Sentences with phrase «research vessel surveys»

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).

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.

Not exact matches

PACKED ICE Floating ice — 4 - or 5 - meters - thick in some places — choking the Weddell Sea ended a British Antarctic Survey research vessel's mission to the Larsen C ice shelf in February.

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

«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.»

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.

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.

Essington and his colleagues turned to stock assessments — regular surveys of fish populations that are collected by both commercial fisheries and research vessels.

In the meantime Patrick Shore, a research scientist in earth and planetary science, and two Washington University students had set sail across the ocean in a tiny vessel, the Kaiyu III, to install seismometers on the Mariana islands that will also supply data for the «passive» stage of the survey.

With only one oceangoing research vessel, Australia lags behind many other countries in its ability to survey its large EEZ.

And he fears the state of the reef could be even worse than scientists realize, since only aerial surveys have been conducted to assess the damage and no research vessel is currently active on the reef to provide finer details.