Sentences with phrase «with ocean drilling»

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

Not exact matches

The plan opens the door to drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, marking a break with previous administrations.

«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 pore spaces, or tiny holes, in the rock remain filled with these ancient oceans, so when we drill wells today that water is produced to the surface,» Tinker says.

Asahiko Taira, a JAMSTEC executive director, says that with their high fixed costs, «reductions will come out of pure research - related money,» though they will try to minimize the impact on the drill ship Chikyu, Japan's contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

«Chicxulub is the only preserved structure with an intact peak ring that we can get to,» says University of Texas, Austin, geophysicist Sean Gulick, co — chief scientist for the $ 10 million project, sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

In 2009, when Ravelo led an expedition of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to the Bering Sea (with co-chief scientist Kozo Takahashi of Kyushu University, Japan), one of her main goals was to investigate the role of the North Pacific Intermediate Water in climate change.

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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) to issue new suspensions of deepwater drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), saying a pause is needed to ensure that oil and gas companies first implement adequate safety measures to reduce the risks associated with deepwater drilling operations and are prepared for blowouts and oil spills.

In 2005, scientists with the Integrated Ocean Drilling Project drilled 1,416 meters (4,644 feet) below the North Atlantic seafloor and claimed to have come within just 305 meters (1,000 feet) of the Moho.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

«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.

In a letter being delivered to the White House on Thursday, nearly 400 scientists from more than a dozen countries are urging President Obama to stop future oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean because of the significant environmental and climate risks associated with further fossil fuels exploration there.

«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.

EUROGAMER - «With sheeny Amiga - era graphics, your task is to pilot a sub back and forth across a range of 2D seascapes, protecting a series of kitten miners who are drilling for milk at the bottom of the ocean.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

This feature manifested itself during the drilling process when a pressure sensor in the well indicated that hydraulic connection with the ocean cavity had been achieved whilst the drill head was still many tens of metres above the true base of the shelf.

In an e-mail exchange with Joseph Ortiz, an associate professor of geology at Kent State University familiar with ocean - drilling technology, he described the political dilemma this way:

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

Sarah Chasis, Director for Oceans at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said, «Today's important action by Governor Cuomo sends a message that New York is unwilling to accept the risks that come with offshore drilling.

«I am honored to work with Ocean Champions to stop oil drilling off Florida's shores, prevent pollution of our beaches and waterways, and protect our sea life for future generations,» said Senator Soto.

With the backing of science, economics, clean energy leaders, local businesses, and the vast majority of Americans, the Obama administration permanently protected most of the Arctic Ocean and a chain of deep sea canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, stretching from the Chesapeake Bay to Canada's border, from dangerous and destructive offshore oil drilling.

Obama in partnership with Canada, banned oil drilling from large parts of the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans indefinitely.

While he projects an image of being a surfer and in touch with ocean conservation, in fact he supports off - shore oil and gas drilling.

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.

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.

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.

does the 15ppm consider CO2 contributed from deforestation (which as this becomes more extensive against the growing population, the atmosphere breaks well beyond saturation point as trees can not convert CO2 fast enough to combat the production), the burning of peat, the likely disturbances and resulting CO2 emitted from deep sea drilling (i.e. decomposed life forms from the ocean bed reaching the atmosphere) the CO2 deposits from extensive farming, the population of all mammals exhaling CO2, chemical productions with CO2 bi-products and all other man related processes that give off CO2?

Past presidents have used the 1953 law to make swaths of ocean off - limits to drilling, and subsequent presidents have scaled back these designations but never done away with them entirely.

HEMP is a good answer — no wars were fought for hemp and cooking oil, no harmful pipelines were built and leaked for that oil, no ocean life was ruined due to offshore drilling, no one's health was effected for that vegetable oil, the air is cleaner with that oil due to no green house gases released — this oil can be recycled from our food — hemp can replace fibers, pulp, plastics and it still makes food and grows in under 3 months (and it does not need much water, no fertilizer and cleans the air!!

«There's no worse place on earth to drill for oil than the Arctic Ocean, and no company with a worse recording trying than Shell,» said NRDC's Arctic Director Nathaniel Lawrence.

Not to mention ice - free means we (those nations with maritime borders there) can be drilling for oil in the shallow Arctic ocean.

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.

He has sailed on several occasions with the International Ocean Discovery Program and its predecessors, and has led onshore drilling projects in Tanzania and Indonesia.

This is bound to be challenged by every single environmental group with a stake here, but it's still really not encouraging: New York Times reports that the Department of Interior has granted Shell conditional approval to start drilling oil exploration wells in the Arctic Ocean starting next summer.

Notable recent matters include acting as lead counsel to offshore drilling contractor Ocean Rig in its $ 3.7 bn financial restructuring, advising CVC Capital in its $ 1.5 bn leveraged acquisition of Żabka Polska from Mid Europa Partners (the largest private equity exit in Poland) and working with InfraCapital on the purchase of # 700m of rolling stock for West Midlands Trains.