Sentences with phrase «many polar scientists»

«It's the kind of integrated study that we absolutely need to understand how the planet works and how it's changing,» says Robin Bell, a polar scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

GLITTERING across the briny surface of newly formed sea ice, frost flowers are as bewitching to polar scientists as Homer's sirens — luring them and their instrument - laden sleds to the treacherous boundary between ice and sea.

«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.

Improving climate models The results are not entirely surprising to some polar scientists.

The changes are accelerating,» says Ronald Kwok, a polar scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

«People have been talking about the possible link between winds and Antarctic sea ice expansion before, but I think this is the first study that confirms this link through a model experiment,» commented Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Lab.

Today's polar scientist frequently marvels as she or he looks back at what these early scientist - explorers accomplished, as they laid the foundations that remain firm to this day in fields ranging across geology, meteorology, biology, glaciology, and more.

But polar scientists say there is still much to learn about what drives the behavior of Antarctic sea ice, which is quite different than its Arctic cousin.

«The International Polar Foundation is proud to welcome polar scientists who make the journey to Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, and to support their endeavours so that we may better understand the Earth and its mechanisms.»

«The International Polar Foundation is once again proud to support the work of polar scientists who make the journey to Antarctica to help us better understand the the Earth and and its mechanisms.»

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

Dr Jennifer Francis, polar scientist at Rutgers University, told us how the Arctic could be involved.

Axel Schweiger, a polar scientist at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, agrees.

It isn't just «many polar scientists» who say this, it is pretty much «the overwhelming majority of climate scientists» — especially because he threw in two more hedges «probably are being driven in part.»

Although again I challenge you to name even five polar scientists who do not think human - caused global warming is the dominant cause of «the increasing summer retreats of sea ice.»

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

But there is little closure for loved ones, and the loss of these men still reverberates through the environmental organizations that supported their work and among polar scientists whose research was aided by the data they collected.

«Every summer when the sun melts the surface the water has to go someplace, so it accumulates in these ponds,» said Jamie Morison, a polar scientist at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and principal investigator since 2000 of the North Pole Environmental Observatory.

Even with the increasing summer retreats of sea ice, which polar scientists say probably are being driven in large part by global warming caused by humans....

Unfortunately, the tough scientific work to clarify ice and sea trends and dynamics has largely been obscured online by coverage focused on an error on Greenland ice loss that many polar scientists say made it into the new edition of the Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World (that's the British Times, just to be clear).

Even with this year's extreme loss, there's still a wide range of predictions among polar scientists of how soon the northernmost ocean will be «ice free» in late summer.

Determining whether polar ice sheets are shrinking or growing, and what their contribution to changes in sea level is, has motivated polar scientists for decades.

Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more.

It is even more rare for such a study to be publicized before the peer review process is complete, said Andrew Shepherd, a polar scientist at the University of Leeds, in England.

The book's editor, respected polar scientist Paul Berkman, sees the need to re-summon the political will shown back then, so as to deal with the ultimate cross-border threat - global warming.

Nobody can be sure what will happen once the spring thaw has begun, but polar scientists are expecting the worst.

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 climb.

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.

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.

IMBIE is an international collaboration of polar scientists, providing improved estimates of the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise.

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.

«I think most polar scientists have considered water moving across the surface of Antarctica to be extremely rare.

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.

Cook explains that the darkening is the result of a melt - induced feedback that polar scientists have long documented: Upon melting and refreezing, ice crystals lose their spiky shape and grow larger and rounder, which can reduce the reflectivity of the snow by as much as 10 %.

Norwegian, Canadian, Russian, US and other polar scientists reported that, in the last four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in the Arctic ocean have warmed and permafrost is in some areas rapidly thawing, releasing methane.

Not exact matches

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In the far north, scientists recently found that polar bears were 20 percent scrawnier than they'd been just a few years before.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

Many scientists think these permanently shadowed regions, such as the floors on impact craters in the Moon's polar regions, could hold large deposits or water ice.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

New robots undergoing field tests could expand scientists» access to polar regions and improve understanding of climate change

Scientists currently can't use much of the information collected by geostationary satellites, which sit above a particular location on Earth, and polar - orbiting satellites, which swing around the planet's poles.

Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

The goal of the workshop is to identify gaps in scientists» knowledge, emerging questions in polar science and strategies for future research, Priscu said.

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.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.