Sentences with phrase «drilling expedition in»

During a segment on Shell's drilling expedition in the Arctic, Burnett suggested that «more drilling» in the U.S. is a solution to high gas prices in California and across the nation, saying: «One way to bring down costs, of course, would be more drilling and that is a highly political topic.»

Three of these mentions were in the context of how ice impacts drilling expeditions in the Arctic, and the one mention on Fox News dismissed the problem entirely.

Not exact matches

Scientists and oil prospectors have drilled the crater in the past, but the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 was the first to explore Chicxulub's central peak ring.

During the six - week expedition, the team plan to drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.

A recent drilling expedition to Mexico's dino - killing Chicxulub crater — the only mass extinction conclusively linked to an impact — found the asteroid hit sedimentary rock rich in sulfurs.

In 2012, the Russian Antarctic Expedition completed drilling through nearly 4 kilometers of ice to reach the surface of subglacial Lake Vostok.

The JFAST expedition drilled across the Tohoku fault in 2012 and installed a temperature observatory in one of three boreholes nearly 7 kilometers below the ocean surface.

I traveled with the expedition that drilled and sampled Lake Whillans in 2013, and during that time I frequently asked people what they expected to find in the lake.

Now, a drilling expedition under way in the Indian Ocean hopes to uncover the secrets of large underwater earthquakes that can trigger such tsunamis.

In 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate changIn 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate changin climate change.

Crucially, they also found that an ice core extending that far into the past should be between 2.4 and 3 - km long, shorter than the 800,000 - year - old core drilled in the previous expedition.

Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture Joanna Morgan, Professor of Geophysics at Imperial College London and Co-Chief Scientist of the IOPD - ICDP Expedition 364 Chicxulub Impact Crater Drilling Project, will deliver the Frontiers of Geophysics Lecture, «Chicxulub: The End of an Era,» from 12:30 — 1:30 p.m. in the New Orleans Theater, located on the second floor of the Morial Convention Center above Hall I - 1.

Geoscientists have just completed an expedition, part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), to a string of underwater volcanoes, or seamounts, in the Pacific Ocean known as the Louisville Seamount Trail.

As to how a freshwater turtle migrated across a salty ocean; Tarduno points to the results of drilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctidrilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past ArctiDrilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic Ocean.

The JFAST expedition aims to drill into the fault that caused the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 (see earlier story).

Ironically, the very marine core drilling expedition (Brinkhuis et al and many other papers last year in Nature) that yielded disturbing indications that the Arctic climate can warm more dramatically than previously thought also revealed extremely organic - rich sediments which might portend oil deposits — which, if tapped would help restore the very conditions under which these organics were deposited in the first place.

Farrell helped organized and conduct the first successful international scientific ocean drilling expedition to the high Arctic in 2004.

It hosts one of the shallowest offshore groundwater reservoirs globally, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 317 collected a wealth of borehole data in this region in 2009 and 2010 [Post et al., 2013].

From the press release: «During field expeditions, the research team used a variety of techniques — including sonar and visual images of methane bubbles in the water, air and water sampling, seafloor drilling and temperature readings — to determine the conditions of the water and permafrost, as well as the amount of methane being released.»

The researchers first matched this fossil record secured by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition in the western tropical Pacific to existing records from bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice cores that stretch back 800,000 years, which preserve a precise record of past atmospheric composition.