 Seiche - Great Lakes Commission Also Gains Minnesota Sea Grant Director
Richards is representing the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network on the commission in his role as chair of the Network.
The Great Lakes Commission is a nonpartisan, binational agency created by state and U.S. federal law that is dedicated to promoting a strong economy, healthy environment, and high quality of life for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence region and its residents.
Although Sea Grant and the Great Lakes Commission have cooperated in numerous ways in the past, Richards looks forward to interacting with the commission more formally.
www.seagrant.umn.edu /seiche/2002/06/great_lakes_commission_also_gains_minnesota_sea_grant_director.html   (327 words)

  
 GreatBigSea.com | The Official Community of Great Big Sea
The Hard and The Easy is the eighth release from Great Big Sea, the St. John's-based, Juno-nominated band that fuses Newfoundland traditional music with modern pop in a crowd-pleasing formula both heartfelt and vital.
A pure force of nature — much like the ocean surge they take their name from — Great Big Sea's blend of instruments like mandolin, bodhran, fiddle, and concertina, along with their vocal harmonies, revels in the melodies they create and the Newfoundland tunes they love.
But Great Big Sea firmly believes that Kit survives, and their version of the song is a celebration, not a dirge.
www.greatbigsea.com /theband   (837 words)

  
 GLSKA - Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association
The Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association is a non-profit organization, founded in 1989, whose aim is to promote and enhance the enjoyment of coastal kayaking in the Great Lakes area.
The main focus of the Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association is paddling; and we run an active and varied programme of trips for members, including day trips, weekend camping trips and longer summer trips, appropriate for sea kayakers of all skill levels.
If you share our interest in sea kayaking as a means of exploring our wild and beautiful inland seas – the Great Lakes – we invite you to join us in the Great Lakes Sea Kayaking Association.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Gorge/4657   (296 words)

  
 2006 Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellowship   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The Great Lakes Commission-Sea Grant Fellow will work with members of the Great Lakes' science, policy and information/education communities to advance the environmental quality and sustainable economic development goals of the Great Lakes states.
Fellows are required to submit quarterly reports (and an exit report) to the Great Lakes Commission for distribution to the NSGO and all Great Lakes Sea Grant directors.
The Great Lakes Commission, chaired by Thomas Huntley (Minn.), is a nonpartisan, binational compact agency established under state and U.S. federal law and dedicated to promoting a strong economy, healthy environment and high quality of life for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region and its residents.
www.glc.org /about/scholarships/fellow.html   (885 words)

  
 The Great New England Sea Serpent
This part of the history of the sea serpent at Cape Ann is an oft told tale.
A small school of mackerel were pulling in the seine when a commotion was noticed among the fish, and the sea serpent, which had evidently been under the seine, made its appearance alongside the boat to the alarm and disgust of the crew, who had never seen anything like it before.
This a popular speculation among sea serpent buffs and cryptozoologists who believe that the change from sail to steam and then diesel have obscured the creatures for the simple reason that they now elude detection by steering clear of the racket of modern fishing boats.
www.pibburns.com /tgness.htm   (3981 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Deep-sea trawling's 'great harm'
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition says the technique of dragging heavy nets across the seafloor is doing immense harm to fragile ecosystems.
The Coalition says these 11 countries took approximately 95% of the reported high seas bottom-trawl catch in 2001.
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition includes Conservation International, Greenpeace International, World Conservation, the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and the New England Aquarium, among others.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3719590.stm   (758 words)

  
 Sea and Sky: The Sea
Join Sea and Sky as we examine life under the sea.
Explore the diversity of life on a coral reef and discover the bizarre creatures that inhabit the deepest and darkest corners of the world's oceans.
Sea stuff is a place where you will find reviews and announcements for all kind of cool sea stuff including videos, movies, music, books, games, and computer software.
www.seasky.org /sea.html   (341 words)

  
 mn sea grant - great lakes basin to get checkup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Minnesota Sea Grant is participating in a $6 million research project that will offer a comprehensive checkup on the health of the U.S. part of the Great Lakes.
In addition to researchers at NRRI and Sea Grant, the project will include experts from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University (New York), University of Windsor-Canada, John Carroll University (Ohio), and University of Michigan.
For more information on the project, officially titled "Development of Environmental Indicators of Condition, Integrity, and Sustainability of the Great Lakes Basin," contact Sea Grant Director Carl Richards at (218) 726-8710 or crichard@d.umn.edu.
www.seagrant.umn.edu /seiche/apr.01/art02.html   (683 words)

  
 Borzoi Reader | Catalog | Encyclopedia of the Sea by Richard Ellis
From one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of aquatic life and lore.
We visit lovely and exotic locations from Venice to Ni'ihau (Hawaii's "forbidden isle"), and consider both the fearsome kraken (a mythical sea monster often seen by Scandinavian clergymen) and the notorious real-life pirate Captain Kidd (whose hidden treasure was never found).
Exhaustive, concise, and entertaining, the Encyclopedia of the Sea is invaluable as an all-inclusive, one-volume source for anyone interested in the sea, its inhabitants, and man's exploration of its mysteries.
www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375403744   (263 words)

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