Sentences with phrase «field courses»

Sight hounds compete in lure coursing or open field coursing trials where they chase a «lure» (think greyhound racing) or hare in an open field.
Wellfleet Bay offers a wide variety of field courses for adults that focus on the unique coastal environment and wildlife of Cape Cod.
The sonic tomography methods were developed and tested during an international field course for high school, college, and graduate students in the Republic of Panama and funded through the National Science Foundation.
At the same time, McAlister came to the museum with a lot of fieldwork experience; in addition to the work she did during her degrees, she also worked as a teaching assistant on a tropical ecology field course in La Suerte, Costa Rica.
The turbulent motion of superhot plasma causes the magnetic field coursing within to cycle between periods of low and high intensity — resulting in sunspots and solar flares.
The Yellowstone Association offers year - round field courses on topics ranging from calderas and climate change to wolves and wildflowers.
McAlister's interest in entomology turned serious during an environmental biology field course she took while an undergraduate at the University of Manchester, she recalls.
With only animal studies to go on, researchers also had to pursue a crash course in vaccine and drug testing to get products into the field
I also teach summer field courses to the northern Rockies and Panama with Dr. Peter Minchin.
Unfortunately, later field courses revealed that my passion for science and the outdoors was not enough for me to be able to locate myself on a topographic map (my life might be very different if we'd had GPS in cell phones!).
I later attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, majored in biology, and took a number of field courses at the UNL's field station (Cedar Point Biological Station) which led me into research.
Our Programs range from 1.5 hour snorkel tours to 4 week intensive field courses, at locations as diverse as Magnetic Island, Orpheus Island, and Lizard Island.
They invented lure coursing as a safer, more controlled sport for sighthounds that would recreate the physical requirements of open field coursing, allowing them to continue testing the functional abilities of their sighthounds.
Bridge to Counseling Program: 27 courses included coursework to orient students to key theories of the field
Examples of eligible projects include, berms, shooting benches, field courses, archery range development, and upgrades to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Take a field course: Many universities offer field courses lasting from a week to a semester, as do educational institutes such as the Organization for Tropical Studies and the School for Field Studies.
«One of the great things about teaching this field course is that we can show how by reading the geological record you can understand the changes in the dynamic nature of the system,» Gualda said.
In Western states, Borzoi are sometimes used in open field coursing to hunt jackrabbit, and some farmers use them against coyotes to protect their livestock.
In the United States, the Sloughi is kept primarily as a companion animal and family pet, although venues exist in which to test the Sloughi's naturally exquisite hunting skills, including free coursing, and organized open field coursing.
When this field course is over, I will have learned a lot about science and a lot about American culture.
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