Sentences with phrase «research vessel operated»

He spent a week in an underground mine in Pennsylvania, hiked through West Virginia with anti-mountaintop removal activists, rode a coal train through the Black Hills of South Dakota, toured coal plants in China, and spent a month in the North Atlantic with climate scientists aboard the R / V Knorr, a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The Marine National Facility operates Australia's only blue - water research vessel dedicated to marine research throughout Australia's vast ocean territories.

... [L] egislators added $ 53 million to the agency's large new facilities account to begin building three regional - class research vessels rather than the two NSF had requested,» but the «research and education accounts were held flat, at $ 6.033 billion and $ 880 million, respectively, as was the agency's internal operating budget.

UCSC research scientist Patrick Fulton was on board the research vessel Kairei, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), for the retrieval of the string of pressure and temperature sensors that was installed across the fault zone at about 800 meters beneath the seafloor.

To find these vents, located two and a half miles below the sea surface in one of the most far - removed places in the world, the team used the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Jason and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Research Vessel Knorr.

The wave also damaged a marine research station operated by the University of Concepción in Dichato, a fishing town about 50 kilometers from the city, and left its research vessel stranded several blocks from shore, according to Carlos Moffat, an oceanography professor at the university.

«A mobile, autonomous recorder can both cover a large area and survey for weeks or months at a time, without the high cost of operating a large research vessel.»

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.

We are all giddy with anticipation as we board the 135 foot research vessel, Rachel Carson, the support ship for the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Ventana.

The high - flux research reactor SM - 3 is a vessel - type water - cooled reactor operated at intermediate neutrons.

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

Scientists had used the Knorr, a 244 - foot steel - hulled research vessel that was operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for thousands of research expeditions around the world, including one that led to the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) operates the 62ft Research Vessel Shearwater and the 28ft Research Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of SanctuarResearch Vessel Shearwater and the 28ft Research Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuary Vessel Shearwater and the 28ft Research Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of SanctuarResearch Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuary Vessel Sharkcat principally for research, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuarresearch, with some additional vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuary vessel operations to support education as well as management and enforcement of Sanctuary rules.

Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory's Office of Marine Operations (OMO) currently operates the research vessel Marcus G. Langseth that serves as the national seismic research facility for the United States academic research community.

The Congressional Research Service has found that the Jones Act results in American vessels operating at twice the cost of comparable foreign ships.

Recent advances in technology, such as scuba diving, underwater video footage, ice - capable research vessels, and remotely operated vehicles, have increased the rate of new species discovery (Figure 5).

@rishrac — Because for some strange reason I like to examine the data, and my personal budget doesn't run to operating a fleet of ice hardened research vessels and numerous satellites.

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.