Sentences with phrase «oceanography research»

Parents have given classroom presentations and hands - on demonstrations about everything from oceanography research to vaccines to sanitation in the developing world.

The U.S. Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office with co-sponsorship from the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is coordinating and hosting a hands - on ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experimental design.

«This region of the coast is understudied,» said Sutherland, who leads the UO's coastal oceanography research group.

Then again, he says, he might look for another adventure altogether: «I might have to see if I can get on one of those oceanography research programs.»

Not exact matches

After spending approximately 2 decades completing a master's degree, stints as a research assistant and research associate at WHOI in Massachusetts, a Ph.D. in biological oceanography at Oregon State University, and returning to WHOI for a postdoc and various other roles, Baumgartner is now an associate scientist with tenure, a title he earned in 2014.

The two other members of the research team were Richard Keil and Allan Devol, both professors at University of Washington's School of Oceanography.

How rare is it to participate on a research team spanning many scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, genetics, oceanography, paleontology, and planetary science?

«This is one of the most representative records of precipitation changes in the eastern Pacific, and it goes a good way toward explaining seasonal tropical rain band and El Niño dynamics,» said first author Daniel Nelson, who did the research for his UW doctorate in oceanography.

To conduct the research, lead author Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, coordinated contributions from experts in oceanography, waste management and plastics materials science.

New discoveries half a world away by a team of scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, the Western Australian Museum, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have helped properly identify these elusive creatures through genetic analysis.

Other researchers, like Tony Koslow, a research oceanographer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, have focused on how the changes in oxygen levels affect marine life.

Hydrologic Research Center / Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego

Rabalais team - teaches biological oceanography at Louisiana State University, and continues her own research on Mississippi River - Gulf of Mexico interactions, forming the world's second largest dead zone.

Schutt and the research team will continue to explore the causes of variations in tectonic plate strength as part of an ongoing project between Colorado State University, Utah State University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

Academia: Besides faculty and research positions, some universities have prominent environmental affiliates, like Scripps Institute for Oceanography (University of California, San Diego), or Strategic Energy Institute (Georgia Institute of Technology).

The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, announced today the establishment of a center, the International Research Institute (IRI), that will use cutting - edge climate models to forecast long - term weather changes.

Leading this research, Dr Katya Popova, from the National Oceanography Centre, said «Oil spills can have a devastating effect on the marine environment and on coastal communities.

«The work is really at an early stage,» says Ulf Riebesell, a professor of biological oceanography at the Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Kiel, Germany.

The detected concentrations are much lower than the Canadian safety limit for cesium levels in drinking water, said John Smith, a research scientist at Canada's Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.

Starting out as a volunteer in a lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla — «I was the broom guy,» Goldin recalls — he became involved in a project to design a wave - powered research vehicle.

«I've been studying this specific invasive species for many years and it's clear the threat it poses to our reefs and marine environment is real,» said Matthew Johnston, Ph.D., a research scientist at NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.

Working together, mathematics, biology, and art history researchers from San Diego State University, the Getty Research Institute, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography created a tool to computationally measure the aesthetic appearance of coral reefs.

► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fieldsresearch vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fieldsResearch V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»

Najjar began this research in 2012 and has since partnered with 29 other scientists who specialize in various aspects of coastal oceanography.

A team of scientists led by research physicist Dan Lubin at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has created for the first time an estimate of how much dimmer the Sun should be when the next minimum takes place.

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, suggest that high levels of carbon monoxide in the seals» blood has a protective effect — echoing laboratory research on rats and mice that has found the gas has anti-inflammatory properties and can lead to better outcomes after organ transplant.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

To learn more about the work of the Bowditch and its sister ships, ScienceInsider chatted with now - retired Rear Admiral David Titley, who oversaw the U.S. Navy's research fleet from 2007 to 2009 as commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.

Professor Helen Amanda Fricker, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, does research that includes deep - field sample collection, for example in Antarctica.

Jennifer Taylor of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography also shared research on how ocean warming and acidification impairs the structure and function of crustaceans.

This is according to research published today in Nature Communications by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre.

Stevens will present the results of her research Feb. 22, 2016 at the biennial Ocean Sciences meeting in New Orleans, sponsored by the American Geophysical Union, the Oceanography Society, and the Association of the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.

«It is very plausible that the mechanism revealed by this research will push parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet beyond a point of no return,» said Dr Axel Timmerman, Prof of Oceanography at University of Hawaii and an IPCC lead author who has seen the paper.

This research has been published today in the journal Nature Geoscience and was conducted by scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton.

The wave also damaged a marine research station operated by the University of Concepción in Dichato, a fishing town about 50 kilometers from the city, and left its research vessel stranded several blocks from shore, according to Carlos Moffat, an oceanography professor at the university.

New research, lead by Tamar Guy - Haim of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiresearch, lead by Tamar Guy - Haim of the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiResearch (IOLR) / the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life wiResearch Kiel released in Limnology and Oceanography Letters this week, reveals that the rabbitfish brought the other marine life with them.

The new analysis has been published in Geophysical Research Letters by Professor Sybren Drijfhout from the University of Southampton and collaborators from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) Dr Adam Blaker, Professor Simon Josey, Dr George Nurser and Dr Bablu Sinha, together with Dr Magdalena Balmaseda from the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).

«Research into barnacle mating dates back to Charles Darwin — they were a major interest of his before he published The Origin of Species,» said Dr. Hoch, a researcher in NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.

«Chile is a natural laboratory and rapidly becoming a world leader in important fields for science diplomacy: astronomy, oceanography, polar research and climate change,» said Marga Gual - Soler, senior project director at the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy, who joined Holt in Chile.

«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.

Suomi NPP's job is to collect environmental observations of atmosphere, ocean and land for both NOAA's weather and oceanography operational missions and NASA's research mission to continue the long - term climate record to better understand Earth's climate and long - term trends.

The six - person team included Andrew S. Ackerman of the NASA Ames Research Center, Owen Brian Toon of the University of Colorado, D. E. Stevens of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Andrew J. Heymsfield of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and E.J. Welton of Science Systems and Applications.

Lissette Victorero, the PhD - student who led this research, from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton, said «The approaches used in the study have previously mainly been used to investigate ecosystems on land.

Sasha Carter, a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studies the Antarctic ice sheet, said the new research «shows that subglacial water transport and the refreezing of that meltwater is reshaping the interior of East Antarctica at a scale previously not believed to be possible.»

«Ice shelves buffer or restrain land ice from reaching the ocean,» said Peter Bromirski, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the new study.

He also discusses the expedition's scientific findings in the context of subsequent research in oceanography, marine geology, and ecology.

The GPS signal used for «sat - navs» could help improve understanding of ocean currents, according to new research published in Geophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Labresearch published in Geophysical Research Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion LabResearch Letters by National Oceanography Centre (NOC) scientists, alongside colleagues from the University of Michigan and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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.

Targeting scientific pursuits closer to home, Microsoft Research developed software designed to help oceanographers at the University of Washington in Seattle, along with other oceanography organizations with their North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, or NEPTUNE program.

The study, which also involved researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and University College London, was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship to Dr O'Dea and a Royal Society Research Fellowship to Dr Gibbs, Senior Research Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, with additional support by the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme.