Sentences with phrase «ocean scientists»

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

The promise of new ships has been a long - cherished hope for many ocean scientists.

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.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist's Journey to Climate Skepticism Two of the world's premiere ocean scientists from Harvard and MIT have addressed the data limitations that currently prevent the oceanographic community from resolving the differences among various...

«This web - site is a follow - up of the first symposium and is meant to provide a central source of information for ocean scientists on research activities in this area.»

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.

Subduction provides a means for that food to come into contact with the subsurface ocean scientists think probably exists under Europa's ice.

Ocean scientists got their first taste of how gliders could help with their research last summer, following BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

«My initial fear was that this oil was going to get caught up in the loop current and moved right to the pristine beaches of Cuba and the Florida Keys, then up the coast as far north as North Carolina,» says Rader, the chief ocean scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

«If this doesn't succeed,» he says, «the next time ocean scientists want to tackle something big, we won't get the chance.»

Ocean scientist Paul Harrison of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Canada, who was not involved in the research, agrees.

In 2009 a group of ocean scientists explicitly called for abandoning iron fertilization efforts in an editorial in Nature.

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.

During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.

In order to understand how they might respond to further human impacts on the world's oceans the scientists examined all eighteen species, looking at different factors where human activity might interfere with their populations.

With orbiting satellites that measure ocean color all beyond their shelf life, glum ocean scientists were left to hope that VIIRS could be fixed by 2013, in time for the launch of the next craft in the multi-satellite NPOESS series.

The priority - setting effort comes as U.S. ocean scientists voice increasing concerns about the future of their field, which is struggling to sustain a robust research fleet and adapt to stagnating funding.

Ocean scientist James McCarthy of Harvard University discussed recent evidence from the oceans that climate change is occurring, including rising water temperatures.

Boaty McBoatface is joining ocean scientists from the University of Southampton and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) on an expedition to study some of the deepest and coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)-- and how they affect climate change.

Ocean scientists plan to maintain their observations over months and years to study how the Earth, ocean, and atmosphere evolve and interact.

The liquid ocean scientists are so interested in is likely a result of tidal forces working on the moon as it whips around Jupiter.

Ocean scientists now have a unique tool to gather images, data, and samples from everywhere in the oceans, rather than those parts shallower than 6500 meters (4 miles),» said Julie Morris, director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Ocean Sciences Division, the principal sponsor of the $ 8 million project.

I am a publishing, grant getting ocean scientist [hence the handle] and have strong feelings about AGW.

Discovering just a handfull of hybrid sharks would be enough to excite ocean scientists, but what they ran across instead proved that it was no fluke.

11:30 p.m. Updated Ocean scientists are growing more critical of the Obama administration by the day over the failure to glean more information about the seafloor leaks either from BP or federal research vessels and equipment.

[9] Recent warming observations of Antarctic Bottom Water in the Southern Ocean is of concern to ocean scientists because bottom water changes will effect currents, nutrients, and biota elsewhere.

But if they continue to see mixing at the scales the lab work suggests, the findings could change the way ocean scientists think about the role of animals in influencing their watery environment — and potentially our climate on land.

More thorough sea level monitoring is needed to protect one trillion dollars (0.98 trillion U.S. dollars) worth of the world's infrastructure threatened by climate change, an Australian leading ocean scientist said on Sunday

How it was made: Ocean scientist Norman Kuring of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center pieced together this composite based on 15 satellite passes made by VIIRS / Suomi NPP on May 26, 2012.

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.

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

The series opened with a talk by Gary Davis, former NPS Chief Ocean Scientist, on the past, present, and future of Channel Islands National Park, our nation's 40th national park.

Dr. Mojib Latif, a prize - winning climate and ocean scientist from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, wrote a paper last year positing that cyclical shifts in the oceans were aligning in a way that could keep the next decade or so relatively cool, even as the heat - trapping gases linked to global warming continue to increase.

The question of century - scale shifts, now a main topic in climatology, came to rest on the desks of ocean scientists.

Conducting global research on how climate change is impacting ocean oxygen levels has been an ongoing challenge for ocean scientists.

Ocean scientists won't know whether the money for the new ships will actually be available until the end of the budget process later this year.

Many of the projects were led by Department of Fisheries and Oceans scientists, and Kelly says that their fate hinges on «what work DFO allows them to do this summer.»

«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.

Ship by ship, voyage by voyage, ocean scientists will taste the pleasure that in January 2007 welcomed Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, as he sat on the Polarstern watching video images of the seafloor transmitted by a robot dangling from the ship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen before.

► «The low rumbling of the engine of the RV Sikuliaq was music to ocean scientists» ears last week during a 23 - day cruise to test how the newest addition to the U.S. oceanographic fleet handled icy seas,» Eli Kintisch reported at ScienceInsider today.

In the past, ocean scientists had to retrieve data from recorders at such «stand alone» moorings during return visits to the sites.

That's why one of the company's atmospheric and ocean scientists, Megan E. Linkin (the photo is from when she was interviewed for The Times in 2010), just re-ran one of the region's most awesome disasters — the great Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane of 1821, but with today's heavily developed metropolitan region in harm's way.

The paper was was written by 17 prominent climate, ice and ocean scientists, led by James E. Hansen, the pioneering climatologist who since 2007 has argued that most of his peers have been too reticent in their projections of the possible pace of sea - level rise in a warming world.

I asked a range of climate and ocean scientists to weigh in on the paper.