Sentences with phrase «marine research on»

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For example, readers may recall that there was extensive disagreement before the panel on whether Enbridge conducted adequate research to fully assess the impact of the project on threatened caribou and marine species.

New research shows that the plastic problem is growing, but the full impact on marine life remains unknown.

Robert received a PhD in marine ecology from Boston University and has carried out research on salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and other coastal habitats.

«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.

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. Sergey Piontkovski, a marine biologist from Ukraine, was accused of revealing state secrets for publishing his unclassified research on plankton and illegal currency transactions for accepting grants from foreign funding organizations in October 1999.

Institute for Research on Earth Evolution (IFREE), Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Natsushima - cho 2 - 15, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan.

«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.

His elegant Victorian residence, Cooke Castle, still stands on the island, which has had a working marine research station since 1895.

Marine biologist and filmmaker Randy Olson provided guidance on how to tell compelling stories with their research and how to craft those stories to reach different audiences.

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.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

His data, which will appear in a forthcoming article in Marine Environmental Research, suggest that species of dogfish, as well as age and size, can have a significant effect on mercury concentrations.

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.

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.

The broader aim, says Clark, is to shift the research and mitigation paradigm from using decibel level to using acoustic habitat as a measure of the impact of noise on marine mammals.

Dave Norton's research, which is funded by the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine commresearch, which is funded by the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine commResearch, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine communities.

As co-author Hisanori Kohtsuka explains, «because one habitat where X. japonica was found is easily accessible from a marine station, this new species promises to be valuable for future research on bilaterian and deuterostome evolution.»

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

The Hawaii research relies on a new seismic technique for detecting aligned flows of rock that has yet to be verified, says marine geophysicist Cecily Wolfe of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C.. However, the Iceland study is «very clear and compelling,» she says, and consistent with a deep mantle origin for the plume.

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.

The new research is the first to document handedness in blue whales and the first evidence of a marine mammal favoring a different side of its body depending on feeding depth, the researchers say.

Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

Angel White, who finished her Ph.D. in Letelier's lab last year and is now a postdoc, landed a NASA earth science fellowship but decided not to renew because, she calculated, it was best to keep working on marine - science projects supported by NSF instead of NASA - funded research on remote - sensing tools.

What's surprising is that, as with marine life, so little research is being done on the impact to invertebrates that night - lights might have.

Despite years of talks on seabed mining, Bronwen Currie of Namibia's National Marine Information and Research Center in Swakopmund said that no adequate studies on the cumulative, long - term effects of the practice exist.

Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Institute for Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan.

has increased its direct contact with the wider public through beefed up social media initiatives, a new email newsletter on trending topics on its site, and improved portals to spotlight important areas such as climate change, marine science, and cancer research.

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.

Marine epidemiologist Michael Sweet of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability in England and his coworkers describe their findings August 1 in PLOS ONE.

Collaborating on the research, which was funded by Nosopharm, are Lucile Pantel, Emilie Racine, Matthieu Sarciaux, Marine Serri, Jessica Houard and Andre Aumelas from Nosopharm; Jean - Marc Campagne, Renata Marcia de Figueiredo and Camille Midrier from the Institut Charles Gerhardt Montpellier in Montpellier, France; Sophie Gaudriault, Alain Givaudan and Anne Lanois from the Universite de Montpellier in Montpellier, France; Steve Forst from the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Christelle Cotteaux - Lautard and Jean - Michel Bolla from Aix - Marseille Universite in Marseille, France; Carina Vingsbo Lundberg from Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark; and Douglas Huseby and Diarmaid Hughes from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden.

The finding supports previous research suggesting that colossal volcanic eruptions in what's now Siberia, about 300,000 years before the onset of the extinction event, probably triggered the die - off of nearly all marine species and two - thirds of species living on land (SN: 9/19/15, p. 10).

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Statoil, and the mining company Nordic Mining are collaborating on a research project that will map marine mineral resources along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

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.

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.

The institute carries out research world - wide around four main themes: climate dynamics based on oceanographic, geological, and meteorological investigations; marine biogeochemistry; marine ecology; and the dynamics of the ocean floor.

Spragg was hooked, and he learnt more about this underexploited environment when he researched his final - year project on an antibiotic extracted from a marine bacterium.

Nearly 300 species have appeared on the shores of Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast attached to tsunami debris, marine biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and other institutions reported in the journal Science on Thursday.

The research, published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, focuses on Antarctica's marine - terminating glaciers, or glaciers that back directly up to the ocean.

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

Signy's research programme in terrestrial biology will continue, but the marine work is being moved to Rothera Station, on Adelaide Island, where a # 4.5 million building programme is under way, including accommodation for 40 people and a rock airstrip.

Then there was an exciting decade of research in arctic marine waters anticipating petroleum development on the continental shelf adjoining Alaska.

«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.»»

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

In his reflection on the workshop, Wefer tells us where marine sciences are heading and what research fields might become hot.