Sentences with phrase «field scientists like»

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 ice.

Not exact matches

No serious scientist out there actually believes that they've learned all that is knowable within their field of study, and that they have all the answers, like some religious folks seem to insist upon.

So, for someone who isn't familiar with those disciplines, I would suggest the person ask himself or herself, «who is most likely more knowledgeable in these areas and who can most credibly assess the evidence in these sciences, kermit4jc and other creationists like him or the world's scientists working in those fields.»

In addition, attending the conference had allowed me to meet up with some leading experts in different fields of research, as far as food security is concerned, as well as young researchers and the discussions provoked during the different presentations by leading scientists like Professor Louise Fresco were really interesting.

Clancy's collaborations, too, have come from like - minded scientists in other fields who have approached her with new ideas.

And, like all the other books in the Scientists in the Field series, it provides an intimate and realistic portrait of the researchers who have devoted their professional lives to studying nature.

But it also means that people like Voytek have to deal with a flood of relevant information coming in from all of those scientific fields and figure out how to get scientists from those disciplines to work together.

At the time, scientists like Olsen who worked in the field did not have funding programs that specifically addressed the questions they wanted to research.

In one study that pooled numerous surveys of researchers in diverse fields, a third of scientists owned up to questionable research practices like cherry - picking data that yield positive results.

Many working scientists have fond memories of undergraduate days spent in the field or in the lab — including Wilson, who graduated from Wooster in 1978 and came back because he liked the way the school blends undergraduate teaching and research.

So Mira was intrigued when a sales rep visiting her lab told her about an open field applications and sales scientist position at his company (a major microscope vendor), and mentioned that in a position like that, she could double her current salary.

Like many young scientists these days, after embarking on a research career, I realised that although I was fascinated by all aspects of science — especially my own field of ecology — I did not want to spend the next 30 years writing grant proposals, carrying out experiments, and publishing technical articles.

After what seemed like an interminable wait, spent flicking through a couple of specialist journals I brought along (I wanted to make it obvious that I was an expert in my field and not just someone who said they were a scientist), I was called over by a nice young woman.

Rasmussen compares Stamets to visionary entrepreneur - scientists like Thomas Edison or «some of the truly fine amateur naturalists or astronomers of the 17th and 18th centuries — people who were experts in their fields, but had other ways to occupy their days.»

To help level the playing field, Jordan would like «funding agencies [to] invest in a strategic plan for the development of younger scientists.»

The field is highly interdisciplinary, requiring the expertise of not only scientists like Hatch but also education experts and psychologists.

«Instead of a prolonged, comet - like tail, this rough bubble - shape of the heliosphere is due to the strong interstellar magnetic field — much stronger than what was anticipated in the past — combined with the fact that the ratio between particle pressure and magnetic pressure inside the heliosheath is high,» said Kostas Dialynas, a space scientist at the Academy of Athens in Greece and lead author on the study.

Standing in a payphone in the village of San Pedro, Chile, about 100 km from the base of Volcano Lascar, volcano researcher Tamsin Mather and colleagues are trying desperately to get through to the manufacturer of their remote sensing device in the U.S. Equipment failure is the bane of any scientist's life, but when it happens in remote terrain, a hitch like this can toll the death knell for further data collection on a precious field trip.

In highly technical fields like semiconductors, there's a very large pool of scientists and engineers to hire from, says Celia Merzbacher, vice president of innovative partnerships at the Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), which is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.

And later, he analyzed patterns of mortality and reproduction in natural populations of lions and baboons (see «Just Like the Joneses») by working with other scientists who had already been collecting field data from the mammals.

A study of the demise of the Laurentide Ice Sheet that once covered Canada may help scientists better understand shrinking ice fields today — like this melting ice margin in Greenland.

Field emission electron sources catch scientists» attention due to its ability to provide intense electron beams that are about a thousand times denser than conventional thermionic cathode (like filaments in an incandescent light bulb).

Like the skyrmion itself, the scientists realized, the imitation magnetic field was knotted, and it matched the interlinked rings of magnetic fields proposed for ball lightning.

The scientists begin by assuming that particles with lower energies take longer to travel through turbulent magnetic fields, much like a lazy moth takes longer to cross a windy valley than a quick bee.

The scientists discovered that Voyager 1 — like an orienteer through the outer solar system — measures the magnetic field moving the needle on a compass with cardinal directions provided by the IBEX ribbon.

But cases like this and «[a] widely cited anonymous survey of anthropologists and other field scientists, called the SAFE study and published in July 2014 in PLOS ONE,» may highlight a problem with «how some academic communities deal with harassment.»

A good starting point for scientists interested in entering the field is the job boards of GigaOM and other technology news portals like TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and ReadWriteWeb.

From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists — people like Bourassa who are excited about a science field but don't necessarily have a formal educational background — shared 30 reports of these mysterious lights in online forums and with a team of scientists that run a project called Aurorasaurus.

In middle and high school, increased opportunities such as science camps like SciGirls, recruitment of girls to participate in upper level science courses or extracurricular activities, informal science learning experiences and increasing visibility and access to women scientists both fictional and real are other methods to sustain girls interest and engagement in so called «hard science» fields.

Intensive training programs like the one Heil attended can be great ways for early - career scientists to learn about nontraditional approaches to conducting science, hone specific research skills, get a crash course in a new field, explore interdisciplinary research, or use focused time to make headway in their work.

«When you have this enormous field of view you can address scientific problems that really are not practical with missions like Hubble or Webb,» says Jeffrey Kruk, the WFIRST project scientist at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Studies like these have spurred the field of comparative genomics, as scientists seek to better understand relationships between species and how they evolved.

Scientists have enlisted the exotic properties of graphene to function like the film of an incredibly sensitive camera system in visually mapping tiny electric fields.

The guidance of working scientists in the field is crucial for non-professionals like me.

«In an applied sense, gap control is important for the development of active plasmonic devices like switches and modulators, but it is also an important tool for basic scientists who are conducting curiosity - driven research in the emerging field of quantum plasmonics.»

Scientists are predicting that genomics — the field of sequencing human DNA — will soon take the lead as the biggest data beast in the world, eventually creating more digital information than astronomy, particle physics and even popular Internet sites like YouTube.

Like Mukherjee, many of the scientists were gathered earlier this week at a fluid - dynamics conference to show how insights from the world of animals and plants might guide tomorrow's technology — a burgeoning field known as bio-inspired engineering.

This forecast by two WSU scientists is featured Sept. 24 on the front page of the Science Coalition blog, «Science 2034,» that asks scientists what their field will look like 20 years from now.

It builds trust among the public when it comes to the scientific field and for us scientists, it is quite obvious — everyone likes to have their work acknowledged.

The LOR Science Prize selection committee was very pleased to recognize the comprehensive nature of the studies led by a young scientist like Dr Ross, who is both very accomplished and also has had impact in the field of quantum and frustrated magnetism.

Professor Rossant, a senior scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children, a university professor at the University of Toronto and the president of the Gairdner Foundation, spoke to us recently about what the landscape looks like for women in STEM in 2018, who she looked up to while she pursued her career and what needs to happen to help more women enter the field.

Scientists first began widely using laser frequency combs as precision rulers in the late 1990s in fields like metrology and spectroscopy; for their work, the technology's developers (John L. Hall of JILA and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Theodor Hänsch of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilians University Munich) were awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005.

Further, the orbiter's laser altimeter helped scientists create the best - ever topographic map of the Red Planet, and readings from its magnetometer indicate that Mars once had a global magnetic field, just like Earth.

Don't imagine that it's true for scientists working in the field, or for PhD physicists like Ray who don't work in the field, or even for humble software engineers like myself who have a mathematical background.

This, scientists say, is potentially very good news, as we could use the barrier to protect Earth from extreme space weather resulting from events like coronal mass ejections — huge explosions on the sun, where plasmas and magnetic field are ejected from its corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere.

It is best to go into this movie as blind as possible because it is better to experience the film rather than read about it later, but the story focuses on biologist Lena (Natalie Portman) and a team of scientists who venture into a strange force - field - like area that mysteriously appears on Earth.

My experience from the academic side is that many junior scientists from a variety of fields would be eager to participate in something like this.

The true singularity of Stott's book is her in - depth study of philosopher / scientists starting with Aristotle - who, like many early thinkers, concentrated on the evolution of animals - proceeding through all the other major theorists in the field up to the age of Darwin himself.

Field scientists set up camera traps throughout the wooded terrain where jaguars make their home in sites like the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary.