Sentences with phrase «u.s. ocean scientists»

The priority - setting effort comes as U.S. ocean scientists voice increasing concerns about the future of their field, which is struggling to sustain a robust research fleet and adapt to stagnating funding.

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Charles Monnett, an Anchorage - based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into «integrity issues.»

Civilian researchers have signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to revive a dormant program that uses the vessels to collect information on parts of the Arctic's ice and ocean that normally lie beyond scientists» reach

Based on modeling results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which predicted that Pacific Ocean temperatures would rise by 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years, a Canadian and U.S. team of scientists examined the distributional changes of 28 species of fish including salmon, herring, certain species of sharks, anchovies, sardines and more northern fish like pollock.

Gabrielle Tepp of the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey thinks that with improved monitoring, scientists can learn more about these submarine eruptions, which threaten travel and alter the ocean soundscape.

Help U.S. marine scientists monitor the spread of radiation across the Pacific Ocean from Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

The research was published the same week that heads of state, scientists, business leaders, and others experts travel to Washington, D.C., to attend the third Our Ocean conference, which will be hosted by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.

Within days of the twin Mir descent, the U.S. Coast Guard had dispatched the icebreaker Healy north of Alaska to spend nearly a month mapping the Arctic Ocean's floor; Canada commenced a 10 - day military exercise called a «sovereignty operation»; and the Danes sent scientists to map the seabed north of Greenland.

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

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.

A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

Indonesian and U.S. scientists believe that investigating previously unexplored ocean areas will yield new phenomena and provide information that will improve our understanding of ocean ecosystems, ocean acidification and climate change impacts.

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — A team of university and government scientists, selected by an expert review panel convened by the Mississippi - Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, will conduct an independent study to estimate the number of red snapper in the U.S. waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

June 2, 2009A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

Writing in the December 2015 edition of the International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, U.S. Geological Survey scientist Kevin D. Lafferty bluntly challenged «the hypothesis that sea otters are sentinels of a dirty ocean,» and «in particular, that pet cats are the main source of exposure to Toxoplasma gondii in central California.»

An area of warm ocean water many scientists call «the blob» began forming off the U.S. West Coast in 2013.

Its scientists work in the U.S. and internationally on ocean issues, forests, endangered species, and the interface between science and policy.

(Most of the other threats to ocean ecosystems have been well characterized by scientists and policy studies such as the Pew Oceans Commission and U.S. Commission on Ocean Poocean ecosystems have been well characterized by scientists and policy studies such as the Pew Oceans Commission and U.S. Commission on Ocean PoOcean Policy.

Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University, estimates that the U.S. has as many as 2,000 scientists who study global warming and its effects on the atmosphere, oceans, ecology, and other scientific fields.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage - based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into «integrity issues.»

Another presenter at the session, Paul Chang, a project scientist who studies satellite ocean surface wind data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Md., said that the current method that is largely used by U.S. scientists in this area of research, known as the Dvorak technique, employs satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone intensity but is imprecise and subjective.

If we assume that the 20,000 AGU members who claim to be atmospheric scientists, ocean scientists, or hydrologists represent the pool of potential experts in climate science in the U.S., then approximately 10 % of all climate scientists were directly involved in creating the over 1000 page report.

He served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)(1981 — 86); deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 — 71); deputy assistant secretary for water quality and research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967 — 70); founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964 — 67); first director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962 — 64); and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953 — 62).

More thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the world's infrastructure threatened by climate change, an Australian leading ocean scientist said on Sunday

Scientists from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and DOE made satellite observations, which included sea surface height changes alongside data of ocean temperatures accumulated from 1970 to 2004.

As if rising sea levels aren't enough to worry about, U.S. Geological Survey scientists say melting glaciers may also adding significant amounts of carbon to the oceans, where it's readily available to microscopic organisms at the base of the food chain.

We assembled another diverse team of scientists, this time including experts in oil spill response from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Robyn Conmy) and oil spill modelling from industry (Deborah French - McCay, RPS Ocean Science).

«Although these storms occur naturally, the storm is apt to be more intense, maybe a bit bigger, longer - lasting, and with much heavier rainfalls [because of that ocean heat],» Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research, told The Atlantic.