Sentences with phrase «as polar research»

Monthly features highlight the opportunities in fields such as polar research and bioinformatics and nonresearch opportunities such as scientific broadcasting and translating and interpreting.

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The Earth's polar regions are in peril as a result of climate change, speakers cautioned at a 16 June briefing on Capitol Hill, and solving the problem requires greater support for geoscience research.

Participation in multilateral and multinational partnerships, such as the Arctic Council and the Antarctic Treaty System, is also necessary to deepen our understanding of both polar regions and show the value in investing in geoscience research, said Sullivan.

He has specialised in photographing polar regions since 1995, and sees his role as «bridging a gap between scientific research and the public».

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar researResearch Council to name the UK's new polar researchresearch ship.

The opportunities to do this kind of research within the borders of Austria are quite small as our country has only a very small polar program.

Whereas forest fires contribute to the problem — the effect noticeably worsens in years with widespread boreal wildfires — roughly 80 percent of polar soot can be traced to human burning, adding as much as 0.054 watt of energy per square meter of Arctic land, according to the research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Rresearch published this week in the Journal of Geophysical ResearchResearch.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

«Future Boaty missions and the new RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel will ensure the UK continues to punch above its weight and lead the way in polar science, engineering and technology as part of our Industrial Strategy.»

As a case in point, the research on Knut led to the discovery that a herpesvirus of zebras is able to kill polar bears as documented in the Wuppertal Zoo, infecting Knut's father Lars, who survived the infection, and his partner, Jerka, who died from the infectioAs a case in point, the research on Knut led to the discovery that a herpesvirus of zebras is able to kill polar bears as documented in the Wuppertal Zoo, infecting Knut's father Lars, who survived the infection, and his partner, Jerka, who died from the infectioas documented in the Wuppertal Zoo, infecting Knut's father Lars, who survived the infection, and his partner, Jerka, who died from the infection.

We create and manage projects that focus on research in the polar regions as means to understand fundamental climate mechanisms, and to drive change towards a more sustainable society.

The International Polar Foundation actively supports polar scientific research, as well as championing informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

It is time for nations involved in southern polar research to embrace a renewed spirit of cooperation as espoused by the founders of the Antarctic Treaty — in actions not just words.»

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

As the official Belgian Antarctic Operator, the Foundation ensures safe conditions for field research, provides cargo and personnel logistics, experienced polar guides, field accommodation and mobile laboratory facilities, and guarantees minimal impact on the Antarctic environment.

Cohen's research has pointed toward the rapid warming in the Arctic as a driver of the recent increase in polar vortex intrusions.

Since the donation of the «Zero Emission» Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station to the Belgian State in March 2010, the International Polar Foundation was appointed as official Antarctic Operator under the newly established Belgian Polar Secretariat.

ICYMI, Boaty McBoatface was selected as the name of a new polar research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research Councilresearch ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research CouncilResearch Council (NERC).

ICYMI, Boaty McBoatface was selected as the name of a new polar research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research Councresearch ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research CouncResearch Council -LRB-

The program will include 65 sessions across 12 categories, including the session «Observing with autonomous vehicles in polar regions,» which focuses on topics such as scientific results from self - operating platforms and technological capabilities that assist research efforts in the polar environment.

Geologic shoreline evidence has been interpreted as indicating a rapid sea level rise of a few meters late in the Eemian to a peak about 9 meters above present, suggesting the possibility that a critical stability threshold was crossed that caused polar ice sheet collapse [84]--[85], although there remains debate within the research community about this specific history and interpretation.

The polar cities website is obviously not in the same league as these professionally - done websites, and I apologize for not having a PHD or academic cred or even any climate change research experience.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

By: Lauren Culler, Research Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and JSEP co-Principal Investigator, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College Twenty high school students from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. learned about polar science this past summer as they gained first - hand experience of how international research teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different laResearch Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and JSEP co-Principal Investigator, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College Twenty high school students from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. learned about polar science this past summer as they gained first - hand experience of how international research teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different laresearch teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different languages.

«There is little doubt that polar bears are very susceptible as global climate change continues to drastically alter the landscape of the northern polar regions,» said Robert Rockwell, a research associate in the Museum's Department of Ornithology.

As if polar bears don't have enough problems, not only are they suffering due to climate change - related sea ice loss, but now new research indicates that pollution is giving them brain damage.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climateResearch Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climateresearch satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

This is extreme wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being the major factor for polar sea ice loss.

«Ice cores are really cool because we have the best record of what the climate has been in the past,» says Taylor, a research professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., who did his first polar fieldwork as a graduate student in the earlresearch professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., who did his first polar fieldwork as a graduate student in the earlResearch Institute in Reno, Nev., who did his first polar fieldwork as a graduate student in the early 1980s.

«In winter, the freezing Arctic air is normally «locked» by strong circumpolar winds several tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere, known as the stratospheric polar vortex, so that the cold air is confined near the pole,» said study co-author Marlene Kretschmer from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impacts Research in Germany, in a press release.

«This is the first record of this species as polar bear prey,» wrote the authors of a study that was published in the Polar Research Journal.

The IPY - OSC 2010 provides a meeting spot for people from a huge variety of companies, private and governmental research institutions, universities as well as all the organisations coordinating and facilitating polar research in the Arctic and Antarctica.

«Research has suggested that average temperatures may have risen by as much as 3C in some parts of the Antarctic over the past few decades,» said Rod Downie, polar programme manager for the World Wide Fund for Nature.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

Many do care, however, including, as we have seen, New Scientist, who chose to make Willie Soon's alleged links to the oil industry the focal point of its coverage of his polar bear research last year.

When the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon.

Whereas forest fires contribute to the problem — the effect noticeably worsens in years with widespread boreal wildfires — roughly 80 percent of polar soot can be traced to human burning, adding as much as 0.054 watt of energy per square meter of Arctic land, according to the research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Rresearch published this week in the Journal of Geophysical ResearchResearch.

Recent research suggests that a warming arctic may be contributing to cold snaps like this one in the Northeastern U.S. as a result of a weakened polar vortex.»

The research explains that there is an «amplifying feedback» as polar ice melts, because as more freshwater enters the ocean, it traps warmer sea water, which melts more ice.

However, it appears that record - breaking sea ice levels in September 2007, the lowest to that date since 1979, had no discernible effect on Chukchi Sea polar bears, as confirmed by research up to 2016.