Sentences with phrase «oceanographers based»

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...

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

Not exact matches

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

In 1991 Delaney, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, went out for a drink one evening with Alan Chave, an ocean engineer and marine geophysicist based at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Oceanographers, geologists, and climatologists are scrambling to update their models of the planet based on the flood of GRACE data.

The UW oceanographers used a commercial Wave Glider made by Liquid Robotics, a California - based subsidiary of the Boeing Co., to surf along the water's surface gathering observations.

«Based on the data that they have, even though it's circumstantial, it's a nice story,» says Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who was not involved with the study.

Historically, oceanographers have defined seawater based on its salinity, which they inferred by taking measurements of the water's electrical conductivity.

Researcher Ajit Subramaniam, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, used the data set to focus on natural oil seeps and discovered something unusual — phytoplankton, the base of the marine food chain — were thriving in the area of these natural oil seeps.

«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.

For example, if climatologists and oceanographers only considered sea level rise to predict coastal damages without regard to escalating rates of beach - front home building, they would be as errant as would a coastal developer who assesses future risks based only on current climate and sea levels (and Professor Pielke has led the charge on such integrated approaches).

Re # 135 The general opinion amongst most climate scientists and oceanographers is that a slow down in the THC will cause a cooling based on what they think happened at the start of the Younger Dryas stadial (mini ice age.)

John Hunter is an oceanographer at the Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, which is based in the University of Tasmania.

«Most of the models we use have coarse resolution,» says CSIRO's Ming Feng, WA - based oceanographer and paper co-author.

«You don't have to believe in climate change to believe that this is happening,» said Joanie Kleypas, an oceanographer with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colo. «It's pretty much simple thermodynamics.»