Sentence examples for drilling scientists from inspiring English sources

Wherever the water goes, said Walter R. Merschat, a geologist from Casper who has studied the hydrological impact of methane drilling, scientists do not yet know the long-term consequences of its displacement from underground havens where it has remained for tens of thousands of years, or how long it takes to build up there again.

Environmentalists were suing to prevent some proposed offshore oil and gas drilling, and scientists within the Minerals Management Service objected to the drilling plans.

After years of drilling, Russian scientists reached the lake surface last Sunday, just in time to close up shop and fly home before the weather worsens as the Antarctic winter approaches.

Nearly four decades after the first scientific investigations conducted through seafloor drilling, the scientists had penetrated the geologic boundary in the oceanic crust between sheeted dikes of basaltic rocks of the upper crust and underlying coarse-grained rocks called gabbro.

The upper Green River basin in southwest Wyoming has polluted-air days for a combination of reasons: its geography, in a valley at 7,000 feet; its typical winter weather that produces sun on highly reflective snow; and its economy, heavily based on natural gas drilling, which scientists say produces smog's underlying chemical base.

As Philae's battery power waned, it was feared there might be only one opportunity to drill, so scientists had to choose one of the two gas analysers on Philae to give the sample to.

[Mother Jones] University scientists drilling into lake bottoms 125 miles from oil-sands mines in Canada report that levels of organic compounds, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter there are surprisingly negligible.

The team hopes that understanding how the ice sheets have responded to subtle increases in temperature in the past will provide important clues to what they'll do in the future.McMurdo is also the staging ground for another group of scientists drilling into the continent to look into the planet's past.

"Just as the reign of the dinosaurs was cut short to their great surprise, it may be that the Abbott government will appear as nothing more than a thin, greasy layer in the core sample of future political scientists drilling back into the early years of the 21st century," he said.

Blue line is the averaged interval velocity estimated from the drilling (Expedition 343/343T scientists 2013).

Russian scientists drilling toward Lake Vostok, an enormous body of fresh water sealed off beneath Antarctic ice for 35 million years, have until Sunday to reach their goal before flying out at the end of the summer field season, NPR reports.