Sentences with phrase «ocean engineering at»

Jens Figlus, assistant professor of ocean engineering at Texas A&M - Galveston, says the question of how much beach erosion occurred may be hard to answer because erosion always goes hand - in - hand with deposition somewhere else.

«Unfortunately, the phosphorus in human waste is only about 10 percent» of mined phosphate rock, explains David A. Vaccari, director of civil, environmental and ocean engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

«It's no longer just a sailing competition «says Jerome Milgram, professor of ocean engineering at the Massachusetts Instuitute of Technology and designer of four out of the five US yachts which originally entered.»

One of those scientists is Philip Orton, an ocean engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 people, in the New York City metropolitan area, that Sandy swamped under eight feet of salt water.

An ocean engineer at the University of Rhode Island has found that a massive underwater landslide, combined with the 9.0 earthquake, was responsible for triggering the deadly tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011.

Not exact matches

John Dabiri, a professor of civil and environmental and mechanical engineering at Stanford, says the ocean surface is relatively poorly sampled and there is a need for low - cost ways to collect data.

They focused on the period starting June 3, 2010, when the riser pipe was cut at the wellhead by engineers, until July 15, 2010 — a timespan when a large number of scientific observations were collected nearby in the air and ocean.

A study released last month in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres used three different models to run the same SSCE scenario in which sea - salt engineering was used in the low - latitude oceans to keep top - of - atmosphere radiative forcing at the 2020 level for 50 years and was then abruptly turned off for 20 years.

In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

That's partly because the warming of the oceans is not uniform, says R. Steven Nerem, a professor in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Engineers at Ocean Power Delivery in Edinburgh, Scotland, can point to proof bobbing just off the stormy shores of Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Newton, who formulated the universal law of gravity and used it to explain a wealth of phenomena, including the orbits of planets, the tides of the ocean, and the flattening of Earth at its poles, did not need to know the value of G. Nor, for that matter, do NASA engineers who plot the paths of space probes with breathtaking precision.

«For ocean fish and people eating them, it may take decades to see the benefits,» said Noelle Selin, an engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The path of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cut through Lake Cocibolca (aka Lake Nicaragua), Central America's main freshwater reservoir and the largest tropical freshwater lake of the Americas; this plan will force the relocation of indigenous populations and impact a fragile ecosystem, including species at risk of extinction, according to Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and other members of the consortium.

Expanding on these pioneering expeditions, scientists and engineers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have built a new efficient, multi-purpose «hybrid» vehicle that can explore and operate in the crushing pressures of the greatest ocean depths.

Although the new iceberg isn't as colossal as its 2010 predecessor, its birth has moved the front end of the massive glacier farther inland than it has been in 150 years, Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware, said in a statement.

Jenna Jambeck, an assistant professor of environmental engineering at the University of Georgia and lead author of the study, said the amount of plastic that entered the oceans in the year measured, 2010, might be as little as 4.8 million metric tons or as much as 12.7 million.

Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.

In sum, collaboration between the marine operations group, engineers, and scientists at MBARI has advanced methods to explore the ocean and understand the consequences of ocean change for marine organisms and ecosystems.

Placing detectors at the bottom of ocean will present a different set of challenge for the engineers.

Lim Boniface, chief engineer, Banyan Tree Seychelles speaks to Breaking Travel News at the World Travel Awards Africa & Indian Ocean Gala Ceremony 2015, hosted by Kempinski Seychelles Resort.

Students may choose from all courses available at The Cooper Union and may work in such interdisciplinary areas as environmental and energy resources engineering, systems and computer engineering, bioengineering and ocean and aerospace engineering.

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But this is a charged issue for many environmentalists and some scientists (including Jane Lubchenco, the new under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere) who oppose such interventions with nature because they could produce unintended harms, falsely imply that we can engineer our way out of any problem or blunt efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse gases at the source.

As Hal Doiron, a NASA thermal engineer, bluntly puts it: «When I look at the ocean I see one of the largest heat - sinks in the solar system.

«Ocean dynamics are directly connected to global climate through interactions with the atmosphere,» says John Dabiri, professor of civil and environmental engineering and of mechanical engineering at Stanford University and senior author of the paper in Nature.

«While I am happy to see profit - driven startups drive innovation, I think tying ocean fertilization to carbon credits was a sterling example of how not to govern climate engineering, and I am therefore concerned to see a closely linked organization at the center of a meeting on governance.

Scientists and engineers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with much support from American tax - payers keep up many buoys that float with the ice, measure the oceans below, and send data back via satellites overhead to be posted for all to see on the internet.

Evidence for changes in the climate system abounds, from the top of the atmosphere to the depths of the oceans (Figure 2.1).1 Scientists and engineers from around the world have compiled this evidence using satellites, weather balloons, thermometers at surface stations, and many other types of observing systems that monitor the Earth's weather and climate.

It is interesting to me that the remediation approaches currently being considered for climate change can be classified into two categories: 1) Geoengineering — approaches ranging from fertilizing the oceans to detonation of many nukes 2) Econo - engineering (a term I just coined)-- which looks at policy / fiscal changes ranging from cap and trade, carbon taxes, etc. to forcing everybody to live like the Amish.

The highly toxic short term engineered cool - downs come at the cost of an even worse overall planetary warming, this includes the Earth's oceans.

He specifically referred to the lack of preparedness in low - lying Miami, which was hit by Hurricane Irma and how engineers were trying to raise streets and buildings in a King Canute - like futile gesture to keep the ocean at bay.