Sentences with phrase «oceanographers do»

The oceanographers don't seem to be impressed.

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.

Oceanographer and filmmaker Jean - Michel Cousteau writes in the book that «90 percent of commercially harvested large fish species are gone from the sea as a result of overfishing... I am forced to conclude that we are doing everything in our power to eliminate fish from the sea.»

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Also we don't know about the air quality issue, and we're concerned about our kids,» said Enrique Curchitser, an oceanographer visiting NCAR with wife and children this summer from Rutgers University.

«Today's reefs are as much as 5,000 years old, and they will start to fall apart within a decade or so if we don't radically change how we do business,» contends Christopher Langdon, a biological oceanographer at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.

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

Dolphin tracking is traditionally done with boats or planes, but that's expensive, says study coauthor Kaitlin Frasier, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

But the 66 - year - old physical oceanographer believes that a lifetime spent first doing, and then managing, science is valuable training for running an organization dedicated to helping its 60,000 members keep up with a rapidly changing field.

«While hurricanes are catastrophic events, the salt marsh doesn't respond catastrophically,» says Neil Kamal Ganju, a co-author and research oceanographer with USGS in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

As oceanographer Mandy Joye of the University of Georgia put it as she watched a clearly distinct white wave make its way through the lake, «If you didn't know better, you would swear it was not underwater.»

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

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.

«With coral reefs facing a myriad of threats,» said Kimberly Puglise, an oceanographer with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, «the finding of extensive reefs off Maui provides managers with a unique opportunity to ensure that future activities in the region, such as cable laying, dredging dump sites, and deep sewer outfalls, do not irreparably damage these reefs.»

Oceanographers may have solved one of the biggest sea mysteries in years: why the upper ocean didn't warm between 2003 and 2010, even as heat - trapping greenhouse gases accumulated in the air above.

What we don't know yet is exactly where, how often and how variable its access is,» said Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

So I have a proposal for oceanographers and atmospheric scientists (and geologists, for that matter) who wish to do some spreading of recent scientific achievements.

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.

Remind students that part of an oceanographer's job is to do research and to teach other people about the ocean.

While models contain a lot of physics, they don't contain many small - scale processes that more specialised groups (of atmospheric chemists, or coastal oceanographers for instance) might worry about a lot.

A new NASA visualization shows how heat - trapping carbon dioxide from human sources mixes and spreads around the planet, and in so doing recalls for me a stirring 1859 description of the atmosphere written by Matthew Fontaine Maury, widely considered America's first oceanographer.

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

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.

As I pointed out here and again here, oceanographer Bob Tisdale has objected that actually it's D'Aleo and Easterbrook's (D&E's) representation of PDO+AMO after 1980 that «does not represent anything in the real climate.»

Nor does residence time have anything to do with oceanographers» imaginary bottleneck in the boundary layer, where CO2 waits thousands of years for deep ocean sequestration to make room in the surface layer, constrained by equilibrium carbonate equations.

«For the moment, oceanographers and atmospheric scientists don't see a link to human - caused climate change, but also say what they've seen doesn't match other recognized patterns in ocean conditions.

«UH oceanographers Robert Bidigare, director of the Center for Marine Microbial Ecology and Diversity (CMMED), and Dave Karl, director of the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C - MORE) are among the co-authors of a paper in the journal Science showing that carbon dioxide does not always sink to the ocean depths where it can be stored.

But oceanographers and paleoclimatologists do not have big budgets, and they have not been able to co-opt the naval ships of the NATO countries to tow additional instrument packages around and launch their telemetry buoys.

Bob, Ruth Curry, oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has done extensive salinity readings for a great many years.

In any case measuring the abyssal tracer fluxes is something that oceanographers have wanted to do (and are engaged in) for a long time, and is not a simple task.

Ok — lets generalize then - one group is saying that there is a significant amount of damage being done to the biosphere through human activity to warrant concern - this group is made up of atmospheric scientists, biologists, physicists, oceanographers, Nasa climate scientists, National Science Academies, WMO etc

What interests me in regard to accelerated anthropogenic ocean acidification and global temperature rise, which are being monitored by instrumentation worldwide, are the vast amounts of data reported and the longitudinal studies done by glaciologists, marine biologists, chemical oceanographers, botanists, climatologists, reef specialists, and their colleagues in other scientific disciplines.

In one response, Pitman wrote: «If you have already made up your mind that the climate scientists, physicists, oceanographers, most geologists, biologists, hydrologists have just made this all up, then I do not think I can help.»

The basic phenomenon is familiar to oceanographers: if the mean sea level in one location rises by 30 cm, this does not mean that the high - tide level also rises by 30 cm.

«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.»

Meteorologists, physicists, geologists and oceanographers each have contributions to make, but the issue of climate change doesn't belong to any one of them individually.

Formal academic credentials aren't the only measure of a scientists credibility but, since you want to play that game, who do you think should be more knowledgeable about climate - a guy with a PhD in meteorology or an oceanographer and computer programmer (Andy Weaver) who identifies himself as a «climatologist».