Sentences with phrase «research vessels»

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Oceanographers measure the abyssal ocean to depths of 6,000 meters by lowering accurate recording thermometers and other instruments to the ocean floor on long cables from research vessels.

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.

If an oceanographic expedition were to be immediately launched to send the appropriate research vessels and the appropriate temperature measuring equipment to the locations where this process is theorized to be happening, could the massive movement of heat be detected and confirmed?

CORA includes data from additional research vessels, buoys, underwater gliders, and other on - location sources.

@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.

They were commercial ships, not research vessels.

The technological challenges involved with sampling the deep, more remote, or ice - covered regions, as well as obtaining good winter data, require year - round access to field sites with specialist research vessels.

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).

NOAA's research vessels will all be ordered to return to port, scientific staff will be sent home, and research efforts will be wound down,» said Jeff Watters, associate director of government relations for ocean conservancy, in a blog post Monday.

Because the early observations were mainly carried out on commercial and scientific research vessels, their locations are limited to the regions around developed countries and along shipping routes.»

Yachts and research vessels attempting to make news by transiting the Northwest Passage became trapped in the ice and their attempts had to be abandoned.

11:30 p.m. Updated Ocean scientists are growing more critical of the Obama administration by the day over the failure to glean more information about the seafloor leaks either from BP or federal research vessels and equipment.

«I urge Greenpeace to desist from any harassment of the research vessels and to keep a safe distance.»

After months of careful planning, 300 Australian coral reef researchers have launched a small flotilla of research vessels, each one filled to the gills with highly trained experts.

He joined TSI in 2012 to work in its RDI department and since then he has been fully involved in Underwater Noise Research projects like AQUO and in the vibro - acoustic design of research vessels to comply with strict Underwater Noise Regulations.

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.

He writes about his experiences with german research vessels in the blog: https://kuestenforschung.com/2018/04/16/trial-cruise-in-the-north-sea/ … Photo: Zhiyong Xiepic.twitter.com/kd0SHs30c 8

The third project is two regional - class research vessels that NSF hopes to start building next year to upgrade its academic fleet.

The FY 2017 omnibus had provided a plus - up — against the recommendations of House appropriators — for NSF to begin construction of three research vessels as directed by their Senate counterparts.

With data from U.K., Belgian, and French research vessels, the team got a clear picture of seven plunge pools on the channel floor (see map below), each nearly a kilometer wide and up to 140 meters deep — even larger than Smith had estimated.

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

Now Canadian research vessels sweep the seas in vain, finding not a single school of cod in what was once the world's richest fishery.

But most research vessels already have full schedules.

At 273 feet the steamship was larger — and with its polished wood decks and cabins considerably more beautiful — than many research vessels today.

Crews of American, Russian, Canadian and Danish research vessels demonstrate an impressive degree of collaboration and collegiality.

He hadn't been spending much time in deserts; his research more typically had him on oceangoing research vessels.

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.

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

In addition to NOAA ships, research vessels contracted by BP are also looking for plumes.

Other cruise ships included converted Russian and Polish research vessels.

As research vessels sensibly steer clear of thicker ice that may trap them, there is a clear risk of sampling bias toward thinner ice.

The White House budget request for the National Science Foundation would fund two new research vessels, but some members of Congress want three.

To track the aerosols and conduct other related experiments, the researchers are using two research vessels, four research planes and ground - based instruments, as well as half a dozen satellites (see map below).

In the mid-20th century, before women were permitted aboard research vessels, Tharp explored the oceans from her desk at Columbia University.

In February, the agency had requested funds to design and construct two new regional class research vessels (RCRVs).

That puts it in the same league as the most capable research vessels fielded by the United States and Europe,» Escobar wrote.

The report says maintenance of a capable fleet of global and ocean - class research vessels are an essential component of the U.S. effort to sustain ocean observing.

The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.

These are the results of the recently concluded monitoring cruises of SYKE research vessels Aranda and Muikku.

To learn just how much jellies breathe in their native habitat, scientists from MBARI are setting off this morning in the Point Lobos, one of the institute's three research vessels.

... [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.

Senate appropriators prioritized $ 105 million for construction of three Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRVs), continuing recent Senate efforts to shore up funding for the RCRV project, whereas the House offered no funding for RCRVs in their own bill.

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

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.

The team, funded by the National Science Foundation's rapid response research program, spent two weeks aboard the F.G. Walton Smith, the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science's research vessel.

(A third U.S. research base, Palmer Station, is serviced by an ice - strengthened research vessel, the Lawrence M. Gould.)

Afterward, he helped two ocean - minded philanthropists, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, outfit their research vessel, the R / V Falkor, at a cost of $ 60 million.

To see his subjects up close, McClain hops a ride in a submersible, a 23 - by -8-foot research vessel designed to withstand the enormous pressure at seafloor levels.