Sentences with phrase «first oceanographers»

I summarized some of this in that old climate book, with a lot of help from Matthew Fontaine Maury, one of America's first oceanographers:

John Delaney was among the first oceanographers to grasp the potential power of cabled observatories.

A new NASA visualization shows how heat - trapping carbon dioxide from human sources mixes and spreads around the planet, and in so doing recalls for me a stirring 1859 description of the atmosphere written by Matthew Fontaine Maury, widely considered America's first oceanographer.

Not exact matches

Physical oceanographer Noel Pelland and colleagues compared the migrations of 168 seal pups tagged in five different years from 1996 to 2015 with winds matching the pups» first migration years.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

In August 2015, University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow and colleagues deployed the first UD ocean sensors underneath Petermann Glacier in North Greenland, which connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the ocean.

This technique, first developed by the military in the 1960s to identify submarine locations with pinpoint accuracy, allows oceanographers to map the seafloor with as much detail as the moon.

For the first time, investigators will be able to observe the extreme events that shape the planet in real time, remarks John Delaney, a physical oceanographer at the University of Washington.

But even the first step of modeling the effects of greenhouse gas sources and sinks on future temperatures requires input from atmospheric scientists, oceanographers, ecologists, economists, policy analysts, and others.

1 One proposal, first suggested in the late 1980s by oceanographer John Martin of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, involves seeding ocean surfaces with iron to promote phytoplankton blooms that will soak up carbon dioxide, eventually exporting it into the deep ocean.

But the 66 - year - old physical oceanographer believes that a lifetime spent first doing, and then managing, science is valuable training for running an organization dedicated to helping its 60,000 members keep up with a rapidly changing field.

Meteorologists, oceanographers, remote - sensing specialists, and air - quality experts — not to mention a few air traffic controllers — had all gotten their first overhead view of an Asian dust storm moving across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the sFirst of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the sfirst author of the study.

Adrian Marchetti and his team of oceanographers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified — for the first time — that a protein called proteorhodopsin could allow a major group of phytoplankton to survive in iron - limited regions of the ocean.

«This study is the first to show the value of using ocean salinity measurements to forecast the intensity of tropical cyclones,» said team lead Dr. Karthik Balaguru, an oceanographer at PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory.

This dive spot first gained world recognition when it was featured in a nature documentary by the world - renowned oceanographer, Jacques Cousteau.

But he wondered if giant zooplankton migrations could also be involved — an idea first proposed by oceanographer Walter Munk in 1966, and since then debated but never systematically explored.

«The Iron Hypothesis» is the theory first put forward by oceanographer John Martin in 1990.

«When you add iron, everything changes,» says oceanographer Richard Barber, one of the scientists involved in the first iron experiment.

Oceanographer John Martin first suggested this ultra-simple idea, perhaps somewhat playfully, almost as an advertising schtick, to help him get research money.

First, that the oceanographers are correct in their present hypothesis, that a persistent failure of late winter sinking of the ocean surface near Greenland and Iceland is a likely cause of most of the abrupt cooling episodes.

Also known as the «Iron Hypothesis», this process is more accurately called Ocean Micro Nutrient Replenishment and was first proposed by oceanographer John Martin in 1993.

First, while meteorologists measured the atmosphere daily in thousands of places, oceanographers had only a scattering of occasional data for the oceans.

Rear Admiral David Titley, formerly Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, and a contributor to the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, which in 2010, for the first time, cited climate change as a «threat multiplier»: «[C] limate change is happening, and there is very, very strong evidence that a large part of this is, in fact, man - made.»

The finding that the winds play a role for the state of the warming may not be surprising to oceanographers, although it may not necessarily be the first thing a meteorologist may consider.

-- Mallory Pickett is a first - year masters student in the lab of chemical oceanographer Andreas Andersson at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego