Sentences with phrase «of research cruises»

His PhD work included a number of research cruises in the South Pacific.

If I were to take a cruise, I would prefer that it be one of those research cruises, where the passengers, while still spending much of the day lying on their backs with blank minds, also get to help out with a scientist's research project.

Several of his colleagues compiled their measurements, taken at more than 40 stations during a series of research cruises last summer.

Fertilizing the ocean with iron could help reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, according to newly released findings of a research cruise.

On the last day of a research cruise off the coast of Antarctica this spring, Hamilton College marine geologist Eugene Domack and his team lowered a video camera overboard to capture images of the seafloor sediments they had been studying.

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Many cruise operators have drafted plans in anticipation of loosened travel restrictions, said Matthew Jacob, who follows the industry for ITG Investment Research in New York.

If this is the case for you, it's even more important to research boat style / vibe and make sure your cruise meets all (or most of) your needs.

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.

These are the results of the recently concluded monitoring cruises of SYKE research vessels Aranda and Muikku.

It was typically warm in Key Largo last August as staffers prepared to cruise out to Aquarius aboard the George F. Bond, NOAA's 46 - foot research boat that's named for the father of Sealab.

She calls, in particular, for the expanded use of autonomous platforms, telepresence — i.e., allowing scientists to participate in research cruises via satellite links — and crowd - sourcing («citizen science») approaches.

A team of scientists happened to be in the area on a research cruise when they detected the beginning of the plankton bloom.

The researchers produced a global model of DVM depths and oxygen depletion by mining acoustic oceanic data collected by 389 American and British research cruises between 1990 and 2011.

One of those was a young postdoctoral research fellow named Sheena Josselyn, a petite, red - haired native of Ohio with a passion for pop culture icons like Jerry Seinfeld and Tom Cruise.

Before a brutal 10 - week research cruise in the Southern Ocean in 2009, oceanographer Victor Smetacek, a co-leader of the expedition, encouraged scientists to bring swimsuits for the ship's sauna and small swimming pool.

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Toby Walsh, a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, who organized the boycott, fears that the research will be applied to autonomous weapons, which can include unmanned flying drones or submarines, cruise missiles, autonomously operated sentry guns, or battlefield robots.

Gioia's team first noticed something odd off West Africa on a 2001 research cruise, when they observed a spike in the concentration of seven of the most important PCBs — the so - called ICES set.

But U.S. officials have long held that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea specifically allows military ships to conduct research cruises within a nation's EEZ (although civilian research cruises need to get permission from the host country).

To gauge how acidification might be affecting the Pacific, biological oceanographer Nina Bednaršek of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Seattle and colleagues collected pteropods at 13 sites during a 2011 research cruise between Washington and southern California.

Concern about a possible eruption has grown since 2010, when research cruises over the shelf by Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, both now at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, found plumes of methane as much as a kilometre wide bubbling to the surface.

«This expedition would not have been so successful without the hard work and collaboration of all the scientists from Cuba and the United States who participated in the cruise,» said John K. Reed, chief scientist and research professor at FAU's Harbor Branch.

Now marine scientists who recently returned from a research cruise in the Gulf of Mexico say they have preliminary evidence that a new technique using sonar may be able to track undersea oil plumes far faster and better, although they caution that it is too soon to say whether the technique will succeed.

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► Science usually doesn't cover announcements of fancy new cruise ships — unless it's a $ 340 million polar research ship, like the one announced last Friday by U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

An expeditionary cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI) research vessel Falkor leaves on March 10 for open - ocean sea trials of MBARI's newly - designed LRAUVs.

After 5 days of cruising along the peninsula, with excellent weather and many more breathtaking views, we finally arrived at Rothera Research Station, my home for the next 30 months.

The $ 3 - million cruise is part of a post-Cold War trend of using the Pentagon's assets such as spy satellites and submarines for environmental research.

In 2006, for instance, Taylor joined an international research team that cruised China's Yangtze River in search of the baiji, an endangered freshwater dolphin.

The north Atlantic Ocean is globally important, as it is a sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide, said Eric Achterberg, chief scientist for the research cruise and lead author of the study.

In March, the team tested the autonomous mission - planning system during a research cruise off the western coast of Australia.

In this image, killer whales cruise past the scene of their attack on another whale, spotted by a NOAA Fisheries research survey late last year.

Such a system could also reduce the size of the operational team needed on research cruises.

In 2009, AWI scientists conducted a research cruise in the west Pacific, where strong thunderstorms push air from the troposphere up to the stratosphere, serving as a main source of air for the upper layer.

Even in the absence of oil and gas exploration, the Arctic's rapidly intensifying traffic — whether from barges, research ships, oil tankers, or passenger cruises — makes oil spills increasingly likely.

To decipher what was happening, a team led by marine ecologist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia in Athens, analyzed methane concentrations and methane consumption rates that the researchers had recorded during 10 research cruises, one conducted in March 2010, before the spill, and the rest conducted between May and December 2010.

UNOLS is seeking applications from early career scientists at U.S. universities who are interested in participating in an oceanographic research cruise that will continue an investigation of a chain of seamounts west of the East Pacific Rise at 8 ° 20» N followed by a detailed survey the East Pacific Rise ~ 9 ° 50» N that last erupted in 2005 - 2006.

Acquired in 1994, the ice - capable Chinese research vehicle23 Xuelong («Snow - Dragon») has since carried out regular Arctic research cruises, including international teams of scientists.

Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, and two WUSTL students were cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson.

The video of the humbolt squid is also from this recent cruise and it provided graciously by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

All of these photographs were taken by Sophia Tintori during a research cruise last year, except the control room photograph, which was taken by Stefan Siebert on a cruise earlier this month.

This position will involve multiple research cruises to the Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea, where the candidate is expected to learn a variety of field sampling techniques and novel oceanographic underwater technologies.

Today is the last cruise of the year for the ROV collection of deep water cephalopods for both public display and research; the forecast is for calm seas and our quarry is the Flapjack octopus (Opisthotheusis sp).

The most successful research cruises are typically the ones that are planned early, with an awareness of both the big picture and the fine details.

It's worth researching different cruise lines to make sure they will meet your expectations but also because many cruise lines cater to all sorts of dietary restrictions, preferences, and allergies.

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