Sentences with phrase «from oceans research»
Fair regularly, we accompanied marine scientists from Oceans Research, an organization on the same campus as the photography program, on their boat trips.
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Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.
In reality, earth science goes far beyond direct climate change research — and includes everything from the health of oceans to the threat of devastating solar storms in the upper atmosphere.
New research shows that humpback whales are basically the ocean's superheroes, regularly intervening on behalf of other animals to protect them from killer whales.
From our oceans and coasts, landscapes and inland waters, to our atmosphere and climate, CSIRO research is helping to maintain the integrity of our environments and ensure our natural resources are used sustainably.
The foundation of the research involved tracking the changes in ocean circulation in new detail by studying three sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a scientific cruise.
New research suggests the annual number of days that some part of the ocean is experiencing a heat wave has increased 54 percent from 1925 to 2016, researchers report April 10 in Nature Communications.
The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.
Divers from the Rothera Research Station in Antarctica monitor heated panels, designed to mimic ocean warming, on the seabed near Adelaide Island.
And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.
Morgan asked the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a global collaboration of marine research, for more than $ 100 million to collect six 2 - mile - deep cores from around the crater's center to better understand peak ring formation and the impact's environmental effects.
Now, scientists from both countries are working together on projects encompassing biomedical science, autism and other neurodegenerative diseases, agriculture, ocean conservation, environmental research and more.
«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.
Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage by Sophie Webb (Houghton Mifflin, 2011); ages 9 to 12 This book chronicles the author's four - month - long Pacific research voyage.
Different kinds of plastic may be suspended at different depths — a dreadful rainbow of rubbish spanning the ocean from top to bottom — but no one has done the research to find out.
Scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel are closely monitoring the developments.
New research from the University of East Anglia shows that rising ocean temperatures will upset natural cycles of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus.
Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.
«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.
In a paper published in Marine Policy yesterday, Tom Polacheck, a senior researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political cResearch Organisation (CSIRO), the Australian national research agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political cresearch agency in Hobart, presents a case study of how a paper from CSIRO submitted to a subgroup of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission had to be pulled owing to political concerns.
Atmospheric scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have now found an explanation that could significantly improve the interpretation of ice cores.
In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatOcean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatocean acidification and rising water temperatures.
A research team led by Chris Goldfinger at Oregon State University (OSU) used core samples from the ocean floor along the fault to establish that there have been at least 41 Cascadia events in the last ten thousand years.
The study's evidence came from a 2012 cruise by the Schmidt Ocean Institute's research vessel Falkor.
The research was conducted by a scientific working group at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) with support from the Washington, D.C. - based Ocean Conservancy.
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NoMelt's ocean bottom seismometer array, with the assistance of Lamont's seismic research ship the Marcus G. Langseth, recorded data from earthquakes and other seismic sources from the middle of the plate over the span of a year.
However, this is not true: New research shows that sea ice in the Arctic draws large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean,» says Dorte Haubjerg Søgaard.
The research, published this month in Nature Communications, was conducted by a team of scientists from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Barcelona.
Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.
«I would say the stratosphere is still needed to amplify these effects from the troposphere to have an impact on the ocean, but I would like future research to really investigate this question.»
But current evidence suggests that plastic pollution is as prevalent in land and freshwater ecosystems as it is in the oceans, where it's found «from the equator to the poles,» says Rochman, author of a separate commentary on the state of plastic pollution research published in the April 6 Science.
«Even if we were to set very optimistic rates and raise the amount of vegetable protein in the feed, the pressure on fisheries and fish stocks would increase enormously and likely cause their collapse,» says co-author Thorsten Reusch from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.
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Reporting from Ny - A ̊lesund — a research base in Norway, 1000 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle — Kintisch describes how «[m] eter - tall waves and driving snow are common here in the Svalbard archipelago, where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet, but that doesn't deter [Markus] Brand, a graduate student from the Alfred Wegener Institute... in Helgoland, Germany,» from pursuing his research on local fish populations.
These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.
A research group comprising Project Researcher Yusuke Yamashita, Assistant Professor Tomoaki Yamada, Professor Masanao Shinohara and Professor Kazushige Obara at the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute and researchers at Kyushu University, Kagoshima University, Nagasaki University, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to Juresearch group comprising Project Researcher Yusuke Yamashita, Assistant Professor Tomoaki Yamada, Professor Masanao Shinohara and Professor Kazushige Obara at the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute and researchers at Kyushu University, Kagoshima University, Nagasaki University, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to JuResearch Institute and researchers at Kyushu University, Kagoshima University, Nagasaki University, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to JuResearch Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to July 2013.
Research from 2011, led by Hauri, found that the melt inclusions have plenty of water — as much water, in fact, as lavas forming on the Earth's ocean floor.
Researchers at the Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, tracked seven whales — which they recognized by the markings on their tail flukes — from their summer feeding grounds in the Antarctic Ocean to their winter breeding grounds off the Pacific coast of Central America.
The research team compared the temperature changes at Mt. Hunter with those from lower elevations in Alaska and in the Pacific Ocean.
Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.
In one study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from ocean warming would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.
Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.
«A reminder: virtually all we know about Earth's atmosphere & oceans comes from sustained decades of government - funded scientific research,» tweeted Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate researcher.
Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.
In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.
Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.
New research presented in San Francisco yesterday suggests, however, that dusty air blown across the Pacific Ocean from Asia and Africa could be influencing precipitation in the region.
The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano eResearch Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano eresearch ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.