Sentences with phrase «many ocean scientists»

«If this doesn't succeed,» he says, «the next time ocean scientists want to tackle something big, we won't get the chance.»

Ocean scientist Paul Harrison of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, who was not involved in the research, agrees.

The promise of new ships has been a long - cherished hope for many ocean scientists.

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

Ocean scientists debate over the efficacy of MPAs when it comes to migratory species, like hammerheads, with a range too large to ever protect in full.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Many of the projects were led by Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists, and Kelly says that their fate hinges on «what work DFO allows them to do this summer.»

During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.

With orbiting satellites that measure ocean color all beyond their shelf life, glum ocean scientists were left to hope that VIIRS could be fixed by 2013, in time for the launch of the next craft in the multi-satellite NPOESS series.

The priority - setting effort comes as U.S. ocean scientists voice increasing concerns about the future of their field, which is struggling to sustain a robust research fleet and adapt to stagnating funding.

Ocean scientist James McCarthy of Harvard University discussed recent evidence from the oceans that climate change is occurring, including rising water temperatures.

«It doesn't follow that it's relevant to today,» says George Philander, an ocean scientist at Princeton University, who points out that today's ocean currents are very different from those of the Eocene.

Ship by ship, voyage by voyage, ocean scientists will taste the pleasure that in January 2007 welcomed Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, as he sat on the Polarstern watching video images of the seafloor transmitted by a robot dangling from the ship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen before.

Ocean scientists got their first taste of how gliders could help with their research last summer, following BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Ocean scientists plan to maintain their observations over months and years to study how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve and interact.

The liquid ocean scientists are so interested in is likely a result of tidal forces working on the moon as it whips around Jupiter.

Both are climate and ocean scientists with expertise in climate communication.

I am a publishing, grant getting ocean scientist [hence the handle] and have strong feelings about AGW.

That's why one of the company's atmospheric and ocean scientists, Megan E. Linkin (the photo is from when she was interviewed for The Times in 2010), just re-ran one of the region's most awesome disasters — the great Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane of 1821, but with today's heavily developed metropolitan region in harm's way.

The paper was was written by 17 prominent climate, ice and ocean scientists, led by James E. Hansen, the pioneering climatologist who since 2007 has argued that most of his peers have been too reticent in their projections of the possible pace of sea - level rise in a warming world.

11:30 p.m. Updated Ocean scientists are growing more critical of the Obama administration by the day over the failure to glean more information about the seafloor leaks either from BP or federal research vessels and equipment.

I asked a range of climate and ocean scientists to weigh in on the paper.

Sarah Myhre is a climate and ocean scientist with expertise in marine paleoecological responses to past events of climate warming.

[9] Recent warming observations of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean is of concern to ocean scientists because bottom water changes will effect currents, nutrients, and biota elsewhere.

But if they continue to see mixing at the scales the lab work suggests, the findings could change the way ocean scientists think about the role of animals in influencing their watery environment — and potentially our climate on land.

On RC people talk as though this is so obvious it requires no broader explanation, which is probably true for ocean scientists.

What are the natural behaviours and abilities of seals that make them useful to ocean scientists?

Ocean scientists would like to sustain their observations over months and years to see how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve.

Last week the science journal Nature published a study on iron seeding authored by forty - seven ocean scientists.

If we assume that the 20,000 AGU members who claim to be atmospheric scientists, ocean scientists, or hydrologists represent the pool of potential experts in climate science in the U.S., then approximately 10 % of all climate scientists were directly involved in creating the over 1000 page report.

And again, given that AGU membership is not required to be a practicing ocean scientists, this number is inflated.

More thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the world's infrastructure threatened by climate change, an Australian leading ocean scientist said on Sunday

A press release on the Planktos site, under the heading «New Era of Ocean Stewardship Unveiled by Planktos Foundation,» touts «the work of the team of dedicated ocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientists.

How it was made: Ocean scientist Norman Kuring of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center pieced together this composite based on 15 satellite passes made by VIIRS / Suomi NPP on May 26, 2012.

The question of century - scale shifts, now a main topic in climatology, came to rest on the desks of ocean scientists.

The panel was lots of fun & the other panelists — including USA Today's excellent science reporter Dan Vergano, ocean scientist and marine sexologist Ellen Prager, and Molly Bentley of the Big Picture Science show — gave great talks & were really interesting to talk to.

«This web - site is a follow - up of the first symposium and is meant to provide a central source of information for ocean scientists on research activities in this area.»

Dr. Mojib Latif, a prize - winning climate and ocean scientist from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, wrote a paper last year positing that cyclical shifts in the oceans were aligning in a way that could keep the next decade or so relatively cool, even as the heat - trapping gases linked to global warming continue to increase.

«My initial fear was that this oil was going to get caught up in the loop current and moved right to the pristine beaches of Cuba and the Florida Keys, then up the coast as far north as North Carolina,» says Rader, the chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

In the fifth paragraph, a «few years» became «the next decade or so,» according to Mojib Latif, a German «prize - winning climate and ocean scientist» who campaigns constantly to promote policies combating global warming.

After nearly two centuries of observing plankton blooms, mariners and ocean scientists have yet to report any persisting «negative impacts» other than transient drops in other local nutrients (like nitrogen and phosphorous), which naturally time limit these bloom durations to 60 ~ 90 days.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism Two of the world's premiere ocean scientists from Harvard and MIT have addressed the data limitations that currently prevent the oceanographic community from resolving the differences among various...

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

By flying a robot through watery plumes, scientists might detect molecules that support life's existence in a subsurface ocean.

Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are a vital part of the ocean ecosystem and a popular draw for tourists.

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

The Slocum Electric Glider, a small underwater ocean drone made by Teledyne Marine, looks like a friendly missile and collects data for scientists at institutions like Rutgers University.

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

So although scientists have an estimate of the plane's flight path via its satellite data, they still have to trace any remains they find using the data they have on ocean currents and wind.