Sentences with phrase «across water samples»

The team used this ratio as a benchmark to identify and compare levels of mercury pollution caused by human activities across water samples from different oceans.

Not exact matches

A report issued in April by the New York Attorney General's office found that microbeads were present in 74 percent of water samples taken from 34 municipal and private treatment plants across the state.

We analyzed 7.2 terabases of metagenomic data from 243 Tara Oceans samples from 68 locations in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters across the globe to generate an ocean microbial reference gene catalog with > 40 million nonredundant, mostly novel sequences from viruses, prokaryotes, and picoeukaryotes.

Hydrologist Robert Gilliom of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and his team tested waters in 51 areas across the country for 75 pesticides between 1992 and 2001, including water samples from 186 streams and more than 5,000 wells along with sediment from more than 1,000 waterways.

By comparing this fingerprint to the geochemical and isotopic profiles of 29 background surface water samples collected across the region, the team was able to determine where and to what extent contamination associated with brine spills had occurred, and rule out the possibility that it had been caused by other sources.

Traces of 18 unregulated contaminants were found in the water from one - third of utilities in sampling across the U.S. by federal scientists.

Goldberg is also working with colleagues across the United States to sample lake water to determine whether a pathogen related to Bd that has devastated salamander populations in Europe does not establish itself in North America.

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microbes.

The study is the first to survey the landscape of bacteria and the genetics of their resistance across multiple aspects of an environment, including the people, their animals, the water supply, the surrounding soil, and samples from the sanitation facilities.

conducting weekly bacteria sampling at 12 beaches across southern Santa Barbara County from November through March (when the County no longer provides this service) and providing timely public notification of our results through various print and online media so people can avoid risking their health by recreating in polluted water; and

I've come across one site — http://www.climate-ocean.com/ — that argues that it wasn't the sampling, but the effect that military actions had on the sea surface, by mixing in cooler deeper water.

The researchers sampled water in pores, or microscopic voids in peat, at numerous sites across the Glacial Lake Agassiz peatlands in northwestern Minnesota to see how water moves solutes through the peat.

The research team, including the authors of the study, Peter Davison and Rebecca Asch, traveled across hundreds of miles of the North Pacific ocean gyre, collecting fish specimens, water samples and marine debris at depths ranging from the surface to thousands of feet under.