Sentences with phrase «water research ship»

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A further advantage of leaving Faraday is that the BAS's research ship will no longer have to supply the station, leaving it free to carry out more research in deep waters.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

In the next few weeks, the research arm of Australia's largest company, BHP, will carry out tests on heat treatments to sterilise ballast water, using the water that cools the ship's engines.

To study the plume, scientists have been lowering instruments from research ships to take fluorescence measurements of the water at different depths and to measure the amount of dissolved oxygen, among other things.

New research has mapped the most detailed forecast to date for importing potentially harmful invasive species with the ballast water of cargo ships.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

In the calm eye of the storm, they come across a Russian research ship floating dead on the water.

Author Joshua Horwitz structures this account like an eco-legal thriller, layering his research so that film of a Navy ship seen in the water near the site of the beachings hangs there like damning evidence.

And CLIA research shows a record 66 cruise ships were deployed in Asian waters in 2017, up from 43 ships deployed in 2013.

Furthermore there apparently were seperate measurements for engine inlet and ballast water temperature used to finetuning the ship's engine performance and diving behaviour but he doubted they would be much use in research due to lack of absolute calibration and lack of records.

As to the salinity question, the NOAA research ships had noted in earlier cruises that for the ice melt the salinity though lower then normal for open ocean demonstrate only a thin fresh / brackish water zone.

In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California - based «ecorestoration» company, will use a 115 - foot (35 - meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galápagos Islands.

He participated in several scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean Drilling Program research ships funded by the U.S.

More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Physorg reports that Christopher Clark, the I.P. Johnson Director of the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has created state - of - the - art acoustic animations that show how whale song gets lost among the noise of ship traffic, and therefore whales that require the quiet of the ocean to communicate over miles of open water are not able to hear one another's songs.

Kuo alluded to this problem in a separate research note, in which he poured cold water on Qualcomm's recent demo of under - the - display fingerprint technology by pointing out that it's not yet ready to ship.