Sentences with phrase «ocean research seems»
The governments of the world, and our government in particular, seem presently much less than enthusiastic about exploring the oceans of our own planet than in exploring other planets (ocean research seems to have taken a particular hit in the last decade of Congressional budget cuts, although admittedly, all agencies have seen cutbacks).
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ Not exact matches
«It seems that we are in the middle of a base race across the Indian Ocean,» David Brewster, senior research fellow at at the Australian National University, wrote in a February note published on think tank The Lowy Institute.
It seems that somehow the virus can actually spread against ocean currents and can travel faster than pilchards can swim, says Michael Hine, a marine pathologist at the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research.
Their slow mode of life seems insufficient to support one big reproductive event, unlike other coleoid cephalopods,» says Henk - Jan Hoving, who is working for the Cluster of Excellence «Future Ocean» at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany.
It's clear there's more research to be done, but also seems fairly evident that proper procedures can lure sharks, when necessary, without raising risks to surfers and others eager to enjoy ocean waters in regions also frequented by this remarkable predator.
The measure of «climate» sensitivity by looking at only tropospheric temperature sensitivity might need to be examined a bit, especially, if turned out to be the case (as some research seems to indicate) that CO2 at 400 ppm induces a permanent La Niña state in the Pacific, while still allowing for rapid warming in other parts of the ocean and climate system.
Jelle Bijma http://www.awi.de/People/show?jbijma seems to have a sufficiently solid scientific background, even if his research interests — Ocean Warming and Acidification; Proxy Development and Innovation; The Earth System on Long Time Scales — are ones we see too much confidence about in the broader debate.
While 1.6 billion Australian dollars (just over 1.2 billion US dollars @ today's exchange rates) may seem like a lot of research money for a country that doesn't have the necessity of maintaining fleets of satellites or ocean - going research buoys, but it is a very sharp reduction from the AU$ 3 billion they were allotted for the current year.
I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»
When John Davis says, «[t] he text should be marked up with XML in such a way that it can be parsed and extracted from according to taste with appropriate software,» it seems to me that we would do to texts what the explosion of cases has done to research, viz., we would be left adrift in a sea — a vast ocean now — of stuff with no guide to what is good, let alone the best.