Sentences with phrase «during an expedition on»

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For example, a subject might be asked to recall a time they splurged on an unnecessary luxury item before being asked about how much they'd be willing to charge on their credit card during a future expedition to the mall.

The first Muslim invasion of India took place during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Walid (87 - 97; A.D. 705 - 15) who sent Muhammad Ibn Qasim on an expedition into Sind, the area which then included most of what is now the Punjab.

By the time I arrive home I have approximately double the things I had on my list having been seduced by some luscious looking produce during my shopping expedition.

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

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.

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.

He was asked to collaborate on this discovery because several of the co-authors of the paper, including Kobayashi and lead - author Tanaka, have been members of his field team during past Alaska expeditions.

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

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.

Studies of the sediment cores obtained during the expedition will focus on understanding how Earth's tectonic plates move and how the global climate system works.

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.

But during a recent study of the bat, Buden discovered that a German naturalist voyaging on a Russian expedition had observed and named the animal some 50 years earlier.

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.

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.

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.

Co-chief scientists of the expedition, Tim Shank, a WHOI biologist, and Patty Fryer, a geologist with the University of Hawaii, are on board to examine the samples retrieved by the vehicle during each dive in its ROV mode.

During their scientific expedition to the coast, Katherine Leonard and Alain Hubert shared some interesting anecdotes on their encounters with the locals.

Join Hannah and other Wolf College wild chefs during our annual Wild Cooking & Ethnobotany Expedition: The Herbal Foray the second week of July on Lake Sammamish near Seattle.

And explorers Lewis and Clark became the first known men to produce salt on the West Coast during their epic expedition of the early 19thcentury.

Loosely inspired by a shocking true story, this chilling psychological horror story follows a bickering couple on vacation in the Caribbean who are accidentally abandoned during a diving expedition and forced to fend for themselves in the ocean as they are surrounded by sharks - while the tour operators back at the harbor take 24 hours to realize that they have left a pair of customers stranded.

Climbers from two expeditions fight for survival during a fierce blizzard on Mount Everest.

Finding ancient writings on eternal existence during one of his last expeditions, makes him come back there in search of the meaning of life itself.

An «active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran» means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

A King Ranch Expedition may no longer get you the choice parking spot at the high - end steak place, but it retains a credible spot in the hearts and minds of those doing hard work during the week while playing hard on weekends.

The island, named after the disruptive magnetic effect the area inflicted on the compass of Captain Cook during an 18th Century expedition, is an oasis of unspoiled wildlife.

[2] Gaspar de Portolà, during the Portola expedition, was encamped on this beach and rested here before deciding to return to San Diego because of low supplies and having failed to rendezvous with the Spanish supply ships.

We have personally used portable solar panels on longer kayak expeditions to recharge portable power packs; however, because we are often kayaking to our next camp during the best times to use a solar panel, we find extra power packs are more convenient for the length of our kayak tours.

During our expedition style tour, we kayak between different wilderness campsites: some involve camping in the forest, others on pebble beaches or sandy beaches, and on some trips possibly tent platforms on rocky points, The exact locations used on each trip depend upon a number of factors like group size, wildlife viewing opportunities, and weather.

To make your travel experience even more special, one of the Expedition train services available on the outbound trip to Machu Picchu is the sale of souvenirs and PeruRail products, so that you have everything you need during your tour of the Inca citadel.

This belief on the annual outbreak of pestilence in the sixth month (kaenem) originated from the semi-historic story of the expedition of Balinese army to island of Nusa Penida during the reign of King Waturenggong in Bali around 11th century.

An underwater bow camera, high - tech kayak launchers and iPod docks are just a few of the new features being installed on InnerSea Discoveries» two expedition ships, Wilderness Discoverer and Wilderness Adventurer, during preparation for its inaugural season in Southeast Alaska beginning May 2011.

Some of the popular adventure activities include a 3 hours long expedition of stand up paddling, zip lining and canopy tours in the dense jungle, horseback riding on the beach during the sunset, a snorkeling tour at San Juanillo, river kayaking at river Baco, turtle tours, Yoga sessions and plenty of more!

Keep a lookout for spinner dolphins, green sea turtles, manta rays, humpback whales (during the winter months) and other marine life that are often encountered on the expedition.

This was what breakfast was like during our four - day Inca trail trek with Alpaca Expeditions, which started on October 23rd at kilometer 82, which is about a two - hour bus ride from Cusco, and ended on October 26th in Machu Picchu.

The package also offers an early morning bird watching expedition, a romantic sunset canoe tour on the Macal River, and a visit to the Belize Zoo with transfer during departure or arrival.

They'll be coming along at key times during the expedition to help us film THE most amazing underwater sequences that will bring to life what happens on the Great Barrier Reef.

After getting shipwrecked on a mysterious island during her first - ever archaeology expedition, Lara finds herself in one life - or - death situation after another.

Finding ancient writings on eternal existence during one of his last expeditions makes him come back there in search of the meaning of life itself.

Italy looks beautiful, and you'll be visiting a varied range of locales on your jolly little subterfuge expedition, but what's not beautiful is seeing a nazi stuck running in a chest high wall, or the bad lip syncing on display during cutscenes that would make Bruce Lee films look like Oscar - bait.

During their panel at PAX East, the team from Respawn Entertainment revealed details on Expedition, the first DLC map pack for Titanfall.

Uncle Scrooge returns from one of his many adventures with a sacred pendant which he found on an island during his expedition.

During the expedition, he was at sea, on an ice cap or in some remote location for weeks or months on end.

Alÿs followed this visit with another expedition in October 2016, in which he was embedded with a Kurdish battalion on the Mosul frontline during the ongoing campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS.

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.

The drawings are all made from organic material discovered during Rockman's field expeditions on the East End, making use of sand, soil or other natural items with acrylic polymer on paper.

On the Semiletov thing, I seem to have gotten that impression from this piece from CP a ways back: «Since 1994, Igor Semiletov of the Far - Eastern branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences «has led about 10 expeditions in the Laptev Sea but during the 1990s he did not detect any elevated levels of methane.»

During a segment on Shell's drilling expedition in the Arctic, Burnett suggested that «more drilling» in the U.S. is a solution to high gas prices in California and across the nation, saying: «One way to bring down costs, of course, would be more drilling and that is a highly political topic.»