Sentences with phrase «new polar research»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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The new research, published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, explains that this atmospheric loss is driven by a polar wind powered by an interaction between sunlight, the solar magnetic field and the molecules present in the upper atmresearch, published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, explains that this atmospheric loss is driven by a polar wind powered by an interaction between sunlight, the solar magnetic field and the molecules present in the upper atmResearch Letters, explains that this atmospheric loss is driven by a polar wind powered by an interaction between sunlight, the solar magnetic field and the molecules present in the upper atmosphere.

Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.

«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.

► 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.

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

«A lot of research has shown that intrusions of warm water are responsible for melting ice along the polar coastlines and that these intrusions are steered by the shape of the seafloor,» said Jamin Greenbaum, an oceanography and geology expert at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the new study, in an email.

Steven Cavallo is new to the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, fresh from a postdoc in polar weather at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

The paper draws a convincing connection between the intensification of the Amundsen Sea low - pressure system and increasing snow accumulation, said David Bromwich, a polar weather and climate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the new paper.

«Future Boaty missions and the new RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel will ensure the UK continues to punch above its weight and lead the way in polar science, engineering and technology as part of our Industrial Strategy.»

Tiny creatures on polar seabeds may be uniquely positioned to increase this service, and we are set to explore this new and exciting area of research to understand the role they have in slowing global climate change.

New research shows that the mythical - looking marine mammals that thrive in polar regions are experiencing symptoms of chronic stress, likely because of how climate change is affecting their habitats.

In recent months, new research, in part inspired by last winter's «polar vortex» excursion southward into the eastern United States, and the White House - spurred speculation that it was caused by anthropogenic climate change, has hit the scientific press.

This multi-member research team used a new data set (mostly Scandinavian brown bears and Greenland polar bears, for a change) to add not much of anything new on the evolutionary insight front except yet another estimate of when polar bears came to be.1

As if polar bears don't have enough problems, not only are they suffering due to climate change - related sea ice loss, but now new research indicates that pollution is giving them brain damage.

The President has directed NASA to accelerate the development of new satellites that the National Research Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climateResearch Council recommended as Earth science priorities, in addition to flying several research satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climateresearch satellites currently in development, conducting a campaign to monitor changes in polar ice sheets, and pursuing enhancements to climate models.

From the midst of the polar night to early summer (January to June 2015), the N - ICE2015 crew allowed the Arctic waters to freeze around the Norwegian Polar Institute's research vessel Lance to help provide this new knowledge.

In contrast, when the same magazine, in the same month, reported on Harvard scientist Willie Soon's paper in the journal Ecological Complexity, which challenged received wisdom that climate change is imperilling polar bears, the scientific argument was ignored in favour of speculation about Soon's alleged links to the oil industry, and that the research was part of an orchestrated campaign to undermine the environmental movement's use of the polar bear as an icon (New Scientist 1.7.2007).

Many do care, however, including, as we have seen, New Scientist, who chose to make Willie Soon's alleged links to the oil industry the focal point of its coverage of his polar bear research last year.

Fortunately, a new study by David Legates, director of the University of Delaware's Center for Climatic Research, throws cold water on the claim global warming threatens polar bears survival.

New research suggests that sea temperatures of around 25C (77F) and a lack of permanent polar ice sheets fuelled an explosion of species diversity that eventually led to the human race.

In the late 1800's twelve countries participated in the first International Polar Year expedition, establishing new research stations and conducting extensive studies of oceanography, sea ice, and biology of the polar regions.