Sentences with phrase «oceanographers find»

While the main cast is visiting with their family and friends, some oceanographers find a cocoon in an ocean and take it back to research it in the labs.

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.

To avoid the nearly 10 - kilometre - deep Marianas Trench, for instance, oceanographers found a natural bridge for the cable six kilometres down.

Not exact matches

For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.

But no one had seen large numbers of them in action until 2007, when Benoit - Bird — an Oregon State University oceanographer — found a way to use sonar to probe the 3,000 - foot depths of the squid's stomping grounds in the Sea of Cortez.

«We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures,» says Ken Caldeira, a chemical oceanographer now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.

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.

The finding «changes everything» about scientists» understanding of the nitrogen cycle, says biological oceanographer Tracy Villareal of the University of Texas, Austin.

, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who will present the new findings Tuesday at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, The Oceanography Society and the American Geophysical Union.

He found them in sediment collected from a hydrothermal vent, sent to him by a retired oceanographer.

«Because these plants are photosynthetic, it's not surprising to find that as the amount of sea ice cover declined, the amount of [photosynthesis] increased,» says biological oceanographer Kevin Arrigo of Stanford University's School of Earth Sciences, who led an effort to use the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) devices on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites to determine changes in phytoplankton growth.

«These environmental and animal observations are noisy data, so whatever we find, we have to take with a grain of salt,» said Erdem Karaköylü, a Goddard Earth science data analyst and oceanographer who joined the team during its expansion.

To find out, oceanographers John Kessler of Texas A & M University and David Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, collected more than 700 water samples around the spill that summer and fall.

Then, in 1993, oceanographers Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman of Columbia University used sonar to survey the floor of the Black Sea — and found evidence supporting the story after all.

PORTLAND, OREGON — Oceanographers have put a stethoscope on the coursing circulatory system of the Atlantic Ocean, and they have found a skittish pulse that's surprisingly strong in the waters east of Greenland — discoveries that should improve climate models.

In one feature, oceanographer Edie Widder finds that the dark abyss of the ocean actually crackles with enigmatic flashes from light - emitting creatures.

«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.»

Since then, oceanographers have found them along many other midoceanic ridges.

Oceanographer Benjamin Hamlington set out to see if he could find an El Niño sea level rise signal around U.S. coasts, by putting together data from tide gauges and satellite altimeters, which measure sea surface heights.

Stefan Rahmstorf, a German physicist and oceanographer who has long pressed for curbs in greenhouse gases and is a founding contributor to the Realclimate.org blog, was blunt in his piece:

you will find that the oceanographers from the National Oceanography Centre at Southampton University are writing:

In retrospect, most oceanographers and glaciologists find that estimate too low and say it fails to adequately take into account data suggesting that mountain glaciers and Greenland's continental ice will melt more quickly than initially predicted.....

Dalhousie University oceanographer and computer modeler John Cullen finds that particularly frustrating.

MIT's Sallie «Penny» Chisholm, one of the world's top biological oceanographers, finds the idea of geo - engineering the earth's atmosphere through oceanic iron fertilization to be anathema.

Earth Sciences Division oceanographers analyzed the data and found that most of the carbon from lush plankton blooms, whether artificially fertilized or natural, never reaches the deep ocean.

The oceanographers then looked ahead to the wind speed predictions of the climate models, and found that this could add an additional 5.5 hours per round trip, per carrier, per comparable route.

The finding that the winds play a role for the state of the warming may not be surprising to oceanographers, although it may not necessarily be the first thing a meteorologist may consider.

Tim Carmichael — President, Coalition for Clean Air Theo Colborn — President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange Jeremy Jackson — Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography Tzeporah Berman — Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics Gloria Flora — Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions Mikhail Gorbachev — Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Omar Freilla — Director, Green Worker Cooperatives Wallace J. Nichols — Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy Diane Wilson — Author, An Unreasonable Woman Andrew Weil — Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Thomas Linzey — Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Michel Gelobter — President, Redefining Progress Jerry Mander — Director, International Forum of Globalization William McDonough — Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough) Bruce Mau — Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs John Todd — Ecological Designer Rick Fedrizzi — President & CEO, US Green Building Council Greg Watson — Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Lester Brown — President, Earth Policy Institute Herman Daly — Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank Betsy Taylor — Founder, Center for the New American Dream Wade Davis — Explorer - in - Residence, National Geographic Society Leo Gerard — President, United Steel Workers International Union Mathew Petersen — President & CEO, Global Green USA Peter Warshall — Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue Andy Lipkis — President & Founder, Tree People Rest of cast listed alphabetically: David Attenborough (archive footage) George W. Bush (archive footage) Al Gore (archive footage) Arnold Schwarzenegger (archive footage) Brian Williams (archive footage)

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