Sentences with phrase «chief ocean scientist»

«My initial fear was that this oil was going to get caught up in the loop current and moved right to the pristine beaches of Cuba and the Florida Keys, then up the coast as far north as North Carolina,» says Rader, the chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier SHERRI GOODMAN, Senior Fellow, Wilson Center CHRISTINE GREENE, Cultural Ambassador, Pacific Rising GREG STONE, EVP & Chief Scientist for Oceans, Conservation International

This past July Russ George served as chief scientist on a cruise to fertilize the northeastern Pacific Ocean with iron — the latest in a long string of similar, and usually controversial, efforts he has led.

asks Russ George, chief scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2 - removal schemes ranging from reforestation to ocean fertilization.

«Chicxulub is the only preserved structure with an intact peak ring that we can get to,» says University of Texas, Austin, geophysicist Sean Gulick, co — chief scientist for the $ 10 million project, sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

Although the charismatic nature of dolphins is enough to inspire some people to action, scientists» chief concern arises from the dolphin's pecking order in the ocean.

The agency would benefit from the appointment of a Chief Scientist who could help focus NOAA's research program and efforts to integrate the best science into NOAA's ocean stewardship and the many products and services NOAA provides to the public.»

The north Atlantic Ocean is globally important, as it is a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide, said Eric Achterberg, chief scientist for the research cruise and lead author of the study.

«What's often missing is all that's between the surface of the ocean and the ocean bottom,» says Dawn Wright, chief scientist of Esri, a geographic information - systems company in Redlands, California, that helped to develop the 3D map.

LAB NOTEBOOK By Allison Lee, ISB Research Associate In a collaborative research effort, chief scientist Dennis Hansell invited four co-chief scientists (Alexander Bochdansky, Jack DiTullio, Rob Dunbar, and ISB's Mónica Orellana) to be part of a grant looking at the origination, utilization, and movement of carbon in the oceans, specifically the Ross Sea.

«The surface ice is providing us a window into that potentially habitable ocean below,» says Hand, deputy chief scientist for solar system exploration at JPL.

Two local marine experts, Gary Davis, retired National Park Service Chief Scientist for Ocean Programs, and Dr. Satie Airamé, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Marine Biologist, discussed the state of the seas at the Channel Islands during the April «From Shore to Sea» lecture.

Named one of Time Magazine's «Heroes for the Planet,» Earle is a former chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and founder of SEAlliance, which partnered with National Geographic on Mission Blue to further global initiatives aimed at restoring health and productivity to the ocean.

J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human - generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean temperatures are rapidly killing off corals.

An onboard team of 96 people is carrying out frontier research on everything from geology to ocean acidification, chief scientist Xu Ren said.

Just a few weeks ago the Chief Scientist of the largest and best ocean iron micro-nutrient replenishment study performed aboard the German Alfred Wedgner Institutes research ship Polarstern announced that in their experiment they observed the following results.

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).

Researchers in the Southern California Bight reported that above all other environmental factors, the changes in fish abundance has correlated best with the PDO regime shifts.7 Such evidence prompted Monterrey Bay Aquariums chief scientist to warn that «These large - scale, naturally occurring variations must be taken into account when considering human - induced climate change and the management of ocean living resources.»

«Emeritus Professor Garth W. Paltridge BSc Hons (Qld), MSc PhD (Melb), DSc (Qld) has held positions as Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research, Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Research at University of Tasmania and Chief Executive Officer of the Antarctic Cooperative Research Centre.»