Sentences with phrase «of oceanographers»

The team of oceanographers, whale biologists and avian ecologists are participating in the annual Palmer Long Term Ecological Research (PAL LTER) research cruise, which surveys a 180,000 - square - kilometer region of the Southern Ocean along the West Antarctic Peninsula each year.

A new study by an international team of oceanographers published in the September 29, 2005 issue of Nature reports that ocean acidification could result in corrosive chemical conditions much sooner than previously thought.

Millions of stations are dismissed as «negligible» — the work of generations of oceanographers vanish with a journalist's stroke of a pen because what should not exist, can not be.

We open at the Loquasto International Film Festival, a fictional event in Italy where Steve Zissou and his team of oceanographers are premiering their latest in a long line of sea documentaries.

To visualize and analyze data we used MATLAB and Ferret, a interactive computer visualization and analysis environment designed to meet the needs of oceanographers and meteorologists analyzing large and complex gridded data sets.

Seeking the way of observing complex ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity and the biogeochemical modulation in a globally integrated manner is a challenging task of oceanographers» community.

Adrian Marchetti and his team of oceanographers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have identified — for the first time — that a protein called proteorhodopsin could allow a major group of phytoplankton to survive in iron - limited regions of the ocean.

«It's a bomblike event,» says Baker, who was among a group of oceanographers who discovered the phenomenon in 1986.

For instance, before the 2005 hurricane season, a Bermuda cat - bond hedge fund called Nephila found a team of oceanographers in Rhode Island called Accurate Environmental Forecasting, whose forecasts of hurricane seasons had been surprisingly good.

The STPF family is deeply saddened by the passing on June 22 of oceanographer and developmental ecologist Diane Adams, 2012 - 13 Executive Branch Fellow at the Agency for International Development.

Remind students that part of an oceanographer's job is to do research and to teach other people about the ocean.

Life in the Ocean: The Story of Oceanographer Sylvia Earle.

I've also seen reminiscences of an oceanographer [Stevenson] talking about taking measurements in a research ship with steel buckets in the 1950s, so I'm not sure how realistic this assumption is.

Along the walls of Oceanographer Canyon, fish dart in and out of colorful anemone gardens and sea creatures send up plumes of sand and mud as they burrow.

Not exact matches

But the reason we don't know for sure yet is this: The ocean currents work like a pinball machine, swirling and scattering items that may have landed there hundreds of miles apart, in weeks, Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, told the Christian Science Monitor.

When the firm was working on a project for Red Lobster, it invited Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who discovered the wreck of the Titanic; he helped the team explore the association between its corporate identity and mankind's eternal fascination with the ocean.

They settled on an area south of the Mediterranean Sea where some oceanographers say a branch of the Nile River drained into what was called the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago.

Maybe it's from a customer who claims they've ordered something that hasn't arrived but you have no record of the sale, an «oceanographer» who needs an item sent to an oil rig, or someone asking about alternative ways to pay.

Physical oceanographer Noel Pelland and colleagues compared the migrations of 168 seal pups tagged in five different years from 1996 to 2015 with winds matching the pups» first migration years.

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.

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.

Oceanographer and filmmaker Jean - Michel Cousteau writes in the book that «90 percent of commercially harvested large fish species are gone from the sea as a result of overfishing... I am forced to conclude that we are doing everything in our power to eliminate fish from the sea.»

«Previously this monster, Atlantic warm water, was well covered from the surface» by the CHL, says Igor Polyakov, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, who led the study.

«That was a wake - up call for all of us,» says Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

And that's why it's exciting,» said Elisabeth Sikes, an oceanographer at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University who discussed the paper in an accompanying «News and Views» piece in Nature.

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Richard Brodeur, a NOAA fisheries oceanographer and author on the study, said that while most of these fish will adapt to their new surroundings, some will move into less habitable waters with perhaps less available food.

Geneticists and information scientists have built and are building models for the transition of organic molecules to self - replicating living organisms, based on theories of Earth's early development provided by astronomers, geologists, and oceanographers and on the evidence of fossilized microorganisms discovered by paleontologists.

Seattle - based oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking huge gyres of trash in the ocean for two decades and runs the Beachcombers» Alert website, thinks the majority of tsunami debris will reach U.S. shores as early as October 2012.

When confronted with the difficulties of space exploration, oceanographers tend to have a snappy retort.

The planet's oceans absorb a large measure of that CO2, but oceanographers aren't sure exactly how much.

University of Washington oceanographers used clues from the Galapagos Islands — a dot in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — to trace El Niño patterns and seasonal tropical rains over the past 2,000 years.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

John Delaney was among the first oceanographers to grasp the potential power of cabled observatories.

Viewing the streaming video from Wally in his lab at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany, oceanographer Laurenz Thomsen follows numbered signs protruding out of the sediment like bread crumbs to drive Wally back home after a day out in the field.

In August 2015, University of Delaware oceanographer Andreas Muenchow and colleagues deployed the first UD ocean sensors underneath Petermann Glacier in North Greenland, which connects the great Greenland ice sheet directly with the ocean.

Using direct measurements and computer models, oceanographer Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and his colleagues calculated that acid rain causes as much as 50 percent of the acidification of coastal waters, where the pH can be as low as 7.6.

Oceanographers started buzzing about the idea of cabled observatories more than two decades ago.

«We are still on a one - way street of losing ice,» said James Overland, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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.

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

The team's acoustic monitoring was «extremely significant» while the wellhead was being closed, says Kathryn Moran, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

Fish and other sea life can not survive in such waters — and this expansion reduces the area where fish can thrive, says oceanographer Janet Sprintall of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who also coauthored the study.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

But no one had seen large numbers of them in action until 2007, when Benoit - Bird — an Oregon State University oceanographer — found a way to use sonar to probe the 3,000 - foot depths of the squid's stomping grounds in the Sea of Cortez.

On March 5, oceanographers mourned the passing of a cherished colleague: an undersea robot affectionately known as ABE (short for Autonomous Benthic Explorer).

The potential for harm is huge, says Jota Kanda, an oceanographer at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology who monitors radionuclide distribution in sediments and biota off Fukushima.