2024年6月16日 · Scientific Name: Pterois volitans (red lionfish) and Pterois miles (devil firefish) Identification: Lionfish have distinctive brown or maroon, and white stripes or bands covering the head and body. They have fleshy tentacles above their eyes and below the mouth; fan-like pectoral fins; long, separated dorsal spines; 13 dorsal spines; 10-11 ...

And the Pterois volitans, the red lionfish is from the Pacific Ocean and it's distributed as far as Australia and the Pacific Islands. The devil firefish is actually from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean region and they tend to overlap in terms of range in Indonesia.

To find the distance from a satellite to a receiver, use the following equation: (186,000 mi/sec) x (signal travel time in seconds) = Distance of the satellite to the receiver in miles. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a constellation of satellites orbiting …

unprecedented and alarming speed is the Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois volitans and P. miles) which is native to the tropical and subtropical areas of the southwest Pacific and Indian Oceans.

NOAA's nowCOAST is a GIS-based webmap service that provides frequently updated ocean observations along with coastal and marine weather forecasts now available 24 hours a day. The free online map offers a visual point-and-click access to 60 NOAA data products and services. The public can now get a one-stop-shop look at coastal conditions—real-time and …

The Atlantic Ocean covers an area of approximately 106,460,000 square kilometers (41,105,000 square miles. As the second largest ocean basin, the Atlantic Ocean borders the east coast of the U.S., while the Pacific, Earth's largest ocean basin, borders the U.S. West Coast.

While some watersheds are relatively small, others encompass thousands of square miles and may contain streams, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, and underlying groundwater that are hundreds of miles inland. Shown here: an aerial view of Drakes Bay, part of …

2024年6月16日 · 43,000 square nautical miles of U.S. waters considered critical to navigation. 2,000 - 3,000 square nautical miles of U.S. waters surveyed by NOAA and commercial contractors annually. >1,000 nautical charts cover 95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.4 million square natical miles of U.S. waters.

Turkeyfish is one of the many common names that is used for lionfish around the world. Lionfish are a non-native species in the Atlantic ocean. How lionfish will affect native fish populations and commercial fishing industries has yet to be determined, but invasive species generally have a very big negative impact on native ecosystems and local fishing economies.

When the maximum sustained winds of a tropical storm reach 74 miles per hour, it’s called a hurricane. Hurricane Season begins on June 1 and ends on November 30, but these powerful storms can occur before and after the official season.