Sentences with phrase «of ocean studies»

Mark is a member of the Ocean Studies Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Oleg Sorokhtin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Ocean Studies, and many other Russian scientists maintain that global climate depends predominantly on natural factors, such as solar activity, precession (wobbling) of the Earth's axis, changes in ocean currents, fluctuations in saltiness of ocean surface water, and some other factors, whereas industrial emissions do not play any significant role.

They still have a lot of ocean study to do, the Argo floats are helping there...

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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.

Read The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing, or study what's referred to as the «blue ocean» strategy.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

The scientific agency, which is part of the Commerce Department, studies changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts.

Bertocci cites a study by Ocean Tomo, an intellectual property advisory firm, showing that intangible assets amount to 84 % of the market value of companies today, many of which now sell services rather than goods, compared with 17 % in 1975.

As part of that commitment, he introduced the $ 1.5 - billion Oceans Protection Plan to further enhance marine response, complementing the Western Canada Marine Response Corporation,» CAPP said, adding that approval was made based on existing scientific evidence, and a commitment was made to continue studying the effects of spilled diluted bitumen on water.

Mark Bourassa, associate director of the Center for Ocean - Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, echoed the skepticism about scale.

Like an ocean - wave caught in a snapshot, or a torrent of lava stiffened by cooling, the mountains and living things of the earth wear the aspect, to those who study them, of a powerful momentum that has become petrified.

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

A few years ago the New England fishing fleets were in despair because the fish were nowhere to be found; a biologist, who had been making a laboratory study of the temperature of fishes» stomachs, combined his data with some ocean temperature data and correctly suggested where the missing creatures might be found.

Don't worry about ocean studies, or currents, or instruments that observe the transfer of energy around the world.

The coolest growing region in all of California, as cited in a study by the University of Southern Oregon, the Edna Valley is a mere 5.4 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

I follow my alma maters (UCSB amd CSUSB) on Instagram and I think it provides a lot of insight into the opportunities the schools offer as well as some further insight into the college (added plus: UCSB is prone to posting encouraging study posts feat adorable dogs, ocean backdrops, and lots of bikes, no surprise).

Instead of just studying the ocean, swim in it.

A pipeline feasibility study on the possibility of transporting oil from Kenya and Uganda — where Tullow has another operation — to the Indian Ocean is planned.

The foundation of the research involved tracking the changes in ocean circulation in new detail by studying three sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a scientific cruise.

Lead author of the paper is research scientist Andrew Jordan of the University of New Hampshire's Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS).

The way spaceships vent urine and water may be a good stand - in for studying how jets of vapour escape the hidden ocean on one of Saturn's icy moons

Concentrations of selenium, a vital element for many organisms at the base of today's ocean food chain, dropped substantially in seawater in advance of three of Earth's largest die - offs, a new study suggests.

Ocean turbulence stirred up by multitudes of creatures such as krill can be powerful enough to extend hundreds of meters down into the deep, a new study suggests.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

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The recent hurricanes presented a rare opportunity for Lasker and Edmunds to study how corals recover from disasters — an important line of research in a warming world where rising ocean temperatures are stressing reefs.

«The widespread loss of Antarctic ice shelves, driven by a warming ocean or warming atmosphere, could spell disaster for our coastlines — and there is sound geological evidence that supports what the models are telling us,» said Robert M. DeConto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a co-author of the study and one of the developers of the ice - sheet model used.

The team then used their dataset from the tropics to back - calculate the temperature and chemistry of polar oceans, relying on previous studies of forams that captured the conditions of those regions.

A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), sheds light on the ways SGD affects coral reef growth.

The study uses data from two NASA missions — Operation IceBridge, which measures ice thickness and gravity from aircraft, and Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, which uses sonar and gravity instruments to map the shape and depth of the seafloor close to the ice front.

Warming in the Arctic is causing the release of toxic chemicals long trapped in the region's snow, ice, ocean and soil, according to a new study.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

The ocean has biodiversity hotspots that rival the richness and variety of life found in tropical rainforests, according to a new study.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

Ocean seagrass meadows reduce bacteria unhealthful to humans and marine organisms by up to 50 %, a new study shows, and they also decrease the likelihood of disease in coral reefs by half.

Willis is leading a new mission to study the effects of warming oceans on the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

One - third of carbon dioxide emitted by humans enters the oceans, making seawater more acidic, the study noted.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

That's the upshot of the first study to model the future state of the Indian Ocean's version of El Niño.

The study also found that over 70 % of respondents supported marine protected areas (MPAs)-- regions established to protect natural resources in the oceans.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

In the new study, the researchers found that both of these nitrogen «exit strategies» are at work in the oceans, with denitrification mopping up about 70 percent of the nitrogen and anammox disposing of the rest.

A new study catalogs hundreds of species that have made this ocean crossing.

«Ocean acidification can affect individual marine organisms along the Pacific coast, by changing the chemistry of the seawater,» said lead author Brittany Jellison, a Ph.D. student studying marine ecology at the UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

Marine science and oceanography are so dependent on the nature of the world's oceans that many tropical and temperate scientists are also commonly found studying antarctic systems.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.