Sentences with phrase «marine research at»

She has completed a long rage of experiments at the water laboratory at the Institute of Marine Research at Austevoll, outside the city of Bergen.

«This shark was able to survive for over a year with perforation of its stomach lining, coelom, and muscle wall,» said Dr. Steve Kessel, director of marine research at Shedd Aquarium.

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Contacted in 2011 by The Tyee, Dr. Carl E. Brown, research manager of Emergencies, Science and Technology Division at Environment Canada confirmed that «a concern with bitumen fuels is their density is quite high and chances are if those materials were spilled into the marine environment, those products might sink.»

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Also at hand were members of the VI - EPSCoR (Virgin Islands Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research), VIMAS (Virgin Islands Marine Advisory Service); federal agencies (FEMA); local agencies (Department of Planning & Natural Resources (DPNR) Division of Coastal Zone Management, DPNR Division of Environmental Enforcement, and Virgin Islands Waste Management Authority); and other local non-profits.

The New School for Social Research, 1998 Dr. Carey served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1967 - 69, and has been a Tutor at St. John's College since 1979.

Dr Jennifer Lavers is a research fellow at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and one of the expert panel members who made a submission to Thursday's senate inquiry.

As Shedd Aquarium's Director of Marine Research, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queen Marine Research, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queeResearch, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queen marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queeresearch projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queen conch.

«This was the first time our teams used PSAT, a technology generally deployed on marine animals and rarely, if ever, used in a freshwater ecosystem,» said Dr. Andy Kough, research biologist at Shedd Aquarium.

«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate scientist join Shedd's conservation research team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

At Shedd Aquarium, 46 Chicago - area teens got a taste of scientific research through two immersive learning experiences, High School Marine Biology and High School Lake Ecology.

I also represent the Peninsular Research Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) based at the Tremough campus near Falmouth at which academics from Exeter University are doing a lot of important research and testing crucial to the wave power iResearch Institute for Marine Renewable Energy (PRIMaRE) based at the Tremough campus near Falmouth at which academics from Exeter University are doing a lot of important research and testing crucial to the wave power iresearch and testing crucial to the wave power industry.

Morelia Urlaub, a marine geoscientist at the Geomar Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany, voices the obvious question: «How can you fail on a slope that is so flat?»

Dr. Piontkovski is now living in the United States, where he is currently associated with Marine Sciences Research Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

«I'm baffled, to be honest,» says Marloes Kraan, an anthropologist at Wageningen Marine Research in IJmuiden, the Netherlands.

«Additionally, we found that marine organisms responsible for bioerosion broke down the skeletal reef framework very quickly when exposed to high amounts of SGD,» said lead author Katie Lubarsky, who completed this research as part of her graduate degree in Marine Biology at UH marine organisms responsible for bioerosion broke down the skeletal reef framework very quickly when exposed to high amounts of SGD,» said lead author Katie Lubarsky, who completed this research as part of her graduate degree in Marine Biology at UH Marine Biology at UH M?noa.

«For example, [measuring] chlorophyll a will give you information about how much biological activity is going on, and eventually more information about the concentration of carbon dioxide within the ocean and the atmosphere,» said Yoshihisa Shirayama, executive director of research at the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Tokyo.

While the research is preliminary, it could lead to a relatively inexpensive and efficient method for assessing the well - being of kelp beds and other marine ecosystems, says acoustics expert Preston Wilson of the University of Texas at Austin.

A mass of marine debris discovered in a giant sinkhole in the Hawaiian islands provides evidence that at least one mammoth tsunami, larger than any in Hawaii's recorded history, has struck the islands, and that a similar disaster could happen again, new research finds.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

Marine biologist Keiron Fraser spent two and a half years at the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station.

A dearth of research According to Chris Harley, a marine ecologist at UBC who was not involved in the study, it has only been in the last five to 10 years that ecologists have begun to start studying the impact of carbon dioxide on species in earnest.

Dr Sara Andreotti, a marine biologist in the Department of Botany and Zoology at SU, have collected over 5000 photographic images of the dorsal fins of white sharks along the South African coastline as part of her research on the population structure of South Africa's great white sharks.

Representatives of the project's 22 partner organisations attended the Assembly at the Icelandic Marine Research Institute.

I started a vacation scholarship program in chemistry at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Marine Laboratories and found that science could indeed be interesting.

In a paper published in Marine Policy yesterday, Tom Polacheck, a senior researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political cResearch Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political cresearch agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political concerns.

«We've stood by for the last 25 years trying to understand what's happening and watching coral reefs die globally,» said Carrie Manfrino, research director at the Cayman Islands - based Central Caribbean Marine Institute, which organized the meting.

While generally used as tourist attraction because it travels at much greater depths than divers can reach, the Curasub is also used for scientific marine research.

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.

«At certain points, population densities were estimated to be up to 500 specimens per square metre,» says Davor Lučić at the Institute for Marine and Coastal Research in Dubrovnik, CroatiAt certain points, population densities were estimated to be up to 500 specimens per square metre,» says Davor Lučić at the Institute for Marine and Coastal Research in Dubrovnik, Croatiat the Institute for Marine and Coastal Research in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

And Christie McMillan, a marine biologist at the Marine Education and Research Society in Vancouver Island, Canada, has been tracking the spread of a new feeding behavior among humpbacks living off Vancouver Imarine biologist at the Marine Education and Research Society in Vancouver Island, Canada, has been tracking the spread of a new feeding behavior among humpbacks living off Vancouver IMarine Education and Research Society in Vancouver Island, Canada, has been tracking the spread of a new feeding behavior among humpbacks living off Vancouver Island.

At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, for example, marine biologist Steven Haddock recently discovered that certain jellyfish can not manufacture their own luciferin and that they probably get it from eating small crustaceans.

Mather landed in an unlikely spot for marine research: at the University of Lethbridge in landlocked Alberta, which hasn't had any cephalopods since the Devonian Period.

Other researchers, like Tony Koslow, a research oceanographer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, have focused on how the changes in oxygen levels affect marine life.

With the proper permits in hand, Cade — a Stanford University student who works at the Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, California — helped them outfit a dozen whales in the area with the research equivalent of a Go - Pro, a video camera that came with a motion detector and a depth finder.

Berkelmans, a research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, blames rising temperatures.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

One possibility could be related to dinoflagellates and cyanobacteria found upstream in the catchment, which might be releasing toxins similar to those that cause red tides in marine environments, says Peter Ashton, a water resources specialist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa and the University of Pretoria.

«What we see are waves or rings,» said lead investigator Cornelius Fischer, who conducted this research at MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in the group of Prof. Andreas Lüttge.

In the Geophysical Research Letters paper, Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at Columbia University, reports that she found the same correlation at the East Pacific Rise, a fast seafloor spreading region off the coast of Mexico.

This is one of the conclusions of an article published in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series and signed by Blanca Figuerola, researcher at the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Biodiversity Research Institute of the UB (IRBio), Piotr Kuklinski (Institute of Oceanology) and Paul D. Taylor (Natural History Museum, UK).

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.

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

► 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.

Gillnetting around the world is ensnaring hundreds of thousands of small cetaceans every year, threatening several species of dolphins and porpoises with extinction, according to research presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's 21st biennial conference in San Francisco this week.

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.

The research is «groundbreaking,» says Phil Crews, a marine biochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The research sends a strong message to conservationists that elder group members need to be protected, says Hal Whitehead, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

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.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.