Sentences with phrase «leading polar scientists»

As one of the world's leading polar scientists with more than 47 years» experience of visiting and measuring ice at the poles, he provided a lucid and sobering explanation of the impact of global warming on the poles, and the way in which the disappearance of polar ice is itself hastening global warming, and contributing to extreme weather events such as the March blizzards preventing some people attending the conference.

NERC and NSF are jointly funding eight large - scale projects that will bring together leading polar scientists in the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC), the largest joint project undertaken by the two nations in Antarctica for more than 70 years.

Each month, SciencePoles publish interviews with leading polar scientists or institutes about their groundbreaking researche and areas of focus.

Not exact matches

Scientists now believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.

«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.

«This research would not have been possible without support from NASA,» said Kristin Laidre, lead author of the new study and a polar scientist with University of Washington in Seattle.

«These species are not only icons of climate change, but they are indicators of ecosystem health, and key resources for humans,» said lead author Kristin Laidre, a polar scientist with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.

The precarious state of those mammals is underscored in a multinational study led by a University of Washington scientist, published this week in Conservation Biology, assessing the status of all circumpolar species and subpopulations of Arctic marine mammals, including seals, whales and polar bears.

While scientists generally agree that a warming climate will lead to extreme weather conditions like drought and stronger, more frequent storms, they are unable to say that climate change definitively caused, say, the polar vortex, or California's current drought.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

A team of scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey found that polar bears, increasingly forced on shore due to sea ice loss, may be eating terrestrial foods including berries, birds and eggs, but any nutritional gains are limited to a few individuals and likely can not compensate for lost opportunities to consume their traditional, lipid - rich prey — ice seals.

«Although some polar bears may eat terrestrial foods, there is no evidence the behavior is widespread,» said Dr. Karyn Rode, lead author of the study and scientist with the USGS.

I spoke with Luke Trusel, a polar scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and lead author of the study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature Geosciences.

Melting sea ice has led to a spike in polar bear sightings in the town of Churchill, Manitoba, while scientists say the starving bears are resorting to risky and atypical behaviour, such as cannibalism and wandering far inland in search of food.

Using maps and data collected, citizen scientist students can explore the work of many leading scientists as they investigate why the numbers of frogs, polar bears, or penguins are decreasing as their special habitats are effected by rising temperatures.

And over at the online outlet Mashable (11 April 2018: «Climate scientists fight false polar bear narrative pushed by bloggers»), reporter Mark Kaufman quoted Jeff Harvey, lead author of the BioScience paper on the issue, although Harvey is hardly an authority:

But the companion study, led by the polar scientist Robin Bell of the Lamont - Doherty Observatory suggests that drainage on the Nansen Ice Shelf might help to keep the ice intact, perhaps by draining away the meltwater in the dramatic waterfall the scientists had identified.

Is it really a coincidence that such strong pressure is being applied to these scientists, in the months leading up to this critical polar bear ruling?

That has led many scientists to become worried about the possibility that Arctic ice - loss would severely reduce polar bear numbers.