Sentences with phrase «polar researchers»

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.

Next Wave Germany's editor Eick von Ruschkowski profiles Germany's two main employers of polar researchers: The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and the Alfred Wegener - Institute for Polar Research.

Last, but not least, the Next Wave staff has collected a number of great resources for wannabe polar researchers, as well as those that simply love the world of ice.

The area of the hole in the ice is larger than The Netherlands and it fascinates climate and polar researchers worldwide.

Building on a tradition launched in the 1870s by Austrian polar researcher Carl Weyprecht — who attempted to unite the competing nations of the time in the pursuit of fundamental polar insight — this IPY will last two years, despite its name, because of the harsh Arctic and Antarctic conditions.

«Without a doubt,» concludes Dr Gerland, «this cooperation has taught us a great deal about how the Chinese polar researchers work, and they have gained a deeper understanding of our work in this field.»

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row

More collaboration and direct dialogue between polar researchers at venues and conferences will facilitate joint studies in Arctic forests, tundra, and sea ice.

Some of the video was used for PolarPalooza, a traveling polar science roadshow in which some of the country's top polar researchers describe their work in words and imagery.

An important discussion is developing among climate and polar researchers around the central point of a landmark Nature paper on Greenland conditions during Earth's last (very warm) interval between ice ages.

Although a complete picture of how glacier microbes affect Earth's climate is years away, Anesio and his fellow polar researchers push onward.

This virtual tour takes you to the sites where polar researchers have holed up year after year, drilling thousands of metres of Greenland or Antarctic ice before hitting bedrock.

And ``... Polar bears were fat, many looked like pigs», says polar researcher at the Norwegian Polar Institute, Jon Aars to the High North News.

The repeated bouts of warm weather this season have stunned even seasoned polar researchers, and could push the Arctic to a record low winter peak for the third year in a row.

«I don't consider myself a polar researcher or a space researcher, but rather an instrument maker,» he says.

Almost five years after watching a launch failure destroy their ice - measuring satellite, Europe's polar researchers are ready to try again.

Updates below Alberto Behar, a polar researcher who combined a scientist's deep curiosity with an engineer's audacious inventiveness, died on Friday when the plane he was flying crashed shortly after he took off from a small airport near his longtime workplace, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif..

The pace of ice loss — both its extent and the amount of the older, thicker ice that survives from summer to summer — has been faster than most models predicted and clearly has, as a result, unnerved some polar researchers by revealing how much is unknown about ice behavior in a warming climate.

Schneefan writes that it should be clear to global warming / polar researchers that sea ice at the South Pole is not melting, but has in fact been growing for 37 years!