Sentences with phrase «oceanographer in»

«The effect is huge in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, but after about two weeks the effect gets smaller,» said lead author Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

It's not clear if they are able to sync up with the earlier blooms and avoid disruptions to critical life stages, such as egg hatching and larvae development, according to lead study author Mati Kahru, a research oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

Steven is an oceanographer in the Environmental Research Division of NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.

Not exact matches

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

Physical oceanographer Noel Pelland and colleagues compared the migrations of 168 seal pups tagged in five different years from 1996 to 2015 with winds matching the pups» first migration years.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

«It's an opportunity to look at exactly what the array is and its requirements are,» says Meghan Cronin, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

Oceanographer and filmmaker Jean - Michel Cousteau writes in the book that «90 percent of commercially harvested large fish species are gone from the sea as a result of overfishing... I am forced to conclude that we are doing everything in our power to eliminate fish from the sea.»

«Previously this monster, Atlantic warm water, was well covered from the surface» by the CHL, says Igor Polyakov, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, who led the study.

«That was a wake - up call for all of us,» says Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

And that's why it's exciting,» said Elisabeth Sikes, an oceanographer at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University who discussed the paper in an accompanying «News and Views» piece in Nature.

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

University of Washington oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands — a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — to trace El Niño patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

Viewing the streaming video from Wally in his lab at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, oceanographer Laurenz Thomsen follows numbered signs protruding out of the sediment like bread crumbs to drive Wally back home after a day out in the field.

In August 2015, University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow and colleagues deployed the first UD ocean sensors underneath Petermann Glacier in North Greenland, which connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the oceaIn August 2015, University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow and colleagues deployed the first UD ocean sensors underneath Petermann Glacier in North Greenland, which connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the oceain North Greenland, which connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the ocean.

Because volcanic rocks are porous, some oceanographers speculated that cold seawater percolates into seamounts, warms up in the crust, and emerges at other seamounts as mineral - rich fluids.

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 study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

This technique, first developed by the military in the 1960s to identify submarine locations with pinpoint accuracy, allows oceanographers to map the seafloor with as much detail as the moon.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

Fish and other sea life can not survive in such waters — and this expansion reduces the area where fish can thrive, says oceanographer Janet Sprintall of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who also coauthored the study.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

But no one had seen large numbers of them in action until 2007, when Benoit - Bird — an Oregon State University oceanographer — found a way to use sonar to probe the 3,000 - foot depths of the squid's stomping grounds in the Sea of Cortez.

The potential for harm is huge, says Jota Kanda, an oceanographer at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology who monitors radionuclide distribution in sediments and biota off Fukushima.

So send in a bot, says David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, who teamed up with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to deploy a five - foot - long autonomous submarine beneath an iceberg off the coast of Greenland.

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

On a visit to the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, Delaney mentioned undersea networks to physical oceanographer Rick Thomson, who proposed adding acoustic sensors to measure the movement of schools of fish.

Here in Paris, I work alongside other oceanographers.

Truly comprehending the world's waters and how they react to climate change requires observations spanning decades, says Uwe Send, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

The shipwreck's resting place — about 12,500 feet deep off the eastern coast of the United States — was originally identified by a 1985 expedition led by the oceanographer Robert Ballard, and in July 1986 he and his colleagues went back for a closer look.

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this researcIn a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this researcin this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

For the first time, investigators will be able to observe the extreme events that shape the planet in real time, remarks John Delaney, a physical oceanographer at the University of Washington.

«This kind of study adds to the evidence of the way that climate moves its influence up the food chain,» says Arthur Miller, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

«We have often underestimated the pristine population size of marine species,» agrees oceanographer Craig Smith from the University of Hawaii in Manoa.

«We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures,» says Ken Caldeira, a chemical oceanographer now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.

«A failed year class for a couple of years in a row could dramatically reduce their populations for a while,» says James Cowan, an oceanographer at LSU, in whose lab de Mutsert works.

Parts of the Arctic Ocean, including the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, are rich in nutrients, so light was thought to be the limiting factor, says Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

Expedition member and GERG scientist Kathryn Shamberger, a Texas A&M oceanographer who took measurements at the reef in late September, said the team is collaborating with scientists across Texas to track the plume of Harvey floodwater as it migrates through the Gulf.

Before a brutal 10 - week research cruise in the Southern Ocean in 2009, oceanographer Victor Smetacek, a co-leader of the expedition, encouraged scientists to bring swimsuits for the ship's sauna and small swimming pool.

«I'll be looking for year class failures — having a hole punched in that year's spawning reproductive success,» says Richard Shaw, a fisheries oceanographer at LSU.

When the British Royal Navy told Levitus that it had hundreds of thousands of index cards of hand - written temperature profiles stashed away in a musty basement, the oceanographer jumped at the chance to add them to his growing database.

«The idea is to keep the specimens as fresh as possible in their natural habitat,» explains David Hutchins, a biological oceanographer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.