Sentences with phrase «oceanographic ships»

USA About Blog University - National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) is an organization of 58 academic institutions and National Laboratories involved in oceanographic research and joined for the purpose of coordinating oceanographic ships» schedules and research facilities.

Research activity did accelerate, including huge datagathering schemes that mobilized international fleets of oceanographic ships and orbiting satellites.

Not exact matches

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

A: Well, these oceanographic survey ships are very rarely in the news, but they play a big part in what the Navy is doing, in a data - driven scientific way, to learn about our oceans.

So, historically, what we have had occasionally is that when the Bowditch or [a similar ship] has been working in China's EEZ, they have harassed our oceanographic survey ships.

Cameron Hay of the New Zealand Oceanographic Institute has reported that Undaria carried on ships has proliferated in harbours in New Zealand, from Wellington to Oamaru, and in Tasmania.

«A research ship moves about the speed of a 10 - speed bicycle,» said Scott Doney, director of the Ocean and Climate Change Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Mass. «Think about the size of the ocean.

To save costs, NOAA is requesting that the ship be built to the same specifications as two already - planned ships for the federally funded academic research fleet, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's R / V Neil Armstrong and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's R / V Sally Ride.

In the course of the voyage, Team Zissou will steal oceanographic equipment and an espresso machine from Zissou's far more successful competitor Alistair Hennessy (a wonderfully self - regarding Jeff Goldblum); Zissou and Ned will both fall for a pregnant reporter (played by a pregnant Cate Blanchett) tagging along for a magazine story; pirates will attack the ship and kidnap a member of the team; a daring rescue will be undertaken; and the jaguar shark will be encountered once again, though not until after Zissou has run out of dynamite.

This ship is so high - tech it even features the University of Miami Ocean Lab, a state - of - the - art oceanographic and atmospheric science lab.

While submariners and submarine chasers care a lot about how sonars interact with thermoclines, and use thermobarygraphs as though their lives depend upon it, which they well may do, ships being hunted by submarines tend to be distracted from oceanographic logging accuracy while dodging torpedoes.

Ship operating costs rose by 61 % between 2003 and 2011 for University National Oceanographic Laboratory System vessels [National Ocean Council, 2013], and fuel costs skyrocketed by about 400 % for U.S. and European fleets.

From my window on the world, I keep expecting to see a fleet of oceanographic research ships down in the Greenland Sea, plumbing the depths with improved instruments, trying to figure out the what - how - why questions of this salty river.

In 1955, the NORPAC (North Pacific) Expeditions used 19 ships from 14 oceanographic institutions in three countries to collect near - simultaneous ocean data across the North Pacific between 20 and 60 ° N. Phytoplankton and zooplankton composition and abundance data were collected along with oceanographic data.

It begins: «Having performed daily oceanographic measurements in the deep Norwegian Sea since 1 October 1948, Ocean Weather Ship Station (OWS) Mike, at 66N, 02 E, can present the longest existing homogeneous time series from the deep ocean.