Sentences with phrase «ocean drilling as»

It is great that this cruise departed from the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, which hosts a large scientific community that uses ocean drilling as a key tool to unravel how our planet operates and past climate and tectonic cycles.»

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Strange though nothing mentioned about off shore drilling and the pollutions that result to ocean lives deaths and extinctions and much as those fishermen!!?

As ice melts and shipping becomes easier and at some point, oil drilling in the arctic ocean will probably increase, Having a strong military will benefit Russia.

When successful, this will open a whole new avenue to investigating the ocean floor that complements traditional approaches using very large drill ships such as the JOIDES Resolution.

Humans would have to be shielded as they drilled down to Europa's mysterious ocean.

«It would be a great disservice to society if we did not learn as much as possible from the fault zone heated by this huge earthquake,» says Kiyoshi Suyehiro, president and chief executive of the management group of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

Man - made sounds such as offshore drilling, seismic testing for deep sea oil, and even the hum from that Spanish cargo ship permeate the ocean at ever - increasing levels.

It was drilled as part of the International Ocean Drilling Programme, (IODP), to determine the age of the ocean - floor sediments in the Ocean Drilling Programme, (IODP), to determine the age of the ocean - floor sediments in the ocean - floor sediments in the area.

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 drilOcean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean dDrilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilocean drillingdrilling.

Experience as a seagoing scientist, especially in scientific ocean drilling, is preferred.

Geoscientists have just completed an expedition, part of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), to a string of underwater volcanoes, or seamounts, in the Pacific Ocean known as the Louisville Seamount Trail.

As to how a freshwater turtle migrated across a salty ocean; Tarduno points to the results of drilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic Oocean; Tarduno points to the results of drilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctidrilling by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic OOcean Drilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past ArctiDrilling Program's ACEX expedition that demonstrated episodes of unusually fresh surface waters in the past Arctic OceanOcean.

Before joining OPC, Jenn spent eight years as an ocean policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she conducted technical analysis and developed policy recommendations to advance ocean conservation related to marine protected areas, fisheries, marine debris, desalination, underwater noise, oil drilling, and aquaculture.

This real - life vessel, named CHIKYU, meaning «The Earth» in Japanese, can drill in water as deep as three Mt. Fujis combined, and it continues to close in on mysteries deep inside the Earth as part of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP).

As for petroleum, while increased scarcity and demand will spur people to drive less, in smaller cars, it will also guarantee the expansion of drilling farther toward the ends of the Earth and deeper in ocean basins.

It should come as no surprise that experts in avoiding and stopping blowouts of oil and gas wells long ago saw the deep - ocean drilling frontier as particularly dangerous terrain.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling mudAs for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling mudas a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

That's why climate scientists release radiosonde balloons, mount scientific expeditions, launch satellites into orbit, drill into the ice, deploy ocean buoys, as well as make increasingly accurate surface measurements.

And as a lifelong beach lover, I have been horrified by the threats the oceans face today from climate change, sea levels rising, acidification, overfishing, drilling, seismic testing, and coastal erosion.

An exclusion from the offshore drilling program was granted to Florida on the grounds that it relies heavily on tourism as one of the nation's top ocean economies.

We use technology to identify and monitor threats to the planet's natural resources such as offshore drilling and oil spills, urban sprawl, fracking, mountaintop removal mining, and overfishing of the oceans.

It was drilled as part of the International Ocean Drilling Programme, (IODP), to determine the age of the ocean - floor sediments in the Ocean Drilling Programme, (IODP), to determine the age of the ocean - floor sediments in the ocean - floor sediments in the area.

does the 15ppm consider CO2 contributed from deforestation (which as this becomes more extensive against the growing population, the atmosphere breaks well beyond saturation point as trees can not convert CO2 fast enough to combat the production), the burning of peat, the likely disturbances and resulting CO2 emitted from deep sea drilling (i.e. decomposed life forms from the ocean bed reaching the atmosphere) the CO2 deposits from extensive farming, the population of all mammals exhaling CO2, chemical productions with CO2 bi-products and all other man related processes that give off CO2?

As a member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman Hirono has cosponsored legislation to prevent expanded offshore drilling, to clean up ocean garbage, and to protect coral reefs.

President Barack Obama is unilaterally blocking the government from issuing new offshore drilling leases in large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, which media outlets have described as «permanent.»

The Federal Government, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior (admittedly taking the White House's lead) have repeatedly used the EIA's long term forecast as a basis for granting the oil industry access to drill in America's riskiest terrain, including the Arctic and Atlantic oceans.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management greenlighted Shell's plan in May, paving the way for the oil giant to drill in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea starting as soon as July.

One way to prevent an ill - regulated drilling spree would be to ratify the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a treaty designed to manage a crowded ocean — including disputes over Arctic oil as well as international fishing and ocean pollution.

Oil drilling in areas falling within the U.S. and Canada's territorial jurisdiction of the Arctic Ocean, as well as certain areas of the Atlantic ocean, is now illOcean, as well as certain areas of the Atlantic ocean, is now illocean, is now illegal.

Notable recent matters include acting as lead counsel to offshore drilling contractor Ocean Rig in its $ 3.7 bn financial restructuring, advising CVC Capital in its $ 1.5 bn leveraged acquisition of Żabka Polska from Mid Europa Partners (the largest private equity exit in Poland) and working with InfraCapital on the purchase of # 700m of rolling stock for West Midlands Trains.