Sentences with phrase «marine geophysicist»

Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet and will be updating Scientific American readers regularly.

The Hawaii research relies on a new seismic technique for detecting aligned flows of rock that has yet to be verified, says marine geophysicist Cecily Wolfe of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C.. However, the Iceland study is «very clear and compelling,» she says, and consistent with a deep mantle origin for the plume.

In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

STRAIGHT - TALKING James Cook University marine geophysicist, Professor Peter Ridd has been an outspoken critic of the relentless tide of fear - mongering, misinformation and anti-science hysteria coming from climate change activists concerning the health of the Great Barrier Reef.

Editor's note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet.

But what wows Lin, a marine geophysicist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, is the zany topography.

Donald Forsyth, a marine geophysicist at Brown University who was not involved in the new study, said, «These new results will force reconsideration of prevailing models of flow in the oceanic mantle.»

That should let them «test various hypotheses about why the Challenger Deep behaves so strangely,» says expedition chief scientist Sun Jinlong, a marine geophysicist at the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou, China.

«At some point, if that spreading and rifting continues, then that area will be flooded,» says Ken Macdonald, a marine geophysicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who was not involved with the study.

According to marine geophysicist Robin Bell of Columbia University's Earth Institute, sea levels rise by about 1/16» for every 150 cubic miles of ice that melts off one of the poles.

Editor's Note: Marine geophysicist Robin Bell is leading an expedition to Antarctica to explore a mysterious mountain range beneath the ice sheet.

Max's curiosity about hydrates began during the 1980s, when he worked as a marine geophysicist for the Naval Research Laboratory.

It probably started on the middle of the slope, in a layer of weak, porous sediment, says Jürgen Mienert, a marine geophysicist at the University of Tromsø in Norway.

«We have more material leaving than coming in, because of this change in climate,» says Sean Gulick, a marine geophysicist at the University of Texas (UT), Austin, who led the study.

For more than 40 years, scientists have suggested the Réunion plume had driven this motion of India «and that mantle plumes in general were an important driver of tectonic plates,» said researcher Steven Cande, a marine geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. «But there has never been adequate data to show that Réunion really contributed to India's fast motion, or that plumes in general drive plates.»

Professor Peter Ridd might be a new name to some, but the marine geophysicist has a long association with groups pushing denial of the well - established links between human activity and dangerous climate change.

But when Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, recently learned that two - thirds of the seismometers she placed on the floor of the Pacific Ocean were trapped more than 8,000 feet (2500 meters) underwater, it turned out to be an extremely good sign.