Sentences with phrase «sea research vessel»

To find out how such a large slip — greater than 50 metres in places — happened, seismologists on board Japan's deep - sea research vessel Chikyu drilled boreholes nearly 850 metres deep into the seabed around the plate boundary that ruptured in 2011.

Not exact matches

The team investigated sediment cores collected from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea from the German research vessel RV Polarstern on two expeditions in 2006 and 2010.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

Battling rough seas, scientists aboard the Chinese research vessel Shiyan 3 last month deployed 33 broadband seismometers around the trench, at depths of up to 8137 meters (see map, below).

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.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

«They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach.»»

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

THE Russian research vessel Mstislav Keldysh is steaming towards the Norwegian Sea this week, on a mission to plug up the holes in the wrecked nuclear submarine Komsomolets.

To find these vents, located two and a half miles below the sea surface in one of the most far - removed places in the world, the team used the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Jason and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Research Vessel Knorr.

An expeditionary cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI) research vessel Falkor leaves on March 10 for open - ocean sea trials of MBARI's newly - designed LRAUVs.

The Oden research vessel was used to collect these microbes in the Ross Sea.

«Although this fleet of AUVs will never replace our need for a capable research vessel, it will provide much needed access to the sea and the collection of novel data sets that would not otherwise be possible,» said Karl.

Those finalists for the accuracy prize that survive Puget Sound will then be sent to sea on a research vessel and tasked with assessing pH at a depth of 3,000 meters, among other rigors.

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.

In 1985 a research vessel happened through a luminous part of the Arabian Sea and took samples.

A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

The Irminger Sea seen from the research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN.

An oceanographic mooring is being deployed by the crew of research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN during the expedition MSM54 into the Labrador and Irminger Sea.

With an overall length of 66 m, this versatile and stable vessel is suited for research on both coastal seas and open oceans (except for the polar regions).

June 2, 2009A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

The month - long sea campaign across the Pacific on the research vessel Falkor will monitor the diversity of oceanic phytoplankton, microscopic plant - like organisms, and their impact on the marine carbon cycle.

Most recently, she was an Artist at Sea aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus where she collaborated with scientists mapping out never - before - seen ocean floor topography from the Galápagos Islands to California, and on the Research Vessel Falkor where she created art alongside scientists exploring uncharted territory from Vietnam to Guam.

In this month's Pew Fellows news highlights, we recap our recent gathering of Fellows, Rebecca Rutstein is selected for an «Artist - at - Sea» residency with the Schmidt Ocean Institute aboard the Falkor research vessel, and musicians Mary Lattimore and Chris Forsyth release new albums.

During a recent cruise of the New Zealand research vessel Tangaroa, skin sea - surface temperatures were measured to high accuracy by the Marine - Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M - AERI), and contemporaneous measurements of the bulk temperature were measured at a depth of ~ 5 cm close to the M - AERI foot print by a precision thermistor mounted in a surface - following float.

My first encounter with sea ice and Antarctica's jagged coastline came last August, when I joined a group of experts on a U.S. National Science Foundation research vessel for a monthlong voyage to the Antarctic Peninsula.

because it is the ice breaker that ultimately helped rescue the 52 - person crew on board the sea - ice trapped research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy» — Pierre

A research vessel in the Bering Sea photographed two of the animals Sunday and obtained a biopsy sample from one, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.

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 chanSea 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 chanSea, 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 chansea ice cover and hydrography on the marine ecosystem and the impacts of climate change.

In 2013, as part of a seven - month circumnavigation of the Arctic Ocean, scientists aboard the research vessel Tara documented a profusion of tiny pieces of plastic in the Greenland and Barents seas, where the final limb of the Gulf Stream system delivers Atlantic waters northward.