Sentences with phrase «large research vessels»

«A mobile, autonomous recorder can both cover a large area and survey for weeks or months at a time, without the high cost of operating a large research vessel.»

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... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

... Several big projects may not be funded immediately, including significant new research under the International Polar Year in 2007, the new research vessel conducting science in the Arctic, the new petascale computer, and several other large - ticket projects.»

In science news around the world, the National Institutes of Health expands the definition of clinical trials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture restores previously public animal welfare records, seismologists fear the loss of a key research vessel, Brazil's indigenous tribes win land rights, and China's — and the world's — largest radio telescope gets a no - fly zone.

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that age (or age at diagnosis) and duration of diabetes disease are linked to the risk of death and marcovascular complications (those in larger blood vessels), whereas only diabetes duration is linked to the risk of microvascular complications (in smaller blood vessels such as those in the eyes).

The incident, which was monitored and recorded by satellite images, aerial photography and a research vessel navigating through the resulting icebergs, is the largest single event in a 30 - year series of ice shelf retreats in the area.

The collection of larger than usual amounts of Arctic winter weather data in 2015 was due to two reasons: the Norwegian research vessel Lance was in the Arctic Ocean observing and collecting upper atmosphere meteorological data, and the frequency of observation and data collection was increased at some of the land - based observation stations around the Arctic.

Onboard our research vessel, the RV Sally Ride, are eight containers, each as large as a compact car, filled with sediment dredged from the deep Pacific Ocean floor.

In a subsequent lecture at a large research meeting, while discussing preliminary plume measurements from a NOAA vessel, Lubchenco warned the audience: «If we jump to conclusions, that doesn't serve science well.

At 273 feet the steamship was larger — and with its polished wood decks and cabins considerably more beautiful — than many research vessels today.

To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

With data from U.K., Belgian, and French research vessels, the team got a clear picture of seven plunge pools on the channel floor (see map below), each nearly a kilometer wide and up to 140 meters deep — even larger than Smith had estimated.

After the successful completion of the study, the German research vessel ALKOR returns the ten KOSMOS mesocosms and a large number of samples to Kiel.

The research vessel, Grigory Mikheev, will sail from Kangerlussuaq to Disko Bay, and then across the front of the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest glaciers, which is currently losing 20m tonnes of ice every day.

With only one oceangoing research vessel, Australia lags behind many other countries in its ability to survey its large EEZ.

I'm an engineer, but I worked in a NOAA research vessel (needed money for college), took three Oceanography courses, have experience running large scale gridded dynamic models, have been involved in research to establish paramerization parameters for our models, and worked for several years in the Arctic together with a team of climatologists and «ice experts».