Sentences with phrase «icebreakers in»

In the UK, the Northern ports will need inshore icebreakers in mid-winter.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

Rewards gained from defending well high up the pitch can be cruelly undone when individuals make mistakes defending in their own half, as illustrated by Lemina's icebreaker in the 20th minute.

Great value for a player who's found some form of late, scoring the icebreaker in Liverpool's 4 - 3 showstopper vs Manchester City.

A special deal for the UK can be an icebreaker in this regard.

So ornithologist Thomas Alerstam of Lund University in Sweden and colleagues used the radar on a Canadian icebreaker in the Northwest Passage to measure the direction of migrating birds flying past.

It hopes to start building the first new heavy icebreaker in 2020, with completion scheduled for 2023.

New Scientific Discovery: Siberian Atmospheric Rivers: Part 4 of 4 / / Published on Mar 1, 2018 A Russian icebreaker in the Arctic sailed from open ocean water into thin sea - ice continuing into thicker sea - ice and sent weather balloons aloft every... Continue reading →

With recognition in feature magazine covers, POF has made its reputation as an icebreaker in engaging the dating community in a true fashion of freedom and free from hidden fees.

The site offers the right settings required for gay dating, the profile section is quite detailed, and a matchmaking system is complemented with a personality test, which also makes a great icebreaker in early conversations.

«For years Stella was as unstoppable as an icebreaker in his painterly progress, churning out series after series, building on and advancing not only his art but painting.»

Other performances include a staged event off an icebreaker in the Arctic Circle; simultaneous films of two groups, one in Trafalgar Square, London, and one in Senate Square, Helsinki (linked up by mobile phone); events in Tate Modern and Tate Britain; a performance at Arsenal Football Grounds; and a re-enactment of a painting on the effects of drinking wine in St. Etheldreda's, a medieval crypt in London.

The largest icebreaker in the Arctic is Russian, and it is nuclear powered.

The issue in the reaction to the report of open water at the North Pole is whether it is time to start reading a trend into the disappearing and thinning ice encountered by an icebreaker in the summer of 2000.

We showed a Canadian icebreaker in our earlier post on the battle for the melting north; here is the US Coast Guard Healy, which according to Robert Lee Hotz in the Wall Street Journal is «are gathering the data legally required to extend national

Reading is a hobby, but not an icebreaker in an interview.

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It allows us to build out our program of record, move into unmanned aerial systems, and then recapitalize our icebreaker fleet, our inland fleet, as well as complete the buildout of our offshore patrol cutter fleet — the first one of those will come online in 2021.

Dig Deeper: Let's Start With an Icebreaker How to Run an Effective Meeting: 3 Tips for Meeting Success While Parker outlines 33 tools for honing your meeting leading abilities in his book, he boiled the essentials down to three key ways to keep your meetings from being time wasters: The first tidbit sounds obvious, but enough people disregard it to make it necessary.

In his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portIn his first interview with a business magazine since his appointment, Papp — who spent four decades with the Coast Guard — talks to Fortune about drilling in the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin the Arctic, working with Russia amid the current geopolitical turmoil, and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water portin everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

Papp: The United States is woefully inadequate in terms of its icebreaker fleet right now.

Papp talks to Fortune about Arctic drilling, working with Russia and the need to invest in everything from icebreakers to deep - water ports.

He was in Australia recently to spruik the company's world - first «luxury icebreaker», due to set sail in 2021 and capable of taking tourists to the North Pole.

Unlike Facebook where most people's profiles don't display any of their career information, you can find people in LinkedIn groups in the same industry as you and use the group as an icebreaker when connecting.

The British protest against the removal of female images on the currency parallels a similar protest in Canada, when Carney, as Canada's central bank governor, announced in 2011 that an icebreaker would displace the images of five famous women on a new series of $ 50 polymer notes.

He's not just overshadowed by Sir John A. Even John Diefenbaker — who rates two slots below Borden on the Maclean's list in tenth — gets far more attention, including having both an icebreaker and a prominent Ottawa edifice, at 111 Sussex Drive, near Harper's house, named for him.

In this case, Eric asked Grace, «Could you lead the icebreaker time at the beginning if I lead the rest?»

We gathered all the guests in a circle and tossed a Baby Doll (I know it may sound mean, but it was funny because everyone was trying to gently toss it but at the same time win)-- it was a great icebreaker!»

Sarah found that people were actually MORE likely to talk with her when she was wearing the costume than when she was in street clothes — serving as a natural icebreaker, it immediately made folks smile.

Gary Barlow, Mark Owen, Howard Donald and their manager Jonathan Wild, reportedly invested # 66m in Icebreaker partnerships, billed as music - industry investment schemes.

«If an icebreaker is not available to clear a channel in the sea ice, fuel and cargo resupply ships may not be able to reach McMurdo Station,» reads the email from Raytheon Polar Services.

If the NSF can't find a replacement icebreaker to lead the journey — scheduled to begin in early December and reach McMurdo in late January — this year's Antarctic research season could be cut short.

A third icebreaker, the Polar Sea, is sitting in dry dock, and the Coast Guard plans to decommission it later this year.

«A novel aspect is the modelling of the reciprocal contact between blocks of ice, which promises benefits in icebreaker development, among others.

The paper from the research organization notes, for instance, that the Navy and Coast Guard have one medium - sized icebreaker currently in service, while Russia operates 25.

Their icebreaker was cutting through ice that was only 1 metre thick — compared to the 3 - metre thickness in the past — when they saw the phytoplankton.

In January 2013, his colleagues began testing a drill there for a proposed NASA mission called Icebreaker, which, if approved, will bore into the ice - cemented ground of northern Mars.

The data was gathered in summer 2012, during an Arctic expedition on board the research icebreaker Polarstern.

When icebreakers push through the sea ice on which Caspian seals nurse their young, mothers and pups flee and often get separated in the confusion

The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong has been studying multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and the U.S. Coast Guard is sounding waters to determine the extent of the Alaskan continental shelf.

In some years — including the past two — an icebreaker passing through the Ross Sea and into McMurdo Sound encounters primarily «first - year ice,» which is less stiff than multiyear ice and easier for icebreakers to clear.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

But the icebreaker - acquisition program began grinding forward during the Obama administration and has requested a major funding boost in the fiscal year 2017 budget.

Funding for icebreakers has «fallen between bureaucratic cracks» in past years, says public policy expert Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a member of the Arctic Task Force at the Council on Foreign Relations.

In fact, some experts and members of Congress have warned of an «icebreaker gap,» noting that Russia has more than 40 such vessels.

«I don't see how, without an increase in the number of icebreakers, we will be able to maintain a significant presence in the Arctic,» Campbell says.

A second icebreaker, the R / V Sikuliaq, owned by NSF, is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world.

That is when mammoth icebreakers like the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star arrive in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound as part of Operation Deep Freeze to open up the shipping lanes needed to resupply the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station and other facilities on Ross Island.

Kipp led efforts to measure radium at 69 locations from the western edge of the Arctic Ocean to the Pole on a two - month voyage aboard the icebreaker Healy in the summer of 2015.

She likens TCF - 1 to an icebreaker ship that initially opens the ice (condensed, closed chromatin) and keeps a path available for other ships (other transcription factors that work in later stages of development) to steam through the now - open water (unwound chromatin).

NSF officials are trying to increase fuel storage capacity and conserve energy in an effort to reduce the need for the annual resupply of McMurdo Station, a worsening logistical challenge given the aging fleet of U.S. icebreakers.