Sentences with phrase «physical oceanographer»

Povl Abrahamsen, Physical Oceanographer at the British Antarctic Survey, explained: «At the start of one mission, whilst diving, Boaty encountered a swarm of krill so dense that the sub's echo sounders thought it was approaching the seabed although it was only at 80m depth, and returned to the surface.

These scientists include glaciologists who specialize in sea ice; chemical and physical oceanographers who are looking at changes in CO2, iron cycling, chlorofluorocarbons, and ocean circulation; biologists who are working with krill, squid, seals, or whales; as well as other microbiologists looking at the bacterial and algal communities and their production.

Cimino will return to Antarctica next month to begin working with physical oceanographers from University of Alaska and Rutgers, through funding from the National Science Foundation.

As physical oceanographer Walter Munk, the «Einstein of the oceans» described, «Gravity waves in the ocean's interior are as common as waves at the sea surface — perhaps even more so, for no one has ever reported an interior calm.»

Yet even Kinder Morgan's worst - case scenario might underestimate the cleanup challenges, argues physical oceanographer David Farmer.

Physical oceanographer Noel Pelland and colleagues compared the migrations of 168 seal pups tagged in five different years from 1996 to 2015 with winds matching the pups» first migration years.

On a visit to the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, Delaney mentioned undersea networks to physical oceanographer Rick Thomson, who proposed adding acoustic sensors to measure the movement of schools of fish.

But the 66 - year - old physical oceanographer believes that a lifetime spent first doing, and then managing, science is valuable training for running an organization dedicated to helping its 60,000 members keep up with a rapidly changing field.

The project, which brings together physical oceanographers, marine biologists, imaging specialists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticists and modelers, uses what it calls a «holistic» and «study it all» approach, analyzing many species at once using a variety of methods, many of them automated.

Biologists, chemists, biogeochemists and physical oceanographers cooperate closely to analyse responses to projected future ocean change.

A research team, led by WHOI physical oceanographer Fiamma Straneo, discovered warm, subtropical waters deep inside Sermilik Fjord at the base of Helheim Glacier in 2009.

Interdisciplinary work was an integral part of N - ICE2015, as physical oceanographers, sea ice physicists, atmospheric scientists, and marine biogeochemists worked successfully side by side.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

«Previously this monster, Atlantic warm water, was well covered from the surface» by the CHL, says Igor Polyakov, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, who led the study.

The goal isn't just to get new and improved robotics and better sensors, says Jyotika Virmani, a physical oceanographer and the XPrize lead.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

Truly comprehending the world's waters and how they react to climate change requires observations spanning decades, says Uwe Send, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

For the first time, investigators will be able to observe the extreme events that shape the planet in real time, remarks John Delaney, a physical oceanographer at the University of Washington.

It's impossible to know how much the animals are eating, says Kara Law, a physical oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the work.

«Based on the data that they have, even though it's circumstantial, it's a nice story,» says Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada who was not involved with the study.

«We need to trace where the radionuclides are going, and how much is making it offshore,» says Steven Jayne, a physical oceanographer from WHOI.

But the decline in the AMOC hasn't persisted long enough yet to be a cause for concern, says David Smeed, a physical oceanographer at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, U.K.

Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia who also did not take part in the work, says that deep - sea currents could be the driving factor behind the extreme variations in biology.

«We're showing the shortcomings of climate models,» says Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who leads the $ 35 million, seven - nation project known as the Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP).

About half of the floats have now surfaced and relayed records of their daily positions to satellites passing overhead, says Amy Bower, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and an OSNAP principal investigator.

Arthur A. Allen, a physical oceanographer with the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Search and Rescue in Washington, D.C., answers (as told to Adam Hadhazy):

«This is a huge response at the bottom, and passage of the surface eddy probably isn't coincidental,» says Dudley Chelton, a physical oceanographer at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to oceanographic data associated with methane release.

Chelle is a physical oceanographer who specializes in upper ocean dynamics, air - sea interactions, and passive microwave remote sensing.

Physical oceanographers, keenly aware of how sensitive their models are to changes in the wind field, tend to invoke changes in wind as the primary driver of changes in the ocean oxygen field.

Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to oceanographic data associated with methane release.

While assembling the new record, Linsley noticed something strange in the years 1998, 1992, and 1983: the salinity of seawater in the Makassar Strait was two full salinity units higher — a huge amount to physical oceanographers — than in most years.

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As reported in the Miami Herald, physical oceanographers are tracking a notable change in the Gulf «loop current.»»

Because climate changes result from dynamic interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere, collaborations between sedimentologists, geochemists, marine geologists, paleontologists, planetary scientists, and physical oceanographers will be necessary to develop, test, and calibrate reliable models using the sedimentary record (e.g., Kutzbach, 1987).