Sentences with phrase «describe decades of work»

In an e-mail last week, she described her decade of work there, in which she focused on several severely endangered primates, including the silky sifaka, which is restricted to the Marojejy National Park and surrounding regions.

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It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

Historical changes that each find disturbing, whether the reduction of marriage to a private relationship in the past century or the increased number of working mothers in recent decades, are described as unprecedented, ominous or cataclysmic.

He describes the late 1990s as a golden age in his lab: «A lot of things we were working on for several decades came together.»

Polkinghorne pondered this problem for decades before finding a work - around in the byways of chaos theory, a branch of mathematics that describes the underlying order in large, seemingly unpredictable systems, from weather to economics.

Last year, after a full decade of intensive work at Cambridge University, Frederick Sanger and his colleagues for the first time totally described the chemical structure of a protein

Despite decades of work, neuroscientists still struggle to describe how neural activity in the brain relates to the movements being generated.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

He spent nearly a decade in the Netherlands, where he worked on describing the large scale structure of the universe using the mathematical language of fractals, as well as on software projects for radio astronomy.

Over the last decade, the term instructional leader has worked its way into the vernacular of the education community to describe the role of school principals.

It is a celebration of Stella's collaborative relationship with Tyler and his team over five decades, a collaboration that Tyler describes as standing out from all other artists: «A close look at his printmaking reveals a slow and timid start in the early 60s that culminated into an explosion of scale, colour, texture and bold imagery of The Fountain work.

Rediscovery is a word many avoid when describing these artists, some of which have been working for decades.

In the last two decades Polke has made a number of works which have been described as «allegorical history paintings».

It's clear there has been an evolution in the artist's stacking: from earlier works such as Minster — several piles of «abandoned pieces of scrap metal» — to gleaming forms from the last decade, which Cragg more elegantly describes as «stacked horizontal ellipses».

Christopher Burge, Christie's auctioneer, described the sale afterwards as «really extraordinary» and «a triumphant vindication» of the auction house's decision to offer works by younger artists many of which are not even a decade old.

The chief characteristics of work from that decade, with its echoes of Hans Hofmann, are densely layered surfaces and the arbitrary petals of paint so evocatively described by Mel Gooding in his book: «They flicker and flash with the chromatic brilliancy of birds, fish or insects against the broken light of impasto and coagulation, or like volcanic debris falling through burned air, or like bright figures of water, air and fire against elemental grounds of pigmented earth.»

Less than a decade later he passionately disavowed all of those things, publishing a dogmatic, almost comically specific, often contradictory manifesto describing the precise method of making pure, modern paintings: paintings that incidentally were nothing like his own early works.

By re-examining Motherwell's origins and his engagement with this technique, which he described in 1944 as «the greatest of our [art] discoveries,» the exhibition will investigate the artist's work during a pivotal decade in his career.

This volume surveys nearly three decades of work and includes an interview with Klumpar, who describes the glass - casting process.

«People have often described my work as sculpture,» says McElheny, who only recently recognized the role of painting within his work from throughout the past two decades.

Though he likes to describe himself as an anachronism, Hannah's poignant, often elegiac and uncanny work has been, for decades, an important herald of successive waves of figurative painters.

The early buzz The Guardian, when commenting on Monet's paintings, described them as «some of the most beautiful and beloved paintings of the early 20th century» and «the largest assembly of the works in the UK in more than a decade».

Her career has spanned seven decades and several artistic movements, including Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism, all of which she engaged with, but none of which adequately contain or describe her work.

It generously covers more than a decade of the early years of Gedney's oeuvre, a period during which her work fluctuated between the two initially conflicting directions endlessly debated at Phillip Pavia's Club, described by him as «the abstractionists» presence and the purists» lack of presence.»

The installation, accompanied by related work, is described by the artist as the culmination of a body of work started nearly two decades ago.

Mauer, who worked on the North Slope for the Fish and Wildlife Service for more than two decades, describes his first exposure to a vast migrating caribou herd, which reminded him of early accounts from bison country.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a «weapon of mass destruction».

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

The Feeling of Risk brings together the work of Paul Slovic, one of the world's leading analysts of risk, to describe the extension of risk - perception research into the first decade of this new century.

I should know since, as I describe in my book The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, I found myself at the center of that campaign more than a decade ago because of my scientific work establishing the unprecedented nature of recent global warming.

Basic assumptions of the McMaster model of family functioning: this was first described in the same decade as Minuchin's work was published.

In a study of 18 OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) advanced industrialized countries, Sakiko Tanaka assessed the outcomes of parental leave policies on child health outcomes.7 Covering more than three decades (1969 - 2000), her study confirms and updates Ruhm's earlier work described above.