Sentences with phrase «of polar scientists»

IMBIE is an international collaboration of polar scientists, providing improved estimates of the ice sheet contribution to sea level rise.

Last week, at a New Orleans conference center that once doubled as a storm shelter for thousands during Hurricane Katrina, a group of polar scientists made a startling declaration: The Arctic as we once knew it is no more.

«The International Polar Foundation is once again proud to support the work of polar scientists who make the journey to Antarctica to help us better understand the the Earth and and its mechanisms.»

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, 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.

On Thursday, Ruch's watchdog group plans to file a complaint with the agency on Monnett's behalf, asserting that Obama administration officials have «actively persecuted» him in violation of policy intended to protect scientists from political interference... In May 2008, the U.S. classified the polar bear as a threatened species, the first with its survival at risk due to global warming.

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.

Scientists with Cassini's radar investigation will be looking this week at their final set of new radar images of the hydrocarbon seas and lakes that spread across Titan's north polar region.

Morris uses the information she gathers on these trips to check the accuracy of data collected by a European satellite, Cryosat - 2, that tracks changes in the thickness of polar ice — information that tells scientists how quickly that ice is thawing.

New robots undergoing field tests could expand scientists» access to polar regions and improve understanding of climate change

Scientists currently can't use much of the information collected by geostationary satellites, which sit above a particular location on Earth, and polar - orbiting satellites, which swing around the planet's poles.

Scientists at UCL have observed how a widespread polar wind is driving gas from the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan.

The goal of the workshop is to identify gaps in scientists» knowledge, emerging questions in polar science and strategies for future research, Priscu said.

Scientists now believe that the projected decreases in the polar sea ice due to global warming will have a significant negative impact or even lead to extinction of this species within this century.

Colder temperatures and weaker high - altitude winds may make the arctic polar vortex even more intense in future winters and trigger greater ozone loss, says atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, although the losses probably won't approach those in Antarctica.

The northern polar region's climate has materially changed over the past five years, a team of 121 scientists from 14 nations concludes in a December 1 Arctic report card.

In this study, scientists evaluated high - resolution satellite imagery to track the distribution and abundance of polar bears on a small island in northern Canada in an attempt to develop a tool to monitor these difficult to reach populations.

«I was very happy to see this new work by Kite and Rubin that brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice: the pumping of water in and out of the deep fractures of the south polar ice shell by tidal action,» said Carolyn Porco, head of Cassini's imaging science team and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus.

«It's the kind of integrated study that we absolutely need to understand how the planet works and how it's changing,» says Robin Bell, a polar scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

Jupiter's radiation belts prevent ground - based telescopes from seeing deeper, and so scientists are relying on Juno's daring, swooping polar orbit to provide one of the first views into the deep underworld of Jupiter's atmosphere.

The vast polar structure — a plane of satellite galaxies at the poles of the Milky Way — is at the center of a tug - of - war between scientists who disagree about the existence of mysterious dark matter, the invisible substance that, according to some scientists, comprises 85 percent of the mass of the universe.

By calibrating what scientists call the molecular clock — the hypothesis that mutation occurs at a predictable rate — to the panda separation 12 million years ago, one group of researchers suggests the polar bear's appearance as a species is a relatively recent phenomenon.

«So far, I believe the benefits (of Arctic warming) outweigh the potential problems,» said Oleg Anisimov, a Russian scientist who co-authored a chapter about the impacts of climate change in polar regions for a U.N. report on global warming this year.

If the melting of the polar ice caps injects great amounts of freshwater into the world's oceans, climate scientists fear that the influx could affect currents enough to drastically change the weather on land

By analyzing the genomes of 28 bears — polar bears, including a roughly 120,000 - year - old specimen from Norway's Svalbard archipelago, as well as modern brown bears and black bears — the scientists in effect read back in time to a common ancestor at least four million years ago.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced today that he will retain the Bush administration's controversial rule on polar bear protections, rejecting special authority given to him by Congress and the pleas of Democratic lawmakers, environmentalists and scientists to overturn the regulation.

Fox accompanies a team of NASA scientists as they drive a refurbished orange Humvee across a frozen channel in the Canadian High Arctic, facing melting sea ice, mechanical breakdown, and the threat of marauding polar bears.

With the NSF office of polar programs, Manahan endeavored to design a course that would bring the classroom to Antarctica, simultaneously educating young scientists about Antarctic biology and inspiring them to return as funded scientists.

Scientists believe volcanoes pumped carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere, causing a greenhouse effect and a period of extraordinary polar heat.

GLITTERING across the briny surface of newly formed sea ice, frost flowers are as bewitching to polar scientists as Homer's sirens — luring them and their instrument - laden sleds to the treacherous boundary between ice and sea.

Many human communities want answers about the current status and future of Arctic marine mammals, including scientists who dedicate their lives to study them and indigenous people whose traditional ways of subsistence are intertwined with the fate of species such as ice seals, narwhals, walruses and polar bears.

Clementine used radar to detect the signature of water in the permanently - shadowed South polar region, which scientists thought was the most likely place to look for water.

«This research would not have been possible without support from NASA,» said Kristin Laidre, lead author of the new study and a polar scientist with University of Washington in Seattle.

«You have closer communication than ever among the global science community now,» says Robin E. Bell, a polar research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

Although scientists have analysed gases from tiny bubbles trapped in ice cores drilled in polar ice caps, there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped (see New Scientist, Science, 22 August).

«These species are not only icons of climate change, but they are indicators of ecosystem health, and key resources for humans,» said lead author Kristin Laidre, a polar scientist with the UW Applied Physics Laboratory.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

The precarious state of those mammals is underscored in a multinational study led by a University of Washington scientist, published this week in Conservation Biology, assessing the status of all circumpolar species and subpopulations of Arctic marine mammals, including seals, whales and polar bears.

In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for Science's Next Wave, writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic climate.

The annual Arctic Science Conference will, when opportune, combine with a meeting of oneof the societies, institutions, unions or other organizations of scientists of the United States or of foreign counterparts of the Association concerned with the polar regions.

In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the subterranean city under the guise of conducting polar research — and scientists there did drill the first ice core ever used to study climate.

He set about some polar exploring of his own, looking at the idea of citizen journalism as an education tool and the extent to which scientists achieve an unmediated form of communication through their blogging.

The reason that scientists are looking for life in this area is that it is thought to be the place on Earth that most closely resembles the permafrost found in the northern polar region of Mars at the Phoenix landing site.

The scientists said drilling on the coastal plain would be particularly harmful because it contains a «unique compression» of habitats supporting animals like polar bears, grizzly bears, wolverines, representing «the greatest wildlife diversity of any protected area above the Arctic Circle.»

It yielded fundamental insights into the physics of northern polar clouds, and AWARE scientists hope that their project will do the same for the south.

For the past eight years, Operation IceBridge, a NASA mission that conducts aerial surveys of polar ice, has produced unprecedented three - dimensional views of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets, providing scientists with valuable data on how polar ice is changing in a warming world.

The paper draws a convincing connection between the intensification of the Amundsen Sea low - pressure system and increasing snow accumulation, said David Bromwich, a polar weather and climate scientist with the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center at Ohio State University in Columbus, who was not an author on the new paper.

Mount Belinda has begun erupting beneath its thick cover of polar ice, allowing scientists their first chance to examine an Antarctic lava flow in action.

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

The 2nd Young Scientists Meeting is being hosted by the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research (NCAOR), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES, Government of India), which is a nodal organization for implementation of Indian polar research programmes.

But polar scientists say there is still much to learn about what drives the behavior of Antarctic sea ice, which is quite different than its Arctic cousin.