Sentences with phrase «jamstec research vessel»

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Marine National Facility operates Australia's only blue - water research vessel dedicated to marine research throughout Australia's vast ocean territories.

Senate appropriators prioritized $ 105 million for construction of three Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRVs), continuing recent Senate efforts to shore up funding for the RCRV project, whereas the House offered no funding for RCRVs in their own bill.

... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

The team, funded by the National Science Foundation's rapid response research program, spent two weeks aboard the F.G. Walton Smith, the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's research vessel.

(A third U.S. research base, Palmer Station, is serviced by an ice - strengthened research vessel, the Lawrence M. Gould.)

Afterward, he helped two ocean - minded philanthropists, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, outfit their research vessel, the R / V Falkor, at a cost of $ 60 million.

To see his subjects up close, McClain hops a ride in a submersible, a 23 - by -8-foot research vessel designed to withstand the enormous pressure at seafloor levels.

Massive subsurface oil plumes have been reported from the Deepwater Horizon spill by the research vessel Pelican, including one up to 90 metres thick that extends for 16 kilometres by 4.8 kilometres.

The Australian research vessel, the Aurora Australis, has a lounge, video room, and sauna as well as excellent food.

His graduate student Luke McKay was on the research vessel Pelican, which first reported such subsurface plumes.

► What caused the sinking of a Taiwanese research vessel last October?

The team investigated sediment cores collected from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea from the German research vessel RV Polarstern on two expeditions in 2006 and 2010.

Sediment cores were collected from Pine Island Bay in West Antarctica using the German research vessel RV Polarstern.

That same day, a research vessel seven miles from the spill site discovered dozens of communities of dead and dying coral.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

To learn just how much jellies breathe in their native habitat, scientists from MBARI are setting off this morning in the Point Lobos, one of the institute's three research vessels.

... Several big projects may not be funded immediately, including significant new research under the International Polar Year in 2007, the new research vessel conducting science in the Arctic, the new petascale computer, and several other large - ticket projects.»

These are the results of the recently concluded monitoring cruises of SYKE research vessels Aranda and Muikku.

The JAMSTEC research vessel RV Yokosuka sailed from Nuku'alofa in Tonga this morning, heading towards New Zealand to explore the animal life on deep undersea mountains, or seamounts.

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

Anna Ling, a Ph.D. candidate in UM Rosenstiel School's Department of Marine Geosciences, catalogs core samples aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.

The study's evidence came from a 2012 cruise by the Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor.

Battling rough seas, scientists aboard the Chinese research vessel Shiyan 3 last month deployed 33 broadband seismometers around the trench, at depths of up to 8137 meters (see map, below).

The oxygen situation of the seabed and the water near the seabed in the sampling stations of the research vessel Muikku in the outer archipelago of the Gulf of Finland was also mainly good.

Scientists onboard the R / V Marcus G. Langseth research vessel anticipated a routine cruise along the Alaska Peninsula in summer 2011.

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

The report says maintenance of a capable fleet of global and ocean - class research vessels are an essential component of the U.S. effort to sustain ocean observing.

That puts it in the same league as the most capable research vessels fielded by the United States and Europe,» Escobar wrote.

On the penultimate day of the field season, Greg Packard and Mark Dennett of Woods Hole stood on the stern of their small research vessel, and swung Gudgeon overboard.

The research group's discovery is based on unique data collected by the article's authors on, for example, winter expeditions in the North Atlantic on DTU's marine research vessel Dana.

In February, the agency had requested funds to design and construct two new regional class research vessels (RCRVs).

PACKED ICE Floating ice — 4 - or 5 - meters - thick in some places — choking the Weddell Sea ended a British Antarctic Survey research vessel's mission to the Larsen C ice shelf in February.

The research vessel Polarstern was carrying 50 scientists from 10 nations, including the United States, Germany, Russia, China, and Japan.

But yesterday he admitted that was just an opening gambit, telling his colleagues that he expected the final spending bill to contain money for at least one research vessel.

As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew - member bunk assignments.

While on a research vessel in Greenland where such sharks were accidentally caught, Nielsen became curious about the creatures.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

UCSC research scientist Patrick Fulton was on board the research vessel Kairei, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), for the retrieval of the string of pressure and temperature sensors that was installed across the fault zone at about 800 meters beneath the seafloor.

Working on a Coast Guard research vessel on the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Vancouver Island, was supposed to be about the research.

UCSC researcher Patrick Fulton (blue jacket) and other scientists examine the retrieved instrument string on the deck of the research vessel Kairei.

In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.

To track the aerosols and conduct other related experiments, the researchers are using two research vessels, four research planes and ground - based instruments, as well as half a dozen satellites (see map below).

Lawmakers directed NOAA to set aside $ 80 million for construction of a new research vessel, just over half of the White House's request for $ 147 million, but noted that they anticipate requests for additional funding for outfitting the vessel and developing new sensors in coming years.

► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»

The White House budget request for the National Science Foundation would fund two new research vessels, but some members of Congress want three.

Scientists wasted no time cataloguing the information and testing the samples, setting up a field laboratory on their research vessel.

«They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach.»»

The incident, which was monitored and recorded by satellite images, aerial photography and a research vessel navigating through the resulting icebergs, is the largest single event in a 30 - year series of ice shelf retreats in the area.