Sentences with phrase «ocean scientist at»

«It doesn't follow that it's relevant to today,» says George Philander, an ocean scientist at Princeton University, who points out that today's ocean currents are very different from those of the Eocene.

El Nino's mass of warm water puts a lid on the normal currents of cold, deep water that typically rise to the surface along the equator and off the coast of Chile and Peru, said Stephanie Uz, ocean scientist at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

A press release on the Planktos site, under the heading «New Era of Ocean Stewardship Unveiled by Planktos Foundation,» touts «the work of the team of dedicated ocean scientists at The Planktos Foundation,» but I didn't get to meet any scientists.

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

The Slocum Electric Glider, a small underwater ocean drone made by Teledyne Marine, looks like a friendly missile and collects data for scientists at institutions like Rutgers University.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

Last week the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba.

, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR. SCIENTIST.

Did you know that in 2014, over two years ago, scientists estimated CONSERVATIVELY that there were at least 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans.

He added that scientists need to monitor carbon storage and possible temperature increases in oceans at depths greater than 2 kilometers in addition to adding biogeochemical sensing capacity.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and colleagues have now mapped Enceladus's gravity and shown that it has a crescent - shaped ocean, holding about as much water as Lake Superior in North America.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.

«Volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere absorb infrared radiation, thereby heating up the stratosphere, and changing the wind conditions subsequently,» said Dr. Matthew Toohey, atmospheric scientist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

Yet in recent decades, anthropogenic ocean noise levels have risen markedly — doubling every decade for the past 50 years, according to research by scientists at Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab.

asks Peter Herring, a marine scientist at the Southampton Oceanography Centre in Britain and author of The Biology of the Deep Ocean.

The latest results come at a time when scientists are already reconsidering what was happening to ocean oxygen levels during this crucial period.

At the time, scientists already had developed remotely operated vehicles that could roam the seafloor, and placed instruments on the ocean's bottom that could record uninterrupted measurements for years.

Led by Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist and marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the team found that a small fraction of contaminated seafloor sediments off Fukushima are moved offshore by typhoons that resuspend radioactive particles in the water, which then travel laterally with southeasterly currents into the Pacific Ocean.

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scOcean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's oceans through the end of the 21st century.

To take a closer look at these processes, a team led by scientists from Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory installed an array of seismometers on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the center of the Pacific Plate.

Dione's ocean is about 100 kilometers below the surface and roughly 65 kilometers deep, Mikael Beuthe, a planetary scientist at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels, and colleagues report.

Scientists define them as periods when the sea surface in a given area of the ocean gets unusually warm for at least five days in a row.

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ONLINE See photographs of scientists doing the glacier and ocean fieldwork described in this article at ScientificAmerican.com/jul2012 / antarctica

In the report, an international team of climate scientists warns policy - makers that levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are at the extreme end of predictions made only in 2007, and that natural CO2 sinks such as oceans are becoming saturated.

Andrew Rosenberg, a scientist who led one of the report's chapters on oceans and directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to oceans.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

«If we're right, oceans in the outer solar system are common, and other objects of similar size to Pluto there probably also have subsurface oceans,» says Francis Nimmo, a lead author of one of the studies and planetary scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In the new study, co-author Katrina Virts, an atmospheric scientist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was analyzing data from the World Wide Lightning Location Network, a network of sensors that locates lightning strokes all over the globe, when she noticed a nearly straight line of lightning strokes across the Indian Ocean.

This is according to emergency ocean model simulations run by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton to assess the potential impact of local ocean circulation on the spread of pollutants.

Steinman and his team's approach is «novel for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both oceans over many decades.

In April 2008, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced that while the La Niña was weakening, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-- a larger - scale, slower - cycling ocean pattern — had shifted to its cool phase.

SeaWiFS data show that photosynthesizing organisms have declined in certain ocean gyres (large - scale surface current patterns), said Jim Yoder, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in a NASA article commemorating the end of SeaWiFS's mission.

Eelco Rohling, an ocean and climate scientist at the University of Southampton in England, has studied the paleoclimate record going back 50 million years.

In one study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2007, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, estimated the mass redistribution resulting from ocean warming would shorten the day by 120 microseconds, or nearly one tenth of a millisecond, over the next two centuries.

In a presentation at a recent ocean acidification conference, Tatters reported that the more CO2 and the less silicate, the higher the diatom's toxin production — more than doubling at the level of dissolved CO2 scientists expect the oceans to reach by 2100.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute sent an aquatic robot on a test run deep below the Pacific Ocean this summer

Scientists have found that about half of the organisms at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the ocean for tens of millions of years.

Indeed, scientists at Scripps recently suggested that 1,800 - year cycles of ocean tides could drive a natural rise in global temperatures.

The ocean conveyor system, Rutgers scientists believe, changed at the same time as a major expansion in the volume of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere as well as a substantial fall in sea levels.

Rising global temperatures portend shifts in all these ocean currents, potentially with drastic consequences, says Albert Gabric, an environmental scientist at Griffith University in Brisbane.

Lead scientist Jeffrey Hawkes, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden, directed an experiment in which the researchers heated water in a laboratory to 380 degrees Celsius (716 degrees Fahrenheit) in a scientific pressure cooker to mimic the effect of ocean water passing through hydrothermal vents.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

At least, nuclear, upper atmospheric, and ocean sciences connote certain fields of training and the sorts of things that interest scientists making careers of those fields.

At the western edge of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of meters below the surface, scientists have discovered a remarkable new creature they have dubbed the «squidworm.»

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).