Sentences with phrase «of ocean exploration»

In the 1980s George Denton and I were charged with reconstructing past ice sheets for CLIMAP (Climate: Long - range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction, a project of the 1970 - 1980 International Decade of Ocean Exploration).

«This swarm - sensing approach opens up a whole new realm of ocean exploration,» said Scripps research oceanographer Jules Jaffe, who designed and built the M - AUEs.

2015's Sunless Sea was one of the most interesting narrative games of the year, a darkly compelling combination of ocean exploration, survival and roguelike jeopardy.

It is an amazing hobby that opens an entire new life of ocean exploration.

Atlantis Ko Olina will be inspired by Hawaii's legacy of ocean exploration.

Takes students through the phases of ocean exploration - includes key dates, people and findings.

CIOERT's primary NOAA partner is the OAR Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2016 Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas

Like those earlier prizes, the new prize is designed to draw new players into the game of ocean exploration, «democratizing» the ocean.

The prize is «intended to speed up the development of new technologies to illuminate the deep ocean» and «to draw new players into the game of ocean exploration, «democratizing» the ocean.

Not exact matches

For much of the history of space exploration on Earth, the powerful rockets used to propel people and cargo to orbit or beyond typically end up in a watery grave at the bottom of the ocean or eventually burning up in the atmosphere.

In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

While the largest component of this extraction is exploration and development of oil and gas resources, the bureau is also responsible for «non-energy minerals» (primarily sand and gravel) excavated from the ocean floor.

Successful bidders who are awarded an OCS lease may then submit an exploration plan to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to obtain approval to explore those leased tracts for oil and gas resources.

Industry groups launch ad blitz in support of oil and gas exploration in the U.S. waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

November 19: A lecture on Ocean Exploration Technologies at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (Cambridge)

The Discovery Box Ocean Exploration sensory bin comes with blue water beads, shells, colorful fish, sparkly gems, and ocean plants with lots of different textOcean Exploration sensory bin comes with blue water beads, shells, colorful fish, sparkly gems, and ocean plants with lots of different textocean plants with lots of different textures.

Revelae Kids» Ocean Exploration Discovery Box introduces kids to a magical world of realistic looking sea creatures, sparkling gems, and colorful shells and ocean plOcean Exploration Discovery Box introduces kids to a magical world of realistic looking sea creatures, sparkling gems, and colorful shells and ocean plocean plants.

Prize: Ocean Exploration Discovery Box + set of Yummi Pouch cloth snack bags from Revelae Kids!

Ocean Exploration Discovery Box by Revelae Kids will introduce kids to a magical world of miniature sea creatures, sparkling gems and crystals, and colorful shells and ocean plOcean Exploration Discovery Box by Revelae Kids will introduce kids to a magical world of miniature sea creatures, sparkling gems and crystals, and colorful shells and ocean plocean plants.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

AGU president Margaret Leinen, also the director of Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, noted that this prize «has the opportunity to be a real game - changer for ocean exploration.

• In an editorial, Science Editor - in - Chief Marcia McNutt bemoans the pace of exploration of ocean ecosystems, which she says is «woefully inadequate» to establish a first - order baseline against which rapid changes can be measured.

The author offers a scientific and cultural history of the early exploration of the ocean depths and their biota.

Deepsea Challenger belongs to a generation of craft that are opening the ocean's extreme depths to direct exploration; if sea colonies are space stations, these are missions to Mars.

HEU is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is the main base for talents cultivation in the fields of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application and scientific research.

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

While Mars has long been the darling of NASA's robotic exploration efforts, in December astronomers revealed the first evidence that Europa is venting plumes of vapour into space — probably fed by the seemingly life - friendly ocean we think is present under the ice.

The work of Krech, Gerlache, Borchgravink, and Bruce had not yet been done; the examinations of the «Belgica,» the «Francais,» and the «Pourquoi Pas» had not yet made known the extension of Palmer Land to the southwestward along the southern confines of the Pacific Ocean; the explorations of the German Antarctic Expedition in the «Gauss» had not yet confirmed the conclusion of Wilkes that the long coast which he had discovered in 1840 extended still farther to the westward; the Antarctic Continent had not yet been entered at any point and consequently that acquaintance with the general topography which constitutes the first essential to the scientific investigation of a country was wholly wanting,

«The exploration of the world's oceans has just begun... the next generation of deep - sea explorers may actually see, for the first time, more of the Earth's solid surface than all previous generations combined.

P: I love space exploration, but I think that many people would be amazed to learn that only two human beings have ever gone to the deepest part of the ocean — the Mariana Trench — and that was more than 30 years ago.

Located in an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion - Clipperton Zone (CCZ), the plan honored existing mining exploration claims while protecting delicate habitats by creating a network of MPAs.

Goddio's explorations in the ocean have uncovered the queen's royal palace in the Mediterranean Sea, while Hawass's on land have found clues to her final resting place; along the way, both men have saved a plethora of priceless Egyptian artifacts.

Since the Kobe Ocean Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC) was established in 2015, the Center has carried out three survey voyages to the Kikai Caldera, south of Japan's main islands.

A report about U.S. oil and gas exploration in the Arctic published last month by the National Petroleum Council found most drilling opportunities under America's jurisdiction are less than 100 meters below the ocean's surface, more shallow - than - standard depths in other drill regions, like the Gulf of Mexico.

If I get unlimited resources, I would like to work on the exploration of ocean beds and the different forms of life that exist down there.

One of history's most famous tales of exploration began on May 14, 1804, when William Clark and his Corps of Discovery set off from the mouth of the Missouri River, beginning an epic 28 - month journey west to the shores of the Pacific Ocean.

Five or six years ago, the thought that he would be kicking around ideas about ocean exploration with the likes of Cameron and Page might have had Diamandis saying «wow» too, and not just about the company he now keeps.

Each candidate must target research priorities from a list set by the scientific community, which this time included a return to Venus; probing of Saturn or its ocean moons; exploration of the moon's south pole; or returning a sample from a comet, among other options.

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilOcean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilocean drilling.

NASA's future exploration of ocean worlds is enabled by Hubble's monitoring of Europa's putative plume activity and Cassini's long - term investigation of the Enceladus plume.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

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«Most of what's known about the bottom of the ocean has come from images shot miles up in the water column, and it's a relatively coarse data set,» Cameron said recently at roundtable discussion in New York City with WHOI scientists who design, build and operate manned and robotic deep - sea exploration vehicles.

His Medwin Prize Lecture (Vancouver Meeting) was titled «Acoustic explorations of the upper ocean boundary layer.»

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

magma ocean evolution on rocky exoplanets» by Laura Schaefer, postdoc, School of Earth and Space Exploration, ASU

Marine geological and geophysical exploration methods, ocean ridge processes, continental margin processes, slope stability, marine mineral resources, seafloor hydrothermal systems, acoustic imaging and quantification of hydrothermal flow

Although scientific exploration is continually advancing our knowledge of the deep ocean, it also reveals just how much there is still to discover and understand.