Sentences with phrase «for polar research»

The Fram (1892) was the first ship to be built in Norway specially for polar research.

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When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidResearch Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidresearch vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

So it's some measure of how stoked I am about reporting on polar science that I would happily sign up for such a daunting excursion to cover field research.

The goal of the workshop is to identify gaps in scientists» knowledge, emerging questions in polar science and strategies for future research, Priscu said.

Next Wave Germany's editor Eick von Ruschkowski profiles Germany's two main employers of polar researchers: The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and the Alfred Wegener - Institute for Polar Research.

The Earth's polar regions are in peril as a result of climate change, speakers cautioned at a 16 June briefing on Capitol Hill, and solving the problem requires greater support for geoscience research.

Update: The University of Alberta says that the «stop work» notice received on 13 July in relation to US government funding for a polar bear research project was lifted on 1 August.

«Chile is a natural laboratory and rapidly becoming a world leader in important fields for science diplomacy: astronomy, oceanography, polar research and climate change,» said Marga Gual - Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, who joined Holt in Chile.

Some earlier research suggested that polar bears could, at least partially, compensate for longer summer food deprivation by entering a state of lowered activity and reduced metabolic rate similar to winter hibernation — a so - called «walking hibernation.»

Government officials this week told staff at the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD), the nation's lead polar science agency, that planned funding cuts mean the division will be seeking «[a] lternative funding models» for research, including philanthropic donations and commercial sponsorship.

«A lot of research has shown that intrusions of warm water are responsible for melting ice along the polar coastlines and that these intrusions are steered by the shape of the seafloor,» said Jamin Greenbaum, an oceanography and geology expert at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the new study, in an email.

As their hunting behavior shifts from ice to land, the polar bears «have progressively arrived earlier and earlier to have access to more eggs,» says biologist Børge Moe, another principal author of the study who works at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Kongsfjorden, where seabird egg predation is just beginning to increase.

Steven Cavallo is new to the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, fresh from a postdoc in polar weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

The 2nd Young Scientists Meeting is being hosted by the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES, Government of India), which is a nodal organization for implementation of Indian polar research proResearch (NCAOR), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES, Government of India), which is a nodal organization for implementation of Indian polar research proresearch programmes.

With an overall length of 66 m, this versatile and stable vessel is suited for research on both coastal seas and open oceans (except for the polar regions).

The Foundation supports polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

A project that has been in the making for four years and has involved contributions from countless numbers of dedicated people, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station is the first polar research station designed to create zero carbon emissions by utilising a highly energy - efficient design and by running entirely on renewable wind and solar energies.

It is time for nations involved in southern polar research to embrace a renewed spirit of cooperation as espoused by the founders of the Antarctic Treaty — in actions not just words.»

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

In 2006 the National Science Foundation awarded Major Research Infrastructure (MRI) funding to UNAVCO and IRIS / PASSCAL to design and build power and communication systems for autonomous polar station operation.

As the official Belgian Antarctic Operator, the Foundation ensures safe conditions for field research, provides cargo and personnel logistics, experienced polar guides, field accommodation and mobile laboratory facilities, and guarantees minimal impact on the Antarctic environment.

Evidence for indurated sand dunes in the martian north polar region V. Schatz, H. Tsoar, K. S. Edgett, E. J. R. Parteli, and H. J. Herrmann Journal of Geophysical Research 111, E04006, doi: 10.1029 / 2005JE002514, 28 April 2006.

Alain founded The International Polar Foundation in 2002 in order to support polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

With the freeze season already substantially delayed, there will be knock - on effects for next year's melt season, notes Prof Julienne Stroeve, professor of polar observation and modelling at University College London and senior research scientist at the NSIDC.

The zero emission polar research station, which is approximately 220 Km from the Antarctic coast, is an ideal logistics hub for field exploration in the 20 ° - 30 ° E sector of Antarctica.

Laborelec has helped the IPF build the first Zero Emission polar research station, but it was also an opportunity for us to develop and test solutions that we can now use in other projects.

Jeffrey Kiehl, PhD, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, in Boulder, points to volumes of studies exploring responses of extreme storms to a warming planet and concludes that «these systems that form in the tropics can propagate up to the polar regions.»

The fellowship, the largest of its kind, recognizes the importance of science carried out in Antarctica for improving the understanding of the Earth system, and encourages scientific research at, or close to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station.

When the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) innocently queried the internet in search of a name for their new polar research ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargaiResearch Council (NERC) innocently queried the internet in search of a name for their new polar research ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargairesearch ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargained for.

1:08 p.m. Updated Gavin A. Schmidt, a climate scientist at Hansen's research hub, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, directed my attention to an official reply to the climate complaints from Waleed Abdalati, NASA chief scientist, who also happens to be a polar climate researcher.

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.

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

This spring, scientists conducting polar ice and ocean research told me they were unnerved to see a Russian military encampment nearby for the first time.

The trends on other sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and legal) and research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.

But there is little closure for loved ones, and the loss of these men still reverberates through the environmental organizations that supported their work and among polar scientists whose research was aided by the data they collected.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

Kert Davies, the research director for Greenpeace U.S.A., one of three environmental groups that sued the Interior Department in 2005 to force it to add polar bears to the list of threatened species, said the administration was «clearly scrambling for credibility of any kind in this issue.»

The Arctic System Reanalysis (ASR), a high - resolution regional assimilation of model output, observations, and satellite data across the mid - and high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere for the period 2000 — 2012 has been performed at 30 km (ASRv1) and 15 km (ASRv2) horizontal resolution using the polar version of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model and the WRF Data Assimilation (WRFDA) System.

Since then, raw images from an international network of operational geostationary and polar - orbiting meteorological satellites have been routinely processed to develop a global data set of calibrated radiances and derived cloud parameters for climate research.

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

Topics on the agenda include achieving inclusivity in polar research, opportunities for networking and mentorship, and how gender inclusivity influences the quality of polar research and research experiences.

For his research he applies numerical methods in order to investigate atmospheric motions in polar regions and globally.

The implication of such research is that study of shorter - lived, tinier creatures may provide more information about adaptation and loss in the rapidly warming Arctic than, for instance, study of seals and polar bears.

Despite Center for Biological Diversity assertions that «Arctic sea ice melt is a disaster for the polar bears», research shows polar bear populations have continued to thrive and increase.

This is extreme wishful thinking on their part since recent research finds black soot as being the major factor for polar sea ice loss.

ARCUS» efforts to improve the national recognition and support of Arctic research include formal and informal education, liaison with other national polar research entities, working with government agencies, providing a central point of contact for inquiries, facilitating community science planning efforts, and disseminating information through reports, a newsletter, and the ARCUS website.

Unfortunately for the alarmists though, research by polar experts have determined the iceberg calving to be a normal condition, happening with regular frequency.

The IPY - OSC 2010 provides a meeting spot for people from a huge variety of companies, private and governmental research institutions, universities as well as all the organisations coordinating and facilitating polar research in the Arctic and Antarctica.

For example despite his research showing cycles of heavy spring ice had been most detrimental to seals and bears, Stirling and Derocher's review of polar bear «science» used the very same research to falsely imply that less summer ice was the problem.

The Polar Prediction Project (PPP) is a 10 - year (2013 — 2022) endeavour of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to sResearch Programme (WWRP) with the aim of promoting cooperative international research enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to sresearch enabling development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on time scales from hours to seasonal.