Sentences with phrase «of research expeditions»

Scientists had used the Knorr, a 244 - foot steel - hulled research vessel that was operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for thousands of research expeditions around the world, including one that led to the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

Antje Boetius was a young biogeochemist aboard one of the research expeditions off Oregon in 1999.

Inquire at a university or museum about a guest speaker who has been part of a research expedition.

Not exact matches

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

Our second lunar expedition will utilize our MX - 2 exploration system to establish a research outpost on a «peak of eternal light» at the Moon's South Pole, where direct solar energy and communications with Earth are possible.

You can be part of Chuck's team in the Bahamas in two ways: Sign up for Shedd's next iguana research expedition or support his 20 - years - and - counting conservation fieldwork for these endangered species through a generous donation to our annual fund.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

«These trips have a real feeling of exploring the frontier in a way that research expeditions on land perhaps no longer provide, in part because the terrain and the animals that are encountered are so often unfamiliar and surprising,» says Webster.

At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.

This 1993 photo of a crew tying up minke whales during a Japanese «research» expedition helped spark a global outcry and court action.

There are no press releases on the website of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the government agency that oversees the country's polar science expeditions.

A research project called the Arctic Coring Expedition linked to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project headed north, hoping to find traces of this phenomenon to explain how it had happened.

In this episode, the J. Craig Venter Institute's senior computational biologist Douglas Rusch talks about the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition's genomic treasure hunt and the first batch of research results that just came out.

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.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

Mountains are not climbed alone, and research is not done in a vacuum; if the expedition leader or PI doesn't know how to choose and get the most out of team members, a project has little chance of success.

The bicycle contraption, designed by an ex-cop who is the brother of the expedition's base manager, Simon Garrod, is a crucial element of research equipment for the members of the survey, who are braving temperatures that rarely top - 35 °C to unlock the secrets of the Arctic's disappearing sea ice.

This photo was made during an expedition of the German research icebreaker Polarstern into the central Arctic Ocean.

A scientific expedition in Panama in the early 2000s, also led by WHOI scientists, led to the construction of the «Liquid Jungle Lab» on a remote island to enhance oceanographic research.

(Read Douglas Fox's story about this research expedition in «The Ground Zero of Climate Change,» DISCOVER, September 2008.)

Over the last decade, the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the «acidified» water in the upper water column.

Through his letters, available online for the first time, he tells us of his research, expeditions and enduring fascination for nature's mysteries.

«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.

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

The Pine Island Glacier expedition deployed multiple, unique sensor packages, developed by NPS Research Professor Tim Stanton, through 500 meters of solid ice to determine exactly how quickly warm water was melting the massive glacier from beneath.

«To maximize the scientific return of the expeditions, we shared the video with deep - sea biologists, whose research led to this publication.

To figure out how much refuse is floating in those garbage patches, four ships of the Malaspina expedition, a global research project studying the oceans, fished for plastic across all five major ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

A second week of delay meant our research objectives just could not be safely achieved — the challenge for us all was that the marine ice hazards were exceedingly difficult for the maritime industry, the CCG, and science,» says Dr. David Barber, Expedition Chief Scientist and BaySys Scientific Lead.

The published data are based on three expeditions of the German research vessel METEOR, which took place off Peru between November 2012 and March 2013.

Albert Estrada of the Institute for Forestry Research in Havana and Blair Hedges of Pennsylvania State University discovered four of the miniature frogs — three males and a female — during an expedition in 1993.

Funding for the research expedition and for the development of Sentry came from National Science Foundation grants (#OCE -1036843, #OCE -1030453 and #OCE -1031050).

The DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition will travel to the Southern Ocean aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross, departing Punta Arenas in Chile on Friday 17 March.

He also discusses the expedition's scientific findings in the context of subsequent research in oceanography, marine geology, and ecology.

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

The international research team led by the University of Tasmania and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry and the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason to explore, map, and collect erupted materials from the Havre volcano during a 2015 expedition.

Faruk's first experience of doing research abroad was volunteering for Operation Wallacea, an organisation that runs expeditions for biologists in some of the most remote parts of the world.

Not all research is hypothesis - driven, but a hypothesis helps focus a proposal and avoids the appearance of a fishing expedition.

The expedition was part of a 10 - year research project called the Census of Marine Life, a loose collaboration of more than 2,000 researchers from 80 countries who are organizing dozens of expeditions to all corners of the planet.

Close to ten years ago, researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) caught «Calvin the Cod» and hauled him out of the cold Arctic waters during an oceanographic expedition to the Barents Sea and the northern coast of Norway and the Lofoten archipelago.

Imagine the McDonald's Australia Antarctic Expedition or perhaps the launch of Australia's new research vessel, the Microsoft Australis.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Meanwhile, volcanologist Scott Bryan of Kingston University in London was gunning for a research expedition to the island before it disappeared.

The dive was part of DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, a joint scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep - ocean research.

An oceanographic mooring is being deployed by the crew of research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN during the expedition MSM54 into the Labrador and Irminger Sea.

A team of four scientists from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research's (NIPR) JARE - 55 expedition are due to arrive at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica this week.

Since 2009, Belgian - Japanese scientific expeditions have stayed at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station in search of meteorites.