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Founded in 1876, Texas A&M University is a U.S. public and comprehensive university offering a wide variety of academic programs far beyond its original label of agricultural and mechanical trainings. It is one of the few institutions holding triple federal designations as a land-, sea- and ...
A research institute established in 1987 with the goal of developing state-of-the-art equipment, instrumentation, systems, and methods of scientific research in the deep waters of the ocean.
Industry:Earth science
a research program designed to study mixed layer dynamics and bioluminescent plankton production. The program focuses on seasonal changes in upper layer physics and the successive populations that are responsible for bioluminescence.
Industry:Earth science
A research program established in 1992 to provide scientific information on pelagic fisheries to the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) after the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 was amended to include highly migratory fish. It is located at JIMAR at the University of Hawaii.
Industry:Earth science
A research program to improve the understanding of the relationships between climatic variability, ocean circulation, marine chemistry, and phytoplankton biomass, composition and production with the use of moored platforms with unattended sensors, satellite imagery, and shipboard surveys.
Industry:Earth science
A research program under which scientists of twentytwo nations collected data in the Indian Ocean from 1959-1965. This was done under a plan coordinated by the Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research (SCOR) of UNESCO.
Industry:Earth science
A research program whose components include LTER, RACER and SANTA CLAuS. See the COLD Web site23.
Industry:Earth science
A research project whose goal is to improve the knowledge about the hydrodynamics of the Straits of Otranto and the evaluate the water and particulate fluxes across this strait at synoptic, seasonal, and interannual time scales. This MTP Core Project took place from Dec. 1993 to May 1996.
Industry:Earth science
A return to colder climatic conditions beginning in about 1450 and ending around 1890. This was an era of moderate, renewed glaciation that followed the warmest known part of the Holocene. It was marked by the advance of valley glaciers in the Alps, Alaska, Swedish Lapland and New Zealand far beyond their present limits as well as by snow on the high mountains of Ethiopia where it is now unknown. The evidence points to two main cold stages, each lasting about a century, during the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Regional timings of the cold periods differed and thus some doubts have been raised as to the global nature of this phenomenon.
Industry:Earth science
A reversing water bottle comprising a water bottle and a pair of thermometers on a reversing frame. This was developed by Fridtjof Nansen around 1910.
Industry:Earth science
A ridge connecting South American and Antarctica located at about 70° W in the Southern Ocean that, along with the narrowing of the Drake Passage 2000 km to the west, impedes the flow of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). It is generally less than 2000 m deep with some openings at the 3000 m level. After the ACC accelerates to squeeze through the Drake Passage it hits to Ridge and an increased speed and shifts northward.
Industry:Earth science
