Sentences with phrase «research drilling project»

Priscu is looking forward to a similar U.S. effort called the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project next year, which will use a similar approach of melting a hole with hot water in order to reach the river - fed Whillans Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

The study, part of the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling project (WISSARD), was supported by UC San Diego's John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy awarded to Fricker.

Not exact matches

«These specific technologies can reduce the risk of drilling problems, so they could easily save $ 100,000 to $ 200,000 per drilling project by increasing the knowledge of the geological formations,» says Colleen Kennedy, an analyst at Lux Research, a technology market researResearch, a technology market researchresearch firm.

Data from a 1970s international research effort to explore the subsurface of the region, called the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, found tantalizing geophysical evidence — seismic and electrical resistivity data — that hinted at liquid water deep below.

The US$ 20 - million Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, which Powell oversees, plans to drill into the lake during the 2012 - 13 field season.

Indian science minister Ashwani Kumar announced last week that the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad will launch a $ 75 - million, 30 - month - long project to drill an 8 - kilometer - deep borehole in Koyna, a region in western India that experiences frequent small - to moderately - sized earthquakes.

A research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had haproject called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had haProject headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had happened.

This research evolved into the Deep Sea Drilling Project, which has sampled sea - floor sediment around the globe.

The findings are impressive, says Gerhard Kuhn, a marine geologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, and Germany's representative in ANDRILL, an international sediment - drilling project in Antarctica.

Lonnie Thompson, an earth scientist at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center who also is not part of the project and has been drilling ice cores on the world's highest mountain ranges for 38 years.

«This time would also be needed to plan the drilling logistically and create the funding for such an exciting large - scale international research project, which would cost around 50 million Euros.»

Tulaczyk, S., R Powell, J. Priscu, H. Fricker, A. Behar, S. Anandakrishnan, B. Christner, A. Fisher, D. Holland, H. Horgan, R. Jacobel, J. Mikucki, R. Scherer, S. Schwartz, J. Severinghaus, M. Skidmore, «Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) Project: Progress and Plans», bibl.

Ohmoto, working with Dr. Yumiko Watanabe, research associate, Penn State; Dr. Hiroaki Ikemi, former Penn State post doctoral fellow; and Dr. Simon R. Poulson, former Penn State doctoral student now a professor at University of Nevada, and Dr. Bruce E. Taylor, Geological Survey of Canada, report in the August 24 issue of Nature the isotopic, mineralogical and geochemical results of drilling cores recovered by the Archaean Biosphere Drilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, Audrilling cores recovered by the Archaean Biosphere Drilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, AuDrilling Project in the Pilbara Craton, Pilbara, Australia.

This current National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project included 12 co-principal investigators from as many institutions along with a host of graduate and doctoral candidate students.

Photos by Brent Christner, LSU associate professor of biological sciences and lead author of the report — Amanda Achberger, a doctoral candidate and researcher on the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project works on equipment involved with drilling down and sampling a lake located under almost a half - mileDrilling (WISSARD) project works on equipment involved with drilling down and sampling a lake located under almost a half - miledrilling down and sampling a lake located under almost a half - mile of ice.

Baader said the project team is conducting research into the suitability of combined drilling and melting probes for extraterrestrial application on Enceladus.

Photo provided by Brent Christner, LSU associate professor of biological sciences and lead author of the report — Amanda Achberger, a doctoral candidate and researcher on the National Science Foundation - funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project, put up her tent against the backdrop of the Antarctica.

For the current project outlined in the Nature article, research scientists drilled through the ice, down to the lake and took samples of the water for further study.

Reduce dependency on (imported) fossil fuels (balance of payments, reliance on potentially unfriendly or unstable nations as suppliers, high cost at the pump, all problems as seen from US viewpoint): — encourage nuclear power generation (cut red tape)-- encourage energy savings and improved efficiency projects (tax breaks)-- encourage basic research into new (non fossil fuel) resources (subsidies)-- encourage imports from friendly neighbor, Canada (Keystone pipeline)-- encourage local oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill»)-- encourage «clean coal» projects (tax incentives)-- set goal to become energy independent within ten years

For the South Pole Ice Core project, in which scientists drilled a core from 2014 to 2016 and continue the research today, Casey and her NASA colleagues helped analyze satellite, airborne and field data to select a place to drill the ice core.

This was some years after the discovery of methane clathrates by a team of geologists operating on the research ship, Challenger, during their Deep Sea Drilling Project.

Hence, if you want to change directions, you have to influence the politics — you have to work to prevent the Koch Brothers from destroying California renewable energy initiatives, you have to work to eliminate federal subsidies and liability caps for fossil fuel projects (which would mean that oil drillers would have to post $ 10 billion bonds for every deepwater project they initiated), and — for academic scientists — you have to lobby your academic administrators to cut their ties with shady fossil fuel interests like BP and Exxon, and work to open renewable energy research institutes at America's leading universities.

This program has developed many jointly funded projects with industry on reservoir characterization and secondary and tertiary hydrocarbon - recovery schemes, as well as cooperative drilling ventures that permit access to samples and data that would not be possible without industrial liaison (National Research Council, 1996b).

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