Sentences with phrase «as water samples»

If you want specific tests, such as water samples, well flow test, dry rot or pest, expect to pay extra per additional test.

This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a community member for a school project, or collecting real data, such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.

If you want specific tests, such as water samples, well flow test, dry rot or pest, expect to pay extra per additional test.

Not exact matches

You'll also be able to have a little bottle of the Mount Lofty spring water that we use, a little sample of the grain that we use for that particular bottling and some shavings of the actual wood from the barrel as well as the bottle of single malt.»

In discussions with the bloggers, your CEO mentioned that children died in the 1970s as a result of the misuse (wrong quantity, mixed with dirty water) of formula samples.

Nestled between a barber shop and a jewelry store, the Bumble Tree often bustles with activity as the youngest members of the community sample the products from cool wooden tractors to soft cotton dolls... Other specialty items are cloth diapers, organic cotton clothing, soft - soled «Stones» winter footwear - to be worn over regular shoes - and Swiss - made SIGG metal water bottles.»

[3][17] Three sites are regularly sampled for water quality while devices such as sondes continuously record temperature, conductivity, and pH. Benthic macroinvertebrates are frequently counted and fecal coliform counts are also run.

As New York City retests all public school buildings for lead in the water, 140 have had at least one water sample showing elevated levels so far.

The department has been able to test as many as six water sample per month, in contrast to the previous two years, when «we basically got zero,» Mr. Collins said at Tuesday's Town Board work session.

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz stopped short of requiring his health department to mandate tap water sampling in homes where children are already diagnosed with high lead levels, but he did say that «maybe we do need to take additional steps, such as testing the water.»

Two Syracuse University geology professors - along with a graduate assistant or two - are hurrying to collect water samples from drinking wells in the Southern Tier before - and if - the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing is approved in New York.

Kaustubh Thirumalai (Brown University) helping retrieve a CTD instrument, which collects water samples and measures physical parameters of oceanic waters such as temperature, aboard the R / V Point Sur in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

As SETI pioneer Jill Tarter likes to say, so far SETI has scooped a single glass of water from the cosmic ocean, and no one would conclude the earthly sea is fishless from a 1 - cup sample.

The crew collected 4,600 water samples in three weeks from depths as great as 2.8 miles before mechanical failure brought the trip to a premature conclusion.

For bulk water samples, these conditions are described as «no man's land,» because ice nucleates before such temperatures can be reached.

For traditional, standard tests, water samples need to be kept below 4 degrees Celsius after collection until they are delivered to a lab where they can be cultured and examined under a microscope for microorganisms, such as Escherichia coli.

The researchers tested air samples from ground level and from altitudes of about 20 miles, as well as dissolved air from shallow ocean water samples.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

Cynthia: Such as: How do you design a deep - water vehicle that can without human eyes telling it specifically what to do, navigate deep under water, recognize coral, reach out, take a small sample and speed back up to the surface?

They say they need precise data on the prevalence and onset of medical conditions, as well as from air and water sampling, to properly assess the hazards of drilling.

It remains unclear at this point which particular species bloomed as a result of the HSRC iron release but the team is sending out for analysis more than 10,000 water samples, data the HSRC team says it will share as other iron fertilization experiments have done.

In Pavillion, Wyo., where residents have complained of nerve damage and loss of sense of taste and smell, EPA superfund investigators found benzene and other hydrocarbons in well water samples, as well as methane gas, metals, and an unusual chemical variant of a compound used in hydraulic fracturing.

«As the observed NMR signal is proportional to the amount of ortho - water in the sample (para-water «NMR silent»), we can track the percentages of ortho and para isomers at any time and any temperature,» Mamone explained.

Nearly half of the medicine samples tested for animal DNA contained genetic material from multiple animals, and more than three - quarters included DNA from animals not listed on the packaging, such as water buffalo, domestic cows and goats.

Scientists there were able to begin analyzing the lake water as soon as a sample was lifted out of the borehole.

As the spacecraft sidled up to the comet, it sampled the water streaming from the comet body and found 67P's D / H ratio to be staggeringly high — more than three times that of Earth's oceans (SN: 1/10/15, p. 8).

The scientists ran a sample of BPA - contaminated water through both the new porous cyclodextrins as well as three existing activated carbons and two nonporous cyclodextrin polymers.

The new study includes those observations, collected near the end of the Washington bloom, as well as other ongoing beach monitoring and water sampling efforts that filter seawater to see the life it contains.

He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.

Then the device drives the water sample into an instrument called a mass spectrometer, which detects thousands of molecules as a molecular fingerprint.

As part of their study, the researchers collected samples of brine - laden spill waters from four sites — two large spills and two smaller ones.

Well - known techniques that took place in Flint include preflushing water from taps the night before sampling and using small - mouthed bottles, which artificially lowers lead concentrations in samples, as well as failing to identify and test homes known to have sources of lead in their plumbing from lead services lines or older brass components that contain significant amounts of lead.

The researchers studied water samples taken during cruises by Chinese ice breaker XueLong, (meaning «snow dragon») in summer 2008 and 2010 from the upper ocean of the Arctic's marginal seas to the basins as far north as 88 degrees latitude, just below the North Pole, as well as data from three other cruises.

With his pals in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up as the oldest son of a psychiatrist and an artist, Tatar entertained himself by scooping up pond water samples and, with a microscope, peering at the algae and protozoa trawling about within.

He said that water samples from the Gulf of Mexico are showing signs that marine bacteria are already pitching in to help with clean - up efforts, and that populations of these bacteria in this area are likely to boom as they feast on the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

Professors Edwards and Lambrinidou and others have documented that, as a result, agencies in charge of proving that regulations are met have developed techniques for gaming the system to avoid collecting water samples that contain enough lead or copper to trigger action.

The samples were analyzed in a quantitative DNA detector, a state - of - the - art device which separates each water sample into as many as 20,000 droplets and analyzes each of them for traces of manatee DNA.

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.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Samples of the rock contain as much as 6000 parts per million water.

Your article on searching for the origins of life in billion - year - old water samples was interesting (5 July, p 8), but the statement that «as far as the team could tell, the water contained no trace of life» is suspect.

Robinson and Researcher G. Jeffrey Taylor, both at the UHM Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, compiled water measurements from lunar samples performed by colleagues from around the world, as well as their own.

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 researchers validated their approach by analyzing samples from California's Mono Lake, an extremely salty body of water acting as a stand - in for briny water on Mars and on some moons.

But only one of them — Serratia marcescens, which resides in the guts of humans and other animals as well as in soil and water — is capable of causing whitepox in healthy coral samples, the team reports.

It details the development of technology that Yakovlev characterizes as affordable, highly sensitive, easy to implement and capable of delivering analysis of water samples in real time.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

In his research published in the December issue of the journal Geology of the Geological Society of America, Czaja and his colleagues Nicolas Beukes from the University of Johannesburg and Jeffrey Osterhout, a recently graduated master's student from UC's department of geology, reveal samples of bacteria that were abundant in deep water areas of the ocean in a geologic time known as the Neoarchean Eon (2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago).

Next steps for the Waterloo research include ensuring that the treated water meets all of the objectives Canadian environmental legislation and regulations required to ensure it can be safely discharged from sources larger than the samples, such as tailing ponds.

The clouds themselves are likely not made of water, as the planets in this sample are too hot for water - based clouds.