Sentences with phrase «for oceanographers»

A resource like this is invaluable for oceanographers, analogous to the global network of weather stations used by atmospheric scientists.

As you view Dr Steve Rintoul says Antarctica is a big blind spot for oceanographers.

So I have a proposal for oceanographers and atmospheric scientists (and geologists, for that matter) who wish to do some spreading of recent scientific achievements.

Noise research is a recent field for oceanographers.

This may be small scale for, say, particle physicists — the Large Hadron Collider is expected to generate an annual 15 petabytes (1015 bytes) of data — but it marks a substantial change for oceanographers, who are used to obtaining isolated bursts of data from week - long cruises, and then spending a year analyzing the results.

«It's a very unusual situation for oceanographers.

+ Broecker speculated that the climate shifts might reflect some kind of rapid turnover of North Atlantic ocean waters — a natural place for an oceanographer to look.

Not exact matches

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

To avoid the nearly 10 - kilometre - deep Marianas Trench, for instance, oceanographers found a natural bridge for the cable six kilometres down.

When the firm was working on a project for Red Lobster, it invited Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; he helped the team explore the association between its corporate identity and mankind's eternal fascination with the ocean.

For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.

Before she pursued her studies for the priesthood, Bishop Jefferts Schori was a research oceanographer.

Oceanographers have mapped the seafloor and tracked endangered marine species for decades using autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

«That was a wake - up call for all of us,» says Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

Traditionally oceanographers have gleaned insight into the ocean through observations made on research cruises conducted for a few weeks a year at great cost.

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

On March 5, oceanographers mourned the passing of a cherished colleague: an undersea robot affectionately known as ABE (short for Autonomous Benthic Explorer).

The potential for harm is huge, says Jota Kanda, an oceanographer at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology who monitors radionuclide distribution in sediments and biota off Fukushima.

Biological oceanographer Kendra Daly of the University of South Florida heard a talk by Delaney and excitedly told him that his concept would finally allow researchers to study the ephemeral changes that were so difficult to capture from a ship: a storm churning up the waters below, for instance, or the springtime bloom of microscopic marine plants.

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

The shipwreck's resting place — about 12,500 feet deep off the eastern coast of the United States — was originally identified by a 1985 expedition led by the oceanographer Robert Ballard, and in July 1986 he and his colleagues went back for a closer look.

In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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.

As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew - member bunk assignments.

Ryan, for instance, is a biological oceanographer by training, yet regularly works with engineers and computer scientists for his research.

«A failed year class for a couple of years in a row could dramatically reduce their populations for a while,» says James Cowan, an oceanographer at LSU, in whose lab de Mutsert works.

Before a brutal 10 - week research cruise in the Southern Ocean in 2009, oceanographer Victor Smetacek, a co-leader of the expedition, encouraged scientists to bring swimsuits for the ship's sauna and small swimming pool.

«I'll be looking for year class failures — having a hole punched in that year's spawning reproductive success,» says Richard Shaw, a fisheries oceanographer at LSU.

«We have no idea right now what's going on,» says Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin who has studied the dead zone for the past 25 years.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

Conference chair Katherine Richardson, a biological oceanographer at the University of Copenhagen, told the opening plenary session that the conference would ensure that policymakers would pay attention by providing compelling messages in three broad areas: how bad the climate science is [that is, how bad the impact of climate change will be], the «good news» that's out there in terms of new ways of mitigating carbon emissions, and the prospects for adapting to the proliferating impacts that scientists are seeing around the world.

The question has stumped oceanographers for decades: How is dissolved nitrogen gas transformed into a kind that can be used by living things?

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the University of Maryland and lead author.

For a biologist and an oceanographer, life in almost frozen seawater is pretty amazing.

, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who will present the new findings Tuesday at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society and the American Geophysical Union.

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.

If that's the case, «there is potential for this plastic to enter the global ocean food web,» says Carlos Duarte, an oceanographer at the University of Western Australia, Crawley.

«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competition.

«This is an important step if you want to get to a point where we can say, «The U.S. is responsible for X percent»» of the pollution, says oceanographer Erik van Sebille, one of the study

«Yes, animals are eating it,» says oceanographer Peter Davison of the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma, California, who was not involved in the study.

The solution, devised by biological oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and his colleagues, was to use an eddy.

«Now is the time to speak up — we're looking for ideas,» said oceanographer Shirley Pomponi, the co-chair of a blue ribbon panel charged with advising NSF on the issue, here on Tuesday at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

CSIRO oceanographer John Church in Hobart, Australia, agreed that 15 new jobs will not compensate for the «loss of skills» walking out the door.

«We've known for a number of years that the oceans take up a lot of CO2,» says Christopher Sabine, a chemical oceanographer with the NOAA office in Seattle.