A
research vessel is a boat or a ship that is specifically designed to carry out scientific studies and experiments in the oceans, seas, or other bodies of water. It is used by scientists and researchers to explore and discover new information about marine life, the environment, and underwater ecosystems.
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In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted
aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.
An oceanographic mooring is being deployed by the crew
of research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN during the expedition MSM54 into the Labrador and Irminger Sea.
In January of this year, the
German research vessel Polarstern settled in where the Larsen shelf had crumbled, and researchers on board conducted the first detailed biological survey of one of the most inaccessible ecosystems on Earth.
The team compiled four decades of data
from research vessel surveys of fish and invertebrates conducted around the continental shelves of North America by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).
Over the course of the 37 - day experiment, aboard the German
research vessel Polarstern, the scientists continually steamed in and out of the bloom to take measurements, weathering storms and rolling seas at 49 ° southward of Antarctica — just between the famed latitudes known as the Roaring Forties and the Screaming Fifties.
Koppers led the expedition aboard the scientific
research vessel JOIDES Resolution, along with co-chief scientist Toshitsugu Yamazaki from the Geological Survey of Japan at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.
... Several big projects may not be funded immediately, including significant new research under the International Polar Year in 2007, the
new research vessel conducting science in the Arctic, the new petascale computer, and several other large - ticket projects.»
By way of comparison, the annual cost of the proposed U.S. share is about one quarter of the annual cost of either the U.S. Ocean Drilling Program or the U.S. Ocean Observatories Initiative, and it is similar to the annual operating cost of one Global
Class research vessel in the U.S. fleet.
An expeditionary cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI)
research vessel Falkor leaves on March 10 for open - ocean sea trials of MBARI's newly - designed LRAUVs.
The chance encounter of a Norwegian
research vessel with the largest waves ever recorded amid floating packs of Arctic ice shows how such rollers could reroute shipping, damage oil platforms and threaten coastal communities with erosion.
Meanwhile, as a
scientific research vessel makes its way to Antarctica to collect valuable data over the next three months, the ten paper penguins have been creating quite a stir worldwide.
Ice observations taken from the Norwegian
research vessel Lance in the pack ice north of Svalbard in late July / early August report the ice edge at 81.5 N and pack ice in the advanced stages of melt.
These were collected on the RV Celtic Explorer, a multi-disciplinary
research vessel operated by the Irish Marine Institute.
For example, its 2010 request for the account that funds big, new projects would shrink from $ 157 million to $ 117 million because NSF was able to move ahead this year with construction of the Alaska Region Regional
Research Vessel as well as initiate two projects involving a network of densely instrumented sites — the Ocean Observatories Initiative and the National Ecological Observatory Network.
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.
We encountered the worried - looking captain of a small
Russian research vessel, the Akademik Boris Petrov, chartered by a French company.
The COMNAP Fellowship recipients will carry out a project on topics of environmental policy and a technical project to understand ice loading on
polar research vessels.
JAMSTEC researchers mobilized almost immediately after the disaster, and sent their 106 - metre - long
research vessel RV Kairei to the quake's epicentre just a few days after it occurred.
The BRAHSS team also look at very fine - scale movements and responses using
small research vessels which deployed small suction - cup acoustic tags on a few of the whales.
old undergrad studying Physical Oceanography at NYU in the mid 1960's visiting the brand spanking new
NOAA research vessel «The Oceanographer» moored at the Merchant Marine Academy docks at Fort Schuyler.
This work used material as diverse as the gut contents of the seals and the fish, through seal «scat», to samples taken from commercial catches and
research vessel surveys, and elaborate mathematical models.
In autumn 2011, she boarded a deep -
sea research vessel of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) to collect samples of deep - sea benthos from hydrothermal vents in the Okinawa Trough.
That puts it in the same league as the most
capable research vessels fielded by the United States and Europe,» Escobar wrote.
For the past ten years, the Tara
Oceans research vessel has traversed over 180,000 miles across all the world's oceans collecting biological samples and information about the oceans» physical parameters like depth, temperature and salinity.
The Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition 2010, a project led by CSIC that includes more than 400 researchers from around the world, started in December 15th 2010 with the departure of the Hespérides
oceanographic research vessel from the port of Cadiz.
In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German
research vessel METEOR in January 2013.
Covering approximately 3.3 million square kilometers (just over 2 million square miles), these areas were sampled
using research vessel bottom trawl surveys that collected 60,394 samples between 1968 and 2011.
After the successful completion of the study, the German
research vessel ALKOR returns the ten KOSMOS mesocosms and a large number of samples to Kiel.
because it is the ice breaker that ultimately helped rescue the 52 - person crew on board the sea - ice trapped
research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy» — Pierre
During a recent cruise of the New
Zealand research vessel Tangaroa, skin sea - surface temperatures were measured to high accuracy by the Marine - Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M - AERI), and contemporaneous measurements of the bulk temperature were measured at a depth of ~ 5 cm close to the M - AERI foot print by a precision thermistor mounted in a surface - following float.
Scientists on board the New Zealand
research vessel Tangaroa, talk about the realities of research as they sample the water column in the deep ocean for temperature, salinity, carbon dioxide, and living organisms.
Scientists aboard the Arctic
Research Vessel Sikuliaq say it appears sea ice in the far north has retreated as far as it's going to this season.
► In Science, Dennis Normile wrote about the impact of the sinking of the
Taiwanese research vessel Ocean Research V, «less than 2 years after its maiden scientific cruise,» on Taiwanese science, calling it «a severe setback for Taiwanese oceanography and related fields.»
«The cost of exploration right now is tied in large part to the costs of
large research vessels,» said Paul Bunje, a biologist and senior scientist at the XPrize foundation.
The
JAMSTEC research vessel RV Yokosuka sailed from Nuku'alofa in Tonga this morning, heading towards New Zealand to explore the animal life on deep undersea mountains, or seamounts.
In the aftermath of the events at the Nightfall Program facility in the Alaskan wilderness, the Quick Reaction Force boards a mysteriously abandoned
Chinese research vessel adrift in the South Pacific Ocean.
One big disagreement between the House and Senate is over the number of new ships in NSF's fleet of
academic research vessels.
During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School
research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.
But she said that the NSF - funded academic fleet was not affected by the shutdown, and that only minor adjustments are needed in planning the official dedication of NSF's new
Arctic research vessel, the Sikuliaq.
The Maurice Ewing, owned by the National Science Foundation and operated by the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory (L - DEO), is the
only research vessel devoted to obtaining images of the deep earth for fundamental earth science research.
The sediment cores were recovered by Dr Claire Waelbroeck and colleagues aboard the
French research vessel Marion Dufresne.
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