Sentences with phrase «only research vessel»

The Maurice Ewing, owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory (L - DEO), is the only research vessel devoted to obtaining images of the deep earth for fundamental earth science research.

Grimes's research department had the only research vessel, the R / V Pelican, on the scene until BP sent one in this week.

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Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Marine National Facility operates Australia's only blue - water research vessel dedicated to marine research throughout Australia's vast ocean territories.

New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that age (or age at diagnosis) and duration of diabetes disease are linked to the risk of death and marcovascular complications (those in larger blood vessels), whereas only diabetes duration is linked to the risk of microvascular complications (in smaller blood vessels such as those in the eyes).

«They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach.»»

More specifically, multilateral jointly funded calls for proposals, focusing on multidisciplinary research where different countries have complementary strengths, not only will expand the science envelope, but will also promote science as a vessel for carrying forth a harmonious world.

A problem in this research arena — called antiangiogenesis — has been finding a compound that is selective, closing off abnormal blood vessels only in the diseased organ while leaving all others intact.

Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain's existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between and along the brain's thousands of small blood vessels, new research shows for the first time.

We work to identify, research, and assess the significance of threats, not only for current issues, such as whale ship strikes and vessel pollution, but also to prepare for and deal with emerging issues.

With only one oceangoing research vessel, Australia lags behind many other countries in its ability to survey its large EEZ.

And he fears the state of the reef could be even worse than scientists realize, since only aerial surveys have been conducted to assess the damage and no research vessel is currently active on the reef to provide finer details.