Sentences with phrase «tropical research field»

«Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expenditions», co-curated with Katherine McLeod and Madeleine Thompson, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

I've been reading (and looking at) Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expedition, a book that Mark Dion put together with The Drawing Center.

«Green Parrot Fish,» center, by Isabel Cooper, in the show «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions,» at the Drawing Center.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibition.

Not exact matches

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

Various data from past field experiments were used, such as the 1974 Atlantic Tropical Experiment of the Global Atmospheric Research Program, GATE, 1979 FGGE, 1982 Alpine Experiment, ALPEX and 1992 - 1993 TOGA - COARE.

The 28 June letter was signed by leaders of the following organizations: AAAS; American Chemical Society; American Geophysical Union; American Institute of Biological Sciences; American Meteorological Society; American Public Health Association; American Society of Agronomy; American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists; American Society of Naturalists; American Society of Plant Biologists; American Statistical Association; Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography; Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation; Association of Ecosystem Research Centers; BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium; Botanical Society of America; Consortium for Ocean Leadership; Crop Science Society of America; Ecological Society of America; Entomological Society of America; Geological Society of America; National Association of Marine Laboratories; Natural Science Collections Alliance; Organization of Biological Field Stations; Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Society for Mathematical Biology; Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Society of Nematologists; Society of Systematic Biologists; Soil Science Society of America; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research.

The Gorge Farm Energy Park will also be a field research facility for an Oxford University research programme, led by Tropical Power Chairman, Mike Mason.

«The ATTREX payload will provide unprecedented measurements of the tropical tropopause layer,» said Eric Jensen, ATTREX principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. «This is our first opportunity to sample the tropopause region during winter in the Northern Hemisphere when the region is coldest and extremely dry air enters the stratosphere.»

The founding director of the department and cochair of Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Chris Field, remarked, «Greg's research has had an enormous international impact on the science of global ecology and on enhancing conservation efforts, particularly in tropical forests worldwide.