Sentences with phrase «as oceanographers»

The panel will also determine how the IPCC treats the multiplicity of opinions within various domains of climate science, such as oceanographers who disagree on the rate of sea - level rise.

Mike Fedak's team at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland has recruited seals as oceanographers.

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.»

Frans - Peter Lam is trained as an oceanographer.

Originally from the Caribbean, Yeni has been teaching surfing and yoga around the world for the last 12 years as an Oceanographer.

As an oceanographer working on air / sea interaction and mixed layer dynamics, I hope I can clarify this issue somewhat (in fact, I'm at sea right now on the R / P FLIP, gathering data to study wave and mixed layer dynamics, but this is off the point).

There's important work to be done on this question but — as the oceanographer Carl Wunsch notes at the end of this post — the paucity of data on ocean heat makes it tough to get beyond «maybe» answers.

David Titley has served more than 10 years at sea, including a tour as navigator aboard USS Farragut (DDG 37), and tours as oceanographer aboard USS Belleau Wood (LHA 3), USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Group Six and U.S. 7th Fleet.

In 2009, Titley assumed duties as oceanographer and navigator of the Navy, and director, Task Force Climate Change.

Later, as we thaw out, he tells me about his days as an oceanographer.

As oceanographer Wally Broecker said: The climate system is an angry beast and we are poking it with sticks.]

Sail the seas and study of the ocean as an oceanographer.

One perk is that as an oceanographer you aren't tied to any one industry because these professionals are employed by the oil and energy, green, construction sectors and more.

Not exact matches

Oceanographer and filmmaker Jean - Michel Cousteau writes in the book that «90 percent of commercially harvested large fish species are gone from the sea as a result of overfishing... I am forced to conclude that we are doing everything in our power to eliminate fish from the sea.»

«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.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

Using direct measurements and computer models, oceanographer Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and his colleagues calculated that acid rain causes as much as 50 percent of the acidification of coastal waters, where the pH can be as low as 7.6.

Because volcanic rocks are porous, some oceanographers speculated that cold seawater percolates into seamounts, warms up in the crust, and emerges at other seamounts as mineral - rich fluids.

This technique, first developed by the military in the 1960s to identify submarine locations with pinpoint accuracy, allows oceanographers to map the seafloor with as much detail as the moon.

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.

On March 5, oceanographers mourned the passing of a cherished colleague: an undersea robot affectionately known as ABE (short for Autonomous Benthic Explorer).

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew - member bunk assignments.

Oceanographers Stuart Cunningham and Torsten Kanzow of the U.K.'s National Oceanography Center, Southampton, led an international effort that both sank and monitored the moorings as well as analyzed the data.

Expedition member and GERG scientist Kathryn Shamberger, a Texas A&M oceanographer who took measurements at the reef in late September, said the team is collaborating with scientists across Texas to track the plume of Harvey floodwater as it migrates through the Gulf.

«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.

Oceanographer Ed Baker remembers February 14 as the worst night of all.

Wings and a rudder direct the force generated by these buoyancy changes, pushing the glider along its path in graceful arcs, known to oceanographers as yo - yos.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

These days, the oceanographer is sticking closer to Earth, as President Barack Obama's choice to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

«It's as close to what I imagine another world would look like,» says Diane Adams who worked on this study as a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

As the deceased oceanographer John Martin of Moss Landing Marine Observatories in California famously said in 1988: «Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age.»

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

Little was known of the life cycle of internal waves that can reach as high as a 100 - story building yet barely cause a ripple on the ocean's surface, said Harper Simmons, an oceanographer with the UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

As one of the few African - American oceanographers, Dawn Wright, associate professor in Oregon State University's geosciences department, uses geographic information systems (GIS) to map and study the ocean floor.

«We're showing the shortcomings of climate models,» says Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who leads the $ 35 million, seven - nation project known as the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).

Looking at conditions over shorter periods of time, such as seasons, would provide more helpful detail, says Frank Muller - Karger, a biological oceanographer at the University of South Florida in St Petersburg who has been comparing EMUs with weekly maps of coastal changes made using satellite imagery.

Arthur A. Allen, a physical oceanographer with the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue in Washington, D.C., answers (as told to Adam Hadhazy):

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

To Robert Brewin, a satellite oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom, there's a «huge potential to use surfers as a platform to improve sampling» of the near - shore environment.

Pete is a biological oceanographer and acoustician working at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a National Research Council Research Assistant.

Oceanographers use substances called tracers to study the path and rate of ocean currents and of processes such as mixing that are important parts of the global ocean and climate systems.

Those signing the letter include the world's largest scientific society, American Chemical Society, and groups that represent meteorologists, public health experts, biologists, Earth scientists, oceanographers, geologists, crop researchers, bug, fish and reptile experts, as well as mathematicians and statisticians.

It's not clear if they are able to sync up with the earlier blooms and avoid disruptions to critical life stages, such as egg hatching and larvae development, according to lead study author Mati Kahru, a research oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Cliff Curtis, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Robert Taylor, Jessica McNamee, Masi Oka and Winston Chao co-star in the film in which an expert deep sea rescue diver (Statham) is recruited by a visionary Chinese oceanographer to save the crew of an international undersea observation program from a 75 - foot - long shark known as a Megalodon.

Fans of the iconic oceanographer's pioneering work would likely do best seeking out his excellent nature and ecological documentary features and TV specials, as this is essentially an elongated, CG - powered Wikipedia entry with the odd melodramatic insert.

In the past decade, Anderson has taken us from on board an eccentric oceanographer's submarine while he seeks revenge on a glow - in - the - dark shark, to a luxury train travelling across India whilst three brothers seek spiritual enlightenment, to the tale of an anthropomorphic fox as he outsmarts three dim - witted farmers, and then to a fictional island off the coast of New England where two love - struck teenagers decide to elope after meeting at an amateur performance of Noye's Fludde.