Sentences with phrase «when oceanographer»

In the early 1900s, the islands were used as a gunnery and bombing range by the Mexican government, but when oceanographer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau came across them in the 1960s, he began a campaign to have their unique and pristine ecosystem protected — a campaign that ultimately led to the creation of the Marieta Islands National park in 2005, eight years after his death.

These ideas changed when oceanographers explored hydrothermal vents, openings in the ocean floor where extremely hot, mineral - rich water erupts from the crust.

When oceanographers study these samples, they can see changes in the carbon cycle during the PETM.

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When the firm was working on a project for Red Lobster, it invited Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; he helped the team explore the association between its corporate identity and mankind's eternal fascination with the ocean.

What causes that carbon dioxide to exit the ocean when an ice age ends, though, is still a puzzle oceanographers are trying to decipher.

When confronted with the difficulties of space exploration, oceanographers tend to have a snappy retort.

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.

When the British Royal Navy told Levitus that it had hundreds of thousands of index cards of hand - written temperature profiles stashed away in a musty basement, the oceanographer jumped at the chance to add them to his growing database.

An oceanographer by training, Munk has spent 67 years studying how waves form, how they travel and how they break when they hit the beach.

On Monday night, renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle earned a new moniker when she joined eight others in receiving a 2014 Glamour Woman of the Year Award at a celebrity - packed Carnegie Hall.

This dive spot first gained world recognition when it was featured in a nature documentary by the world - renowned oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau.

As for when the iceberg might shove off, «that is very difficult to predict,» said oceanographer Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, «but in the coming months for sure.»

I'm not an oceanographer but it would seem important to understand the physical location (s) geographically of this extra heat and if its associated with a current, when will that current return those extra joules to the surface?

«When you add iron, everything changes,» says oceanographer Richard Barber, one of the scientists involved in the first iron experiment.

That is what Wallace Smith Broecker, the avuncular oceanographer who coined the term «global warming,» means when he calls the planet an «angry beast.»