Sentences with phrase «by museum studies»

Originally built as a temporary installation for «A View Through,» a 1975 exhibition organized by a Museum Studies class, Irwin gave permission to reconstruct it in permanent materials in 1976.

Not exact matches

«If we are right about how this person had died thousands of years ago, we have dramatic proof that living by the sea isn't always a life of beautiful golden sunsets and great surfing conditions,» says John Terrell, Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at The Field Museum and one of the study's authors.

The new PLOS One study is a continuation of that work, contributed to by the University of New South Wales, l'Université de Bourgogne - Franche - Comté, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Auckland, New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, the University of Papua New Guinea, Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, and The Field Museum.

The joint study by researchers at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and Uppsala University, shows that that there is some hope for pied flycatchers within the breeding range of collared flycatcher.

«By rushing to respond to climate change at different speed, the pressure to respond to each other lessens,» explains Päivi Sirkiä, researcher at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study at the University of Helsinki

The study was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (EAR - 0958985), East Tennessee State University, the State Museum of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania.

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

Funding for this study was provided by the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

While little to nothing is known about when the vast majority of butterfly and moth species fly, eat and mate, the study provides a basic and much - needed framework by compiling existing data, said lead author Akito Kawahara, associate professor and curator at the museum's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida.

The effect these pressures have had on Irish and British goat populations has been explored in a landmark DNA study that compared modern - day domestic and feral goats with museum specimens from years gone by.

The value of this information is illustrated by the results of a study published May 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Oster's group, working with colleagues from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge titled «Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India.»

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

A new giraffid species from Spain may extend the range and timespan of the ancestors of giraffes, according to a study published November 1, 2017 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by María Ríos from the National Museum of Natural History, Spain, and colleagues.

The study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, was produced by a group of scientists including The Natural History Museum, London, the University of Leicester and Yunnan University in China.

A research team led by Marc Lebeau of the European Center for Upper Mesopotamian Studies and Antoine Suleiman of the Directorate - General of Antiquities and Museums (Syria) began to excavate Tell Beydar, a large mound — or «tell» — rising out of the flat steppes near the Khbr River.

Acrotholus was identified by a team comprising of palaeontologists Evans, of the Royal Ontario Museum; and Ryan, of The Cleveland Museum of Natural History; as well as Ryan Schott, Caleb Brown, and Derek Larson, all graduate students at the University of Toronto who studied under Evans.

A team of researchers led by Dr Jago Cooper (British Museum) and Dr Alice Samson (University of Leicester) has been studying the island — which is one of the most cavernous regions, per square kilometre, in the world.

Bird, Prendini, and co-author Robert Wharton, a professor at Texas A&M University, studied the jaws of 188 camel spider species representing all solifuge families from historical collections at the Museum and elsewhere, including material collected during expeditions by Prendini and Bird over the past decade — no easy feat.

The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports and led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, finds that the inner ear of modern cheetahs is unique and likely evolved relatively recently.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

The study «fills a gap in the fossil record with an extremely well - preserved specimen» and may provide valuable clues about a species that has been «virtually ignored by zoologists,» adds Jason Dunlop, curator for arachnids at the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt - Universität in Berlin, Germany.

A new study, led by researchers from Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, shows that the so - called DNA metabarcoding technique can do just that.

It is a beauty — perhaps the most complete T. rex skull ever discovered — and Fraley and Graham Lacey decided it should be prepared by a museum, where paleontologists could study it.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

By studying avian bone fragments, James and husband Storrs Olson, both of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, have pieced together a picture of bird life before the first Polynesian settlers arrived sometime between a.d. 400 and 600.

The study was co-authored by Patricia Vickers - Rich and Michael Hall of Monash University in Victoria and Thomas Rich of the Museum Victoria in Melbourne.

The fossils of Albertavenator studied by Evans and his team are housed in the collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, led by the University of Exeter and the Natural History Museum, describes the molecular methods used to test frog tadpoles for a newly identified infectious agent.

By studying the mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA as well as other genetic data from the animal, Link Olson of the University of Alaska Museum determined that it was more closely related to savanna baboons than mangabeys.

This study was conducted by scientists at Peking University, University of California, Davis, the Anhui Geological Museum, the Università degli Studi di Milano, The Field Museum, National Museums Scotland, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

A new model based on ground - running birds could predict locomotion of bipedal dinosaurs based on their speed and body size, according to a study published February 21, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Peter Bishop from the Queensland Museum, Australia and colleagues.

The study was sponsored by the Geological Society of America, the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution's Marine Science Network.

The loss of intact forest cover in Myanmar has accelerated over the last decade, according to a study published May 17, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Peter Leimgruber from Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, United States of America; Ned Horning from American Museum of Natural History, United States of America; and colleagues.

The Field Museum was heavily involved with this study — the paper was co-authored by The Field Museum's Corine Vriesendorp and relied on data contributed by the Field's Robin Foster.

Scientists integrated tarantula DNA into the study alongside anatomy, geography and behavior gleaned from spiders that were gathered by the researchers, contributed by «citizen - scientists» and borrowed from museum collections, to deliver the most comprehensive overview of tarantulas ever assembled, according to the new study, published online Feb. 4 in the journal ZooKeys.

A proper study of the hypogeum was finally conducted a few years later by Themistocles Zammit, the curator of the National Museum of Malta and the father of Maltese prehistory.

An endangered fish along the coast of California — the tidewater goby — may actually be two species rather than one, according a study published July 27, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Camm Swift from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US, and colleagues.

Discovered by Museum of Natural and Cultural History paleontologist Greg Retallack during a 2014 class field trip on fossils at the UO, the Ice Age trackway is the focus of a new study appearing online ahead of print in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

A 15 million year - old fossil sperm whale specimen from California belongs to a new genus, according to a study published December 9, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Alexandra Boersma and Nicholas Pyenson from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

So with techniques normally used for studying prehistoric humans, researchers created a 3D image of Descartes's brain (above) by scanning the impression it left on the inside of his skull, which has been kept for almost 200 years now in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.

Looking back in time The study — the result of an international team led by climate researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark — divided the studied time period into three phases, largely dictated by the availability of data: 1900 to 1983, 1983 to 2003, and 2003 to 2010.

The new study, led by Martinsen, was a collaboration with scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Park Service, the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee — and UVM biologist and malaria expert Joseph Schall.

The new study, led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History, also shows for the first time that DNA found in leeches can be used to identify certain ground birds and, possibly, some bats.

The study, published as the cover article in BioMed Central's Avian Research, led by the Earlham Institute and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, explores the phylogenetic relationship between two forms of Harriers (Circus cyaneus); the Eurasian Hen Harrier (C. c. cyan ecus) and the American Northern Harrier (C. c. hudsonius) to distinguish their ancestry and evolution.

The study, published today in Science, led by researchers from UCL, the Natural History Museum and UNEP - WCMC, found that levels of biodiversity loss are so high that if left unchecked, they could undermine efforts towards long - term sustainable development.

Genetic studies, conducted by co-authors Stephen Donnellan, South - Australian Museum, and Christer Lindqvist, Åbo Akademi University, showed that the species has been isolated for a long time, estimatedly 1 - 2 million years, or even longer.

A new study by Florida Museum of Natural History researcher Natasha Vitek shows how scientists can use animals» physical features — also known as morphology — to make connections between a modern species and its fossilized relatives, even if they look strikingly different.

«My study supported by Synthesys project demonstrates that we have missed many interesting taxa once collected and put in museum collections and the forgotten for a long time.

Slated for the ax are the Center for Materials Research and Education, which seeks to improve preservation and curation techniques for museum artifacts, and the Conservation and Research Center (CRC), a 1290 - hectare rural breeding and study facility for threatened or endangered species, operated by the zoo.

This study was led by Anne Yoder at Duke University and contributed to by scientists at Queen Mary University of London, Universtät Hamburg, the Field Museum, Association Vahatra, the German Primate Centre, Université d'Antananarivo, and the University of Kentucky.