Sentences with phrase «ocean drilling expeditions»

Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.

It is a long time since a scientific ocean drilling expedition sailed from a UK port.

«International ocean drilling expedition to understand causes of the Indian Ocean 2004 earthquake and tsunami.»

«This ocean drilling expedition will for the first time drill scientific boreholes within the sediments entering this subduction zone, including the layer of sediment that eventually develops into the earthquake - generating fault,» Professor Henstock explained.

A new ocean drilling expedition will try to settle the question by drilling into crust where high temperatures are found unusually close to the sea floor, bringing life's thermal limit within reach.

Farrell helped organized and conduct the first successful international scientific ocean drilling expedition to the high Arctic in 2004.

Not exact matches

Scientists and oil prospectors have drilled the crater in the past, but the International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364 was the first to explore Chicxulub's central peak ring.

We present observations of the structure and composition of the shallow source fault of the 2011 Tohoku - Oki earthquake and tsunami from boreholes drilled by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 and 343T.

The Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 343 and 343T) installed a borehole temperature observatory 16 months after the March 2011 moment magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake across the fault where slip was ~ 50 meters near the trench.

The JFAST expedition drilled across the Tohoku fault in 2012 and installed a temperature observatory in one of three boreholes nearly 7 kilometers below the ocean surface.

A research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had happened.

Now, a drilling expedition under way in the Indian Ocean hopes to uncover the secrets of large underwater earthquakes that can trigger such tsunamis.

In 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate change.

No word on any rescheduling of the expedition, which was sponsored by the international Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

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.

The two - month expedition was the first ocean - floor drilling examination of the lost continent Zealandia (Credit: IODP)

The two - month expedition was the first ocean - floor drilling examination of the lost continent Zealandia

James Kirkpatrick, a postdoctoral researcher from UC Santa Cruz, is among the scientists on board and posted a report on the web site of the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), Expedition 343 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

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.

Dr Larry Peterson, reporting from Expedition 346 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), on «Why we're here».

It hosts one of the shallowest offshore groundwater reservoirs globally, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 317 collected a wealth of borehole data in this region in 2009 and 2010 [Post et al., 2013].

The researchers first matched this fossil record secured by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition in the western tropical Pacific to existing records from bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice cores that stretch back 800,000 years, which preserve a precise record of past atmospheric composition.