Sentences with phrase «in polar environments»

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

The program will include 65 sessions across 12 categories, including the session «Observing with autonomous vehicles in polar regions,» which focuses on topics such as scientific results from self - operating platforms and technological capabilities that assist research efforts in the polar environment.

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DNA coding is affected by the environment via adaptation; DNA specific structure is unpredictable from biochemistry / physics alone but is environmentally determined over generations (via natural selection)-- resulting in the white fur of the polar bear, for example.

Camille Seaman (above) captures the beauty of polar environments, and the sobering reality of climate change, in her photographs.

Not much grows in the icy polar regions, but for the fern - like clusters of ice crystals called frost flowers this is the perfect environment, especially when it's still and dry.

«Pollutants in the Arctic environment are threatening polar bear health.»

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

Published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.

If adaptation for survival in the Arctic environment has led to a less versatile immune system, then Arctic species such as the polar bear may be at risk from an influx of pathogens as global temperatures rise, the researchers warn.

Furthermore, it had been proposed that animals and plants in the polar regions would have been more resilient to global climatic changes associated with an asteroid impact as a result of living in environments that were always strongly seasonal.

With footage of frolicking polar bear cubs, mesmerizing time - lapse video of a frozen waterfall thawing in spring, and an up - close look at how rising temperatures are ravaging those environments, Frozen Planet has something for everyone — even those whose tastes run more to sitcoms than documentary.

«We have a mutual interest in maximising the protection of that environment,» Neal Sullivan, the NSF's director of polar programmes, told tour operators at a meeting in Washington last week.

Earthly life has proved remarkably hardy in similar extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor and polar ice.

The 8 % across - the - board reductions, set to take effect in January, are likely to draw heavily from scientific research and spare infrastructure and logistical operations that support experiments in the unforgiving polar environment.

Professor Mark Williams said: «The range of environments we are working with is remarkable — from polar ice and snow layers to deep lake and sea floors to the skeletons of reef corals and stalactites in caves.

Closer investigation of these plumes, originating from geysers blasting from polar fissures in Enceladus» icy crust, revealed this water was coming from a warm subsurface salty ocean and the water was laced with hydrocarbons and ammonia, or «many of the ingredients that life would need if it were to start in an environment like that,» Soderblom tells HowStuffWorks.

The world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, welcomes scientists from around the world to conduct research in this little - studied and pristine environment, close to...

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.

The Arctic charr is the most northern distributed freshwater fish, subjected to polar cycles in environment and food availability.

Plankton and larval ecology, bio-physical interactions, development and use of optical imaging tools for plankton and benthic habitat mapping, development of data products for ecosystems approaches to management, ocean observing systems in polar, temperate and tropical environments, chair ORION - OOI sensors advisory committee

Improving our understanding of variability and change in the polar marine ecosystem in the face of a rapidly changing environment underpins my current research goals.

The world's first zero emission polar research station, Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, welcomes scientists from around the world to conduct research in this little - studied and pristine environment, close to East Antarctica's Sør Rondane Mountains.

The Polar Code provides for safe ship operation in polar waters and the protection of the polar environment.

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 bargained for.

A new study finds polar bears in the wild have higher metabolic rates than previously thought, and as climate change alters their environment a...

It links with early polar exploration and survival in the hostile environment.

Global - scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places) and hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)

His photos are on display aboard the Star of India, and captures whales, pinnipeds and polar bears in their natural environment.

In that way, it's a move that is the polar opposite of the poorly - received Final Fantasy XIII, which saw players play more than halfway through the game before revealing an explorable, open - world environment.

Responses of larvae from across world regions indicate overall trends despite disparate environments and ecology as well as differences in the sensitivities of tropical and polar species.

We analysed responses of the calcifying larvae of sea urchins, an ecologically important group, to ocean change stressors in a synthesis of data from species from tropical to polar environments and from intertidal to subtidal habitats.

They suggest that the fragmentation of the brown bear genetic lines and subsequent hybridization with polar bears were caused by the onset of the Eemian (125 ka), last major warming period, and the «adaptive introgression» that resulted may have helped both polar and grizzly bears survive in their changing environments.

They report in the journal Science of the Total Environment that they questioned 13 specialists from four nations to propose ways of measuring polar bear health.

Whether it's our recent weird weather or news stories about threatened polar bears, the environment in general and climate change in particular are suddenly a hot political issue.

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It clearly involves surface pressure at the poles — it says so — and is concerned with NH blocking patterns involving the polar annular mode in a low solar UV environment.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

From the Carsey Institute: Americans» Knowledge of Polar Regions Up, But Not Their Concern Environmental Issues in Polar Regions Are Polarizing DURHAM, N.H. — Americans» knowledge of facts about the polar regions of the globe has increased since 2006, but this increase in knowledge has not translated into more concern about changing polar environments, according...

This becomes silly because, evidently, the warmer deep ocean water is not too cold to provide warming in a polar winter, an environment that doesn't just cool water down, it freezes it solid.

As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.

The data suggest that the most novel environments have emerged in polar and tropical areas, especially Greenland, the northern end of South America, central Africa, and western China.

According to it, CO2 contributes to the melting of polar ice caps, rising sea levels, reduced Arctic ice cover and alarming changes in the environment.

«Long term, I certainly agree that the prognosis for that polar bear is grim, given how well she is adapted to an environment now in rapid decline.»

In an interview with Yale Environment 360, polar scientist Mark Serreze talks about the rapid changes he has witnessed over more than three decades of working in the Arctic and the future stability of the region if temperatures continue to climIn an interview with Yale Environment 360, polar scientist Mark Serreze talks about the rapid changes he has witnessed over more than three decades of working in the Arctic and the future stability of the region if temperatures continue to climin the Arctic and the future stability of the region if temperatures continue to climb.

The changes in the sea ice environment, and their consequent effects on polar bears, are demonstrable in parallel fluctuations in the mean ages of polar bears killed each year by Inuit hunters.

In addition, because of the complexities of climate and environment, it is quite possible to plausibly explain away apparently contradictory results, for instance that higher temperatures may result in increased snowfall in the polar regionIn addition, because of the complexities of climate and environment, it is quite possible to plausibly explain away apparently contradictory results, for instance that higher temperatures may result in increased snowfall in the polar regionin increased snowfall in the polar regionin the polar regions.

In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society journal we lay out a framework for the response of polar environments to the effects of human - induced changes to the climatIn a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society journal we lay out a framework for the response of polar environments to the effects of human - induced changes to the climatin the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society journal we lay out a framework for the response of polar environments to the effects of human - induced changes to the climate.

Fans of the polar bear, and people concerned about the environment, won a major victory in May 2008 when the big, white bears were listed as a «threatened species» under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

The increased severity of hurricanes, along with rising temperatures and melting polar ice caps, are all linked in some way to the way mankind interacts with the Earth's environment.