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Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

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Geochemist Ken Caldeira of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California, and his wife decided that she should shift from a full - time job to a contract position to allow her to serve as a field assistant on some of the field expeditions Caldeira leads.

There he met biologist Imre Friedmann, who was looking for someone to build temperature and moisture sensors as part of a field expedition to Antarctica's Dry Valleys.

We hope that the genes collected in Malaspina Expedition open the door to multiple biotechnological applications in fields such as bioenergy, food or cosmetics.»

As the International Polar Foundation was intimately involved in the planning of these expeditions and assuring the logistics and security of field operations, the research groups preferred to wait until the next season.

As the title suggests, this is a humanity - in - peril yarn, and Kane's expedition was an attempt to find some kind of explanation for «The Shimmer», a sort of hungry force field steadily expanding outwards to devour and transform chunks of the planet.

The story, as it were, focuses on an all - female expedition into the depths of the unknown — it's The Descent, but instead of spelunking into hell we're just going to walk there, armed only with assault rifles and PhDs in various applicable fields of study.

However, the action really does drag in this instalment as, to be honest, the storyline is pretty dull and just involves our pint - sized heroes camping in a field and squabbling like they're on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition for much of the time.

Julie adds, «Expeditions also allow students to experience places otherwise impossible through field trips, such as deep sea and outer space.»

However, virtual field trips such as Google Expeditions offer one idea for bringing the trip to students and teachers.

With all the excitement around virtual - reality field trips such as Google Expeditions, the Pokémon Go craze points to an even larger opportunity for augmented - reality field trips.

At Normal Park, students embark on learning expeditions as opposed to field trips.

More than 20 additional HMH Field Trips, as well as iOS availability of the Expeditions app, are planned for release over the coming months.

Interactive experiences through week - long expeditions and enrichment Fridays that focus on topics such as drama, music, art, robotics, and coding taught by professionals in their fields of expertise.

In expeditions to sites around the nearby bay, the team of students made close observations — scientific, cartographic, etymological, even poetic and political — that they brought together as a striking and useful field guide called Perspectives of the San Diego Bay (September 2005)

Straight from the sandy white shores of Boracay, you can opt to explore the mainland as you go on an adventure filled expedition trekking through rice fields and exploring jungles.

She explored the Amazon River Basin in depth during a two - month research expedition to Peru, and has joined more than 20 trips to the country as a field lecturer.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibiField Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibifield - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibifield work is the subject of this exhibition.

Many of these New York - based artists are also leading expeditions, such as the Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies's «A Field Guide to Whale Creek» audio tour at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, and the exhibition is an experiment in bringing time - based, site - specific practices indoors.

From the press release: «During field expeditions, the research team used a variety of techniques — including sonar and visual images of methane bubbles in the water, air and water sampling, seafloor drilling and temperature readings — to determine the conditions of the water and permafrost, as well as the amount of methane being released.»

Scientists have discovered as many as 7,000 gas - filled «bubbles» expected to explode in Arctic regions of Siberia after an exercise involving field expeditions and satellite surveillance, TASS reported.