Sentences with phrase «says oceanographer»

«When you add iron, everything changes,» says oceanographer Richard Barber, one of the scientists involved in the first iron experiment.

The paper could be a big help in resolving the contradictions among experiments, says oceanographer Douglas Capone of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

«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.

«This is an important step if you want to get to a point where we can say, «The U.S. is responsible for X percent»» of the pollution, says oceanographer Erik van Sebille, one of the study

«The oil is not going to be up in the clouds and raining down on people,» says oceanographer Christopher Zappa of the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University.

«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.

Fish and other sea life can not survive in such waters — and this expansion reduces the area where fish can thrive, says oceanographer Janet Sprintall of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., who also coauthored the study.

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.

The study suggests that layers of sediments perhaps 10 to 20 meters thick can seal the sea floor and make seamounts the most important conduits for heat and fluid flow — especially on the sloping flank of a midocean ridge, says oceanographer John Sclater of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

We now have the evidence to pass judgement on James Lovelock's wildly popular notion that life engineers hospitable worlds, says oceanographer Toby Tyrrell

«Now is the time to speak up — we're looking for ideas,» said oceanographer Shirley Pomponi, the co-chair of a blue ribbon panel charged with advising NSF on the issue, here on Tuesday at the 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting.

«In a nutshell, theoretical models can not explain what we observe in the geological record,» said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University.

Here is a little bit: http://www.media.rice.edu/media/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=12794&SnID=1419357327 «In a nutshell, theoretical models can not explain what we observe in the geological record,» said oceanographer Gerald Dickens, a co-author of the study and professor of Earth science at Rice University.

As for when the iceberg might shove off, «that is very difficult to predict,» said oceanographer Eric Rignot of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, «but in the coming months for sure.»

«Our simulations suggest that the tides are, at the moment, abnormally large,» said oceanographer Mattias Green from Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences in Menai Bridge in the United Kingdom and lead author of the new study.

Not exact matches

They settled on an area south of the Mediterranean Sea where some oceanographers say a branch of the Nile River drained into what was called the Lake of Tanis, a coastal lagoon 3,000 years ago.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

«It's an opportunity to look at exactly what the array is and its requirements are,» says Meghan Cronin, an oceanographer at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, Washington.

The paper shows «a massive shift» in the behavior of the Arctic Ocean over a short time, says Finlo Cottier, a physical oceanographer with the Scottish Association for Marine Science in Oban who was not part of the study team.

«Previously this monster, Atlantic warm water, was well covered from the surface» by the CHL, says Igor Polyakov, a physical oceanographer at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, who led the study.

«That was a wake - up call for all of us,» says Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

«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.

And that's why it's exciting,» said Elisabeth Sikes, an oceanographer at the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University who discussed the paper in an accompanying «News and Views» piece in Nature.

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

The goal isn't just to get new and improved robotics and better sensors, says Jyotika Virmani, a physical oceanographer and the XPrize lead.

Richard Brodeur, a NOAA fisheries oceanographer and author on the study, said that while most of these fish will adapt to their new surroundings, some will move into less habitable waters with perhaps less available food.

Although storms like Superstorm Sandy are incredibly rare, sea - level rise has made a Sandy - level inundation event 50 percent more likely than it was in 1950 in areas like the Battery and Sandy Hook, said William Sweet, a NOAA oceanographer.

«We are still on a one - way street of losing ice,» said James Overland, an oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The team's acoustic monitoring was «extremely significant» while the wellhead was being closed, says Kathryn Moran, an oceanographer at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

«I think that the 40 percent global decrease that they report is provocative but not yet fully demonstrated,» says Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at Oregon State University who studies phytoplankton.

A tsunami wave of roughly 19 centimeters (7.5 inches) was measured at Amchitka Island, in the Aleutian Islands chain, though lesser heights were recorded at other islands, said National Tsunami Warning Center oceanographer Bo Bahng.

The potential for harm is huge, says Jota Kanda, an oceanographer at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology who monitors radionuclide distribution in sediments and biota off Fukushima.

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.

Truly comprehending the world's waters and how they react to climate change requires observations spanning decades, says Uwe Send, a physical oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif..

Dr Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at BAS says: «The waters around Antarctica are isolated, deep and very cold but they are not beyond the reach of climate change.

«This kind of study adds to the evidence of the way that climate moves its influence up the food chain,» says Arthur Miller, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego.

But oceanographers and radiation experts say the radiation levels will be too low to threaten human health.

«We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures,» says Ken Caldeira, a chemical oceanographer now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.

«A failed year class for a couple of years in a row could dramatically reduce their populations for a while,» says James Cowan, an oceanographer at LSU, in whose lab de Mutsert works.

Parts of the Arctic Ocean, including the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, are rich in nutrients, so light was thought to be the limiting factor, says Kevin Arrigo, a biological oceanographer at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

The actual fate of H. sericeus and its associates may still be unclear, but the findings are still potentially worrisome, says Giora Proskurowski, a chemical oceanographer at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Also we don't know about the air quality issue, and we're concerned about our kids,» said Enrique Curchitser, an oceanographer visiting NCAR with wife and children this summer from Rutgers University.

Expedition member and GERG scientist Kathryn Shamberger, a Texas A&M oceanographer who took measurements at the reef in late September, said the team is collaborating with scientists across Texas to track the plume of Harvey floodwater as it migrates through the Gulf.

«I'll be looking for year class failures — having a hole punched in that year's spawning reproductive success,» says Richard Shaw, a fisheries oceanographer at LSU.

«We have no idea right now what's going on,» says Nancy Rabalais, a biological oceanographer at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin who has studied the dead zone for the past 25 years.

The finding «changes everything» about scientists» understanding of the nitrogen cycle, says biological oceanographer Tracy Villareal of the University of Texas, Austin.

Victor Smetacek, the German oceanographer who led the expedition along with Victor Wajih Naqvi, an Indian geochemist, says that result means that iron fertilization has a much lower sequestration potential for atmospheric CO2 and, thus, will play a smaller role in fighting climate change than previously expected.

«It's a bomblike event,» says Baker, who was among a group of oceanographers who discovered the phenomenon in 1986.

«Average climate will certainly get warmer,» says Roger Revelle, an oceanographer and climatologist at the University of California at San Diego.