Sentences with phrase «during an expedition in»

Although the Bodélé depression is near the war zone in Darfur, Sudan, Charlie Bristow of Birkbeck, University of London, and his colleagues managed to collect and analyse 28 samples during an expedition in 2005.

During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil - record evidence of forest fire ecology — the regrowth of plants after a fire — revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.

Albert Estrada of the Institute for Forestry Research in Havana and Blair Hedges of Pennsylvania State University discovered four of the miniature frogs — three males and a female — during an expedition in 1993.

And during an expedition in the Atlantic Ocean, her team discovered a new type of seafloor vent.

We followed the IceCon crew during their expedition in November and December.

Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos, during his expedition in 1542, named the islands

Scientists also reported the rediscovery of the Táchira antpitta (Grallaria chthonia), a plump brown bird that was first recorded during an expedition in the mid-1950s in a remote part of the Andes in Venezuela.

Not exact matches

Left, the Apollo 17, NASA's last expedition to the moon, during launch countdown in 1972.

Most people credit Juan de Oñate, the Spaniard who founded Santa Fe in 1609, with bringing cultivated chiles into the area, but it may have been Antonio Espejo who introduced them to the Pueblo Indians during his earlier expedition of 1582.

He broke it after skiing the bowls, when he fell during a climbing expedition on Mount Shasta in California.

The Urban Triple can be used for walking or jogging, with air - filled tires that can be locked in place for a smoother ride during off - road expeditions.

During the six - week expedition, the team plan to drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionIn search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionin the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

Biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth University actually witnessed this scene in March 2016, during a two - month field expedition to study the crabs in the Chagos Archipelago.

Scientists discovered this toad during an expedition to Colombia to find the Mesopotamia beaked toad, Rhinella rostrata, which was last seen in 1914.

By harnessing the power of modern sequencing and analytical techniques, they are working to uncover the genetic secrets hidden in the DNA of ancient specimens collected during archaeological expeditions or curated in museums.

Two minute, glassy snails found in 2012 during a 17 - cave sampling expedition of Northern Spain have been described.

Cabral extracted essential oils through hydrodistillation in Cameroon during a 1 - month expedition in collaboration with the University of Yaoundé 1 and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

First Expedition Part of the enduring mystery of the Tunguska event harks back to the stark physical isolation of central Siberia and the political turmoil that raged in Russia during the early 20th century, a time when the czarist empire fell and the Soviet Union emerged.

The team from the University of Cambridge found the corpse partly buried in a tyre track on a road through the Nechisar National Park during a 13 - week expedition to the Nechisar Plains of southern Ethiopia.

Trip to Siberia Our involvement with the Tunguska event began in 1991, when one of us (Longo) took part in the first Italian expedition to the site, during which he searched for microparticles from the explosion that might have become trapped in tree resin.

We went to Barbados and after that, we caught up with a NASA team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during its expedition flying through Hurricane Earl in 2010.

Wolfgang Böhme of the Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, Germany, and his team found the population during a 3 - month, 6500 - kilometer expedition to study reptiles in the Western Sahara.

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.

Scientists on the Indian - German expedition, known as LOHAFEX, grew a 300 - km2 patch of algae in hopes that the plants» carbon would fall kilometers below, taking with it the atmospheric carbon it had pulled in during growth.

The data was gathered in summer 2012, during an Arctic expedition on board the research icebreaker Polarstern.

During the expedition, scientists carried out analysis of the salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen and the microalgae contained in the various bodies of water in the Atlantic, and then compared this data with that obtained by the Biobox.

I traveled with the expedition that drilled and sampled Lake Whillans in 2013, and during that time I frequently asked people what they expected to find in the lake.

More than a century ago, German paleontologist Ernst Stromer described Spinosaurus based on several bones from a single animal found during an expedition deep in the Sahara.

After sorting through hundreds of bones excavated by paleontologists Suresh Srivastava and Ashok Sahni during a 1983 expedition in the Narmada River valley in western India, Sereno and Wilson realized they were looking at the braincase, parts of a hip, a vertebra, and a tailbone of a distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Appetite loss at high altitudes could certainly be key, notes Damian Bailey, a physiologist at the University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, in the United Kingdom who himself recently lost 11 kg during a 3 - month expedition to the Andes in Chile.

During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.

The Ackerman Family Bar - Ilan University Expedition to Gath, headed by Prof. Aren Maeir, has discovered the fortifications and entrance gate of the biblical city of Gath of the Philistines, home of Goliath and the largest city in the land during the 10th - 9th century BCE, about the time of the «United Kingdom» of Israel and King Ahab of Israel.

Of the species collected during their expeditions, five have never been recorded in South Africa before, highlighting our poor understanding of aquatic insect distributions in this part of the world.

Geologist Walter Alvarez was on an expedition in Italy during the early 1970s when he noticed something fascinating in the limestone mountains outside Gubbio: two dark layers of rock sandwiching a lighter, half - inch - thick seam.

During a 1996 conference, Manuel Domínguez - Rodrigo, an archaeologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, invited Serrallonga to help him on a human - origins expedition in northern Tanzania.

Canadian archaeologists have located one of two ships lost at sea in 1845 during an expedition to chart the Northwest Passage, a sea route that would snake through waterways at the northern edge of Canada, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Arctic Ocean.

During the larger expedition, divers explored both shallow and deep sites in the Verde Island passage, a little - known hotspot of marine diversity.

«We have concluded by a preponderance of the evidence that Dr. [David] Marchant engaged in sexual harassment in violation of Boston University's Sexual Harassment Policy... by directing derogatory and sex - based slurs and sexual comments at you during the 1999 - 2000 field expedition to Antarctica,» Kim Randall, the executive director of BU's Equal Opportunity Office, wrote to Willenbring in a 16 November letter obtained by ScienceInsider.

The cob, known as Tehuacan162, was excavated from a cave in the Tehuacan Valley in the 1960s, during a major archaeological expedition lead by Richard MacNeish.

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 201In 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 201in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 201in January 2013.

The researchers made these discoveries based on a small piece of bone picked up during an expedition to the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia.

The bubble streams showed up on sonar scans of the sea floor taken between September 2011 and August 2013 during oceanographic expeditions ranging from Cape Hatteras in North Carolina to Georges Bank off Cape Cod.

The women allege that David Marchant, then an assistant professor, harassed them during different research expeditions starting 2 decades ago, while they were isolated in small groups in the Antarctic.

According to the study published in Marine Biodiversity, it was discovered in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands during an expedition of the Okeanos Explorer — the «only federally funded U.S. ship assigned to systematically explore our largely unknown ocean for the purpose of discovery and the advancement of knowledge.»

A sponge the size of a minivan, the largest on record, was found in summer 2015 during a deep - sea expedition in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off Hawaii.

In 1979, during an expedition along the tip of Baja California, Alvin discovered 65 - foot - high chimney - shaped structure spitting hot black «smoke.»

Later in the summer of» 97, I went to New England to tour potential colleges, where, during a short visit to Williams College, I met Professor Jay M. Pasachoff and his students who were preparing an expedition to observe the solar eclipse in Aruba the following year.

Namira has undertaken pioneering peace expeditions to all three poles of the world, and is the first Pakistani and first woman from Monaco and the UAE to have reached the North and South Poles in 2007/08, as well as the first Asian to skydive (tandem) over Mount Everest, during the first historic Everest Skydive in 2008.

This was first tested in 1919 by Sir Arthur Eddington, who organized an expedition to observe star positions during an eclipse of the Sun from islands near the coast of Africa.