Sentences with phrase «finding magnetic north»

Creative nonfiction writer Susan Schorn delivers a craft talk on «Finding Magnetic North: Revising and Shaping Your Creative Nonfiction.»

«Early navigators used it to find the magnetic North Pole and birds use it for their navigation.

Not exact matches

Monarchs, they found, navigate north or south using the change in dip of Earth's magnetic field lines with latitude.

To find out how the turtles remain within the gyre, Ken Lohmann of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues made hatchlings swim in the presence of magnetic fields that simulated locations off Portugal, by which the gyre passes.

Earlier work by Kenneth Lohmann of the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, and his colleagues had found that eastern Florida's loggerhead sea turtles sense magnetic fields.

Here we report that hatchling loggerheads, when exposed to magnetic fields replicating those found in three widely separated oceanic regions, responded by swimming in directions that would, in each case, help keep turtles within the currents of the North Atlantic gyre and facilitate movement along the migratory pathway.

Earth has its own magnetic field, which is why we can always use a compass to find the north pole no matter where we are.

Hidden in a niche between rugged, tree - topped hills is Nelly Bay, a small port town found on Magnetic Island just a few miles north from the coast of Queensland, Australia.