Sentences with phrase «planetary science at»

«For example, to produce a six - foot flood, if the ocean is a foot higher, you only need as much storm surge as you would have previously needed to produce a five - foot flood,» said Robert Kopp, professor of earth and planetary science at Rutgers university, and one of the authors.

Romps» co-authors are Jacob Seeley, also of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and David Vollaro and John Molinari of the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany.

«I agree that we have passed the point of avoiding climate change,» Josef Werne, an associate professor at the department of geology & planetary science at the University of Pittsburgh told Live Science.

«You have more evaporation, more energy, more heat and that's driving more moisture from the tropics which is where these atmospheric rivers originate,» Lynn Ingram, a professor of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, told IBT.

-- Kerry Emanuel, Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science at MIT

Scientists in the Department of Geophysics and Planetary Science at Tel Aviv University tell us that for every one degree increase in temperature, lightning strikes will go up another 10 percent.

For those wanting more on the science, there's no better starting place than a recent talk by B. Lynn Ingram, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of «The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other Climatic Clues Tell Us about Tomorrow.»

Daniel Apai is an Associate Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at The University of Arizona.

With data from Voyager, Galileo, New Horizons, Hubble and now Juno, we have a better understanding of the composition and evolution of this iconic feature,» Jim Green, the director of planetary science at the agency, added in a statement.

Fred Ciesla, an associate professor of planetary science at the University of Chicago, says the findings may reclassify chondrites, a class of meteorites that are thought to be examples of the original material from which planets formed.

Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, and two WUSTL students were cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson.

After leaving the US Navy Active Reserve in 1946, he chose geology at the University of New Mexico just because it had an institute of meteoritics.Eventually he became professor of geology and planetary science at the Pittsburgh university.

The study, published online Oct. 5 and appearing in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, comes from Charles Lesher, professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Davis and a visiting professor at Aarhus University, and his former PhD student, Eric Brown, now a post-doctoral scholar at Aarhus University.

Referred to as equatorial noise or «Russell noise,» in tribute to Russell — who is now a professor of space physics and planetary science at UCLA — the waves are among the most frequently observed emissions in the near - Earth space.

Romps» co-authors are Jacob Seeley, also of the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Berkeley, and David Vollaro and John Molinari of the Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences at UAlbany.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

Musser completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering and mathematics at Brown University and his graduate studies in planetary science at Cornell University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

Cannon and co-author Jack Mustard, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, showed that large glass deposits are present in several ancient yet well - preserved craters scattered across the Martian surface.

«We show that Imbrium was likely formed by an absolutely enormous object, large enough to be classified as a protoplanet,» said Pete Schultz, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown University.

«We didn't believe the measurements at first, and spent about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.

«This is the first time we have seen atmospheric bands and waves in brown dwarfs,» said lead author Daniel Apai, associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Or, the proto - moon and proto - Earth were showered by the same family of carbonaceous chondrites soon after they separated, said James Van Orman, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve, and a co-author.

«I think we're at our best when climate scientists connect the impacts of [climate change] to our personal lives, to our economy, to our families, to our communities,» Hill is an associate professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

The paper's co-authors are Woodard, Rosenthal, Kenneth Miller and James Wright, both professors of earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers; Beverly Chiu, a Rutgers undergraduate majoring in earth and planetary sciences; and Kira Lawrence, associate professor of geology at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.

said Thorne Lay, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

According to coauthor Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, this ultrathin coating can help glaciologists better understand the mechanics of how glaciers move, and it provides a potential archive for dating when the material was pasted onto the rock.

«I'm the associate director for planetary sciences at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and director of the Minor Planets Center,» Marsden said one afternoon in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

To develop those additional datasets, Cohn and VanWey worked with Jack Mustard, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, and graduate student Stephanie Spera.

«The question for many years was what gas produced these sorts of eruptions on the Moon,» said Alberto Saal, associate professor of earth, environmental, and planetary sciences at Brown and corresponding author of the new research.

«It's been a mystery since we first got the temperature data from New Horizons,» said first author Xi Zhang, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

The results, published July 30 in Nature, provide insights into the moon's early history, its orbital evolution, and its current orientation in the sky, according to lead author Ian Garrick - Bethell, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

In addition to Garrick - Bethell, the coauthors of the paper include Viranga Perera, who worked on the study as a UCSC graduate student and is now at Arizona State University; Francis Nimmo, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UCSC; and Maria Zuber, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

«Timing of rains is a big deal,» said Jack Mustard, a professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown and co-author on the study.

Working with Reid Cooper, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, McCarthy loaded ice samples into a compression apparatus.

Variations in texture seen in different portions of the fault surface may explain why Costa Rica has complex, patchy earthquakes that do not seem to slip to shallow depths, unlike some other megathrust faults, said first author Joel Edwards, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

Coauthor Eli Silver, professor emeritus of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz, and others in the CRISP program decided to pursue a 3 - D seismic study, which must precede any deep drilling, and the project was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2009.

That's a very odd observation,» said Nimmo, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

«With MESSENGER, we have now obtained images of the entire planet at high resolution and, crucially, at different angles to the sun that show features Mariner 10 could not in the 1970s,» Steven A. Hauck, II, a professor of planetary sciences at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the study's co-author, said in a statement.

«People had considered whether you could get a subsurface layer of water somewhere on Pluto» states New Horizons co-investigator Richard Binzel, professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at MIT.

«Imagine you have lots and lots of fast - spinning tops, and you give each one a slight nudge,» said Malhotra, a professor of planetary sciences at LPL.

But an increase in oxygen is probably not the whole story, said Andrew Knoll, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University.

Co-authors on the Science paper are Christopher Roberts, a Ph.D. student in the department of Earth sciences at the University of Cambridge, and Robert Eagle, a postdoctoral scholar in the division of geological and planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Bradley Sageman, professor and chair of Earth and planetary sciences at Northwestern and a co-author of both papers.

The Colorado River basin is not the only area impacted by this scenario — the Rio Grande basin is in a similar situation, said David Gutzler, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of New Mexico.

Not exact matches

Roger Clark, who is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute and co-investigator for one of the mission's instruments, explains why:

«This will not be the only flyover of Great Red Spot planned for Juno's [orbits], but it is the closest [Great Red Spot] flyover in the plans,» Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email.

Candice Hansen, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, told Business Insider in an email that «this will not be the only flyover of the Great Red Spot planned» for Juno's orbits, «but it is the closest.»