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From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

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.

For example with our colleagues from the Chicago Field Museum, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with support from the McArthur Foundation we have been able to implement for almost 10 years management plans that we developed in joint expeditions with Cuban scientists and the people from protected areas.

When not on expeditions, back home outside San Francisco, Lewin treated all manner of exotic parasites in scientists returning from the field.

A field expedition to a remote region of Myanmar in Southeast Asia ended in tragedy earlier this month, when a prominent snake expert succumbed to a poisonous snakebite.

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.

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.

Extended field excursions often begin at such outposts, like the 3 - week hiking expedition from Ny - Ålesund two Norwegians and an American conducted in July to collect tissue samples from reindeer.

Tulaczyk's flight was the first to shuttle expedition scientists, engineers, technicians and gear to the field, and a stranded plane could prevent the rest of the crew and the last of the equipment from arriving in time.

The challenging part: Marine biologists are able to explore the Mothra Field in submersibles, but an expedition requires funding and years of planning.

In the United States, that perception dates back to the late 1800s and early 1900s, when museums sponsored field expeditions to dig up Native American ruins.

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

For Francisco and Lohmann it took three field expeditions to different states of the Brazilian Amazon, combined with deep morphological and molecular studies, to set straight uncertainties in the complex taxonomic history of Pachyptera lianas.

Earthwatch Expeditions From the coffee fields of Costa Rica to the edge of the Arctic, roll up your sleeves and help solve environmental problems along with scientists and experts in their fields.

Unlike the traditional expedition model, in which findings are often not published until months or years after the fieldwork has concluded, scientists began sharing their highlights while still in the field.

«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.

You have satellite phones and things like that, but still, for example, in this arctic expedition, it was several field seasons under very tough conditions, high winds, cold, polar bear territory, you know, brutal weather, difficult logistics and the expense, high expense these days; but they stuck with it and they hit pay dirt.

In January 2013, a joint German - South African inspection of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [5], under the Antarctic Treaty and Protocol on Environmental Protection, commended to all Parties to the Treaty the station's energy and waste management systems, and commented on the «excellent science is undertaken by internationally staffed expeditions that do field work» around the station.

In 2006, Tarduno led an expedition to the Arctic to study paleomagnetism — the Earth's magnetic field in the distant pasIn 2006, Tarduno led an expedition to the Arctic to study paleomagnetism — the Earth's magnetic field in the distant pasin the distant past.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

Having returned from their field campaign in the Sør Rondanes, the team of the Japanese JARE 51 expedition, along with Steven Goderis from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is able...

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.

Read Annie's illustrated chronicle (includes over 90 photographs) of a Nevada field expedition she financed and participated in 112 years ago.

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.

Learning experiences in museums, theatres, places of worship constitute Route 1 for the activities with least risk, whilst field studies, expeditions, study tours, farm visits and adventurous activities constitute Route 2 where the regime is more rigorous.

More than 20 additional HMH Field Trips for Google Expeditions are planned over the next several months, including journeys to the Alamo, Gettysburg, the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, and back in time to the Roaring Twenties.

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)

Engaging students in games, group projects, field trips to historic sites, nature expeditions, and science experiments are all ways to make learning more interesting and applied.»

This beautiful entry in the award - winning Scientists in the Field series follows an expedition to the French Polynesian island of Moorea to study Pacific day octopuses — not octopi — in the wild and unlock some of the mystery surrounding this marine animal.

Get into the field on an Expedition, Community Service trip, Photography Workshop, or University Workshop, in a destination that captures your imagination.

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.

Artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States in 2009, interviewing more than two hundred artists in their studios.

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.

«Green Parrot Fish,» center, by Isabel Cooper, in the show «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions,» at the Drawing Center.

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.

In 2009, artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States, interviewing more than two hundred artists in their studioIn 2009, artist and writer Sarah Trigg embarked on an ambitious field expedition across the United States, interviewing more than two hundred artists in their studioin their studios.

Camping in sub-freezing temperatures and working alongside researchers at remote field sites, from the crater of Antarctica's most active volcano to the glacial - carved McMurdo Dry Valleys, Simonson reframes the role of the expedition artist in contemporary culture.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

For our expedition, Marc and Petter [Nyquist] were in charge of logistics, safety and cook for our remote field camp of six researchers.

In the next 24 hours, I'll be posting fresh excerpts from an extended and fascinating discussion of ice patterns since 2007 involving some of the world's top ice researchers — both modelers and field scientists like those I accompanied in 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the ocean beneath the drifting sea icIn the next 24 hours, I'll be posting fresh excerpts from an extended and fascinating discussion of ice patterns since 2007 involving some of the world's top ice researchers — both modelers and field scientists like those I accompanied in 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the ocean beneath the drifting sea icin 2003 on their annual North Pole expedition undertaken to monitor the vital signs of the ocean beneath the drifting sea ice.

In yet another expedition exploring the western Amazon, a field guide spotted the Vanzolini's bald - faced saki (Pithecia vanzolinii), a large black monkey with a long fluffy tail and golden fur, leaping from one tree branch to another.

To help answer these questions, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is mounting a series of field expeditions with conservation allies in South America.

And while they're recovering from typhoid fever from their field expedition, you can sit in your air conditioned office, sipping margaritas, using their data to «advance science».

He became an expert researcher and tracker, leading rhino protection teams on field expeditions to track down poachers in the Leuser Ecosystem.

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.»