Like Ralph Vaughan Williams's first symphony and the symphony for voices by Roy Harris, Hanson's symphony is set to texts from " Leaves of Grass " by Walt Whitman describing the a voyage of ocean exploration as a metaphor of life transiting into death.
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"It is difficult to predict what discoveries are still to come, " the panel said, but " it is clear that ocean exploration will improve the accuracy of our predictions of global climate change " and " produce new products that will benefit humanity ."
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In 2011, CHC science teacher Debra Duffy was one of 19 high school teachers selected nationally to spend two weeks on Robert Ballard's research ship, the Nautilus, as part of a program funded by the University of Rhode Island, where Ballard is the director of ocean exploration.
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The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which operates Alvin, and the National Science Foundation will collaborate on a new machine capable of descending some 21, 320 feet, enough to reach 99 percent of the ocean floor and return the US to primacy in the field of deep-ocean exploration.
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"' Sonic characteristics of marine species "'- Noise in the ocean is of utmost importance for ocean explorations, oceanographic as well as fisheries studies, sonar operations, etc . The wide range of systems for ocean research demands the need for characterizing the noise sources in the ocean.
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Just before coming aboard, Jean-Michel heard the news that the Calypso, his father's ocean exploration ship familiar to millions of TV fans of " The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, " had sunk in a Singapore shipyard after being rammed at low tide by a drifting submerged barge.
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She is the leader of Sustainable Seas Expeditions and has founded two companies devoted to deep ocean exploration and research, adamant that only by knowing more about this vast but fragile resource will people begin to understand the terrible harm that is being done by pollution and overfishing.
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The project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of the International Decade of Ocean Exploration ( 1970s ) and is based in large part of the collection and analysis of a very large number of sediment cores to create a snapshot of conditions across the oceans.
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After a walk through the control room, visitors get a brief, filmed introduction to Ballard's philosophy of ocean exploration _ the notion that science has hardly begun to learn about the waters that cover two-thirds of this planet, especially those where depth and pressure create an extraordinarily difficult work environment.
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The United Nations, spurred by advances in ocean exploration, is drafting a protection treaty that so far tends to favor scholarly over commercial efforts _ to the chagrin of Stemm, who as a member of the U . S . delegation to a recent expert meeting on the proposed treaty argued otherwise.
