Sentences with phrase «collected on every expedition»

Data collected on every expedition are of high value, given the high cost and increasingly limited resources for ocean exploration.

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But I was just browsing through this collection not very long ago, and I came across some specimens — I've taken them out now — that were collected by Dr. David Livingstone on the second Zambezi expedition in the 1860s.

The team investigated sediment cores collected from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea from the German research vessel RV Polarstern on two expeditions in 2006 and 2010.

The research group's discovery is based on unique data collected by the article's authors on, for example, winter expeditions in the North Atlantic on DTU's marine research vessel Dana.

«He's the only person who ever collected it, and it was on this remarkable expedition when he was 17 years old,» said Warren, senior collections manager of the Florida Museum of Natural History's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at UF.

Brandt led a small army of scientists on three expeditions to the Weddell Sea in Antarctica, where they collected bottom - dwelling organisms at 40 different locations, some in waters nearly four miles deep.

Though some biologists recently have criticized the collection of specimens as potentially jeopardizing fragile populations of rare animals, Gardner said collecting expeditions to biologically unknown areas remain a critical part of understanding life on the planet.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

Alberto Behar, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, who was part of our team and with us on the expedition, designed a remote - controlled drone boat we used to collect data.

In the early 1990s a group of Cuban researchers on a diving expedition collected some specimens to analyse their toxins.

On her summer expeditions, she collects bits of burned bone and soil samples in the hope of proving her case.

Diminutive azaleas, bright with jewel - blue blossoms, blanketed a slope, and in a damp spot, Yin pointed out a tall primrose, Primula wilsonii, the first plant named for Wilson and one that he collected in 1900, on his first expedition.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Scientists chose Kawio Barat as the first target for the expedition based on satellite information and data collected by a joint Indonesian - Australian team in 2004.

Relentlessly tough on the sailors involuntarily enlisted on this breadfruit - collecting expedition, Bligh forces his men to forfeit their possessions and he subjects several to soul - crushing punishment.

Chen and Armstrong (2002) described a myriad of project - based learning activities in which teachers used technologies to engage students as scientists in collecting data on stars for NASA, as explorers in wide - ranging expeditions around the world, as writers publishing poems or even literary magazines, and in a range of other innovative roles engaging in relevant projects.

Dominic Smith takes readers on an expedition of museum collecting in the Victorian era and explains how intercultural contact inspired his novel Bright and Distant Shores.

Prepare your treasure hunt; collect Insight, Research, Gold, and Status on your expeditions to acquire supplies and support for your next adventure

In the first room of the show a series of photographs by Yto Barrada focuses on dolls collected during missionary expeditions to North Africa in the 1930s, inviting us to consider how objects tell a story about a people, place or time.

In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. naval expeditions led by Perry and Maury collected fish specimens and other information, such as whale sightings, on living marine resources.

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Expeditions in spring 2011 and 2012 collected rusty oxygen tanks, old cooking - gas containers, broken tent poles, discarded food packaging, and even part of a helicopter that crashed on the mountain in 1974.

For those of us back on land, the most exciting aspect of the expedition is that Semenov and his team plan to document their findings for a general audience in addition to collecting research data.

Before 1950, Sir John Burton Cleland wrote one in every six articles about Indigenous health in the MJA, and was the most prominent doctor in salvaging Indigenous data for science.7 Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Adelaide, he joined annual anthropological expeditions to Central Australia from 1925 to 1939 to collect these data, often describing the expeditions in the MJA.18 Following European research on the distribution of blood groups in different populations, 19 these expeditions examined blood groups to provide precise scientific demarcations between races, but contradictory evidence soon could not be ignored.

I dragged a family of perturbed Maroubra friends there one day on a sea - glass - collecting expedition and turned the bucket load we scored into a bathroom shelf display.