Sentences with phrase «time ocean scientists»

«If this doesn't succeed,» he says, «the next time ocean scientists want to tackle something big, we won't get the chance.»

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On May 26, NASA announced a suite of instruments that will accompany the spacecraft they're designing to send to Europa — a moon four times smaller than Earth that scientists suspect could harbor a deep, vast, salty ocean beneath its thick, icy surface.

It comes down to what every scientist knows too well — analyzing data collected by different methods, and at different times, is a tricky business because some methods of collecting ocean surface temperatures are more accurate than others.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatOcean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

The latest results come at a time when scientists are already reconsidering what was happening to ocean oxygen levels during this crucial period.

At the time, scientists already had developed remotely operated vehicles that could roam the seafloor, and placed instruments on the ocean's bottom that could record uninterrupted measurements for years.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scOcean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

Scientists are hoping that newer satellites, like Europe's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity or NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moisture data.

Steinman and his team's approach is «novel for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both oceans over many decades.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.

The ocean conveyor system, Rutgers scientists believe, changed at the same time as a major expansion in the volume of the glaciers in the northern hemisphere as well as a substantial fall in sea levels.

A recent survey of microbial life found that the oceans are teeming with 10 to 100 times more unique species than scientists expected.

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

Local Arctic residents are traveling, hunting, boating and observing wildlife on the land and ocean throughout the year whereas scientists only conduct field studies for a limited time during the summer.

And that's when scientists discovered that the turtles aren't just passive ocean drifters; they actively swim at least some of the time.

However, planetary scientist David Crawford of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, cautions that his own supercomputer calculations of ocean impacts produce tsunamis up to 10 times smaller than those in Ward and Asphaug's analysis.

Holdren called on scientists and engineers to dedicate 10 % of their time educating policymakers and the public on issues such as climate change, protecting the world's oceans and public lands, continuing Arctic research and demonstrating the importance of investing in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs for elementary and middle school students.

Looking through the portholes of the submersible ALVIN near the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in 1979, American scientists saw for the first time chimneys, several meters tall, from which black water at about 300 degrees and saturated with minerals shot out.

With orbiting satellites that measure ocean color all beyond their shelf life, glum ocean scientists were left to hope that VIIRS could be fixed by 2013, in time for the launch of the next craft in the multi-satellite NPOESS series.

Under pressure The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER's ability to linger at the ocean bottom for an extended period of time means scientists on future dives might be able to study microbes such as actinomycetes in their natural environments.

Hawaii Ocean Time - series Program scientists work aboard the R / V Ka'imikai - O - Kanaloa in the North Pacific Ocean.

Now, locked in limestone that was formed in shallow seawater offshore of the supercontinent Pangaea, scientists have found an isotopic signal to support a sharp drop in pH. The catastrophe holds a cautionary lesson: Due to the burning of fossil fuels, today's oceans are acidifying at an even faster rate than they were at the time of the extinctions, although it hasn't yet persisted nearly as long.

That shift of the coastal ocean from carbon source to sink, quantified for the first time in the Dec. 5, 2013, issue of the journal Nature, suggests coastal areas are a key component of the global carbon budget, the scientists say.

But scientists say there may be a thousand times as much uranium lurking in the oceans, dissolved in seawater.

Using hand - driven cores, augers, and shovels to reveal the sediments blanketing a lowland facing the Pacific Ocean, and using radiocarbon dating to estimate the times of sand sheet deposition, scientists established a geologic history of past large tsunamis.

Reconstruction of the Indo - Atlantic Ocean 63 million years ago, during the time of the superfast motion of India which Scripps scientists attribute to the force of the Reunion plume head.

Scientists using NASA's Cassini spacecraft have found hints of waves sloshing on Titan, Saturn's largest moon — the first time waves like those in Earth's oceans have ever been found on another world.

Mild oxygen levels in shallow seas but oxygen - poor deep oceans lasted for some 1.3 billion years during a time that has been dubbed the «Boring Billion» but eventually led to the development of mitochondria that now power multicellular planet and animal life (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010; Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, September 29, 2009; Johnston et al, 2009; and H.D. Holland, 2006).

Instruments on the glider will provide scientists back on shore with a near - real - time view of fine - scale mixing processes in the upper ocean that play an important role in the movement of carbon, nutrients, and other chemicals through the marine system.

«It's becoming clear that the first few weeks after salmon enter the ocean from their freshwater homes is a crucial time,» said Geoff McMichael, the PNNL scientist who led the study, which was published recently in Animal Biotelemetry.

A mesocosm experiment by scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven (AWI) and the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) reveals for the first time how ocean change might affect the special physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the ocean's uppermost bounOcean Research Kiel, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven (AWI) and the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) reveals for the first time how ocean change might affect the special physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the ocean's uppermost bounocean change might affect the special physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the ocean's uppermost bounocean's uppermost boundary.

By the time the Voyager probes had flown through the Jovian system in 1979, scientists were fairly sure that Europa had an icy crust, and possibly a liquid ocean beneath.

Climate change and acidifying ocean water are likely to have a highly variable impact on the world's coral reefs, in space, time and diversity, international coral scientists cau...

Although many scientists believe that Venus may once have had oceans of water on its surface (in part because its ratio of deuterium to ordinary hydrogen is now measured to be around 150 times that of the Earth's), most of it has been lost the past five billion years.

In a new study out last month in the journal Nature, a team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden point to evidence from thousands of scratches left by ancient icebergs on the ocean floor, indicating that Pine Island's glaciers shattered in a relatively short amount of time at the end of the last ice age.

A modeling - based study by Australian government scientists has tracked ocean acidification for the first time through all of the thousands of reefs comprising the psychedelic ecosystem, which is home to fish, sharks, dolphins and dugongs.

For the first time, scientists have observed the same dynamics in the fossil record, thanks to a mass extinction that decimated ocean life 360 million years ago.

Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth's crust for the first time.

A long time before Katrina, scientists suspected that a warming ocean could provide extra fuel for hurricanes, making them stronger than they would otherwise have been.

For the first time, an international team of 70 marine scientists investigates impacts of ocean acidification on pelagic ecosystems.

«What's especially concerning about this current northern fur seal crisis is that this species has a particularly difficult time recovering from unfavorable ocean conditions, such as these warmer waters,» says Tenaya Norris, marine scientist at The Marine Mammal Center.

Named one of Time Magazine's «Heroes for the Planet,» Earle is a former chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and founder of SEAlliance, which partnered with National Geographic on Mission Blue to further global initiatives aimed at restoring health and productivity to the ocean.

Updated, 7:48 p.m. On time scales from decades to months, fluctuations in ocean conditions present persistent challenges to climate scientists (see the «pause» in warming) and weather forecasters.

Paul D... As a part - time alarmist I would answer that with a little bit of extrapolation added to some warnings of climate scientists I guess the worst case scenario at least includes the total collapse of the WAIS, creating tsunamis at least all over the Pacific rim, the subsequent sea level rise of c. 7m will destroy most of the remaining harbours, communication centers near coasts, next up would be the melting of the collapsed ice in the southern ocean altering the climate of the entire southern hemisphere, making it near - impossible to guess what areas are good for similar agriculture as before, leading to massive movements of people.

Come with me to the sea ice some time, or simply to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, or an Arcus meeting, and let me introduce you to 20 or 30 scientists working incredibly hard to clarify that Arctic Ocean pixel point in the climate picture.

This spring, scientists conducting polar ice and ocean research told me they were unnerved to see a Russian military encampment nearby for the first time.

That's why one of the company's atmospheric and ocean scientists, Megan E. Linkin (the photo is from when she was interviewed for The Times in 2010), just re-ran one of the region's most awesome disasters — the great Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane of 1821, but with today's heavily developed metropolitan region in harm's way.

«A fundamental new trend in atmospheric and ocean circulation patterns in the Pacific Northwest appears to have begun, scientists say, and apparently is expanding its scope beyond Oregon waters... This year for the first time, the effect of the low - oxygen zone is also being seen in coastal waters off Washington,»