Sentences with phrase «collect ocean data»

Asked how he's enjoying the gig so far, Ghaffary recalls a recent meeting with portfolio company Saildrone, an autonomous drone startup that's collecting ocean data and has raised roughly $ 28 million to date.

Finding a way to reverse climate change is the foremost challenge of our time and the first step is collecting ocean data in order to help us understand how seawater chemistry is changing.

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The Slocum Electric Glider, a small underwater ocean drone made by Teledyne Marine, looks like a friendly missile and collects data for scientists at institutions like Rutgers University.

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

John Dabiri, a professor of civil and environmental and mechanical engineering at Stanford, says the ocean surface is relatively poorly sampled and there is a need for low - cost ways to collect data.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

The data collected will help the geophysicists better understand the role earthquakes and volcanic eruptions play in the fundamental tectonic transition from continent to ocean.

To make their predictions even better, Deutsch would like to see broader use of ocean oxygen monitoring through close to 4,000 Argo floats, autonomous ocean robots that collect data and send information to satellites.

And some California surfers are becoming citizen scientists, thanks to «smartfins,» surfboard - mounted sensors that collect coastal ocean temperature data.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

The team, led by Dr Kira Rehfeld and Dr Thomas Laepple, compared the Greenland data with that from sediments collected in several ocean regions around the globe, as well as from ice - core samples gathered in the Antarctic.

Once that data has been collected, he will apply the techniques he developed on the Juan de Fuca in the hope of learning more about what lies beneath the seafloor in the old oceans, where mysterious undulations in Earth's gravity field have been measured.

The BAS would also have had to set up an automated system to collect data on the oceans and atmosphere for worldwide monitoring programmes.

Analyzing data collected over a 20 - month period, scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the number of cirrus clouds above the Pacific Ocean declines with warmer sea surface temperatures.

Scientists know all this because of data collected from satellites that detect changes in the ocean's height.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

From there, they travel via cables underground, or even under the ocean, to data centers around the world where scientists collect and analyze the data.

This past September the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo., which collects polar and ice information for the government, announced that there was less sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean than at any time since satellite measurements began in 1979.

To study the effects of intense hunting of sperm whales in the Pacific Ocean, Whitehead and his wife, marine biologist Linda Weilgart, collected data on the whales» vocalizations and tail scars, which may indicate how well an animal fends off predators.

Orbiting instruments like the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer on the Aqua satellite, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi NPP satellite collect data on the color of the ocean.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

The project, called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December Ocean (ECCO), uses observational data — including ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December ocean surface topography, surface wind stress, temperature, salinity profiles and velocity data — collected between June 2005 and December 2007.

Instead their job is increasingly being given to ocean drones, the autonomous floating vehicles that collect data from the world's oceans.

Now, ScienceInsider has learned, recent tests by government experts suggest that VIIRS may yet collect high - quality data on ocean color.

St. Laurent says the gliders will revolutionise hurricane science: «Suddenly you have the ability to lay a data grid out under the ocean and collect real information before, during and after a storm event.»

Cashion is a researcher for the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems.

The Wave Glider, a long - duration ocean robot designed to operate in stormy conditions and high latitudes, can stay at sea for months patrolling for illegal fishing, listening for seismic events, collecting weather or ocean data and monitoring the environment.

To untangle the impacts that these three climate stressors will have on seafloor diversity in the future, the researchers examined existing published data and collected new data on organisms living in deep - sea sediments in upwelling regions along continental margins, where the ocean and continental crusts meet along the seafloor.

As the LRAUVs move through the ocean, they collect information about water temperature, chemistry, and chlorophyll (an indicator of microscopic algae) and send this data to scientists on shore or on a nearby ship.

Dahl was puzzled by data he and others had collected from rock outcroppings that were once on the floor of the ocean.

Now, a geological survey of the moon conducted using data collected by the recently retired Kaguya spacecraft supports this magma - ocean hypothesis, finding that the upper layer of the moon's crust is indeed rich in low - density rock of exceptional purity.

Five papers in the Oct. 13 Science describe some of the first data collected by the satellite, which is giving scientists an unprecedented peek into how carbon moves between land, atmosphere and oceans.

Scientists travel the oceans and drill into the deepest seabeds to collect such data.

The addition of Svalbard will allow the mission to collect data on sea ice and snow in a scarcely measured section of the Arctic Ocean and its surrounding seas, along with measurements of a few glaciers in the Svalbard archipelago.

Allgeier is currently working with researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to collect data next on fish urine in tropical Pacific Ocean reefs, essentially building upon the data collection Allgeier did as a graduate student.

The reason could be linked to rising sea surface temperatures — fueled in part by global warming — as seen in ocean buoy data collected along the U.S. coast.

Data collected by Cassini confirmed the existence of a sub-surface liquid ocean on Enceladus, one of Saturn's enigmatic moons.

Collecting this data at the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site located on the western edge of Nauru Island, scientists expected to get measurements that represented the greater ocean area.

What's sitting in the the Larsen C iceberg's wake is a treasure trove of scientific data waiting to be collected from the ocean surface to the sea floor.

Instruments attached to the cable collected data on ocean currents as well as samples of tiny creatures called plankton.

Data collected on every expedition are of high value, given the high cost and increasingly limited resources for ocean exploration.

«Over the past decade, we've partnered with NOAA scientists on projects ranging from ocean acidification, to measuring Arctic waves to collecting storm intensity data from the surface of the hurricane,» said Gary Gysin, President and CEO of Liquid Robotics.

It will compile all available and newly collected bathymetric data into a single high - quality, high - resolution digital model of the ocean floor and promote international collaborative efforts to collect new data.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

But a computer analysis led by Katherine Pollard, a biostatistics professor at the University of California, San Francisco and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute, recently sifted through an ocean's worth of detailed data that's been collected on gut bacteria.

The data collected at the cleanups have resulted in national and international laws that help keep trash out of the ocean and inspires companies to produce new packaging that protects ocean life.

You are invited to join me, as together we make unbelievable discoveries deep within the oceans, collect empirical data and struggle to organize, classify and determine the meaning of our findings and our place within this system.

Data collected by a network of free - floating sensors, known as ARGO floats, show that from January 2006 to December 2013, a lot more heat has been finding its way to the deep ocean instead.

The less data you collect on global warming, the more room there is for a handful of denialists to claim that it isn't really happening — that's been the story on ocean warming for the past decade, hasn't it?

----- On a matter unrelated to the late Sir Arthur: @Thapa (# 5), see NASA's current issue of The Earth Observer (page 16): «These findings were enough to convince the scientists who initially reported the ocean cooling [Willis et al. (2007)-RSB- to go back and closely reexamine the recent ocean heat storage data they had collected.