Sentences with phrase «multi-governmental research ships»

McMurdo was once serviced by U.S. icebreakers, but the country's fleet has dwindled to just one operational vessel, the research ship Healy.

This the first time a UK research ship will be used for scientific ocean drilling.

I'm taking part in a 40 - day scientific cruise run by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) aboard their purpose - built research ship the RRS James Clark Ross.

Research ships are generally alcohol free or alcohol limited.

Researchers trying to access Antarctica hitch rides on a variety of NSF - funded vessels, including the Nathaniel B. Palmer research ship, seen here in the background.

NoMelt's ocean bottom seismometer array, with the assistance of Lamont's seismic research ship the Marcus G. Langseth, recorded data from earthquakes and other seismic sources from the middle of the plate over the span of a year.

As of October, the southern edge of the berg was about 25 to 30 kilometers from the shelf, offering a research ship some wiggle room to examine the seafloor, Linse says.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

2003 Another research ship, the Russian Akademik Mstislav Keldysh visits the Titanic to take more pictures.

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.

A further advantage of leaving Faraday is that the BAS's research ship will no longer have to supply the station, leaving it free to carry out more research in deep waters.

By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.

NSF would retain current funding levels for its six research directorates, but Culberson's panel rejected its $ 105 million request to start building the first two of three new research ships.

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.

According to Julian Paren of the British Antarctic Survey, submersibles like the adapted torpedo have an important part to play in ice research because it is virtually impossible for research ships to go near pack ice, especially in winter.

The torpedo is being taken to Antarctica on board Australia's high - technology research ship Aurora Australis (Technology, 27 October 1990) which is due to reach the pack ice next week at a latitude of about 65 degrees South.

For its current missions the U.S. National Science Foundation charters private research ships such as the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which can crunch through three feet of ice at three nautical miles per hour.

The cores from one of the sites will be analyzed at Venice and Grenoble; those from the remaining two will be transported by a research ship equipped with advanced freezing systems — and then by tracked vehicles to the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica in 2020.

To study the plume, scientists have been lowering instruments from research ships to take fluorescence measurements of the water at different depths and to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen, among other things.

► Science usually doesn't cover announcements of fancy new cruise ships — unless it's a $ 340 million polar research ship, like the one announced last Friday by U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

They will use one of the Autosub Long Range class of unmanned submersibles, the latest type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the NOC, now known as Boaty McBoatface, following last year's campaign by the Natural Environment Research Council to name the UK's new polar research ship.

Back on the research ship, they put the worms into pressurized cylindrical aquariums designed by Childress.

«A research ship moves about the speed of a 10 - speed bicycle,» said Scott Doney, director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. «Think about the size of the ocean.

The DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition will travel to the Southern Ocean aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross, departing Punta Arenas in Chile on Friday 17 March.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

The Russians will use the world's largest research ship, the Akademik Keldysh, which carries two manned submersibles.

But by the time the large research ship arrived at the scene, all biologists could find was a slick of oil from the vanished victim.

Two years ago, Shana Goffredi raced to the control room of the R / V Western Flyer, a 117 - foot - long research ship in the Gulf of California.

A $ 285 million U.K. research ship could sail under the name Boaty McBoatface if officials heed the results of an online naming poll, BBC reports.

Even in the absence of oil and gas exploration, the Arctic's rapidly intensifying traffic — whether from barges, research ships, oil tankers, or passenger cruises — makes oil spills increasingly likely.

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.

While the ship will be named after famous naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, the popular suggestion of the contest — Boaty McBoatface — lives on in the form of an unmanned submersible that will support the research ship to explore parts of the polar regions inaccessible to humans.

Jeanine Ash, a new Rice postdoctoral researcher and recipient of a Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C - DEBI) fellowship, is the focus of a video about her duties as a member of the science party on the JOIDES Resolution, a research ship and part of the National Science Foundation - supported International Ocean Discovery Program.

In the early morning hours from his spot on a research ship in the Pacific Ocean, he was seeing bottlenose dolphins.

The theory, unproven by at least a half dozen experiments done by real scientists aboard multi-governmental research ships, was that the algae bloom would sink to the bottom with it's carbon.

A: Our permanent base is aboard the RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer, a NSF science research ship.

To collect their data, Andreassen and her team spent weeks on a research ship on the stormy Barents Sea.

I have been privileged to explore the world's deepest oceans alongside amazing teams of researchers, and with this new polar research ship they will be able to go further and discover more than ever before.

It will be the first UK polar research ship with a helipad and a number of on - board laboratories.

It's a dignified named worthy of research ship... but it's no Boaty McBoatface.

ICYMI, Boaty McBoatface was selected as the name of a new polar research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

By welcoming public input into the Boaty McBoatface research ship project project, the public became part of the project.

ICYMI, Boaty McBoatface was selected as the name of a new polar research ship commissioned by the UK's Natural Environment Research Council -LRB-

Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson released a statement about the decision, saying: «The public provided some truly inspirational and creative names, and while it was a difficult decision I'm delighted that our state - of - the - art polar research ship will be named after one of the nation's most cherished broadcasters and natural scientists.»

When the UK's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) innocently queried the internet in search of a name for their new polar research ship, the web responded gleefully, and NERC got more of a response than they bargained for.

The red and white icebreakers used include the Royal Research Ship Ernest Shackleton and the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross.The British Antarctic Survey also uses the Royal Navy's ship, HMS Protector.

This was observed in an experiment carried out in 2004, aboard the New Zealand research ship Tangaroa.

To get that type of information, the team used data on magnetic anomalies that research ships had gathered from the ocean's floor.

In the calm eye of the storm, they come across a Russian research ship floating dead on the water.

When the storm subsides, the tugboat crew — the Cuban Squeaky (Julio Oscar Mechoso), the whiner Woods (Marshall Bell), the sharp black dude Richie (Sherman Augustus), the pony - tailed Polynesian Hiko (Cliff Curtis), the hunky sailor Steve Baker (William Baldwin), the admiral's daughter navigator Kit Foster (Jamie Lee Curtis), and the crusty venal Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland)-- go aboard a deserted Russian research ship, the Vladislav Volkov, to salvage it.