Deep Ocean Exploration and Research, with funding from Google's Eric Schmidt, is building two three-person submersibles.
"Shipwrecks help to fill in some of the unwritten pages of history, " said Frank Cantelas, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, will roam the frigid landscape collecting measurements to help scientists better understand changes in the massive ice sheet.
ENGADGET: NASA's GROVER eco-rover to examine Greenland's ice sheet (video)
King Hubbard, associate director of the Exploration and Production Research Division at Shell Oil Company, quantitatively mapped the future of oil production.
Now, the legacy of all that research and exploration is the growing likelihood of large-scale mining operations, fuelled by rising mineral prices, in many parts of the ocean in the coming decades.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
The purpose of this order is to remove these limitations on scientific inquiry, to expand NIH support for the exploration of human stem cell research, and in so doing to enhance the contribution of America's scientists to important new discoveries and new therapies for the benefit of humankind.
But some scientists question whether manned exploration provides the best platform for scientific research.
Its purpose is to provide an exploration of the issues arising from current research in biology, particularly stem cell research.
Mining companies spent little on research and development, or on exploration, in the 1990s and were slow to get going again.
Beginning no later than 2008, we will send a series of robotic missions to the lunar surface to research and prepare for future human exploration.
CNN: Bush: 'It is time for America to take the next steps' in space
The first issues started to appear in 2011, namely: Applied Water Science, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, Applied Petrochemical Research, Applied Nanoscience, and 3Biotech.
According to Metals Economics Group, a research outfit in Canada, spending on exploration between 2003 and 2005 increased by 123% globally, but by only 60% in South Africa.
The Huffington Post, the news aggregation and commentary site, is hosting a pre-inaugural ball Monday night with the Atlantic Philanthropies and the Musk Foundation, which supports research on renewable energy, human space exploration, and pediatrics.
Research reveals that the noise from oil and gas exploration has driven the whales into deeper waters making it hard for their calves to feed and thrive.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), an intergovernmental advisory and research organization, recommends a total number of mackerel allowed to be caught in order for fish stocks to remain sustainable.
In his "Space Project, " Vincent pays homage to the world's great centers of space exploration and study: Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, various observatories and antenna arrays, and, most recently, the Ariane Space Center in French Guiana.
The data is based on research into current and projected oil production levels, extraction costs, exploration projects that are underway or in the pipeline and growth projections for developed and developing nations.
My summer research fellow (me) checked on board pay at a few other exploration and production outfits.
My many initiatives and collaborations encompass innovative educational outreach approaches to art and zoological history, ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, exploration, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography and animal rights.
Luna does contract research and development, plumbing the possibilities in fields such as bomb detection and satellite oil exploration.
The joint Green Party and Alliance motion was opened by Anna Lo who said the four licences for exploration for hydraulic fracturing, known as "fracking", had been granted despite a "severe deficiency of research".
Their research, which is published today in the journal Astrobiology, could serve as a guide to future Martian exploration missions that are looking for indigenous Martian life.
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