Sentences with phrase «ocean scientists now»

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Now, scientists from both countries are working together on projects encompassing biomedical science, autism and other neurodegenerative diseases, agriculture, ocean conservation, environmental research and more.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and colleagues have now mapped Enceladus's gravity and shown that it has a crescent - shaped ocean, holding about as much water as Lake Superior in North America.

Atmospheric scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have now found an explanation that could significantly improve the interpretation of ice cores.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Scientists have long used ocean color remote sensing to measure these particles in surface waters, and now, they will be able to reliably calculate concentrations of these particles through the water column.

Now, using gravity measurements collected by Cassini, scientists have confirmed that Enceladus does in fact harbor a large subsurface ocean near its south pole, beneath those tiger stripes.

While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.

Andrew Rosenberg, a scientist who led one of the report's chapters on oceans and directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to oceans.

Now, scientists can trace the beginning of this accelerated melting to a surge of warming in the Pacific Ocean more than 70 years ago.

Scientists believe that the different pattern of deep ocean circulation was responsible for the elevated temperatures 3 million years ago when the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was arguably what it is now and the temperature was 4 degree Fahrenheit higher.

In the tragic aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004, scientists and warning centers are now better equipped to forecast and model these monstrous waves

Atmospheric scientists suspected that oceans and forest fires were the main additional sources, but now it appears that plants exhale large amounts as well.

In recent years, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these baleen whales that typically sift out little crustaceans from the bottom are now eating mysid shrimp and even krill in ocean waters.

Scott Highleyman, an official at the Ocean Conservancy who also served on the U.S. delegation, said scientists have little knowledge of what kind of fish are in the region now and whether commercial stocks will migrate north as the water warms.

Looking backward to a hotter future Scientists are only now coming to understand the PDO and the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation, which is the wind - and - ocean circulation that extends across the entire Pacific Ocean of which the PDO is a ocean circulation that extends across the entire Pacific Ocean of which the PDO is a Ocean of which the PDO is a part.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

Using a complex 3 - D computer model, scientists at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel were now able to understand the paths of the water toward the black smokers.

By using long - term observations, scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now shown that freshwater has already impacted convection in the last decade.

Instead, scientists now find that a warming ocean is mobilizing fish populations, sending them to the poles with little regard for marine preserve boundaries.

Now, scientists have suggested that corals have some active control over their skeletal growth — and that it may protect them from the worst ravages of ocean acidification.

Once miraculous, chlorofluorocarbons that caused ozone damage are now helping scientists track its effects on the Southern Ocean.

Europa's fractured, frozen surface (left) conceals a global ocean buried below, most scientists now agree.

Now scientists have found that 10 rivers around the world where plastic waste is mismanaged contribute to most of the oceans» total loads that come from rivers.

Now scientists from Kyoto University and UC San Diego have discovered that this phenomenon occurred when the warming phase — «interdecadal variability mode» — of both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans coincided.

Now, locked in limestone that was formed in shallow seawater offshore of the supercontinent Pangaea, scientists have found an isotopic signal to support a sharp drop in pH. The catastrophe holds a cautionary lesson: Due to the burning of fossil fuels, today's oceans are acidifying at an even faster rate than they were at the time of the extinctions, although it hasn't yet persisted nearly as long.

Now, computer simulations by Stanford scientists reveal that sound waves in the ocean produced by the earthquake probably reached land tens of minutes before the tsunami.

Warmer oceans have also caused a distinct change in El Niño events — the warmer currents associated with the cycle have now been observed towards the central Pacific rather than the west, according to the Sheffield scientists.

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

Although that in itself was initially a mystery, scientists now know these animals release tiny larvae that get carried by ocean currents to different vents, where they settle and form a new colony.

And scientists now know that the underwater topography — the hills, slopes and crevices at the bottom of the ocean, where the ice meets the sea — is a critical influence on just how much ice actually touches the water.

Now, a team of scientists has streamlined the problem by combining ocean wave data with a healthy dose of nonlinear dynamics of the wave system.

Now that scientists know swift changes are occurring, they're trying to figure out how it's happening — and all the evidence has revealed that the ocean is the culprit.

Mild oxygen levels in shallow seas but oxygen - poor deep oceans lasted for some 1.3 billion years during a time that has been dubbed the «Boring Billion» but eventually led to the development of mitochondria that now power multicellular planet and animal life (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010; Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, September 29, 2009; Johnston et al, 2009; and H.D. Holland, 2006).

She now works as the News Director for the Last Ocean Project, and as a freelance science writer and marine scientist.

Scientists now estimate that the circulation of seawater through the oceanic crust accounts for 34 % of the heat input into the global oceans, about 25 % of the globe's total heat input.

Although many scientists believe that Venus may once have had oceans of water on its surface (in part because its ratio of deuterium to ordinary hydrogen is now measured to be around 150 times that of the Earth's), most of it has been lost the past five billion years.

Josh was called an idiot leftist scientist by Rush Limbaugh (a moniker enthusiastically adopted by Josh and, err, Josh's wife), had to leave his PhD program in Physics, and is now leading the massive Oceans Melting Greenland program.

Although scientists are aware that the chemical composition in the plume may have originated from an ancient, now frozen, sub-surface ocean, the freezing process would have isolated the salt far from the surface, preventing it from being released.

Scientists now find microplastics in the majority of samples collected from the world's oceans.

It took until now for scientists to produce good enough computer models to pierce though this interference and spot the additional effect of the magma ocean.

Scientists fear that the bleaching is now going to be the new norm in the world's oceans, affecting the northern and southern hemisphere oceans in alternation.

Now, scientists are posing questions that could only be contemplated by modern humans like noticing how you feel when you look out your window at a concrete wall compared to a beautiful meadow, ocean, or sunset.

There are some physics - based theories regarding the nature of climate change yes, but the ONLY way to test them is on the basis of the sort of evidence that climate scientists have been collecting for many years now, on, for example, global temperatures, ocean temperatures, sea level, frequency of drought, hurricanes, rainstorms, etc..

«For several years now, scientists have had evidence that dust from storms across the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert drifts out over the Atlantic where it reflects some solar radiation back into space, thus cooling the ocean waters that fuel hurricanes.

Of course its always possible we have missed some mysterious natural cycle that could be operating right now to cause warming, but scientists have had a close look at every possibility they can think of from solar cycles, ocean cycles, geothermal energy, cosmic rays and ruled them out.

Now scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert - like barrenness in the subtropical oceans --- in places where surface waters have also been steadily warming.

The scientists can now say with confidence that the ocean did not actually experience a large rapid cooling during the 2003 to 2005 period.»

Now a suite of simulations, run by an international team of ocean and climate scientists, shows this is a likely outcome should the flow remain unabated this summer.

Scientists who once thought that the Arctic Ocean could be free of ice during the summer by 2100 now see it occurring by 2030.