Sentences with phrase «doing polar research»

Some of the people doing polar research these days have their feet on the frozen ground but their eyes on the skies.

How do polar research and exploration support astrobiology and planetary science?

Not exact matches

► Science usually doesn't cover announcements of fancy new cruise ships — unless it's a $ 340 million polar research ship, like the one announced last Friday by U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

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.

In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the subterranean city under the guise of conducting polar research — and scientists there did drill the first ice core ever used to study climate.

Unlike other countries, Canada does not have a central polar research program.

Despite decades of helicopter surveys, field research and the increasing use of satellite - monitored tags and the like, much of what polar bears do in the Arctic remains out of sight and unmonitored.

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.

Even today's well funded research organizations can not do research everywhere and at any time, and therefore any additional systematic information gathered by polar travelers can be highly complementary.

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.

«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.

Based on such studies Dr. Derocher, chairman of the IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG) warned, «It's clear from the research that's been done by myself and colleagues around the world that we're projecting that, by the middle of this century, two - thirds of the polar bears will be gone from their current populations».

Crockford acknowledges that she has never done any field research on polar bears.

The findings echo research previously done on polar bears who live on the western shores of the Hudson Bay.

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.