Sentences with phrase «exploring the ocean in»

For example, the National History Museum of Los Angeles County, recently hosted a VR exhibit called theBlu, in which visitors could put on VR headsets to explore the ocean in virtual reality.

Explore the ocean in a submarine scooter or swim with the sharks and rays.

Interested in exploring the ocean in silence and interacting with marine life in a natural way?

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Stanford Research Institute: «In the coming decade, science and technology will provide new means to use the vast resources of the oceans, to exploit the Arctic and Antarctic, to explore space, perhaps to affect climates.

There is a Hole in the Ocean That is miles wide and MILES DEEP, it has never been explored, does nt mean it does nt exist.

As we explored the ocean floor, taking a tour that was the perfect balance of informative and fun, we could see the dramatic rides in the tide, literally before our eyes.

On our hundreds of miles of trails you can take in ocean, pond, and river views; explore forests and fields; hike drumlins and eskers; stroll boardwalks and gravel paths; discover stone walls and observation towers; go on a Quest or play nature bingo; and enjoy solitude on benches or in bird blinds.

Participants will be joined Tidmarsh Farms» owners and Mass Audubon naturalists in exploring a landscape in evolution: an agricultural property which in the late 1980s produced one percent of the entire harvest for giant cooperative Ocean Spray is now finding ecological rebirth where alewives are returning, eagles and hawks again soar, and native plants can again thrive.

Following his acclaimed Atlantic and The Men Who United the States, New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester offers an enthralling biography of the Pacific Ocean and its role in the modern world, exploring our relationship with this imposing force of nature.

Not a real one, of course, but rather a virtual voyager, a computer model that plumbs the otherwise - inaccessible depths of Earth's anoxic past (or an alien planet's present), exploring the possible chemistry of gases in the atmosphere and ocean that could have occurred there.

New imagery available through Carnegie Mellon's GigaPan Time Machine lets users move in space and time to explore the sun, a beehive or the chlorophyll content of the oceans

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.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

The animated games, quizzes, and video as well as text and stills allowed the audience to explore the wildlife of the oceans in their own way, in their own time, and as deeply as they wished.

The Congressional briefing, «Living at the Extremes: Geoscience Research at the Coolest Places on Earth,» planned by AAAS in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in celebration of National Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secOceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secoceans, and national security.

In the end, Berwald says, jellyfish became a «vehicle for me to explore the threats to the ocean's future.

Efforts to explore the deepest recesses of Earth's oceans were dealt a heavy blow last weekend when one of history's most accomplished deep - sea explorers imploded several kilometers beneath the Pacific and resurfaced in pieces.

In fact, by the time Marco Polo set out to explore East Asia in the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian OceaIn fact, by the time Marco Polo set out to explore East Asia in the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Oceain the 13th century, communities across Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean had been exchanging their wares for thousands of years in a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Oceain a vast network driven by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.

In a depth - defying feat of dazzling daring last year, the robot known as Nereus dove to the deepest spot in the ocean and spent 10 hours exploring a spot that is deeper than Mount Everest is higIn a depth - defying feat of dazzling daring last year, the robot known as Nereus dove to the deepest spot in the ocean and spent 10 hours exploring a spot that is deeper than Mount Everest is higin the ocean and spent 10 hours exploring a spot that is deeper than Mount Everest is high.

In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.

For example, the museum includes a bathysphere — a metal bubble for exploring the ocean's depths — but you can't go in it.

Enter the toy octopus: A team of researchers in California is exploring how the changing ocean chemistry affects a hermit crab's fight - or - flight response by simulating octopus attacks in the laboratory.

Nearly two miles deep in the ocean, a hundred miles off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, scientists during two cruises a year apart used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of sea floor made of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.

We know electric fields can be used to push the microrobots in any direction, like a boat carried by the ocean's currents, but in this paper we're exploring how those same fields can be used to help the robot detect obstacles and navigate around them,» Kim said.

That's what deep - sea ocean explorer David Gallo hopes for — not a game to best an opponent, but one to explore the world's most famous shipwreck in ways never done before.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

He has done similar work aboard ships, rocking and swaying high above hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, when he wasn't in the submersible itself, exploring the steaming depths.

Bradbury's book The Martian Chronicles had captured my imagination when I was a young boy and had, in some ways, led to my being on that research vessel, exploring new worlds beneath the ocean surface.

If the shell is thin, it could mean the moon's ocean receives sunlight and radiation from cracks in the surface, boosting the energy available for life and the chances that future missions could be sent to explore the ocean, potentially with a robotic submarine.

In February, Australian and American researchers who compared ocean and climate modeling results with weather observations published findings in Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global influencIn February, Australian and American researchers who compared ocean and climate modeling results with weather observations published findings in Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global influencin Nature Climate Change advancing earlier studies that explored the oscillation's global influence.

«With a robot like Nereus, we can now explore virtually anywhere in the ocean,» Andy Bowen, principal developer of the sub at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told the BBC.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Additional factors could be taken into consideration for future studies to provide more information about why this swimming pattern exists, to further explore turtle ecology in ocean currents.

NASA's planetary science division would receive $ 1.9 billion in 2018 under Trump's budget, a plan that includes funding for the 2020 Mars rover and the Europa Clipper mission to explore Jupiter's icy, ocean - harboring moon.

Now, for the first time, the campaign will expand its reach to explore the Arctic's Eurasian Basin through two research flights based out of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the northern Atlantic Ocean.

March 26, 2013Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have formed a partnership to stimulate advances in ocean science and technology and build on the historic breakthroughs of the 2012 Cameron - led DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition exploring deep - ocean trenches.

Expanding on these pioneering expeditions, scientists and engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have built a new efficient, multi-purpose «hybrid» vehicle that can explore and operate in the crushing pressures of the greatest ocean depths.

On its first mission, the new vehicle, called Nereus (rhymes with «serious»), explored the deepest part of the ocean, Challenger Deep — a nearly 7 - mile - deep trench east of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacific.

Due to the extreme pressures of these deep - sea environments and the technical challenges involved in reaching them, ocean trenches are among the least explored environments on the planet.

The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).

One said mermaids might be «alien species that lives in parts of the Indian Ocean we've never explored before.»

Although NASA terminated funding in 2005 for a proposed Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (which would have searched for evidence of sub-ice, oceanic life on Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede), the Agency was still funding the development of a robotic submarine for exploring the sub-ice oceans of those icy moons in 2007 (Kathleen M. Wong, New Scientist, December 14, 2007).

But in the world of marine microbial ecology, there are very few model systems and associated tools that enable scientists to deeply explore the physiology, biochemistry, and ecology of marine microbes, which drive the ocean's elemental cycles, influence greenhouse gas levels, and support marine food webs.

Ecological relationships of krill and whales have not been explored in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP), and have only rarely been studied elsewhere in the Southern Ocean.

For me, it has been a thrilling experience to work with such a great team and to try to figure out if and how we could in explore oceans, volcanism, climate, and other exotic properties of exoplanets in the future — for all the exciting discoveries we are making today, I am sure that the future will be even cooler.

Future research topics may explore how the distribution of ocean barrier layers around the world may affect storms in a warmer world.

According to the study published in Marine Biodiversity, it was discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands during an expedition of the Okeanos Explorer — the «only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.»

«If there are plumes emerging from Europa, it is significant because it means we may be able to explore that ocean for organic chemicals or even signs of life without having to drill through unknown miles of ice,» said William Sparks at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which manages Hubble.

Scientific programs include: human genomic sequencing and analysis, synthetic genomics and exploration of new vaccines using this technology, and environmental and single cell genomics to explore the vast unseen world of microbes living in the human body, the ocean, soil and air.