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Researchers in Gulf to study Shell Oil spill

Edit The Times Picayune 17 May 2016
MacDonald said a vessel was expected to leave Gulfport, Mississippi, on Monday with scientists who will monitor the spill and do research on what how oil affects wildlife, microbial populations and the water column. He expressed frustration that the researchers were not able to get a research vessel out to the scene faster ... The oil giant set up a $500 million fund to pay for the research....

Job Cuts at Australian Agency That Studies Climate Change

Edit The Atlantic 17 May 2016
Australia has laid off a prominent scientist as part of cuts to its national science agency that are mainly aimed researchers studying global sea rise and climate change ... Csiro has also said that it will reduce research on ice cores from Antarctica that can measure the change over time in greenhouse gases ... Church received the news while aboard a research vessel midway between New Zealand and Antarctica....

R/V Oceania at Askö for important satellite overpass (Stockholms Universitet)

Edit Public Technologies 16 May 2016
Last week several European research groups gathered ... Stockholm University, Sweden Tartu Observatory, Estonia; Instrument inter-calibration in Tartu Observatory IOPAN, Poland (participating with research vessel Oceania) Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Belgium, responsible for turbidity inter-calibration NIVA, Oslo, Norway Bio-Optika, UK....

Excise department seizes illegal spirit, drugs

Edit The Times of India 14 May 2016
The excise department has seized 2,960 litres of spirits, 2,927 litres of foreign liquor and 76.4 kg drugs as part of election-related raid ... Police arrested Joseph (34) for stealing an echo sounder, used to measure the depth of the water on research vessels worth more than Rs 50,000 ... ....

Google's AI language software named Parsey McParseface in honour research boat row

Edit The Daily Mail 13 May 2016
Google has had a cheeky dig at humourless officials in the British government who objected to naming a new research vessel Boaty McBoatface by calling its new artificial intelligence tool Parsey McParseface ... ....

Longtime Tarpon Springs boat builder to construct state research vessel

Edit Tampa Bay Times 12 May 2016
A Tarpon Springs boat builder, who usually crafts vessels like the one below, welcomes the chance to build a $6 million marine science research boat ... ....

Former Navy research ship sailing for new home in Philippines

Edit Stars and Stripes 12 May 2016
FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — A former Navy research ship given to the Philippines is set to sail out of Pearl Harbor on Thursday en route to its new home. The BRP Gregorio Velasquez, formerly the R/V Melville, is the Philippines’ first dedicated marine research vessel. The Navy formally transferred the vessel’s ownership during an April 27 ceremony at Naval Base San Diego....

STEM Expo: Showcasing Naval Careers, Opportunities in the Sciences (The United States Navy)

Edit Public Technologies 12 May 2016
The expo, co-sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Navy League STEM Institute, is geared to students in grades six through 12 ... Among the many other things to do and see will be tours of the research vessel Sperry Star III, testing one's pilot capabilities in a number of flight simulators, and virtual reality activities ... For more news from Office of Naval Research, visit http.//www.navy.mil/local/onr/....

Australia Orders Antarctic Supply Research Vessel

Edit Topix 11 May 2016
The Australian Government has signed a deal with DMS Maritime, a wholly owned subsidiary of Serco, for the delivery, operation and maintenance of an Antarctic Supply Research Vessel with icebreaking capabilities. The vessel, to be built by the Damen Shipyards Group, will form an integral part of the Australian Antarctic Division program in the coming years ... ....

Scientists declare 'Boaty McBoatface' contest a success

Edit Times Union 11 May 2016
The leader of Britain's Natural Environment Research Council said Tuesday that its name-the-ship competition, which drew global attention when it was won by a jokey Mc-moniker, was "an incredible success.". Parliament's Science and Technology Committee grilled council officials about the contest, which invited the public to help name a new 200 million pound ($288 million) polar research vessel....

“BRP Gregorio Velasquez” Receives Aloha Welcome in Hawaii (Department of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of the Philippines)

Edit Public Technologies 11 May 2016
The research vessel arrived from San Diego, California where it was officially turned over by the US government and christened and commissioned as BRP Gregorio Velasquez (formerly R/V Melville) last April 27 ... The Philippine Consulate General staff and Filipino community members were later given a briefing and tour of the research vessel....

The Lessons of Boaty McBoatface

Edit The Atlantic 11 May 2016
Days earlier, Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council had announced that it would not be calling the government’s new polar research vessel “Boaty McBoatface,” the people’s overwhelming choice in an online naming contest organized by NERC that attracted global attention ... 60,000 people had viewed videos about the research vessel’s mission....

British Scientists Call Boaty McBoatface Contest ‘an Incredible Success’

Edit Time Magazine 10 May 2016
The leader of Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council said Tuesday that its name-the-ship competition, which drew global attention when it was won by a jokey Mc-moniker, was “an incredible success.”. Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee grilled council officials about the contest, which invited the public to help name a new 200 million pound ($288 million) polar research vessel....
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