Sentences with phrase «on polar research»

The COMNAP Fellowship recipients will carry out a project on topics of environmental policy and a technical project to understand ice loading on polar research vessels.

Not exact matches

When alarmists charged that the polar bear was being hunted to extinction, the outcry sent scientists like Lee Miller and Jack Lentfer (below) off across the ice on a rewarding research trail

So it's some measure of how stoked I am about reporting on polar science that I would happily sign up for such a daunting excursion to cover field research.

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

The Earth's polar regions are in peril as a result of climate change, speakers cautioned at a 16 June briefing on Capitol Hill, and solving the problem requires greater support for geoscience research.

Wallach and colleagues gathered research on the life cycles of more than a hundred species of mammalian carnivores — from polar bears and panthers to skunks and stoats — and documented examples of large predators that apparently regulate their own numbers.

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.

Greeley, chair of the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Europa Focus Group, sees promise in using the discoveries of polar research to understand the chemistry, physics, and biology that may exist on Europa.

Some of the people doing polar research these days have their feet on the frozen ground but their eyes on the skies.

Previous research has shown that plants at the highest elevations on mountains (and in the polar regions) have been shifting to adjust to global warming.

Update: The University of Alberta says that the «stop work» notice received on 13 July in relation to US government funding for a polar bear research project was lifted on 1 August.

Now new research shows that these eruptions on the sun's surface not only send bursts of energetic particles into Earth's atmosphere causing disturbances in the magnetic field, but they may also significantly decrease the number of free electrons over large areas in the polar region of the ionosphere — the ionized part of the upper atmosphere.

Besides, Austria can not contribute the required logistics to run a polar research station, meaning that we depend on invitations from nations already established in Antarctica.

A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at least six meters, or about 20 feet, above present levels on multiple occasions over the past three million years.

The team hopes future research will clarify the impacts of grizzly bear aggression on the polar bear population.

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.

While the ship will be named after famous naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, the popular suggestion of the contest — Boaty McBoatface — lives on in the form of an unmanned submersible that will support the research ship to explore parts of the polar regions inaccessible to humans.

As a case in point, the research on Knut led to the discovery that a herpesvirus of zebras is able to kill polar bears as documented in the Wuppertal Zoo, infecting Knut's father Lars, who survived the infection, and his partner, Jerka, who died from the infection.

We create and manage projects that focus on research in the polar regions as means to understand fundamental climate mechanisms, and to drive change towards a more sustainable society.

The International Polar Foundation actively supports polar scientific research, as well as championing informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

With an overall length of 66 m, this versatile and stable vessel is suited for research on both coastal seas and open oceans (except for the polar regions).

A dark red northern polar cap on Pluto's largest moon Charon may be caused by trapped gas, according to research published in Nature this week.

The Foundation supports polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

A project that has been in the making for four years and has involved contributions from countless numbers of dedicated people, the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station is the first polar research station designed to create zero carbon emissions by utilising a highly energy - efficient design and by running entirely on renewable wind and solar energies.

The International Polar Foundation conceives and implements ambitious projects to support polar scientific research, promote informed action on climate change, and drive development of a sustainable society.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

As the official Belgian Antarctic Operator, the Foundation ensures safe conditions for field research, provides cargo and personnel logistics, experienced polar guides, field accommodation and mobile laboratory facilities, and guarantees minimal impact on the Antarctic environment.

To begin fieldwork on the BENEMELT project, Jan Lenaerts will travel to the Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station in November 2014.

Topical sessions will include biological linkages from molecular to global scales, and include sessions on societal relevance of polar research.

SciencePoles also keep up to date with news on latest developments in Arctic and Antarctic research from both the natural and social sciences, and upcoming events and links to polar resources.

Located in the Dronning Maud Land region of East Antarctica, it is the first polar research station designed to run entirely on renewable energy sources (wind and solar).

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica, the first Zero Emission polar research station, was officially inaugurated five years ago, on the 15th of February 2009.

Alain founded The International Polar Foundation in 2002 in order to support polar scientific research for the advancement of knowledge, the promotion of informed action on climate change, and the development of a sustainable society.

With the freeze season already substantially delayed, there will be knock - on effects for next year's melt season, notes Prof Julienne Stroeve, professor of polar observation and modelling at University College London and senior research scientist at the NSIDC.

Tiny creatures on polar seabeds may be uniquely positioned to increase this service, and we are set to explore this new and exciting area of research to understand the role they have in slowing global climate change.

It will be the first UK polar research ship with a helipad and a number of on - board laboratories.

The program will include 65 sessions across 12 categories, including the session «Observing with autonomous vehicles in polar regions,» which focuses on topics such as scientific results from self - operating platforms and technological capabilities that assist research efforts in the polar environment.

Still, it all fits a by - now familiar picture of an Arctic warming up considerably faster than the mid-latitudes, with consequences that could extend far outside of the polar region, says Rafe Pomerance, a former deputy assistant secretary of state who sits on the National Academy of Sciences» Polar Research Board.

Twenty - five universities and research organizations jointly established a polar research center in Beijing on Sunday, with an aim to promote polar information sharing and research.

Like Conarium, this game takes place on an south polar research station, but instead of a first - person adventure, Distrust is a tactical RPG based heavily on John Carpenter's The Thing.

The Warmind expansion takes players to the Clovis Bray research facility located on Mars» polar ice cap.

A photograph of a polar bear standing balefully on a small ice floe was used to illustrate the letter from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences decrying attacks on climate research and pressing for swift action to blunt global warming.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

The trends on other sources of stress for polar bears seem to be in encouraging directions, with Russia introducing more control on hunting (illegal and legal) and research on potentially harmful industrial chemicals showing declines.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada's Hudson Bay reveals the species» adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns.

Could it be that Soon knew in 2003 of research that indicated that warming was having an effect on polar bears in Churchill?

Researchers Flee Stranded Bear - Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society had their field research on ecological impacts of eroding Arctic coasts near Prudhoe Bay interrupted by a polar bear that was stuck ashore because the sea ice in that part of Alaska was far offshore.

Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.