Sentences with phrase «oceanographic studies»

«The average rate of sea level rise at Sagar point is 3.14 mm per year while this figure is 5 mm at Pakhiraloy point near Sajnekhali in the Sundarbans,» said Pranabesh Sanyal, a teacher in Jadavpur University's department of oceanographic studies and a member of the West Bengal Biodiversity Board.

After studying satellite images, I confirmed this from fishermen,» says Sugata Hazra, of the School of Oceanographic Studies at Jadavpur University in... Read more

We are trying to develop one that can become a key resource for planners,» said Tuhin Ghosh, School of Oceanographic Studies joint director and also leader of the Indian team.

We believe that the oceanographic studies will proceed as planned and do not anticipate an impact on the Nunavik Inuit Health Survey, says Dr. Louis Fortier, Scientific Director of the Amundsen and ArcticNet Science programs.

These frustrations, compounded by the growing need to understand global changes, have spurred researchers to design the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)-- a $ 330 - million project that promises to herald the next generation of oceanographic study.

Not exact matches

The study was conducted by the US Geological Survey, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Deltares and the University of Hawaii.

We can create oceanographic centres, build scientific submarines, develop study programs between our well established universities, experiment on sustainable architecture and even integrate our professional armed forces.

And today, computer programming continues to play a central role in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientist's work studying whales.

«The photosynthetic efficiency of global phytoplankton is very low, surprisingly low,» says study coauthor Paul Falkowski, an oceanographic biophysicist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. «It was a complete shock to us.»

Working with Zooniverse and a researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, we are launching a project that lets students and adults alike help study whale songs.

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.

Edward Hanna, Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology at the University of Lincoln's School of Geography, carried out the study with Dr Richard Hall, also from the University of Lincoln, and Professor James E Overland from the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

«Simple physics models are elegant and can explain a lot,» says study coauthor Dan Zitterbart, a physicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.

Egypt will be in similar trouble, according to a study by economist James Broadus and several colleagues at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Haggling over that crucial amount of flux is why the paper took so long to appear, says Smetacek, but oceanographer Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts lauds the detailed calculations in an accompanying commentary in Nature, adding that the study «was similar to natural» algal blooms.

The study helps researchers understand the oceanographic processes necessary to better predict future sea - level rise from the melting of ice sheets due to climate change.

A recent study of oceanographic processes off the coast of Western Australia, for instance, appears to have ruled out one possible site for a waste outfall from a proposed pulp mill.

«It's as close to what I imagine another world would look like,» says Diane Adams who worked on this study as a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Aran Mooney, a biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who studies the effects of ocean acidification on Atlantic long - fin squid larvae, said some methods Sunday recommends are not practical for studying all species.

In a study conducted in the region two years prior to when Matthew's trekked across the Caribbean Sea, the research team in the Upper Ocean Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science deployed 55 aircraft ocean instruments from the National Oceanographic Atmospheric Administration's WP - 3D aircraft.

The study is based on the analysis of data obtained from moored observatories in the Labrador Sea and the Irminger Sea and from oceanographic floats.

This longstanding riddle, known as the «marine methane paradox,» may have finally been cracked thanks to a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).

«The penguins are the innocent bystanders experiencing feast or famine depending on what the Equatorial Undercurrent is doing from year to year,» said Kristopher Karnauskas, a climate scientist who performed the research while at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and lead author of the new study recently accepted in Geophysical Research Letters, an American Geophysical Union journal.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

In the study, the researchers use an ice - ocean model created in Bremerhaven to decode the oceanographic and physical processes that could lead to an irreversible inflow of warm water under the ice shelf — a development that has already been observed in the Amundsen Sea.

But a new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests these changes are themselves shifting in unexpected ways, with potentially significant consequences for the ocean and climate.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries report on the movements of whale sharks tagged at the site in a study published July 30, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE.

Thus, these waters have naturally occurring high CO2 and low pH» [an acidity / alkalinity scale; the lower the number the greater the acidity], says Derek Manzello, a biologist from the University of Miami and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, lead author of the study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

In a field study, Diane Adams, a marine biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and her colleagues measured the currents near the seafloor along the East Pacific Rise, a submarine ridge south - southwest of Acapulco, Mexico, that sports many hydrothermal vent systems.

It is a joint program between the United States, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and Canada to visit fixed oceanographic positions along 200 km - long transects north and south of the Bering Strait using «cruises of opportunity» — cruises that were heading to or from the Arctic for other studies.

This study was conducted within the interdisciplinary and international framework of the PAGES initiative (Euro - Med 2k and Asia - 2k), which in turn received support from the US and Swiss National Science Foundations, US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and by the International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

We undertook a multi-disciplinary study to elucidate the ecological relationships between krill and baleen whales relative to oceanographic processes in the embayments of the Antarctic Peninsula at the onset of winter.

None of the assertions are based on rigorous statistical associations, oceanographic observations or physically based simulations; it is all seat - of - the - pants stuff of a sort that was common in the early days of climate studies, but which is difficult to evaluate when viewed as a scientific hypothesis.

Scott Doney, who studies acidification and nutrient loading at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and was not part of the study, said that while such work is important particularly for communicating with those outside the scientific community, «it's not the complete story.»

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Genetic [17] and tracking [18], [19] studies have revealed pelagic hotspots where juvenile loggerheads congregate; foraging in oceanographic features that are productive and concentrate prey (Fig. 1c - d).

David McGuire, Co-Lead, US Geological Survey, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Brendan Kelly, Co-Lead, Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH), University of Alaska, Fairbanks Henry Huntington, Facilitator, Huntington Consulting Charles Miller, Atmospheric Component, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Lori Bruhwiler, Atmospheric Component, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration David Olefeldt, Land Component, University of Alberta, Canada Merritt Turetsky, Land Component, University of Guelph, Canada Jennifer Frederick, Coastal / Ocean Component, Sandia National Laboratories Robie Macdonald, Coastal / Ocean Component, Fisheries and Ocean Sciences Canada Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS), organizational support

Hazen BRS Presentation at Quebec SMM 09 This poster presentation gives detailed analyses of the acoustic measurements of potential cetacean prey species in the study area, as well as physical oceanographic measurements of small - scale water movement affecting prey distribution.

Several acoustical methods are used to study various of oceanographic processes, especially to measure associated parameters.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Hawaii, Whitman College and international colleagues will conduct the first systematic study of life in the deepest marine habitat on Earth — ocean trenches.

This detailed study of carbon chemistry dynamics highlights the need to incorporate local effects of nearshore oceanographic processes into predictions of coral reef vulnerability and resilience.

Derek Manzello, a scientist at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Atmospheric Marine Laboratory, said the results were in line with his findings from a 2012 study.

These included the combined scientific methodologies and accomplishments of BRS - 07 / 08, as well as simultaneous biological and oceanographic measurements in the study area, detailed movement analysis of individual beaked whale responses, analyses of the vocal repertoires of tagged pilot whales prior to sound exposures, and results on vocal responses of pilot whales and other target cetacean species to controlled sound exposures.

[8] One recent study spatially overlaid the requisite physical parameters for kelp with mean oceanographic conditions has produced a model predicting the existence of subsurface kelps throughout the tropics worldwide to depths of 200 m. For a hotspot in the Galapagos Islands, the local model was improved with fine - scale data and tested; the research team found thriving kelp forests in all eight of their sampled sites, all of which had been predicted by the model, thus validated their approach.

The inspiration came from Craig's expertise designing and building oceanographic instrumentation to study ocean environmental problems.

Researchers studying the West Antarctic Peninsula marine ecosystem will recognize President Obama's efforts to combat global warming by collecting climate data at an oceanographic station they named for the 44th president.

For my part, I have studied the oceanographic and biological consequences of abrupt climate warming in the very recent glacial and interglacial climates of the Late Pleistocene (from 20,000 years ago to the present).

Seminar Presentation 26 July 2011, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program of Study in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

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This activity report includes case studies and discussions of a regional expert workshop entitled» Climate Change, Fishery and Aquaculture in Latin America: Potential Impacts and Challenges for Adaptation» which took place from 5 to 7 October 2011 at the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.