Sentences with phrase «scientific ocean drilling»
«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.
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the 2017 Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize.
Over the past decade, awareness of the abundance of life in the watery pores of the deep biosphere has turned microbiology into a primary focus of scientific ocean drilling.
Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.
It is the first scientific ocean drilling expedition to use this type of remotely operated seabed rock drilling technology.
This the first time a UK research ship will be used for scientific ocean drilling.
It is a long time since a scientific ocean drilling expedition sailed from a UK port.