Sentences with phrase «ocean scientist with»

Sarah Myhre is a climate and ocean scientist with expertise in marine paleoecological responses to past events of climate warming.

Both are climate and ocean scientists with expertise in climate communication.

Not exact matches

And in many, many cases — such as with ocean temperatures, rising sea levels, or ice shelf traveling speeds — scientists have recorded the data for decades, systematically, consistently, and with precision.

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

In a move that stunned and appalled scientists around the world the Harper government laid off as many as 40 scientists associated with the legendary program working out the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Winnipeg's office.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage - based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into «integrity issues.»

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

I work with scientists, so I know the only chance we have is to keep greenhouse gases in the ground until they can be fully captured so they don't warm the atmosphere or oceans any more.

Scientists didn't want to contaminate those satellites — Titan and Enceladus — precisely because of what Cassini had revealed: They weren't barren balls, but ones with oceans, water, internal energy and nutritious chemicals.

Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

Civilian researchers have signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to revive a dormant program that uses the vessels to collect information on parts of the Arctic's ice and ocean that normally lie beyond scientists» reach

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.

Kadri says the results may help scientists connect interactions between not only surface and deep ocean waters, but also with the atmospheric forces that affect surface waves.

Gabrielle Tepp of the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey thinks that with improved monitoring, scientists can learn more about these submarine eruptions, which threaten travel and alter the ocean soundscape.

Scientists also claim that the impact of the asteroid would have filled Earth's atmosphere with sulphur trioxide, subsequently creating a gas cloud that would have caused a mass amount of sulphuric acid rain to fall in just a few days, making the surface of the ocean too acidic for upper ocean creatures to live.

These are the main conclusions of a three year mapping effort conducted by an international team of scientists affiliated with The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, six universities and an aerial sensor company.

This past July Russ George served as chief scientist on a cruise to fertilize the northeastern Pacific Ocean with iron — the latest in a long string of similar, and usually controversial, efforts he has led.

With permanent observatories under the sea, scientists could soon literally use their fingertips to tap into the ocean's secrets.

Scientists involved with the 545,000 square km marine reserve set up around the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean last year say it is expected to prevent 25,000 tuna, 10,000 sharks and 10,000 stingrays being caught every year.

asks Russ George, chief scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2 - removal schemes ranging from reforestation to ocean fertilization.

Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.

Scientists wire the oceans with data cables, permanent observatories, and robots that can roam for years

The decision is laudable in that it acknowledges beluga sturgeon is threatened with extinction, but it doesn't go nearly far enough toward protecting them, says fisheries scientist Ellen Pikitch, director of the University of Miami's Pew Institute for Ocean Science and lead scientist of Caviar Emptor.

Supported by the Natural Environment Research Council, the Centre hosts multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers who study the oceans and their interaction with Earth.

How ocean sounds affect different marine species «is something we are only just beginning to understand,» says Greg Early, associate scientist with the Edgerton Research Lab.

The world's oceans are currently in the midst of the third major die off — termed bleaching by scientists — ever recorded and the hot waters around Christmas Island have been dealing with the heat for months.

They are gathering and transmitting data that's providing scientists with the clearest - ever pictures of the hitherto - unfathomed extent of ocean warming.

«It gives us a real jump start in knowing what to be looking for,» says Steve Ferguson, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada who led a survey of traditional knowledge on killer whales in Nunavut waters.

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.

A recent survey of microbial life found that the oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times more unique species than scientists expected.

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.

Analyzing data collected over a 20 - month period, scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight center in Greenbelt, Md., and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that the number of cirrus clouds above the Pacific Ocean declines with warmer sea surface temperatures.

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).

On average, Antarctic sea ice may be considerably thicker than once thought, which could significantly change how scientists assess sea ice dynamics and their interactions with the ocean in a warming world.

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

Some scientists have proposed seeding the ocean with iron to grow algae, which would capture carbon dioxide and thus help curb global warming — part of a suite of ideas known as geoengineering.

«We have toxic algae events that result in shellfish closures off the Washington and Oregon coast every three to five years or so, but none of them have been as large as this one,» said lead author Ryan McCabe, a research scientist at the UW's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a collaborative center with NOAA.

Scientists have long thought the ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was the largest of the bony fishes, a group of animals with skeletons made of bone instead of cartilage.

Ocean scientists debate over the efficacy of MPAs when it comes to migratory species, like hammerheads, with a range too large to ever protect in full.

Organizers say the commission will be based at Somerville College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and will work with scientists from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean.

Scientists with the Caitlin Arctic Survey have been utilizing a new device on this year's 10 - week expedition on the edge of the Arctic Ocean near Ellef Ringnes Island, Canada: a unique pedal - powered winch built to haul a 50 - kilogram scientific payload 200 meters below the sea ice.

A pioneering study — led by scientists from Imperial College London in collaboration with marine biologists from UC Santa Barbara — found that the predators, through their fecal material, transfer vital nutrients from their open ocean feeding grounds into shallower reef environments, contributing to the overall health of these fragile ecosystems.

The instruments are providing scientists with a «shark's eye» view of the ocean and greater understanding than ever before of the lives of these fish in their natural environment.

A video of one of these ambushes was a big hit with scientists attending the Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High - CO2 World in Monterey, California, earlier this week, sparking laughs and a bit of buzz.

During a trawl for sea creatures on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, scientists on the RV Helmer Hansson in Rijpfjorden on the island of Spitsbergen, Norway, retrieved a 7 - meter - long log infested with living shipworms on the sea floor under 250 meters of water.

«Chicxulub is the only preserved structure with an intact peak ring that we can get to,» says University of Texas, Austin, geophysicist Sean Gulick, co — chief scientist for the $ 10 million project, sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.