Sentences with phrase «on oceanography»

In fact, I do have one or two of my own research projects that I still manage to keep going, in a small way as well, particularly on oceanography.

A meeting on oceanography and marine meteorology held by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has been moved to Geneva, Switzerland, from its initial venue in Bali, following an increase in the volcanic activity of Mount Agung.

A meeting on oceanography and marine meteorology held by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

Year 10 Geography students wrote a Geography textbook based on oceanography.

«This has a very strong potential influence on oceanography use in general,» he said.

Not exact matches

With a Masters in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she has experienced firsthand the devastating impacts of commercial seafood production on the oceans.

Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light on how it changed a coral's community of algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur more frequently in the future.

I was working on the history of oceanography, and came across the work of Roger Revelle, Dave Keeling and others who'd been working on climate change since the 1950s.

NPS programs include engineering, acoustics, nanomaterials, sensor development, robotics, power and propulsion studies, oceanography, meteorology, and space systems; there's even a program focused on free electron lasers.

Researchers from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and the universities of Southern California and Hawaii, among others, are on the scientific operations team.

How rare is it to participate on a research team spanning many scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, genetics, oceanography, paleontology, and planetary science?

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.

Then again, he says, he might look for another adventure altogether: «I might have to see if I can get on one of those oceanography research programs.»

«We've known for a while now that permafrost is thawing,» said Suzanne Hodgkins, the lead author on the paper and a doctoral student in chemical oceanography at Florida State.

On the flip side, Jeffrey Bada, an organic geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, can not imagine soft tissue surviving millions of years.

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.

According to a new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, a large earthquake on one fault can trigger large aftershocks on separate faults within just a few minutes.

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.

• On ScienceInsider Jeffrey Mervis interviews Jamie Collins, a third - year graduate student in chemical oceanography.

Rabalais team - teaches biological oceanography at Louisiana State University, and continues her own research on Mississippi River - Gulf of Mexico interactions, forming the world's second largest dead zone.

Every year, WHOI offers select journalists a chance to learn about oceanography at a weeklong, on - site workshop.

This is according to emergency ocean model simulations run by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and The University of Southampton to assess the potential impact of local ocean circulation on the spread of pollutants.

Meanwhile, collaborators Dave Keeling and Stephen Piper of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, charted annual variations in atmospheric CO2 stored or released by tropical plants on land.

Leading this research, Dr Katya Popova, from the National Oceanography Centre, said «Oil spills can have a devastating effect on the marine environment and on coastal communities.

To the researchers» surprise, as Turner reported here on 11 June at a meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, the fatty acids were stamped with the phytoplankton signature.

► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»

The first author of this study, Jeremiah Minich, a graduate student working on his thesis in Knight's lab and in the lab of Eric E. Allen, PhD, associate professor at UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, swabbed each of these sites while wearing protective gowning and gloves to avoid unintentional contamination of the environments.

Clockwise from top left i) Plastic bag recorded by an OFOS at the HAUSGARTEN observatory (Arctic) at 2500 m; ii = Litter recovered within the net of a trawl in Blanes open slope at 1500 m during the PROMETO 5 cruise on board the R / V «García del Cid»; iii) Cargo net entangled in a cold - water coral colony at 950 m in Darwin Mound with the ROV «Lynx» (National Oceanography Centre, UK).

Researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, suggest that high levels of carbon monoxide in the seals» blood has a protective effect — echoing laboratory research on rats and mice that has found the gas has anti-inflammatory properties and can lead to better outcomes after organ transplant.

«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.

During World War II, Munk and Harald Sverdrup, then director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, developed a method to predict surf conditions on beaches — an important tool for military amphibious landings.

Jennifer Taylor of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography also shared research on how ocean warming and acidification impairs the structure and function of crustaceans.

in marine studies at the University of Plymouth, in which I focused mainly on physical oceanography.

A new Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego - led study measured a melt rate that is 25 times higher than expected on one part of the Ross Ice Shelf.

But also this season, a US team led by climatologist Jeffrey Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, will test the $ 10.5 - million Rapid Access Ice Drill (also abbreviated RAID) at Minna Bluff, near the US McMurdo Station on Ross Island.

Other collaborators on the international project include Liqi Chen, the Chinese lead - PI and scientist with the Third Institute of Oceanography of State Oceanic Administration of China; and scientists at Xiamen University, China and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, among other institutions.

As Hudson Pinheiro, a researcher from the Department of Oceanography and Ecology at the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Brazil, explains: «Populations of this new species have been isolated in the archipelago for a long time due to the distance from the coast, and have developed clear differences in comparison with other «sibling» species living on the continental margin.»

«We had very good details on where the fish in 2007 had been found, but very little other information to go on,» says Greg Rouse from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, who led the expedition to the remote Archipelago of the Recherche.

«We were quite surprised at how massive, how thick this haze layer was,» says co-chief scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, «and that it cut down on the sunlight going into the ocean by as much as 10 percent.»

I heard the news of the first landing on Mars, achieved by Viking 1, as an oceanography student out at sea in 1976.

Lissette Victorero, the PhD - student who led this research, from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the University of Southampton, said «The approaches used in the study have previously mainly been used to investigate ecosystems on land.

Stout infantfish were captured in a plankton net on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a field researcher in 1979, then overlooked for more than two decades until H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and William Watson of the National Marine Fisheries Service, realized they were an unknown species.

Willenbring, now an associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California, had alleged, in a lengthy complaint filed with BU in October 2016, and reported on by Science last month, that Marchant also physically harassed her, throwing stones at her while she was urinating, blowing volcanic ash in her eyes, and pushing her down a steep, rocky slope several times.

I did my third - year and honours projects examining biomarker lipids from fish and sediments and spent a summer studentship at the CSIRO Division of Oceanography in Hobart working on analysis of metals in seawater.

It could be 10 to 30 percent,» said Tim Barnett of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who published a report on the Colorado River in 2009.

For 14 years, scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, used a camera on a sled to study a stretch of seafloor 2 1/2 miles down.

Today the effect of NF3 on climate is just 0.04 percent that of carbon dioxide, but its role could grow dramatically if more manufacturers start using it, says study author Ray Weiss, a geochemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Natural Resources Defense Council's blog has continuous information on newly funded water - related projects, on issues including oceanography and health / environment.

«This is going to be a sea change in our understanding,» says Lynn Russell, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and a co-principal investigator on AWARE.

The monthly peak is certainly still ahead of us,» says Ralph Keeling, a geochemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California who measures atmospheric CO2 every day at Mauna Loa and other stations, carrying on the work his father started in 1958.