Sentences with phrase «of ocean scientists»

The question of century - scale shifts, now a main topic in climatology, came to rest on the desks of ocean scientists.

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

Scientists have found the two substances can be toxic to coral, which are a vital part of the ocean ecosystem and a popular draw for tourists.

On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

Because there is no human crew, they can go to hard - to - reach and difficult environments to collect data and help scientists gain a better view of the state of ocean health and the changing climate.

So although scientists have an estimate of the plane's flight path via its satellite data, they still have to trace any remains they find using the data they have on ocean currents and wind.

The pattern the water circulation forms in that region is called the Indian Ocean Gyre, one of five of the major ocean gyres of the world that scientists have identified soOcean Gyre, one of five of the major ocean gyres of the world that scientists have identified soocean gyres of the world that scientists have identified so far.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

While this is not as exciting a find as the planet covered with oceans of oil that everyone was hoping scientists would find, maybe the promise of untold riches is just the incentive NASA needs to get its space program in gear.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Before Fisheries and Oceans hired a librarian to dispose of the library's contents, the collection duly reflected the importance of freshwater in the nation's geography, say scientists.

In a move that stunned and appalled scientists around the world the Harper government laid off as many as 40 scientists associated with the legendary program working out the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Winnipeg's office.

Last week the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, which is closing five of its seven libraries, allowed scientists, consultants and members of the public to scavenge through what remained of Eric Marshall Library belonging to the Freshwater Institute at the University of Manitoba.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

, examine the flawed, conjectured hypothesises that Charles Darwin started - then jump on the wagon as the flight of fancy takes YOU to where ever YOU wishto go - YOU are in control, YOU create what you want, the laws of nature are at YOUR fingertips, why YOU can probably create a tree, or fill an ocean - freeze the polar icecaps — Lets all bow to YOU MR. SCIENTIST.

Charles Monnett, an Anchorage - based scientist with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, or BOEMRE, was told July 18 that he was being put on leave, pending results of an investigation into «integrity issues.»

Some scientists estimate that, the way we're going, the world's oceans will be empty of fish by 2048.

Leading scientists give their thoughts on the world's relentless pursuit of fish, and how consumers and the commercial fisheries sector are emptying oceans across the world of life.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, ocean waters are expected to rise between 10 inches and 2 feet by the end of the century.

Did you know that in 2014, over two years ago, scientists estimated CONSERVATIVELY that there were at least 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans.

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

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).

Scientists didn't want to contaminate those satellites — Titan and Enceladus — precisely because of what Cassini had revealed: They weren't barren balls, but ones with oceans, water, internal energy and nutritious chemicals.

Scientists don't fully understand what's driving Jupiter's strongest auroras, but data gathered by the orbiting Juno spacecraft hint that the electrons generating Jupiter's polar glows may be accelerated by turbulent waves in the planet's magnetic field — a process somewhat akin to surfers being driven shoreward ahead of breaking ocean waves, the researchers report today in Nature.

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Thanks to Swarm's precise measurements along with those from Champ — a mission that ended in 2010 after measuring Earth's gravity and magnetic fields for more than 10 years — scientists have not only been able to find the magnetic field generated by ocean tides but, remarkably, they have used this new information to image the electrical nature of Earth's upper mantle 250 km below the ocean floor.

«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.

Roger Haagmans, ESA's Swarm mission scientist, explained, «It's astonishing that the team has been able to use just two years» worth of measurements from Swarm to determine the magnetic tidal effect from the ocean and to see how conductivity changes in the lithosphere and upper mantle.

Cassini scientist Luciano Iess at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, and colleagues have now mapped Enceladus's gravity and shown that it has a crescent - shaped ocean, holding about as much water as Lake Superior in North America.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

A researcher from the University of Southampton will join an international team of scientists, setting sail from Southampton today (26 October 2015) for the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, to drill rocks that were once part of the Earth's mantle.

The project was coordinated by Stephen Pacella, an EPA scientist who also is a doctoral student in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

«Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that — unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future — there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.

Climate scientists have suspected — but never been able to prove — that the CO2 was the result of a huge belch of gas from the oceans.

«It's a way to utilize an available resource instead of discarding it into the ocean, where it's instantly no longer of use as freshwater,» says environmental health scientist Kellogg Schwab, who directs the Center for Water and Health at Johns Hopkins University.

To discover the origin of the oceans, scientists are investigating our solar system's farthest reaches and earliest moments

Performance upgrades include new buoyancy foam that can withstand the 9,552 pounds per square inch of pressure that exists four miles down — giving scientists access to 98 percent of the ocean.

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.

Civilian researchers have signed an agreement with the U.S. Navy to revive a dormant program that uses the vessels to collect information on parts of the Arctic's ice and ocean that normally lie beyond scientists» reach

Based on modeling results by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which predicted that Pacific Ocean temperatures would rise by 1 degree Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) over the next 50 years, a Canadian and U.S. team of scientists examined the distributional changes of 28 species of fish including salmon, herring, certain species of sharks, anchovies, sardines and more northern fish like pollock.

Changes in ocean salinity, nutrient runoff and other pollution can cause small - scale bleaching, but scientists say the widespread global bleaching this year is a symptom of unusual ocean warming.

Scientists blame unusually warm ocean temperatures this year for the mass devastation of the world's corals

A growing fleet of ocean gliders and other monitors need power, and a suite of scientists are seeking ways to generate it undersea

While most scientists were focusing on the possibility of life in Europa's ocean, he and Bada had been talking about what biochemistry might happen in the 10 - mile - thick layer of ice atop the ocean.

Just about every naturally occurring element churns through the earth's oceans, yet scientists have only a glimmer of understanding of how these chemicals influence marine ecosystems.

Atmospheric scientists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg have now found an explanation that could significantly improve the interpretation of ice cores.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

Although no one can say for certain whether the subsurface ocean supplies the water that has been seen spraying out of the tiger stripes on Enceladus's surface, the scientists say that it is possible.

Scientists have long used ocean color remote sensing to measure these particles in surface waters, and now, they will be able to reliably calculate concentrations of these particles through the water column.