Sentences with phrase «sea exploration of»

Tauck has announced a new 16 - day land and sea exploration of Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore centered around an 11 - day cruise aboard the new luxury small ship, Le Soléal.

Other manned submersibles can not dive deeper than about seven kilometers, says Lutz, who has made more than 85 underwater voyages on board the mini sub Alvin and was part of the first deep - sea exploration of hydrothermal vents in 1979, when he was a postdoc at Yale University.

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It has several assets already on the sale block in the North Sea and elsewhere around the world and has already exited some of its higher - risk exploration areas, such as Peru.

A military satellite launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing a potential setback for the billionaire's rocket program.

#WITH a 28 per cent success rate in the exploration of the Timor Sea region, there is currently a strong industry focus on offshore and onshore oil and gas development.

shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight oil if all the types of oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.

«The results are of course disappointing, but it is too early to draw any conclusions on how this will impact the Barents Sea south - east area,» Jez Averty, Statoil's head of exploration in Norway and the UK, said in a statement.

It pictures the world for us, from the marvels under the sea to explorations of another planet.

It is a hastily planned sea voyage, a metaphoric exchange of solid ground for the unsteady, highly volatile seas of philosophical and aesthetic speculation and, as such, an apt metaphor for German Romanticism's precarious explorations as a whole.

During the period of exploration and colonization of the world, Spanish, Portuguese, and English sea captains all sailed to these shores, but it was the Dutch East India Company that dominated the archipelago for more than 300 years.

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Ocean Exploration Discovery Box by Revelae Kids will introduce kids to a magical world of miniature sea creatures, sparkling gems and crystals, and colorful shells and ocean plants.

Consider the following: in the five years going from 2008 to 2012 inclusive, UK government receipts from taxation on petroleum exploration and production activities came to # 44.62 billion, representing an average ETR of 27 per cent on a gross industry income of # 165 billion (the fiscal years of other North Sea producers run concurrently with calendar years, so UK fiscal data has to be annualised to make it properly comparable to that of other North Sea producers).

A straightforward way of appreciating this point consists in calculating the effective tax ratio («ETR») for petroleum exploration and production activities in all the jurisdictions producing oil and natural gas from the North Sea.

Last year, a working group with the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) highlighted harm to large cod and whiting as the only known irreversible effect.

The project, known as HI - SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation), put an international team of scientists in a solar - powered dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano last August.

In a previous round of US exploration in the 1980s and 1990s, oil companies drilled a handful of wells in the Chukchi Sea and dozens in the Beaufort — but those wells didn't prove economic enough to pursue.

Deepsea Challenger belongs to a generation of craft that are opening the ocean's extreme depths to direct exploration; if sea colonies are space stations, these are missions to Mars.

The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea.

The U.K. - based oil company, BP, PLC, has signed a $ 17 - billion exploration deal with Russia in the hopes of replacing the declining output of its current fields in the North Sea.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the easteSea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastesea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

The effect of bottom trawling is «devastating» for archaeologists, agrees Robert Ballard, an oceanographer based at the University of Rhode Island in Narragansett, who has pioneered deep - sea exploration and discovered the wreck of the Titanic in 1985.

At the time of the revival of Antarctic exploration in the beginning of the present century, knowledge of Antarctica was of two grades: in some areas the approaches from the sea had been explored; of the rest nothing was known, Knowledge of the first grade existed only in relation to two or three parts of the continent.

The alarming trend shocked researchers at a meeting last week in Tallinn, Estonia, of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, a Copenhagen - based body that advises the European Union on fish stocks in the North Atlantic.

The potential exploration of other deep sea or subsurface ecosystems will raise other «Schrödinger's cat» dilemmas.

Related sites International Council for the Exploration of the Sea More information about the European Commission plan

The International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES) uses fisheries stock assessment data in its annual scientific advice concerning the fishing quotas for the Baltic salmon.

«The exploration of the world's oceans has just begun... the next generation of deep - sea explorers may actually see, for the first time, more of the Earth's solid surface than all previous generations combined.

«We expected maybe one or two fish, but to see such a big group was amazing,» says Monty Priede, director of the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab, which specializes in robotic exploration of the deep sea.

The first results of the work were presented at a meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, held in Newfoundland in October.

«They tell us part of the story of how New Zealand and Australia separated around 40 - 80 million years ago and they'll now help scientists target future exploration of the sea floor to unlock the secrets of the Earth's crust,» Professor Arculus said.

Goddio's explorations in the ocean have uncovered the queen's royal palace in the Mediterranean Sea, while Hawass's on land have found clues to her final resting place; along the way, both men have saved a plethora of priceless Egyptian artifacts.

Risky robotic exploration of the vast expanse of sea ice around Antarctica has revealed it to be far thicker in many places than previously measured.

Gerald Boalch, of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in Britain, says he and other scientists opposed the plan to grow Undaria in Europe six years ago at the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas.

These are Deep - sea mussels viewed from Jiaolong's exploration of a methane seep in the South China Ssea mussels viewed from Jiaolong's exploration of a methane seep in the South China SeaSea.

This research is part of the ERC funded CACH project (Starting Grant no 278705), and forms part of the NOC's on - going research into deep - sea ecosystems, as well as investigating the potential impacts of marine resource exploration.

Supplementary information was obtained from the Marine Institute and the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES).

One of the last major unexplored geological features on Earth, the ridge has slowly lost the ice sheet covering it thanks to global warming, opening the sea to exploration — and offshore mining and drilling.

Deep - sea oil exploration will probably release future spills, Solomon says, and global warming could destabilize large undersea deposits of frozen methane, leading to local ocean acidification or oxygen depletion (SN 7/31/2010).

«Most of what's known about the bottom of the ocean has come from images shot miles up in the water column, and it's a relatively coarse data set,» Cameron said recently at roundtable discussion in New York City with WHOI scientists who design, build and operate manned and robotic deep - sea exploration vehicles.

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

Most likely, exploration of the planet's vast deep - sea trenches will require a combination of automated and manned vehicles to be successful.

Another subsidiary, PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, was involved in Australia's worst offshore drilling accident in 2009, when thousands of gallons of crude oil spewed into the sea after a damaged oil well blew up.

In 1902, however, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the Scandinavian nations formed the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.

In addition to unique heterotrophic relationships, novel symbiotic relationships are often discovered during exploration of deep - sea habitats.

Edinburgh, T. & Day, J. (2016) Estimating the extent of Antarctic summer sea ice during the Heroic Age of Exploration, The Cryosphere, doi: 10.5194 / tc -10-2721-2016.

Subsequent explorations by the deep - sea submersible Alvin revealed not only the presence of hydrothermal vents, but also a startling array of giant worms, clams, and mussels.

The plan to carry out detailed scientific investigations under the ocean, would provide unprecedented knowledge of an extraterrestrial sea and expand NASA's existing capabilities in planetary exploration to include nautical operations.

Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.