Sentences with phrase «field biologist»

Two young field biologists push off in opposite directions, using their GPS trackers to measure plot boundaries.

Before sunrise field biologists head out to check each trap.

Senior Regional Field Biologist at the Snow Leopard Trust, Koustubh Sharma, talks snow leopards and the #WildForLife Big Cats Team Challenge.

Like field biologists who study the populations and life cycles of animal herds, the SOHO researchers analyzed the appearances and disappearances of large numbers of the small magnetic concentrations on the solar surface.

Mark Kuhlmann is a marine and aquatic field biologist with interests in the behavioral, population, and community ecology of invertebrates and fishes.

«We are drawing attention to this issue as an important question bearing on the ethical responsibilities of field biologists.

Volodya gave us serious animal survey training and tried to fashion a bunch of city slickers into effective field biologists in a matter of hours.

In a reappraisal of Wallace's book «The Malay Archipelago», also in Nature, the American nature writer David Quammen calls him «arguably the greatest field biologist of the nineteenth century».

PCR analysis of mtDNA is increasingly used by field biologists to track the relationships or numbers of animals in the wild.

Ironically, about three weeks after [field biologist] George Schaller visited me for the first time, I saw [chimpanzee] David Greybeard using a tool.

You have to see this (from Koustubh Sharm, our Regional Field Biologist): Here are some pictures (converted into a short video!)

As part of the agreement, Duke will continue to use field biologists to identify eagles and shut down turbines when they get too close.

The quotation is a favorite of George Schaller, considered the finest field biologist of our time and the most powerful voice for conservation in more than 100 years.

Field biologist Emma Stokes was working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the forests of northern Congo in 2008 when she and her team announced the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, doubling the known number of that species.

The researchers believe this model better reflects the complexities of social species — in comparison to other models that do not consider the social organization of populations — and thus allows field biologist to test specific predictions about the effects of sociality.

Davidar started doing fieldwork at a time when India had few other women field biologists.

They kill by being able to sneak up on things,» says Paul Houghtaling, the team's primary field biologist.

As the birds soar above us, field biologist Andria Kroner confers on a radio with her counterpart, Derek Buchner, who is observing the action from the base of the cliffs.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

Field biologists traditionally collect specimens to distinguish the animals — or to confirm that they do indeed exist in the wild.

To catch a cougar, University of California, Santa Cruz field biologist Paul Houghtaling recommends roadkill.

«Traditional sampling methodology, sending biologists to the field, is expensive and often results in incomplete and limited data sets because it is impossible to maintain biologists in the field 24 hours a day throughout the year, and it is impossible to clone expert field biologists, so that they can monitor various sites simultaneously.»

Field biologists usually collect water samples during the day, she says, and nocturnal regeneration «would certainly have the potential to impact those results.»

If carrion flies have one enviable talent, it's finding animal carcasses in the wilderness, something they surpass even the most systematic and intrepid field biologists at doing.

It has been proposed they heavily impacted the Central Highland forests,» says Steve Goodman, MacArthur Field Biologist at The Field Museum in Chicago, who co-authored the study and has been studying Malagasy animals for thirty years.

Into this memoir, field biologist Greene weaves the natural history of snakes and the importance of sharing a love of nature with people.

Prior to joining the Center in 2007 she worked as an amphibian field biologist, conservation corps crew leader, and community organizer against mountaintop - removal coal mining.

Like a good field biologist, Jerolmack spent years staking out his subjects and gathering observations.

«Wallace was an extraordinary field biologist, perhaps the greatest who ever lived,» said Alan Grinnell, a UCLA professor of integrative biology and physiology.

In her past life, Meghann was an NCAA Div 1 swimmer, tropical field biologist, organic farmer, elephant keeper, outdoor educator, and at some point, obtained a B.S. in conservation.

Field biologist Houle delivers a passionate, compelling description of a unique environment in her record of her six - month study of hawks on a vast Oregon prairie.

Wasser, a well - known field biologist, also has a history with these animals, and even participated in the Elephant Census of 2014.

Peter Fauth is a broadly trained, field biologist who studies the behavior and demography of threatened populations and communities.

Wallace wasn't just a great field biologist and brilliant thinker, he was a prolific and successful writer, which was just as well for a man who needed to earn to eat.

Tank is a stream ecologist and field biologist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind..

► In a News & Analysis story in this week's Science, Richard Schiffman reported on the increasing use of drones by field biologists.

Field biologists can work just as hard as an investment banker to make a tiny fraction of the same income, and certainly aren't less educated.

Jahren «has transformed the sedentary, slow - growing lives of plants into a vibrant series of stories that are interwoven with tales of her own research career in the field of paleo - plant physiology,» wrote reviewer Meg Lowman, a field biologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco who is also an author.

Turkalo, 61, is a field biologist for the New York - based Wildlife Conservation Society and arguably the world's foremost expert on African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

Field biologists have observed that crows seem to recognise them, but it was unclear whether the birds distinguish people by their faces or by other distinctive features of dress, gait or behaviour.

Elizabeth Kolbert combines the sharp observational powers of a field biologist with the literary skill of a seasoned and thoughtful writer.

As she recalls in her own words, it isn't easy performing the duties of wife, mother, caregiver, and field biologist — all at the same time — in Central Africa.

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Inclusive fitness «really changed the kind of data that field biologists who are interested in social traits were collecting,» says his colleague Joan Strassmann, who studies how inclusive fitness governs the behavior of slime molds.

Given this upbringing, it is perhaps not surprising that Davidar chose to become a field biologist.