Sentences with phrase «oceanographer working»

As an oceanographer working on air / sea interaction and mixed layer dynamics, I hope I can clarify this issue somewhat (in fact, I'm at sea right now on the R / P FLIP, gathering data to study wave and mixed layer dynamics, but this is off the point).

Not exact matches

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

When the firm was working on a project for Red Lobster, it invited Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; he helped the team explore the association between its corporate identity and mankind's eternal fascination with the ocean.

Here in Paris, I work alongside other oceanographers.

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

Ryan, for instance, is a biological oceanographer by training, yet regularly works with engineers and computer scientists for his research.

«A failed year class for a couple of years in a row could dramatically reduce their populations for a while,» says James Cowan, an oceanographer at LSU, in whose lab de Mutsert works.

Correa, Shamberger and Boston University biologist Sarah Davies, UH - Clear Lake biologist Lory Santiago - Vazquez and Texas A&M oceanographer Jason Sylvan expect to receive a one - year Rapid Research Response grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work at the Flower Garden Banks.

Oceanographers generally don't usually work in oil slicks, which might damage their equipment.

«Geophysicists, geologists, biologists, geochemists, oceanographers, legal experts, social scientists and economists worked closely together to create a multi-layered assessment of sub-seabed CO2 storage,» Wallmann summarizes.

It's impossible to know how much the animals are eating, says Kara Law, a physical oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the work.

«It's as close to what I imagine another world would look like,» says Diane Adams who worked on this study as a biological oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The space / time patterns created by those empirical approaches are inconsistent with how oceanographers think the oceans should work, he noted.

«The Canadian success is absolutely fantastic,» says John Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle, who helped to dream up the idea for NEPTUNE and is working on the US project.

Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia who also did not take part in the work, says that deep - sea currents could be the driving factor behind the extreme variations in biology.

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.

Oceanographers, computational scientists, and hydrologists all have to work together on these problems.»

Pedler, a marine biology graduate student at Scripps, spent several years working with Scripps marine microbiologist Azam and chemical oceanographer Aluwihare in designing a system that would precisely measure carbon consumption by individual bacterial species.

Working alongside her was Dr Mandy Joye, an oceanographer with more than 25 years of experience in marine sciences.

Pete is a biological oceanographer and acoustician working at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a National Research Council Research Assistant.

The research team that published last week's paper is now working to assess which of the potential methods of using satellite data would be most effective in assessing pH. «What we're currently working on is drilling down and seeing which methods perform well,» Jamie Shutler, a University of Exeter oceanographer who was involved with the research, said.

Fans of the iconic oceanographer's pioneering work would likely do best seeking out his excellent nature and ecological documentary features and TV specials, as this is essentially an elongated, CG - powered Wikipedia entry with the odd melodramatic insert.

The research work in meteorology often involves working closely with chemists, physicists, and mathematicians as well as with oceanographers, hydrologists and researchers in several other branches that are related to the environmental science.

David Titley, a retired Navy rear admiral and former Oceanographer of the Navy, has written perhaps the best overview of the value NASA Earth science provides to society and why more such work is needed, not less:

Millions of stations are dismissed as «negligible» — the work of generations of oceanographers vanish with a journalist's stroke of a pen because what should not exist, can not be.

As I read in and around the topic of climate change, one thing that is most compelling to me is that ornithologists, geologists, marine biologists, ichthyologists, oceanographers, glaciologists, physicists, zoologists, primatologists, sailors, fishermen, etc, etc, all working in their own disciplines and professions are coming to the same conclusion that something profound is happening with our climate.

Joshua Willis, an oceanographer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was involved in an analysis of these temperature records underpinning the new work (and in press in the Journal of Climate).

But, don't expect the readers of RC, most of whom are not climate scientists or oceanographers, to do your work for you.

Her work immediately brought to mind the ceramics of Joan Lederman, an artist in Woods Hole, Mass., who creates glazes from seafloor sediments retrieved by oceanographers roaming the world from the nearby Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:

There's important work to be done on this question but — as the oceanographer Carl Wunsch notes at the end of this post — the paucity of data on ocean heat makes it tough to get beyond «maybe» answers.

There's even a small chance some of the oil could cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach Europe, although Martin Visbeck, a German oceanographer involved with the work, noted that it would most likely be extremely diluted and degraded by then.

Until very recently, all that oceanographers had to work with were measurements taken by ships.

Drawing upon the research of over 100 of the leading oceanographers and scientists around the world, the work is co-authored by more than thirty experts from organizations in ten countries, such as the British Antarctic Survey and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany.

So the extensive work of leading oceanographers from Universities the world over, and work by NASA, NOAA, and multiple other leading institutions of science, thrown out the window, on a tricky but still fairly objective question of fact, by someone writing the opposite.

«It was totally unexpected,» said Dr. James J. McCarthy, an oceanographer, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University and the co-leader of a group working for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which is sponsored by the United Nations.

He is currently working with coastal oceanographers to estimate storm inundation hazard.