Sentences with phrase «marine research ship»

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Her research concentration is in marine geophysics, where she has used a variety of remote sensing techniques from ships and space to probe the dynamics of the mantle and overlying plates far from plate boundaries on geologic time scales.

«At least a dozen species in the ocean Columbus sailed were bigger than his biggest ship,» says marine paleoecologist Jeremy Jackson of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Today, scientists returned from a 28 - day research expedition aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai exploring the deep coral reefs within Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

NSF is one of the major funders of marine research; its oceans office has spent some $ 350 million annually over the past few years, and the agency has played a major role in building costly new ships, automated seafloor observatories, and networks of instrumented buoys and floats.

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has found that human activities such as shipping are having a noticeable impact on marine species and their native habitats.

The research team ruled out places that would come into conflict with other human uses, such as high shipping zones and marine protected areas, and excluded ocean depths that exceed 200 meters, following current industry practice to keep their assessment economically realistic.

Last week, Britain's transport minister; Brian Mawhinney, said that research by the Marine Safety Agency showed that the higher the standard of stability that was required the more likely it was that ships would need transverse bulkheads.

In October Steven Miller, a researcher in the marine meteorology division of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, announced that he and his team had matched 1995 satellite data to a firsthand account from a British merchant ship, the SS Lima, and found a section of the Indian Ocean that glowed for three nights in a row.

NOAA's research ship Okeanos Explorer and its ROV Deep Discoverer (aka D2) wrapped up their latest exploration of the seafloor and marine canyons around Puerto Rico last week.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

While military sonar systems and seismic airguns used in oil / gas exploration and scientific research have received considerable attention in the overall issue of noise impacts on marine life, less intense but far more widespread and chronically - present noise sources, particularly large commercial ships, have only recently begun to be specifically considered.

April 2001: A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by and impossibility — a vessel that should have died fifty - six years before.

A research ship manned by Dirk Pitt and members of the U.S. National Underwater Marine Agency is set upon and nearly sunk by and impossibility - a vessel that should have died fifty - six years before.

It was made famous by marine explorer Jacques Cousteau on his research ship «Calypso» in 1972, and is the most well known dive site in Belize.

On April 27, 2017 the NOAA research ship Bell M. Shimada will embark with a team of scientists to explore the deep seafloor environment of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

These include conducting marine mammal research and conservation as well as providing responsible wildlife viewing experiences such as daily tours, multi-day tours, lodge - based excursions, sea kayak based adventures, cruise ship based tours and wilderness camping adventures.

The working group consisted of a diverse group of stakeholders, including representatives from the Department of Defense, the United States Coast Guard, Channel Islands National Park, NOAA NMFS, the Marine Exchange of Southern California (Mx SoCal), the shipping industry, Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District, and the tourism, research, and conservation communities.

In the film, marine biologists from the 60 - year - old Carmabi Research Institute, Secore Foundation and Waitt Institute explain why the island's geography and other factors have fortuitously preserved remarkably vibrant reefs in some spots despite decades of pollution, cruise ship traffic and coastal construction.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science of America (homage to Dodgeball is intentional)... Update: Despite protests, NSF plans to sell seismic research ship By Paul Voosen Apr. 30, 2018, 1:00 PM Marine seismologists are decrying a move by the National...

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Greenpeace brought its ship the Beluga II on an expedition of scientific research around Scotland, sampling seawater for microplastics and documenting the impact of ocean plastic on some of the UK's most precious marine life.

A marine engineer (or ship engineer), works in researching, developing, and constructing new marine vessels and their component parts.