Sentences with phrase «plant siting study»

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A 2008 study by Columbia University Earth Observatory found that Indian Point isn't exactly on firm ground and is in one of the worst places to site a nuclear power plant.

Dr. Howard A. Zucker, the state health commissioner, said that the Saint - Gobain plant would be deemed a state Superfund site — giving the state the power to seek reimbursements for the cleanup costs from the source of the pollution — and that private wells in the area would also be tested for PFOA, which some studies have linked to an increased risk for cancer.

The study, «Response of understory vegetation to salvage logging following a high - severity wildfire,» reports a modest difference between logged and unlogged areas for some shrubs, but researchers with the agency's Pacific Southwest Research Station conclude the diversity of plant species and their abundance, as a whole, differed little between logged and unlogged sites.

Specifically, after the analysis involving microscopic techniques and virtual models developed by the UA researcher, carious lesions caused by carbohydrates, present in plants, were found in the dental remains discovered at the La Brea Tar Pits site in Los Angeles, California, described by Alejandro Romero as «one of the most paradigmatic sites to study fossil mammals from the Pleistocene in North America.»

The tree limb she's straddling is thick with epiphytes — plants that grow on other plants — and they're the reason she's come to this dizzying study site at the La Selva Biological Station in northern Costa Rica.

Improving security had sparked a renaissance in fieldwork, with researchers heading back into the countryside in greater numbers to study birds, archaeological sites, and native plants.

The site is also equipped with digital cameras that are able to take automatic pictures of the ecosystem to study plant phenology.

One area that requires scientific expertise is environmental assessment, in which the site that will house the turbines is studied to determine whether drinking water, plants, or animals will be affected by a new wind - power facility.

«The mechanism is believed to have originated in order to ensure the survival of plants located at sites with nitrogen deficiency,» said Dr. Gitto Kuruthukulangarakoola, first author of the study who is also a researcher at BIOP.

Radiological damage to microbes near the site of the Chernobyl disaster has slowed the decomposition of fallen leaves and other plant matter in the area, according to a study just published in the journal Oecologia.

The sites were chosen based on previous studies analyzing plants and dust collected on trees in the locations.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

A wild tomato plant, Solanum peruvianum, from field - study sites in the Rio Fortaleza Valley in the Ancash Province of Peru.The modeling study suggests that the herbivore - induced release of protective chemical compounds limits population growth of both the pollinator and the flowering plant, thereby temporarily and indirectly restricting the growth of herbivore populations and preventing extinction.

The biggest such study, across 15 corporate sites at Geico, found that plant - based diets resulted in significant reported improvements in depression, anxiety, stress, fatigue, and emotional well - being.

This site is completely loaded with excellent studies that show the benefits of a plant based diet and the disadvantages of eating animal product.

Economic Times has reported that Land Rover is studying various sites in India to erect a manufacturing plant that will roll out the next generation Defender SUV in 2015.

For Secret Garden Biological Field Unit, Dion built a site specific research laboratory in which a team of scientists and artists studied the plants and insects hidden in the garden next to the South London Gallery.

Studies show that standardized designs, multiple reactors on one site, and a vertically integrated builder were the keys to declines in the cost of building nuclear power plants in France and Korea.

Most studies have shown that more than half of the methane leakage from natural gas comes from drilling sites and gas processing plants (i.e. upstream emissions), with the remainder coming from pipelines and storage systems (i.e. downstream emission).

For this study, we linked monthly data on the amount of coal stored on - site at each of 236 coal - fired power plants across the United States to measurements from nearby air quality monitors.

The project will also develop a chimpanzee field study site that includes planting a 30 - mile (50 km) tree corridor to connect the Gishwati Forest Reserve, the chimpanzees» home range, to Nyungwe National Park in southwest Rwanda.

I am a plant ecologist who studies carbon and nitrogen cycling and I have been yearning for a site / blog this.

We have performed similar studies to examine the impact on property values of chemical plants, Superfund sites, injection wells, and chemical plants.

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