Sentence examples for oceanographic from inspiring English sources

It relies on a combination of two existing oceanographic technologies: robot submarines, known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and sonar.

Then in 2000 a British oceanographic vessel recorded a 29-metre wave off the coast of Scotland.

This time, Nautile's mother ship, L'Atalante, had spent three weeks trawling around a similar vent in the East Pacific Ridge as part of the MESCAL project, a collaboration between a dozen American and European oceanographic research institutions.

Nor is this China's only oceanographic enterprise.

This was organised by Ifremer, France's oceanographic institute.

Though designed with oceanographic research in mind, the United States Navy, which helped fund the endeavour, is eyeing the possibility of deploying it on reconnaissance missions, and eventually using the technology to construct a new generation of fuel-efficient submarines.A predecessor of GhostSwimmer was born in 1993 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

But mankind has caused lots of accidental changes as well, and these also offer opportunities to study evolution.Recently, two groups of researchers, one at New York University (NYU) and the other at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, have taken advantage of one of these changes to look at how fish evolve in response to environmental stress.

The UN agency in charge of the effort, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, is hoping to put a system of deep-sea sensors in place by 2008.

And in a vicious circle, these turbid blooms block out sunlight, causing more sea grasses to die and yet more turbidity.Brian Lapointe, a marine scientist at the Harbour Branch Oceanographic Institution at Fort Pierce in Florida, disagrees.

Biographies have been rare, though he frequently appears in books about explorers in which he features as the ruler who was content to stay in Portugal, where he established a 15th-century version of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Sagres.

The problem started innocuously enough: Caulerpa taxifolia, a type of red algae not native to the Mediterranean shore, was spotted off the shores of the grand Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.