Sentences with phrase «field sized patches»
In southeast Louisiana, well - intentioned but environmentally destructive flood control strategies and the dredging of canals for oil drilling have led to the continued loss of football - field sized patches of wetlands every hour.
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I have followed with interest developments over the last few years in the emerging field of impact sensors: small microchip - sized accelerometers and gyroscopes embedded in mouth guards, chin straps, skull caps, ear buds, skin patches and attached to the inside and outside of helmets which, in either send data to sideline personnel or flash an alert about a heavy hit.
The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.
The new telescope took an 11 - day - long exposure — a record amount of time for Chandra — of a blank patch of sky about half the size of the full moon, called Deep Field South.
A patch just two feet wide by seven feet long — roughly the area of a typical dining room table — could blossom into an area the size of a football field in just one day.
These trips include a leisurely tour of manatee feeding sites on the way to the isolated Goff's and Sergeant's cayes, which are little more than football field - size patches of sand, with a few palm trees.
«These new findings suggest that in order for small forest patches or narrow corridors to be of long - term conservation value in oil palm landscapes, their sizes and widths need to adequately account for the considerable influence of edge effects,» Benoît Goossens, director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, who was involved in the study, said in a statement.