Sentences with phrase «marine research centre»

NOC is one of five international organisations involved in the eSurge project, which also includes CGI (UK), the Danish Meteorological Institute (DK), the Coastal and Marine Research Centre (IRL) and the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (NL).

Reclaiming islands is the real solution to challenges thrown up by climate change, not leaving the country, says Shiham Adam, director of the Maldives Marine Research Centre.

The SYKE Marine Research Centre will continue to monitor and study the major Baltic inflow and its effects in close cooperation with other institutions studying the condition of the Baltic Sea and provide information about the results.

Not exact matches

In the study, scientists from the Potsdam - based Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and Harvard University show that sea surface temperatures reconstructed from climate archives vary to a much greater extent on long time scales than simulated by climate models.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

Climate researchers from the Helmholtz Young Investigators Group ECUS at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Potsdam have now investigated how temperature variability changed as the Earth warmed from the last glacial period to the current interglacial period.

► A Letter in this week's Science, from Brett Favaro of the Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Resources at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, considered the issue of carbon emission by scientists in the course of their research and suggested adoption of a «carbon code of conduct» for scientists.

Materials provided by Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

The work was carried out by the Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques3 (LDO, CNRS / Université de Bretagne Occidentale), in collaboration with the Laboratoire Littoral Environnement et Sociétés (CNRS / Université de La Rochelle), GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany), Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement de Géosciences de l'Environnement (CNRS / Collège de France / AMU / IRD), the IFREMER's Laboratoire Géosciences Marines, the Eurasian Institute of Earth Sciences at the Istanbul Technical University (Turkey), and the Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute at Bogazici University, Istanbul.

Leading this research, Dr Katya Popova, from the National Oceanography Centre, said «Oil spills can have a devastating effect on the marine environment and on coastal communities.

The centre runs research programmes in climate variability and change, the monitoring of sea levels, ocean uptake of carbon dioxide, and Antarctic marine ecosystems.

«It's a huge lab experiment, but there are no controls,» says Harriet Perry, a fisheries biologist at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory marine - science centre in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

Though researchers have long since suspected this relation existed, an international team of researchers led by the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have now successfully confirmed it.

This was confirmed in one of the first litter surveys conducted north of the Arctic Circle, carried out by an international research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Belgium's Laboratory for Polar research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and Belgium's Laboratory for Polar Research (AWI) and Belgium's Laboratory for Polar Ecology.

The journal Polar Biology has now published important new findings by researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Universität Hamburg and the Dutch research instituteResearch, Universität Hamburg and the Dutch research instituteresearch institute IMARES.

Researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) present these new findings in a study published in the journal Nature Communications.

To figure out how organisms might have endured periods of so - called «catastrophic darkness», Charles Cockell of the Open University's Centre for Earth, Planetary, Space and Astronomical Research in Milton Keynes, UK, and his team placed samples of both freshwater and marine microorganisms in darkness...

The European research project ECO2, coordinated at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, addresses the question of how marine ecosystems react to such CO2 research project ECO2, coordinated at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, addresses the question of how marine ecosystems react to such CO2 Research Kiel, addresses the question of how marine ecosystems react to such CO2 - leaks.

Sea ice physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), are anticipating that the sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean this summer may shrink to the record low of 2012.

The seven bodies of which it is comprised — AINIA, the Centre for Biological Research (CSIC - CIB), Endesa, Mar Cristal Marilum, Neoalgae Micro Seaweed Products, Novatec and the University of Cádiz — have met to formalise the commencement of the project, whose aim encompasses the development of the necessary biotechnological tools to improve and to optimise the production of biomass of marine origin.

In October 2009 the atmospheric physicist from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was on board the German research vessel «Sonne» to measure trace substances in the atmosphere in the tropical West Research (AWI) was on board the German research vessel «Sonne» to measure trace substances in the atmosphere in the tropical West research vessel «Sonne» to measure trace substances in the atmosphere in the tropical West Pacific.

The authors of the paper included Shfaquat A. Khan and Per Knudsen of the Technical University of Denmark; Ingo Sasgen and Veit Helm of the Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research; Tonie van Dam of the University of Luxembourg; Jonathan L. Bamber of the University of Bristol; John Wahr (now deceased) of the University of Colorado; Michael Willis of Cornell University; Kurt H. Kjaer and Anders A. Bjork of the University of Copenhagen; Bert Wouters and Peter Kuipers Munneke of Utrecht University; Beata Csatho of the University at Buffalo; Kevin Fleming of the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences; and Andy Aschwanden of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

According to a study conducted by marine biologists of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and Rostock University within the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), eutrophication — that is already known for its negative effects — and rising seawater temperatures could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack in the BalResearch Kiel and Rostock University within the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), eutrophication — that is already known for its negative effects — and rising seawater temperatures could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack in the Balresearch network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), eutrophication — that is already known for its negative effects — and rising seawater temperatures could lead to a decline of the bladder wrack in the Baltic Sea.

«This cooling reduced precipitation over Africa, and in combination with a range of other complex climate feedback mechanisms tipped the humid system towards aridification,» explains the first author of the study, James Collins from Helmholtz Centre Potsdam — GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences and Alfred Wegener Institute — Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven.

In a study published in the actual volume of Nature Communications, geo - and climate researchers at the Alfred - Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar - and Marine Research (AWI) show that, in the course of our planet's history, summertime sea ice was to be found in the central Arctic in periods characterised by higher global temperatures — but less CO2 — than today.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

Dr Alec Duncan, Senior Research Fellow and part of Curtin's Centre for Marine Science and Technology team, explained that a passive acoustic observatory 40 kilometres west of Rottnest Island that forms part of the Commonwealth - funded Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) had provided the potential lead.

New research, lead by Tamar Guy - Haim of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiresearch, lead by Tamar Guy - Haim of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiResearch (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiResearch Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life with them.

Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4011, Australia.

«A global assessment of marine nitrous oxide emissions is, however, difficult because we do not know exactly where and how much nitrous oxide is produced,» says marine chemist Damian L. Arévalo - Martínez from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

«We have pretty much technically solved the tsunami detection issue, but getting warnings down to the «last mile» is another story,» says Costas Synolakis, director of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research in Athens.

Tiny microscopic animals called zooplankton are ingesting plastic particles at an alarming rate, according to a new study by Dr. Peter Ross, head of the Ocean Pollution Research Program at Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre.

The analysis, led by Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), is published Aug. 21, 2014 in the scientific journal Nature.

Developing the pyunicorn package involved collaborators at PIK, Humboldt University Berlin, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht, University of Aberdeen and Nishny Novgorod State University, located respectively in Germany, Sweden, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Russia.

Researchers of the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, the Goethe University in Frankfurt and the University of Toronto have now detected evidence of this oceanographic event and an earlier sudden sea - level rise in the fossils of tiny calcifying marine algae preserved in seafloor sediments in the Aegean Sea.

Climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) recently made this prediction in a new study, which can be found in the latest issue of the Journal of Climate, released today.

«We have been able to show that the deep sea is the largest long - time archive of DNA, and a major window to study past biodiversity,» writes Pedro Martinez Arbizu, a deep - sea biologist of the German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research in Wilhelmshaven and an author of the paper on South Atlantic DNA in an e-mail.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

The survey's three main authors, Manuel Lopes - Lima and Ronaldo Sousa from the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIMAR) and Professor Jürgen Geist / Chair of Aquatic Systems Biology at TUM, describe how crucial mussels are for aquatic ecosystems: they form around 90 percent of the biomass in the bed of a water body.

In August 2011, the icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was making its way through the ice - covered Arctic Ocean, on a course that took her just a few hundred kilometres from the North Pole.

However, marine scientists, under the auspices of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, recently managed to successfully hindcast climate shifts in the Pacific.

«The ocean was green when the land was brown,» said Victor Smetacek, a biogeoscientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute's Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research.

PhD student and researcher Elin Sørhus at the Institute of Marine Research (link is external) and Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)(link is external) at UiO is now presenting research that is very relevant to theResearch (link is external) and Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES)(link is external) at UiO is now presenting research that is very relevant to theresearch that is very relevant to the debate.

Tine holds a PhD degree in marine science / micropaleontogy from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, and has professional experience from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ, the Netherlands), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), Lund University (Sweden) and The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS, Spitsbergen).

When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, it will begin a journey, the course of which climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) can accurately predict.

Affiliations Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, Fishing and Fisheries Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Affiliation AIMS@JCU, Australian Institute of Marine Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Fishing and Fisheries Research Centre, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

Lennart Bach, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel investigates a tiny organism that can hardly be seen with the naked eye — and is still visible from space.

We collaborate with leading science agencies from around the world including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and University of Washington in the US, the Met Office Hadley Centre and Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the UK, the National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand, and the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology, the State Oceanic Administration and Chinese Academy of Science in China, among others.