Sentences with phrase «leading oceanographer»

The backdrop, from a Guardian story, is this: Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk, With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster.

Dubbed «Her Deepness» by such publications as The New Yorker and The New York Times, Sylvia is not only one of the world's leading oceanographers — logging over 6,000 hours underwater — but she also holds the record for the deepest solo dive ever: 380 meters (1,250 feet) down.

Drawing upon the research of over 100 of the leading oceanographers and scientists around the world, the work is co-authored by more than thirty experts from organizations in ten countries, such as the British Antarctic Survey and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany.

So the extensive work of leading oceanographers from Universities the world over, and work by NASA, NOAA, and multiple other leading institutions of science, thrown out the window, on a tricky but still fairly objective question of fact, by someone writing the opposite.

Not exact matches

«Previously this monster, Atlantic warm water, was well covered from the surface» by the CHL, says Igor Polyakov, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, who led the study.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

The goal isn't just to get new and improved robotics and better sensors, says Jyotika Virmani, a physical oceanographer and the XPrize lead.

The shipwreck's resting place — about 12,500 feet deep off the eastern coast of the United States — was originally identified by a 1985 expedition led by the oceanographer Robert Ballard, and in July 1986 he and his colleagues went back for a closer look.

Drawn to the water early, oceanographer Melissa Omand now leads research cruises studying how carbon and nutrients move through the seas.

Oceanographers Stuart Cunningham and Torsten Kanzow of the U.K.'s National Oceanography Center, Southampton, led an international effort that both sank and monitored the moorings as well as analyzed the data.

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the University of Maryland and lead author.

New research led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanographer Bo Qiu has determined from observational data the length scale at which using sea level height no longer offers a reliable calculation of circulation.

«This project was a cohesive dynamic of three scientists from different research backgrounds coming together to investigate a fascinating observation,» says Hartwell, the paper's lead author and an oceanographer affiliated with the University of Akron and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

These days, the oceanographer is sticking closer to Earth, as President Barack Obama's choice to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

In a paper published January 25 in Science Advances, a team led by WHOI oceanographers Viviane Menezes and Alison Macdonald report that Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) has freshened at a surprising rate between 2007 and 2016 — a shift that could alter ocean circulation and ultimately contribute to rising sea levels.

Meng Zhou, a University of Massachusetts, Boston, oceanographer, peered at a screen displaying data from the ship's acoustic gear, then summoned the expedition's two lead researchers, marine scientists Douglas Nowacek and Ari Friedlaender of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to have a look.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«We're showing the shortcomings of climate models,» says Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who leads the $ 35 million, seven - nation project known as the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).

Research in 2008 led by oceanographer Natalia Shakhova, now at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, estimated the thawing shelf could release a 50 - gigaton pulse of methane from hydrates over 10 years — about 8 percent of the methane stored in the shelf's sediments.

«This region off the western Antarctic Peninsula has been a known breeding area for Adélie penguins for thousands of years,» said Kim Bernard, a biological oceanographer at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

The oceanographer Dr. Marilena Oltmanns is lead author of the current study.

«This study is the first to show the value of using ocean salinity measurements to forecast the intensity of tropical cyclones,» said team lead Dr. Karthik Balaguru, an oceanographer at PNNL's Marine Sciences Laboratory.

It's not clear if they are able to sync up with the earlier blooms and avoid disruptions to critical life stages, such as egg hatching and larvae development, according to lead study author Mati Kahru, a research oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

These sorts of problems have led Charles Moore, an oceanographer and racing boat captain who played a significant role in discovering and publicizing the great Pacific Garbage Patch, to argue that plastic pollution has become a more urgent problem for ocean life than climate change.

In brief, evenly paced text, which includes a few direct quotes, this picture - book introduction to Jacques Cousteau begins with depictions of the scientist as a young boy, tinkering with cameras and swimming in the ocean to recover from chronic illness — experiences that led to the famed oceanographer's lifelong fascination with the sea, filmmaking, and invention.

In the early 1900s, the islands were used as a gunnery and bombing range by the Mexican government, but when oceanographer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau came across them in the 1960s, he began a campaign to have their unique and pristine ecosystem protected — a campaign that ultimately led to the creation of the Marieta Islands National park in 2005, eight years after his death.

In November 17, 2009, Mexican government changed the island name from historical name «Isla Cerralvo» to «Isla Jacques Cousteau» [1] in honor of French oceanographer Jacques - Yves Cousteau (1910 — 1997) who had led many expeditions in this area.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

The expansion of open water was «good for mapping, sad for the Arctic,» said Larry Mayer, the University of New Hampshire oceanographer who led the project.

«The effect is huge in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone, but after about two weeks the effect gets smaller,» said lead author Jinlun Zhang, an oceanographer in the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory.

The jet stream off the East Coast of the United States controls an important climate pattern in the Atlantic... «The North Atlantic Oscillation is really driving these changes in ocean circulation,» said Gerald McCarthy, lead study author and an oceanographer at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom....

«Global Warming Increases Wind Shear, Reduces Hurricanes, Climate Model Shows» «Wind shear is one of the dominant controls to hurricane activity, and the models project substantial increases in the Atlantic,» said Gabriel Vecchi, lead author of the paper and a research oceanographer at GFDL.

Military leaders are scientists and scholars: General H.R. McMaster's PhD thesis Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam is a sterling example of historical scholarship, and in the scientific sphere, US Navy researchers publish copiously on climate - change (the US Navy Chief Oceanographer David Titley's lecture I Was Formerly a Climate Skeptic is a particularly accessible presentation).

«Our simulations suggest that the tides are, at the moment, abnormally large,» said oceanographer Mattias Green from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences in Menai Bridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

«Adélie penguins need lots of krill,» said lead author Martin Montes - Hugo, an oceanographer at Rutgers University.

According to Andreas Oschlies, the study's lead author and an oceanographer at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, the problem resides with decomposing bacteria.