Sentences with phrase «research cruise»

Such a system could also reduce the size of the operational team needed on research cruises.

The most successful research cruises are typically the ones that are planned early, with an awareness of both the big picture and the fine details.

This trend has already restricted research cruises and will likely increasingly do so in the longer term, especially to remote areas of the ocean.

These samples came from white sharks caught on research cruises, taken by commercial and recreational fishing vessels, or landed at recreational fishing tournaments.

His PhD work included a number of research cruises in the South Pacific.

Several of his colleagues compiled their measurements, taken at more than 40 stations during a series of research cruises last summer.

During research cruises aboard UD's 146 - foot research vessel Hugh R. Sharp in August 2013 and 2014, UD researchers Cai and George Luther and colleagues collected water samples repeatedly from a deep basin of the main Chesapeake Bay.

I built up a freezer stash that was sufficient to cover my overnight absences from her starting at 7 months when I got underway for a week at a time on research cruises off the California coast (I was working toward my Masters degree in Physical Oceanography).

He employs programming to analyze data from research cruises, 6 - foot - long autonomous robotic gliders shaped like torpedoes that scout out endangered mammals, and buoys that «listen» to whales and identify the species.

Scientists at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration received approval from the National Security Council for a joint research cruise last month to sample the Bering Strait under a long - term monitoring project called RUSALCA.

To gauge the accuracy of the four different methods, the researchers compared the satellite measurements with Arctic salinity data obtained during several research cruises aboard the icebreaker R / V Polarstern and from the Coriolis Ocean Database for Reanalysis (CORA).

That may seem like ages from now, but its the blink of an eye for research cruises, which are planned years in advance due the logistical challenges and grant cycles.

This week U.S. and Haitian scientists will start a 20 - day research cruise off Haiti to address urgent questions about the workings of the great Jan. 12 earthquake, and the possibility of continuing threats.

The researchers produced a global model of DVM depths and oxygen depletion by mining acoustic oceanic data collected by 389 American and British research cruises between 1990 and 2011.

Since 2001, Line W — a set of moored instruments and repeated research cruises across the Gulf Stream, have helped form an unprecedented view of ocean circulation in a crucial part of the North Atlantic.

Over the past decade, research cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition have sampled, sequenced and analysed the ocean's microorganisms.

This new international consortium, consisting of 15 partners from 13 different countries, will support planning and implementation of Arctic research cruises by better coordinating the existing icebreaker fleet, allowing researchers to compete for fully - funded ship time, and collaborating with commercial vessels to increase Arctic data collection.

She calls, in particular, for the expanded use of autonomous platforms, telepresence — i.e., allowing scientists to participate in research cruises via satellite links — and crowd - sourcing («citizen science») approaches.

Prior to the 2010 Palmer expedition Domack had sailed to the area on five earlier research cruises, three of which never reached their geographic target because of brutal sea ice.

Drawn to the water early, oceanographer Melissa Omand now leads research cruises studying how carbon and nutrients move through the seas.

When these minute silicon - shelled photosynthesizers die, their corpses can overwhelm natural systems and sink to the bottom, as proved by a scientific research cruise in 2004.

Before a brutal 10 - week research cruise in the Southern Ocean in 2009, oceanographer Victor Smetacek, a co-leader of the expedition, encouraged scientists to bring swimsuits for the ship's sauna and small swimming pool.

Visit the Gulf Hypoxia web site for additional graphics and information concerning this summer's LUMCON research cruise, and previous cruises.

Concern about a possible eruption has grown since 2010, when research cruises over the shelf by Natalia Shakhova and Igor Semiletov, both now at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, found plumes of methane as much as a kilometre wide bubbling to the surface.

An American nuclear submarine will carry six civilian scientists on a 42 - day research cruise under the Arctic ice pack this summer.

Ships from all six countries take standardized physical, chemical, and biological measurements along established transects without expensive research cruises dedicated to the observatory's data collection.

This position will involve multiple research cruises to the Arctic Ocean and Barents Sea, where the candidate is expected to learn a variety of field sampling techniques and novel oceanographic underwater technologies.

Recent research cruises of the RRS James Clark Ross, funded by the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Darwin Initiative, and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), have found that life on Antarctic shelf zoobenthos is accumulating millions of tonnes of carbon per year.

The area around Larsen C is the first to be designated a special study area, and the British Antarctic Survey will be the first research cruise to explore it.

Two other ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula, Larsen A and B, disintegrated in 1995 and 2002 respectively, but it took years to get permits and research cruises scheduled to visit the newly opened water.

If you plan the cruise yourself, you can count of spending 5 hours per port researching accessibility, 5 hours researching cruise itineraries and dates, and 10 hours researching accessibility of hotels, tours, and transportation in your embarkation city.

From 2003 through 2008, they took annual research cruises throughout the shelf and sampled seawater at various depths and the air 10 meters above the ocean.

Facilitated by the invention of an elegant and precise wet - chemical method by Winkler (1888), which has remained essentially unchanged until today, reliable and comparable oxygen measurements have been made during innumerable research cruises to all parts of world ocean such that a detailed picture of the distribution of oxygen has emerged long since.

The 8th annual IWC - POWER research cruise has concluded successfully after 12 weeks at sea.

By 1998, the population was estimated to have increased to 2,280 (95 % CL, 1,160 — 4,500), based on sighting surveys conducted under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) during the International Decade of Cetacean Research and Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem research cruises (IDCR / SOWER)[5].

The research sought evidence of bubble plumes off the coast, such as based on research cruise observation, earlier studies, and reports from local fisherfolk.

This presumes that float deployments can be carried out on research cruises already planned, particularly the international GO - SHIP program, which provides essential validation data.

Research cruises off the Pacific Northwest have exposed a «hydrothermal siphon» that sucks seawater into a dead volcano and spits it out more than 50 kilometers away.

To gauge how acidification might be affecting the Pacific, biological oceanographer Nina Bednaršek of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Seattle and colleagues collected pteropods at 13 sites during a 2011 research cruise between Washington and southern California.

Here, we describe mtDNA control region diversity and geographic differentiation in the surviving population of the Antarctic blue whale, using 218 biopsy samples collected under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) during research cruises from 1990 — 2009.

A summer 2014 research cruise across the Arctic Ocean provides a case study in international collaboration and geographic access to sensitive Russian areas.

Research cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unperturbed.

Acquired in 1994, the ice - capable Chinese research vehicle23 Xuelong («Snow - Dragon») has since carried out regular Arctic research cruises, including international teams of scientists.

In addition, the sensors should be cheap so that they can be used widely: «pH sensing should not be limited to those scientists out on $ 40,000 per day research cruises,» Bunje says.

Research cruises in 2012 found huge plumes of methane up to a kilometer wide bubbling to the surface, according to New Scientist.

Traditionally oceanographers have gleaned insight into the ocean through observations made on research cruises conducted for a few weeks a year at great cost.