Sentences with phrase «research oceanographer»

«Global Warming Increases Wind Shear, Reduces Hurricanes, Climate Model Shows» «Wind shear is one of the dominant controls to hurricane activity, and the models project substantial increases in the Atlantic,» said Gabriel Vecchi, lead author of the paper and a research oceanographer at GFDL.

«This swarm - sensing approach opens up a whole new realm of ocean exploration,» said Scripps research oceanographer Jules Jaffe, who designed and built the M - AUEs.

This shift demonstrates a physical connection between reduced Arctic sea ice in the summer, loss of Greenland ice, and potentially, weather in North American and Europe,» said Overland, a NOAA research oceanographer.»

It's not clear if they are able to sync up with the earlier blooms and avoid disruptions to critical life stages, such as egg hatching and larvae development, according to lead study author Mati Kahru, a research oceanographer in the Integrative Oceanography Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California.

«Ice shelves buffer or restrain land ice from reaching the ocean,» said Peter Bromirski, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the new study.

«While hurricanes are catastrophic events, the salt marsh doesn't respond catastrophically,» says Neil Kamal Ganju, a co-author and research oceanographer with USGS in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

Other researchers, like Tony Koslow, a research oceanographer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and former director of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, have focused on how the changes in oxygen levels affect marine life.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

Before she pursued her studies for the priesthood, Bishop Jefferts Schori was a research oceanographer.

Not exact matches

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

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

Lothar Stramma, a physical oceanographer at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel in Germany and his associates describe the hypoxic problem as global in a paper accepted for publication in Deep - Sea Research, stating that tropical low - oxygen zones have expanded horizontally and vertically around the world, and that subsurface oxygen has decreased adjacent to most continental shelves.

So send in a bot, says David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, who teamed up with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to deploy a five - foot - long autonomous submarine beneath an iceberg off the coast of Greenland.

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

► In a story about the animal species that are winning and losing as the Arctic warms, in this week's Science, Eli Kintisch offers a peek into the extreme working and living conditions of some of the biologists, zoologists, geoscientists, oceanographers, and atmospheric scientists conducting this research.

As chief scientist for a voyage of the research vessel Endeavor, oceanographer Melissa Omand oversaw everything from the deployment of robotic submarines to crew - member bunk assignments.

Ryan, for instance, is a biological oceanographer by training, yet regularly works with engineers and computer scientists for his research.

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.

Correa, Shamberger and Boston University biologist Sarah Davies, UH - Clear Lake biologist Lory Santiago - Vazquez and Texas A&M oceanographer Jason Sylvan expect to receive a one - year Rapid Research Response grant from the National Science Foundation to support their work at the Flower Garden Banks.

Biological oceanographer Jim Barry and his colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Moss Landing, California, conducted the test this summer near the deep Monterey Canyon.

MBARI news release on summer experiments Greenhouse - gas research by MBARI oceanographer Peter Brewer Department of Energy research on ocean carbon disposal

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

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.

Mike Fedak's team at the Sea Mammal Research Unit in Scotland has recruited seals as oceanographers.

New research led by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) oceanographer Bo Qiu has determined from observational data the length scale at which using sea level height no longer offers a reliable calculation of circulation.

«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competition.

«This project was a cohesive dynamic of three scientists from different research backgrounds coming together to investigate a fascinating observation,» says Hartwell, the paper's lead author and an oceanographer affiliated with the University of Akron and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

«Yes, animals are eating it,» says oceanographer Peter Davison of the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma, California, who was not involved in the study.

The solution, devised by biological oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and his colleagues, was to use an eddy.

But that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel, director of the Earth Research Institute at UC Santa Barbara.

«There is massive uncertainty in this figure, and until much more research is done no serious scientist should express any confidence in such estimates,» of iron fertilization's geoengineering potential, cautions oceanographer Richard Lampitt of the National Oceanography Center in England, who also argues that more research into such potential geoengineering techniques is needed due to the failure of global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

New research by University of Delaware oceanographer Wei - Jun Cai and colleagues at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, University of Hawaii at Manoa and ETH Zurich, now reveals that the water over the continental shelves is shouldering a larger portion of the load, taking up more and more of this atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Oceanographer Vicki Ferrini, who for more than 10 years has managed the Marine Geoscience Data System as a research scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, doesn't see herself as a programmer.

The center, which sits in a research park developed by the University of Maryland, will also oversee a partnership with the school that will pair undergraduates studying atmospheric and oceanic science with federal researchers, and enable the students to become government - certified meteorologists and oceanographers.

Over the past 2 years, pirates operating out of conflict - riven Somalia have severely disrupted research, says Ann Thresher, an oceanographer at the Wealth from Ocean Flagship program of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.

Targeting scientific pursuits closer to home, Microsoft Research developed software designed to help oceanographers at the University of Washington in Seattle, along with other oceanography organizations with their North East Pacific Time - series Undersea Networked Experiments, or NEPTUNE program.

Noise research is a recent field for oceanographers.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Research in 2008 led by oceanographer Natalia Shakhova, now at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, estimated the thawing shelf could release a 50 - gigaton pulse of methane from hydrates over 10 years — about 8 percent of the methane stored in the shelf's sediments.

«The study shows that both mechanisms must have been active from the height of glaciation until now,» said Robert Newton, an oceanographer at Lamont - Doherty who was not involved in the research.

Bénédicte Ferré is a physical oceanographer whose research activities span from sediment resuspension and transport to oceanographic data associated with methane release.

Oceanographers at the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C - MORE) at the University of Hawai`i have made an important discovery.

Pete is a biological oceanographer and acoustician working at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as a National Research Council Research Assistant.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

Steven is an oceanographer in the Environmental Research Division of NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

The research team that published last week's paper is now working to assess which of the potential methods of using satellite data would be most effective in assessing pH. «What we're currently working on is drilling down and seeing which methods perform well,» Jamie Shutler, a University of Exeter oceanographer who was involved with the research, said.

In the international journal Nature, oceanographers of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel have now published the most.

While the main cast is visiting with their family and friends, some oceanographers find a cocoon in an ocean and take it back to research it in the labs.

Remind students that part of an oceanographer's job is to do research and to teach other people about the ocean.

The research work in meteorology often involves working closely with chemists, physicists, and mathematicians as well as with oceanographers, hydrologists and researchers in several other branches that are related to the environmental science.