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Indo-Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Indo-Pacific is the aggregate of the Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and the minor seas between the two in the general area of Indonesia. The term is especially useful in marine biology, ichthyology, and similar fields, since many marine habitats are continuously connected from Madagascar to Japan, and a number of species occur over that range, but are not found in the Atlantic Ocean. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-Pacific   (90 words)

Humpback dolphin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rice however in his widely used 1998 systematic account ([1]) identified three species - viewing the Indo-Pacific as two species named simply the Indian and Pacific. The dividing line between the two (sub)species is taken to be Sumatra, one of the Indonesian islands, however inter-mixing is thought inevitable. Humpback dolphins found in Chinese waters are locally known as Chinese White Dolphins. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indo-Pacific_Hump-backed_Dolphin   (371 words)

Resources on the Pacific Dolphin from academic institutions Pacific White Sided Physical Appearance: Pacific White-Sided dolphins have a robust body and are also called the "White-Striped Dolphin" because of the light stripe present on both sides of its body. Pacific White Sided Dolphin:...www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/mmp/pwsd.htm - 7k - Cached - Similar pages Pacific White Sided Physical AppearancePacific White-Sided dolphins have a robust body and are also called the "White-Striped Dolphin" because of the light stripe present on both sides of its body. The behavior and feeding ecology of the Pacific coast bottlenose dolphin, (Tursiops truncatus). mongabay.org /conservation/Pacific_Dolphin.htm   (1029 words)

The Fish List Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans; northern California to Peru, Japan to New Zealand, Hawaiian Is. 192-1,525 m (634-5,033 ft). Pacific, Atlantic, Indian Oceans; in North Pacific to southern California (33oN), one specimen from Kurile- Kamchatka Trench at 49o29'N, 158o41'E. To at least 1,000 m (3,300 ft). Throughout northern Pacific from Japan and Kuril Is. to western Bering Sea to south of the Aleutian Is. and to Islas Revillagigedo, Mexico. id-www.ucsb.edu /lovelab/l_long.html   (5233 words)

Business Wire: Indo Pacific Resources Ltd. Updates Progress at... @ HighBeam Research Indo Pacific holds more than 5,500 square kilometres of prospective ground in 12 exploration licenses including two joint ventures, is a joint venture partner in one application for a new license over approximately 1,000 square kilometres and is the sole applicant for a new license over an area of 2,530 square kilometres. Indo Pacific Resources Ltd., is a mineral exploration and development company that seeks to identify and exploit precious and base metal opportunities in Southeast Asia. PORT MORESBY, Papau New Guinea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1997-- Indo Pacific Resources Ltd. (ASE:IPF) is pleased to report that fieldwork is proceeding as planned on the company's Dawa Dawa, Sumwari and Ambunti licenses. www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:19654988&refid=ink_tptd_g1   (1255 words)

Pacific and Indian Ocean Decadal Variability The decadal pattern in the North Pacific extends to the Indian Ocean although the out-of-phase relationship between the North Pacific and southern Indian Ocean is enhanced by the rotation of the EOFs, as seen in a comparison of Fig. Long-term variability in the Pacific and Indian Oceans must be dominated by variability of the upper ventilated portions of these oceans, where the circulation is primarily wind-driven, unlike the Atlantic which has a substantial in situ source of deep water and hence a major thermohaline component. The historical record of water mass distributions in the northwest Pacific reveals that the Okhotsk Sea is the region of the densest water mass formation at the surface of the North Pacific. www.clivar.org /publications/other_pubs/iplan/iip/pd4.htm   (11889 words)

I N P A C - Indo-Pacific Council Ethnographic examples will be drawn to a considerable extent from the Pacific region, especially Papua New Guinea, but essentially the focus of the course is global and students will be encouraged to draw on their own areas of interest in their course work. Its primary purpose is to use prehistoric and ethnohistoric cultural sequences of the Pacific Islands (including Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia) as a framework for examining problems of general interest to both prehistorians and ethnographers. These may include such themes as colonial and postcolonial change, ethnicity and nationalism, conflict and violence, Pacific diasporas and remittance economies, the Ainvention@ of tradition, political ecology, cultural constructions of gender, etc. The course includes a general ethnographic survey of Pacific Island societies as well as an examination of contemporary problems in the region. www.ucis.pitt.edu /INPAC/courses_anthro.htm   (1298 words)

Indo-Pacific Citations Allison, A. Zoogeography of amphibians and reptiles of New Guinea and the Pacific region. The Biogeography and Evolution of Pacific Island Reptiles and Amphibians. Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/indo_ref.html   (11073 words)

Search Results for Indo-Pacific - Encyclopædia Britannica This region encompasses the coast of the Pacific Ocean and ranges from tropical islands to the freezing temperatures. The Pacific Region of the United States in both geographically diverse and beautiful. See the venomous Lionfish of the Tropical Pacific and why it is a popular aquarium fish. www.britannica.com /search?query=Indo-Pacific&ct=&fuzzy=N   (556 words)

Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance Biodiversity Page The unparalleled richness of Indo-Pacific realm is due to its geographic position at the crossroads of Asia and the Pacific. In the far western Pacific (Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Bali) are found an Asian flora and fauna such as tigers, elephants, orangutans, monkeys, rhinos, rich dipterocarp forests, and Rafflesia flowers (the largest on Earth). This is a geologically complex region - the so-called "Pacific Ring of Fire" - that has resulted in an array of biologically and culturally unique island ecosystems and species. www.indopacific.org /biodiversity.html   (3569 words)

Indo - Pacific Conservation Alliance External Links The Center helps promote the establishment of a stable, peaceful and prosperous Asia Pacific community in which the United States is a natural, valued and leading partner. RBCP's objective is to recover threatened bird species and to conserve all other indigenous bird species in the Pacific and their habitats. Also listed are many other invasive plant species present in the Pacific. www.indopacific.org /links.html   (5214 words)

Indo-Pacific Keys FAO - Keys to the marine and esturine genera of Eleotrids occurring in the western Central Pacific FAO - Keys to the Gobiids of the Western Central Pacific NOTE: The FAO keys were in press as of 1998 and hence reflect the nomenclature in use at that time. gobiidae.com /indo_pacific_area.htm   (48 words)

Indo Pacific Marine Indo Pacific Marine has won many international and national awards for excellence in tourism, education and eco-tourism and the centre's Founder and Curator, Helene Pretty, is also a Churchill Fellow. Established in 1971, as a private research project, and located in Darwin, Australia, Indo Pacific Marine is a privately funded marine environmental and educational resource centre. Over 1.5 million people, from all over the world, have visited the centre since it opened to the public in 1974. www.octa4.net.au /indopacific   (169 words)

CMS: Sousa chinensis, Chinese white dolphin - Parsons ECM (2002a) The behaviour and ecology of the Indian humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis plumbea) and the Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis chinensis). The Chinese white dolphin is discontinuously distributed in coastal waters of the western Pacific. Consequently the dramatic increase in its freshwater output during the summer also changes fish distribution, which in turn influences the abundance distribution of Hong Kong’s Pacific humpback cetaceans. www.cms.int /reports/small_cetaceans/data/S_chinensis/s_chinensis.htm   (3217 words)

Working Bibliography on Human Biology & Pacific Prehistory Hagelberg, E. "Ancient and modern mitochondrial DNA sequences and the colonization of the Pacific." Electrophoresis, 18: 1529-1533. "Colonization of the Pacific: the genetic evidence." In The Colonization of the Pacific: A Genetic Trail. Martinson, J. "Molecular perspectives on the colonization of the Pacific". www.bioanth.org /pacific/humanbio.htm   (1768 words)

West New Britain Bibliography London:William Heinimann, Ltd. (Comment: "Lord Moyne's account of a voyage in the Pacific where a stop was made at Kandrian and objects bought to be brought home to distribute between museums. Report on the South Pacific Commission Deep Sea Fisheries Development Project in the West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, 5 Sept.-14 Dec., 1979. Infant Care and Feeding in the South Pacific. arts.uwaterloo.ca /ANTHRO/WNB/WNBBiblio.html   (12324 words)

HIPLL - Home Students of Indo-Pacific languages and cultures can also enhance their opportunities to find a career in international relations; provide service to the community in such fields as social work, public health, nursing, medicine, and law; perform research on Asia and the Pacific; and develop cross-cultural awareness and understanding in Hawai`i's multicultural environment. All of the department's elementary- and intermediate-level language courses may be used to fulfill the Hawaiian or foreign language requirement for all bachelor's degrees on the Manoa campus. www.hawaii.edu /hipll   (275 words)

Air-Sea Interaction in the Indo-Pacific Oceans III - Ocean Sciences [OS] The tropical Pacific is noted for the mesoscale variability associated with the tropical instability waves which have been known to contribute to the heat budget of the cold-tongue. Similar to the tropical Pacific ENSO mode, the tropical Indian region is dominated by a zonal mode of variability on interannual time scales. Because of the huge warm water pool that straddles across the western Pacific and the eastern Indian Oceans, the climate variations in these two oceans are closely related and need to be studied as a whole. www.agu.org /meetings/wp04/wp04-sessions/wp04_OS33A.html   (1874 words)

Indo-Pacific Updates Operations Plan This has enabled identification of a number of targets of similar type to Indo-Pacific's 2001 Goldie oil discovery and to the Ngatoro oil pools. Indo plans to drill three of these targets during 2004. A similar target identified outside the 3D area may also be drilled during the year. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/12-04-2003/0002069897&EDATE=   (993 words)

Indo-Pacific News on Its Mt Messenger Exploration Program In Indo's PEP 38738 permit, the Cheal-1 and Cheal-2 well-heads have now been exposed, and the Cheal site is being prepared for re-entry and flow testing of the oil sands in Cheal-1, which will occur during first quarter 2003. Despite the modest levels of drilling, several Mt Messenger oil fields have been discovered and are in production, including Ngatoro, Goldie (in both of which Indo has an ownership), Kaimiro, Surrey and the recent Tabla-1 well (INDOF 5%). The initial operation will consist of a one month test of sandstones near 4,000 feet depth which have previously flowed oil and gas on test, in order to verify their long term producibility. www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-04-2003/0001865751&EDATE=   (454 words)

Dolphins in danger: Development, pollution, threaten pink denizens of the waters around Hong Kong The endangered Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins are known locally as Chinese white dolphins, or in mainland China as "giant pandas at sea." They are found in shallow, coastal waters of the western Pacific and Indian oceans, from southern China and northern Australia to South Africa. There are worries that the local population, estimated at between several hundred and 1,000, could go the way of the same species in the Philippines, where the last sightings were reported in the 1950s in areas now heavily polluted by mine tailings. www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/20010827dolphinhealthp4.asp   (911 words)

Centre For Dolphin Studies - Indo-pacific Humpbacked Dolphin Indo-pacific humpbacked dolphins, as their name suggests, are found on the coastlines of the Indian and Pacific oceans - predominantly in South-east Asia, Australia, and eastern Africa. Humpbacked dolphins vary in size, appearance and colouration throughout the world; Pacific specimens are predominantly brown or even pink, whereas South African animals are brownish-grey. The "hump" in the middle of the back is the most obvious identifying feature, as it breaks the surface whenever the animal breathes. www.dolphinstudies.co.za /species/sousa_chinensis.html   (417 words)

Marine Dolphins Pacific White-Sided dolphins have a soft, subtle color pattern. Pacific White-Sided dolphins often associate with other cetaceans. The lower jaw of the northern right whale dolphin extends beyond the tip of the upper jaw. www.wcug.wwu.edu /%7Enarf/dolp/d5.shtml   (478 words)

CRCES Presentation: Natural decadal-multidecadal variability of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and its impacts on global climate Temperature anomalies from surface to 200m in the WPWP (shaded) and in the equatorial eastern Pacific (contoured) vary with almost-opposite phases at decadal-multidecadal timescales, implying slow variability of the equatorial thermocline Note small area of increased evaporation south of the equator in the WPWP and increased evaporation in the North Pacific subtropics and in tropical central Pacific when WPWP less warm (Fig. Upper-ocean temperatures and heat content in the equatorial eastern Pacific vary with almost-opposite phase to that of the WPWP temperatures and heat content at decadal-multidecadal timescales develop.crces.org /presentations/dmv_ipwp   (1110 words)

Improving El Niño prediction using a space-time integration of Indo-Pacific winds and equatorial Pacific upper ocean heat content A space-time integration of this Indo-Pacific signal yields an index τ that, for 11 out of 12 months of the calendar year, leads the El Niño index NINO3.4 with a correlation of 0.5 or greater for at least some lead in the range 10–15 months. Improving El Niño prediction using a space-time integration of Indo-Pacific winds and equatorial Pacific upper ocean heat content Equatorial westerly (easterly) wind anomalies, phase-locked to the seasonal cycle, typically ‘propagate’ from the eastern equatorial Indian Ocean and into the western Pacific immediately before an El Niño (La Niña). www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2003/2002GL016673.shtml   (275 words)

ADW: Sousa chinensis: Information Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphins, Sousa chinensis, are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Their distribution coincides with the distribution of coastal mangrove areas in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. This dolphin is usually found in shallow waters that are less than 20 meters in depth. animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Sousa_chinensis.html   (696 words)

Collection Policy Statement:Languages, Linguistics, and Literature-Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages Cooperative and exchange agreements exist with most of the countries of the Pacific, South Asia and Southeast Asia and are an important acquisition source for otherwise hard-to-acquire materials. The countries of Asia and the Pacific islands are the source of most acquisitions. The Pacific islands master's degree program requires two years of study of an indigenous or administrative language. libweb.hawaii.edu /uhmlib/collection/language/indo.html   (569 words)

Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin The Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin can be found in the coastal waters of the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean, from the northern East China Sea to New South Wales, Australia. Their characteristic high roll when surfacing probably gave them their common name. ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/jaap/Sousa.htm   (647 words)

Species Summary Indian and Pacific: tropical and temperate waters approximately 45°- 50°N and 40°-35°S in the western Pacific, 35°N and 35°S in the eastern Pacific; 45°S in western Indian Ocean and 35°S in eastern Indian Ocean. Undergoes spawning migrations in the Pacific (Ref. 43). Utilized fresh, smoked and frozen; also used for sashimi and sushi; eaten broiled and baked (Ref. 9987). www.fishbase.org /Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Istiophorus&speciesname=platypterus   (319 words)

European Discovery in the South Pacific The following sequence is intended to identify some of the events and factors which have been involved in geographic discoveries in the Indo-West Pacific and South Pacific Ocean regions. Cook's prudent, audacious, and meticulous exploration of the Pacific brought this hitherto passively known part of the world into the political theaters of Europe. Tasman commanded two Dutch voyages, each of which were intended to answer questions about the nature of the geography of Pacific Ocean regions. www.muffley.net /pacific   (243 words)

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