Sentences with phrase «not oceanographers»

Not all oceanographers have their perspectives on the ocean shaped by experiences at sea.

The issue kind of crept up by surprise, perhaps because it has mainly been climatologists, not oceanographers and chemists, who have focused on impacts of greenhouse gases.

I'm not a scientist, I'm not an engineer, I'm not an oceanographer — I'm just a regular guy who grew up in a small fishing village and dropped out of high school.

You'll need a meteorologist, not an oceanographer for that.

I'm not an oceanographer but it would seem important to understand the physical location (s) geographically of this extra heat and if its associated with a current, when will that current return those extra joules to the surface?

I'm not an oceanographer but the figure on his site (http://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-background-articles/the-pacific-decadal-oscillation/) that shows El Nino and La Nina over the last 100 years appears to show a correlation between global temperature and a 30 year cycle of El Nino and La Nina.

Not exact matches

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

Maybe it's from a customer who claims they've ordered something that hasn't arrived but you have no record of the sale, an «oceanographer» who needs an item sent to an oil rig, or someone asking about alternative ways to pay.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

The goal isn't just to get new and improved robotics and better sensors, says Jyotika Virmani, a physical oceanographer and the XPrize lead.

The planet's oceans absorb a large measure of that CO2, but oceanographers aren't sure exactly how much.

«I think that the 40 percent global decrease that they report is provocative but not yet fully demonstrated,» says Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at Oregon State University who studies phytoplankton.

Fish and other sea life can not survive in such waters — and this expansion reduces the area where fish can thrive, says oceanographer Janet Sprintall of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who also coauthored the study.

Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at BAS says: «The waters around Antarctica are isolated, deep and very cold but they are not beyond the reach of climate change.

But oceanographers appointed to review the scheme are not convinced.

Also we don't know about the air quality issue, and we're concerned about our kids,» said Enrique Curchitser, an oceanographer visiting NCAR with wife and children this summer from Rutgers University.

«Today's reefs are as much as 5,000 years old, and they will start to fall apart within a decade or so if we don't radically change how we do business,» contends Christopher Langdon, a biological oceanographer at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

All of a sudden, we started getting a bunch of plumelike signals up here» — the oceanographer raises his hands, indicating a point high above the seafloor — «in an area where there shouldn't have been any plumes.

Oceanographers generally don't usually work in oil slicks, which might damage their equipment.

But some prominent oceanographers say they are not sure the results should be interpreted that way.

«The oil is not going to be up in the clouds and raining down on people,» says oceanographer Christopher Zappa of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

And while the snails are one of the most abundant organisms on Earth, «their role in ecosystems is generally not all that well known,» writes biological oceanographer Gareth Lawson of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts in an e-mail.

Like oceanographer Toby Tyrrell, I am not impressed by James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis in the form that he presented it: that is, that life engineers more favourable conditions on Earth (26 October, p 30).

«While hurricanes are catastrophic events, the salt marsh doesn't respond catastrophically,» says Neil Kamal Ganju, a co-author and research oceanographer with USGS in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

As oceanographer Mandy Joye of the University of Georgia put it as she watched a clearly distinct white wave make its way through the lake, «If you didn't know better, you would swear it was not underwater.»

It's impossible to know how much the animals are eating, says Kara Law, a physical oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the work.

«Based on the data that they have, even though it's circumstantial, it's a nice story,» says Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who was not involved with the study.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

«Yes, animals are eating it,» says oceanographer Peter Davison of the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma, California, who was not involved in the study.

CSIRO oceanographer John Church in Hobart, Australia, agreed that 15 new jobs will not compensate for the «loss of skills» walking out the door.

Meteorologists, oceanographers, remote - sensing specialists, and air - quality experts — not to mention a few air traffic controllers — had all gotten their first overhead view of an Asian dust storm moving across the Pacific Ocean to North America.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

«Ice shelves buffer or restrain land ice from reaching the ocean,» said Peter Bromirski, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the new study.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

«This is not a sensational «cephalopods are taking over the world's oceans» story,» says Paul Rodhouse, a biological oceanographer with the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, U.K. Further climate change could have unpredictable effects, squeezing generation times to less than a year and throwing off some species» annual mating gatherings in the process.

But the decline in the AMOC hasn't persisted long enough yet to be a cause for concern, says David Smeed, a physical oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, U.K.

Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia who also did not take part in the work, says that deep - sea currents could be the driving factor behind the extreme variations in biology.

«This will change the way we think about the ocean,» largely because the effects of such eddies weren't suspected to extend so deeply, adds Cindy Van Dover, a biological oceanographer at the Duke University Marine Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina.

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

What we don't know yet is exactly where, how often and how variable its access is,» said Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

«The study shows that both mechanisms must have been active from the height of glaciation until now,» said Robert Newton, an oceanographer at Lamont - Doherty who was not involved in the research.

The oceanographers don't seem to be impressed.

«Some feedback loop or other processes that aren't accounted for in these models — the same ones used by the IPCC for current best estimates of 21st Century warming — caused a substantial portion of the warming that occurred during the PETM (Palaeocene - Eocene thermal maximum of 55 million years ago)», oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a professor of Earth science at Rice University and study co-author said.

It's not clear if they are able to sync up with the earlier blooms and avoid disruptions to critical life stages, such as egg hatching and larvae development, according to lead study author Mati Kahru, a research oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

Dubbed «Her Deepness» by such publications as The New Yorker and The New York Times, Sylvia is not only one of the world's leading oceanographers — logging over 6,000 hours underwater — but she also holds the record for the deepest solo dive ever: 380 meters (1,250 feet) down.

But Old Barney won't hire just anyone so Jennifer will need the help of her Grandpa Jack, a famous oceanographer if she has any hope of passing the tough trial period.

David Titley, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Oceanographer of the Navy, has written perhaps the best overview of the value NASA Earth science provides to society and why more such work is needed, not less:

In a discussion over dinner, Walter Munk, at 96 one of great oceanographers of modern times, spoke not of gigatons of carbon or megawatts of electricity:

While models contain a lot of physics, they don't contain many small - scale processes that more specialised groups (of atmospheric chemists, or coastal oceanographers for instance) might worry about a lot.