Sentences with phrase «southern ocean research»

«Emeritus Professor Garth W. Paltridge BSc Hons (Qld), MSc PhD (Melb), DSc (Qld) has held positions as Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research at University of Tasmania and Chief Executive Officer of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre.»

The research is being conducted in collaboration with scientists at the Australian Antarctic Division in Hobart and under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission's Southern Ocean Research Partnership (IWC - SORP).

Not exact matches

Will Howard of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart has shown that some species of coral have a similar sensitivity to acidification as foraminifera in parts of the Southern Ocean, which are struggling to build their shells.

Research published Sunday concluded that the upper 2,300 feet of the Southern Hemisphere's oceans may have warmed twice as quickly after 1970 than had previously been thought.

For now, the new research does help confirm «the fact the Southern Ocean is a major influence on the evolution of Antarctica,» Rignot noted, even if the exact mechanisms driving that influence are still not well understood.

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.

«It's a huge lab experiment, but there are no controls,» says Harriet Perry, a fisheries biologist at the University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Coast Research Laboratory marine - science centre in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.

«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.»»

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

The research also predicts that in 30 million years from now, when Australia has moved about 1500 km northwards, the fossil slab will be located below the Southern Ocean and, as a consequence, the Lake Eyre Basin and Murray Darling Basin will cease to exist.

Japanese whalers are now in the Southern Ocean, targeting 333 minke whales for the research program; it calls for killing 333 minke whales annually for the next 12 years.

«We're confident it will work now that we have figured out how to launch a torpedo from an Antarctic research vessel,» says Garth Paltridge, director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies at the University of Tasmania.

Researchers are using underwater microphones to interpret and characterize the calls of blue whales swimming through Southern California's oceans, revealing new insights into the behavior of these endangered marine mammals, according to new research being presented at the Ocean Sciences Meeting here on Tuesday.

The DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition will travel to the Southern Ocean aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross, departing Punta Arenas in Chile on Friday 17 March.

Bell, one of the authors of a 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report that identified future areas for scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over aResearch Council (NRC) report that identified future areas for scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over aresearch in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over a decade.

The research team found that deoxygenation caused by climate change could already be detected in the southern Indian Ocean and parts of the eastern tropical Pacific and Atlantic basins.

Earlier this year, Berke boarded a research vessel in the Indian Ocean with 29 international scientists to retrieve sediment cores off the coast of southern Africa.

«Research spotlights a previously unknown microbial «drama» playing in the Southern Ocean: Discovery highlights both competition, cooperation between algae, bacteria for iron and vitamins that may have consequences for life in a warming ocean.&rOcean: Discovery highlights both competition, cooperation between algae, bacteria for iron and vitamins that may have consequences for life in a warming ocean.&rocean.»

In addition to Condon, authors of the paper are Carlos Duarte of the University of Western Australia Oceans Institute; Kylie Pitt of Griffith University, Australia; Kelly Robinson of the Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory Cathy Lucas of the University of Southampton, United Kingdom; Kelly Sutherland of the University of Oregon; Hermes Mianzan of the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Argentina; Molly Bogeberg of the Dauphin Island Sea Laboratory; Jennifer Purcell of the Shannon Point Marine Center of Western Washington University; Mary Beth Decker of Yale University; Shin - ichi Uye of Hiroshima University, Japan; Laurence Madin of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Richard Brodeur of the NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Steven Haddock of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute; Alenka Malej of the National Institute of Biology in Slovenia; Gregory Parry of the Department of Primary Industries, Victorian Fisheries, Australia; Elena Eriksen of the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway; Javier Quiñones of the Instituto del Mar del Perú, Paracas, Ica, Peru; Marcelo Acha of the Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero, Argentina; Michel Harvey of the Institut Maurice - Lamontagne, Pêches et Océans, Canada; James Arthur of Griffith University, Australia; and William Graham of the University of Southern Mississippi.

USAP - DC offers Web interfaces for both Finding and Contributing datasets from U.S. - funded research programs in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

He left his southern roots (and humidity) behind to come to Stanford and is enjoying being close to the ocean once again, both for research and recreation.

Regional Coastal Observing Systems: Alaska • Caribbean • Central and Northern California • Great Lakes • Gulf of Mexico • Pacific Islands • Mid-Atlantic • Northeast - Atlantic • Pacific Northwest • Southern California • Southeast - Atlantic • IOOS ASSOCIATION National Observing System Partners: Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) • Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) Integrated Ocean Observing System IOOS

Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, p. 2192 - 2199.

One of the Ocean Institute's programs entails gathering data for the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, an extensive project created to help scientists better understand connections between human activities, natural events, and the health of southern California's coastal enviSouthern California Coastal Water Research Project, an extensive project created to help scientists better understand connections between human activities, natural events, and the health of southern California's coastal envisouthern California's coastal environment.

Gov / Museums / Aquaria / Scientific, Environmental and Research Organizations: National Park Service, US Department of the Interior, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Aquarium (Baltimore), Georgia Aquarium (Atlanta), John Shedd Aquarium (Chicago), American Museum of Natural History (NY), Monterey Bay Aquarium, Florida Aquarium, Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific, Royal Ontario Museum (Canada), Scripps Institute of Oceanography Steven Birch Aquarium, Newport Aquarium (Kentucky), Denver Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles Zoo, Columbus Zoo, Houston Zoo, Artis Zoo (Amsterdam), Oregon Zoo, Calgary Zoo, World Wildlife Fund, Sea Shepard Society, Defenders of Wildlife, International Fund for Animal Welfare, ASPCA, Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Point Reyes National Marine Sanctuary, Southern Methodist University, University of Southern California, Catalina Conservation Society, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, New England Aquarium, Siam Ocean World, Harvard Museum, Pfleger Institute of Environmental Research, Project AWARE.

Costas Synolakis, director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, is one of the world's leading specialists on the interactions of earthquakes and oceans.

I tweeted earlier today about Japan's whaling fleet, which is setting a course for the Southern Ocean in the annual hunt (this year for close to 1,000 whales) that the country characterizes as scientific research, with any questions about cuts in government support still pending.

Updated, Dec. 27, 5:13 p.m. In the decade since a great sub-sea earthquake off Sumatra swept the Indian Ocean and killed more than 230,000 people, Costas Synolakis, the director of the Tsunami Research Center at the University of Southern California, has been one of my go - to guides to efforts to gird societies against such hazards.

More recent research shows that the weather patterns governing southern Australia are driven by the Indian Ocean Dipole and not El Nino.

Phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean could be driving temperatures in the region down, research suggests.

The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula eaResearch (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula earesearch cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.

From Judith's article: «New research shows multidecadal oscillation of Southern Ocean polynyas».

Metrics for the Evaluation of the Southern Ocean in Coupled Climate Models and Earth System Models (Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans)

Even the Southern Ocean is a good missing sink candidate — as research suggests waters may have stagnated there too, and temperature conditions around Antarctica were at times remarkably mild when blizzards roamed the north.

He participated in several scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean Drilling Program research ships funded by the U.S.

The new research, published in the latest edition of the journal Science, indicates that the Southern Ocean has been saturated with carbon dioxide at least since the 1980s.

New research examining how the Southern Ocean absorbs CO2 reveals that winds and currents create pathways for carbon to be stored in the deep ocean regOcean absorbs CO2 reveals that winds and currents create pathways for carbon to be stored in the deep ocean regocean regions.

Decreased calcification in the Southern Ocean over the satellite record (Geophysical Research Letters)

For now, the new research does help confirm «the fact the Southern Ocean is a major influence on the evolution of Antarctica,» Rignot noted, even if the exact mechanisms driving that influence are still not well understood.

-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration — Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?

Japan's unilateral resumption of its so - called «scientific» hunt in the Southern Ocean last year is a slap in the face not just for the International Whaling Commission but also for the rule of law, as the International Court of Justice clearly ruled Japan's previous Antarctic «research» program to be illegal.

New research has found that transport of heat to the deep layers in the Atlantic and Southern Oceans could be one of the likely scenarios to the slowdown in global warming.

By 1998, the population was estimated to have increased to 2,280 (95 % CL, 1,160 — 4,500), based on sighting surveys conducted under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) during the International Decade of Cetacean Research and Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem research cruises (IDCR / SOResearch and Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem research cruises (IDCR / SOresearch cruises (IDCR / SOWER)[5].

Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate (Geophysical Research Letters)

Yet most research in the field has focused on improving predictions of regional ocean warming driven by long - term climate change and short - term climate patterns like the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle.

The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013 - 2014 is therefore undertaking a programme of research across the region, building on the work 100 years ago, to try to better understand present and future change in Antarctica and Southern Ocean (Figure 1).

Socio (s): African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, Association pour le Développement de l'Information Environnementale, National Environment Managemental Authority, Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region & Europe, Network for Environment and Sustainable Development, Indian Ocean Commission, Southern African Research and Documentation Centre Musokotwane Environment Resource Centre for Southern Africa

Current collaborative research projects include modeling the effects of vertical mixing and ultraviolet radiation on primary productivity in the Southern Ocean and understanding the role of climate forcing and hydrodynamics on harmful algal blooms and outbreaks of disease in aquatic organisms in lakes.

«In our models, the Indian Ocean shows very clear and dramatic warming into the future, which means more and more drought for southern Africa,» said Dr. James W. Hurrell, author of a recent study by the US - based National Center for Atmospheric Research.