Sentences with word «oceanographer»

Deaths averted Last month, a team led by Julie van der Hoop, a biological oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, published an analysis of right whale deaths from ship strikes between 1990 and 2012.

«This region off the western Antarctic Peninsula has been a known breeding area for Adélie penguins for thousands of years,» said Kim Bernard, a biological oceanographer at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

Adrian Marchetti and his team of oceanographers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified — for the first time — that a protein called proteorhodopsin could allow a major group of phytoplankton to survive in iron - limited regions of the ocean.

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

Cimino will return to Antarctica next month to begin working with physical oceanographers from University of Alaska and Rutgers, through funding from the National Science Foundation.

The dead zone's return was discovered by oceanographers at Oregon State University, who deployed robotic underwater gliders and other monitoring devices over the past few months to assess oxygen levels in the water.They discovered that oxygen levels on reefs previously devastated by past dead zones had dropped to 0.5 mL / L by the end of June — a far cry from the 1.4 mL / L level considered to be hypoxic for most marine life.

The panel will also determine how the IPCC treats the multiplicity of opinions within various domains of climate science, such as oceanographers who disagree on the rate of sea - level rise.

The actual fate of H. sericeus and its associates may still be unclear, but the findings are still potentially worrisome, says Giora Proskurowski, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

This may be small scale for, say, particle physicists — the Large Hadron Collider is expected to generate an annual 15 petabytes (1015 bytes) of data — but it marks a substantial change for oceanographers, who are used to obtaining isolated bursts of data from week - long cruises, and then spending a year analyzing the results.

The Luzon Strait internal waves provide an ideal archetype for understanding internal waves, explained co-author Sonya Legg, a Princeton senior research oceanographer in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a lecturer in geosciences.

Together with colleagues from Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States, Dr. Mario Lebrato, Biological Oceanographer in Prof. Andreas Oschlies» group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, conducted field and laboratory experiments with gelatinous plankton remains.

Cozumel is very well known and extremely popular amongst divers, and has been all the way back to the days of famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.

Also known as the «Iron Hypothesis», this process is more accurately called Ocean Micro Nutrient Replenishment and was first proposed by oceanographer John Martin in 1993.

The Navy's chief oceanographer says that by the summer of 2020 the North Pole may not have summer ice and other scientists -LSB-...]

A Rice University oceanographer says the state's environmental agency is refusing to publish his research article on a Texas bay unless he agrees to delete key references to rising sea levels and human involvement in climate change.

On Monday night, renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle earned a new moniker when she joined eight others in receiving a 2014 Glamour Woman of the Year Award at a celebrity - packed Carnegie Hall.

The issue kind of crept up by surprise, perhaps because it has mainly been climatologists, not oceanographers and chemists, who have focused on impacts of greenhouse gases.

During my visit to Oxford last summer, I met with oceanographer David Marshall, who reminded me that the influence of the oceans on climate starts to get interesting at timescales around 1000 years.

The backdrop, from a Guardian story, is this: Arctic seas turn to acid, putting vital food chain at risk, With the world's oceans absorbing six million tonnes of carbon a day, a leading oceanographer warns of eco disaster.

Ofcom also partly upheld similar complaints by oceanographer Carl Wunsch and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

In this segment, NASA oceanographer Josh Willis confirms without a doubt that the ocean is creeping upward at a faster rate than at any time during the previous few thousand years.

The famous oceanographer Jacques Cousteau deemed Cocos Island «the most beautiful island in the world.»

As MIT's world - renowned oceanographer Carl Wunsch warned «Convenient assumptions should not be turned prematurely into «facts,» nor uncertainties and ambiguities suppressed... Anyone can write a model: the challenge is to demonstrate its accuracy and precision... Otherwise, the scientific debate is controlled by the most articulate, colorful, or adamant players.

Oregon State University oceanographer Robert Dziak says that depending on the size and frequency of these events, their spongelike effects could influence ocean chemistry and temperatures worldwide, making present climate - change models inaccurate.

Their notion that the atmosphere is the ultimate global commons echoes Matthew Fontaine Maury, the American oceanographer who once wrote this line, which I cited in my 1992 global warming book and many times since:

It was announced today that the 2018 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement will go to two biological oceanographers based in the United States: Paul Falkowski, a professor of Geological and...

... over the last two weeks, a counter-current on the outside of the loop began pushing east and may force the current into a circular pattern oceanographers call a «warm core eddy.»»

Still, much of what oceanographers know about large - scale ocean circulation patterns and about the velocity, kinetics, and seasonal variability of surface currents and eddies are based on ship drift data.

And he wants Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, a former oceanographer of the Navy, to be assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere, the No. 2 job at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

In places like the North Atlantic, where plankton bloom lushly in the spring, oceanographers find patches of green stuff on the ocean bed, a mile or two below.

But some prominent oceanographers say they are not sure the results should be interpreted that way.

Phytoplankton activity occurs mostly within the first 50 metres of the surface and, although oceanographers don't fully understand why, varies widely according to the season and location.

At the weekend, Christopher Booker at the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More»

Robert Grumbine is a polar oceanographer working for NOAA / National Weather Service, Environmental Modeling Center.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

«In a nutshell, theoretical models can not explain what we observe in the geological record,» said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University.

PROTECTING THE SEA When oceanographer Enric Sala sees swarms of sharks, he happily jumps in, knowing they're a sign of healthy seas.

Richard Brodeur, a NOAA fisheries oceanographer and author on the study, said that while most of these fish will adapt to their new surroundings, some will move into less habitable waters with perhaps less available food.

John Delaney was among the first oceanographers to grasp the potential power of cabled observatories.

``... as sea ice melts, Arctic waters warm, greatly altering ocean processes, which in turn have an effect on Arctic and global climate, says Michael Steele, senior oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Like humans, whales are «warm - blooded, air - breathing, milk - producing creatures with a little bit of hair and oversize brains,» writes oceanographer Sylvia A. Earle in her introduction to this mesmerizing book of photography.

[1] These can be outfitted with CTD tags to record the salinity, temperature and depth data oceanographers need to identify ocean currents and water.