Sentences with phrase «research icebreaker polarstern»

I spent 6 weeks aboard the German research icebreaker R / V Polarstern last year leaving Tromso in Norway in early September and returned to Bremerhaven, Germany in October.

Photo: Hoag and the CCGS Amundsen, a Canadian Arctic research icebreaker she lived and worked on in 2008; courtesy Bennie Mols.

Our knowledge of the Canadian Arctic has increased tremendously during the last decade as a result of increased sampling effort made possible by a dedicated research icebreaker (CCGS Amundsen) and the emergence of major scientific programs (e.g. CASES, ArcticNet, CFL, CHONe, C3O, IPY, Arctic Census of Marine Life).

Barber et al.: In situ observations from Canadian Research Icebreaker (NGCC) Amundsen indicate that the multi-year sea ice pack in the Southern Beaufort Sea was not as ubiquitous as it appeared within satellite remote sensing data products in early September 2009.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and the research vessel Sikuliaq will join partners from Europe and Canada in the newly formed Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium (ARICE).

The Nansen Legacy project breaks new ground in national - scale Arctic research collaborations, forming a national team representing nearly Norway's entire marine Arctic expertise including 130 scientists, 50 new recruiting positions and Norway's new research icebreaker.

The Science Team of the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen has cancelled the first leg of the 2017 Expedition due to complications associated with the southward motion of hazardous Arctic sea ice, caused by climate change.

This photo was made during an expedition of the German research icebreaker Polarstern into the central Arctic Ocean.

The data was gathered in summer 2012, during an Arctic expedition on board the research icebreaker Polarstern.

With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous vehicles that can operate beneath sheet ice, a geological survey team set out last night to crush their way through the last untrammelled regions of the Arctic, mapping the sea floor as they go.

Researchers on the ice will rely on aircraft support from UK and US research stations, but oceanographers and geophysicists will approach the glacier from the sea in British and American research icebreakers.

Not exact matches

If the NSF can't find a replacement icebreaker to lead the journey — scheduled to begin in early December and reach McMurdo in late January — this year's Antarctic research season could be cut short.

McMurdo was once serviced by U.S. icebreakers, but the country's fleet has dwindled to just one operational vessel, the research ship Healy.

The paper from the research organization notes, for instance, that the Navy and Coast Guard have one medium - sized icebreaker currently in service, while Russia operates 25.

But for all his winter preparedness, working on a Canadian icebreaker to collect data for his NYSG - funded research project had its challenges.

A second icebreaker, the R / V Sikuliaq, owned by NSF, is one of the most advanced university research vessels in the world.

In August 2011, the icebreaker Polarstern from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) was making its way through the ice - covered Arctic Ocean, on a course that took her just a few hundred kilometres from the North Pole.

Japan has conducted respected research in the Arctic since the 1950s; South Korea's icebreaker Araon, commissioned in 2009, is the centerpiece of the nation's strong polar research program.

Sweden provided several key scientists and the research vessel, its prize icebreaker Oden; American and British scientists added analytical capability and equipment; and Russian scientists provided overall direction, instrumentation, and expertise, and they also secured crucial permits to operate in coastal areas within Russia's waters.

The red and white icebreakers used include the Royal Research Ship Ernest Shackleton and the Royal Research Ship James Clark Ross.The British Antarctic Survey also uses the Royal Navy's ship, HMS Protector.

The report reiterates a previous Research Council report that says the icebreakers — which should provide access to many sites throughout the year — are old, obsolete, and underfunded.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

A photograph taken in August from an icebreaker research cruise in the Arctic Ocean, about 600 miles north of the Alaska coastline.

It is making significant investments in Arctic research, infrastructure and natural - resource development, and is building modern icebreakers to support its activity in the polar regions.

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.

«In fact, having conducted more than 30 years of migratory bird research along Lake Erie, we believe the six - turbine Icebreaker project would pose a significant threat to wildlife — not to mention substantially increased impacts that would be triggered by the planned expansion of the project to more than 1,000 turbines.»

Russian icebreakers, remote Antarctic research stations, and remote Siberian cities have all been powered with nuclear energy instead of using oil.

Among numerous expeditions by icebreakers and other research vessels to the northern Bering Sea and Strait, the Chukchi Sea, and other Arctic regions [272] is the Western Arctic Shelf - Basin Interactions Project in 2002 - 2008, which assessed the effects of variability in sea ice cover and hydrography on the marine ecosystem and the impacts of climate change.

The Chinese icebreaker and research vessel Snow Dragon in the Antarctic.

Research news straight from the Amundsen, a Canadian icebreaker where scientists are investigating climate change in the

Each session includes a variety of different activities / approaches: icebreaker activities, group discussion, overheads, information (often about what the research in this area tells us), completing statements, scenarios etc..