Sentences with phrase «university oceanographer»

Dalhousie University oceanographer and computer modeler John Cullen finds that particularly frustrating.

Not everyone thinks so, with Florida State University oceanographer Ian MacDonald saying:

«Under the Obama administration, the U.S. became a world leader in showing the way to developing a path towards dramatically reducing carbon emissions without sacrificing economic vitality,» Paul Falkowski, a Rutgers University oceanographer and guest investigator on the 2017 cruise, said in an email.

Oregon State University oceanographer Robert Dziak says that depending on the size and frequency of these events, their spongelike effects could influence ocean chemistry and temperatures worldwide, making present climate - change models inaccurate.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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 ocean.

The team's acoustic monitoring was «extremely significant» while the wellhead was being closed, says Kathryn Moran, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Tyler and his colleagues, including David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, and Victor Zagorodnov, a glaciologist at Ohio State University, Columbus, installed the technology from November to December 2011.

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.

«I think that the 40 percent global decrease that they report is provocative but not yet fully demonstrated,» says Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at Oregon State University who studies phytoplankton.

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.

Biological oceanographer Kendra Daly of the University of South Florida heard a talk by Delaney and excitedly told him that his concept would finally allow researchers to study the ephemeral changes that were so difficult to capture from a ship: a storm churning up the waters below, for instance, or the springtime bloom of microscopic marine plants.

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.

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.

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

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.

The actual fate of H. sericeus and its associates may still be unclear, but the findings are still potentially worrisome, says Giora Proskurowski, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Also we don't know about the air quality issue, and we're concerned about our kids,» said Enrique Curchitser, an oceanographer visiting NCAR with wife and children this summer from Rutgers University.

«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.

«Today's reefs are as much as 5,000 years old, and they will start to fall apart within a decade or so if we don't radically change how we do business,» contends Christopher Langdon, a biological oceanographer at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

Biological oceanographer Victoria Fabry of California State University at San Marcos has spent years studying pteropods, thumbnail - size creatures that flutter through frigid polar and subpolar waters using flaplike wings.

Correa, Shamberger and Boston University biologist Sarah Davies, UH - Clear Lake biologist Lory Santiago - Vazquez and Texas A&M oceanographer Jason Sylvan expect to receive a one - year Rapid Research Response grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work at the Flower Garden Banks.

«We have no idea right now what's going on,» says Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin who has studied the dead zone for the past 25 years.

The finding «changes everything» about scientists» understanding of the nitrogen cycle, says biological oceanographer Tracy Villareal of the University of Texas, Austin.

Oceanographer Robert Twilley of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, welcomed the choice of a high - ranking Administration official.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

An international project, involving oceanographers from the University of Southampton, has produced a «chemical atlas» providing unprecedented insight into the distributions of key elements, isotopes and other substances in the world's oceans.

«Average climate will certainly get warmer,» says Roger Revelle, an oceanographer and climatologist at the University of California at San Diego.

«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the University of Maryland and lead author.

«The oil is not going to be up in the clouds and raining down on people,» says oceanographer Christopher Zappa of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

The EIFEX paper is «a careful scientific study» that has «refined our understanding of biogeochemical processes that influence climate,» adds John Cullen, an oceanographer with Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Oceanographer Xiao - Hai Yan of the University of Delaware in Newark and Ocean University of China in Qingdao has studied the Western Pacific Warm Pool — a body of water, warmer and less dense than the surrounding seas, that greatly expands and moves around the Pacific during an El Niño.

«Even after 40 years, it's still an active subject,» says Peter Rhines, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

«It really changes the game» by demonstrating that acidification is having a noticeable impact, says biological oceanographer Jan Newton, co-director of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center at the University of Washington, Seattle.

«It takes ages to get programs together,» says Mahlon Kennicutt II, an oceanographer at Texas A&M University and secretary of the Subglacial Antarctic Lake Environments group (SALE).

If that's the case, «there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web,» says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley.

As oceanographer Mandy Joye of the University of Georgia put it as she watched a clearly distinct white wave make its way through the lake, «If you didn't know better, you would swear it was not underwater.»

New research led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanographer Bo Qiu has determined from observational data the length scale at which using sea level height no longer offers a reliable calculation of circulation.

«This project was a cohesive dynamic of three scientists from different research backgrounds coming together to investigate a fascinating observation,» says Hartwell, the paper's lead author and an oceanographer affiliated with the University of Akron and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

«In terms of emissions, right now we're more likely on the orange line than on the blue, «said co-author Ken Denman, an oceanographer at the University of Victoria in Canada who is affiliated with Environment Canada.