Sentences with phrase «polar environments»

This trajectory follows the artist's early creation of light recordings — working directly with light and light sensitive materials — and continues through her ongoing documentation of polar environments.

Diving right in Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

Researchers still need icebreaking capability to study global warming's effects on polar environments — and climate change will sharpen this need well beyond scientific missions.

Discover: What are some of the biggest challenges of photographing in extreme polar environments?

The more we observe of worlds like Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa, the more we find similarities — analogs — to environments at Earth's poles; conversely, exploring polar environments may help us explore those other worlds more effectively.

Both of Earth's polar environments host rich webs of plants and animals — and all of these inhabitants face a changing clime.

The 8 % across - the - board reductions, set to take effect in January, are likely to draw heavily from scientific research and spare infrastructure and logistical operations that support experiments in the unforgiving polar environment.

As warmer waters stream into an increasingly ice - free Arctic Ocean, new species — from phytoplankton to whales — have the potential to upend this sensitive polar environment.

Camille Seaman (above) captures the beauty of polar environments, and the sobering reality of climate change, in her photographs.

By Sreeja VN: Sizzling underwater glacial ice, as it melts into warmer sea water, creates one of the loudest natural marine environments, and the air bubbles that pop during the process could help scientists measure the rate of glacier melt and track fast - changing polar environments.

Ray, who was one of the first scientists to use scuba diving to study marine animals in polar environments, has not only observed the biological adaptations that mammals employ in cold ocean waters, but has also experienced prolonged immersion in those waters firsthand.

Published today in the journal Scientific Reports, the research found that drones are much more precise at monitoring the size of seabird colonies in tropical and polar environments than more traditional ground counts.

Leading Antarctic marine biologist James McClintock gives us an unprecedented first - person account of the dramatic impacts of climate change on the polar environment and its wildlife

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.

The Polar Code provides for safe ship operation in polar waters and the protection of the polar environment.

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.

This lesson continues the OCR B key theme of Sustaining Ecosystems with a detailed look at the Earth's polar environments.

We analysed responses of the calcifying larvae of sea urchins, an ecologically important group, to ocean change stressors in a synthesis of data from species from tropical to polar environments and from intertidal to subtidal habitats.

Daniela Liggett is a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, focussing on environmental management and tourism regulation in polar environments.

We have to rely on accounts from unionized government scientists who get paid to study the polar environment.

In a paper published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society journal we lay out a framework for the response of polar environments to the effects of human - induced changes to the climate.

Water and jungles dominated the polar environments, and in the generally warm world, mammals for the first time grew in number, size and diversity.