Sentences with phrase «through ocean drilling»

Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilling.

Combining the seismic data with measurements from sediment samples previously retrieved from this region through ocean drilling, they found that while the thickness of the incoming sediment is similar offshore of Washington and Oregon, the compaction is very different.

Not exact matches

«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

Every year, moreover, producers add to global reserves, whether through unlocking natural gas shale formations, oil sands bitumen plays, or drilling deep into the ocean floor.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

The researchers lower the fiber - optic and sensor cables down a hole drilled through the ice to the ocean in 2011.

«If there are plumes emerging from Europa, it is significant because it means we may be able to explore that ocean for organic chemistry or even signs of life without having to drill through unknown miles of ice,» says study lead William Sparks, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyOcean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyOcean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cyocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

Working in remote conditions, researchers in the winter of 2012 ran a drill through 450 meters of ice and 500 meters of ocean to collect seafloor sediments on either side of this lost bulwark.

«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 ocean drilling,» said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

Plans to put a lander on the surface to drill through the ice in hopes of reaching the ocean had to be abandoned because of cost and technical uncertainty, leaving only an orbiter.

«If there are plumes emerging from Europa, it is significant because it means we may be able to explore that ocean for organic chemicals or even signs of life without having to drill through unknown miles of ice,» said William Sparks at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, which manages Hubble.

Since the geysers originate from the ocean below, they can be sampled for such evidence without having to drill through the ice shell.

Later, holes drilled into the ocean floor showed slightly more heat coming up through the ocean floors than through the continents.

«If those plumes are connected with the subsurface water ocean we are confident exists under Europa's crust, then this means that future investigations can directly investigate the chemical makeup of Europa's potentially habitable environment without drilling through layers of ice.

Drilling through many meters of ice to Europa's ocean or to the pristine sub-surface layers of Mars will be hard.

«Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million - year - old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,» says Jamie Allan, one of the researchers affiliated with the mission.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

1) Get a nice home built near where the MacKenzie river joins the Arctic ocean 2) Be able to take a relaxing cruise through the NW and NE Passages 3) Make sure there's no ice to interfere with my oil drilling operations in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Tide heights near ice shelves can be measured using traditional coastal tide gauges and bottom pressure recorders, while currents can be measured with meters on moorings in the open ocean or deployed through boreholes drilled through ice shelves, which are the floating portions of ice sheets.

Some of that Trump could do through executive actions, like lifting the Obama - era restrictions around oil drilling in Alaska or the Arctic Ocean or even parts of the Atlantic Coast.

December 7, 1978 W.M. Cooper sends a memo to Edward David Jr. detailing the Exxon programs developed to measure CO2 uptake by the various levels of the ocean through equipment on tankers and drilling infrastructure.

Researchers sifted through 30,000 years of dust and ocean bottom muck retrieved with ocean drilling ships.

Drilling in the Arctic Ocean not only would exacerbate climate change effects in the region through the emission of black carbon, but it also takes the country in the wrong direction in the fight to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) 2018 budget increases spending for expanding offshore oil and gas drilling by more than $ 10 million through the national Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program.

With shelter and weather station established and working well, we decided to drill a 10» hole through 0.6 m thin ice to deploy a string of ocean instruments from just below the ice bottom to the sea floor 110 m below.