Sentences with phrase «field station»

The immersive installations he builds imagine futuristic field stations on other planets.
Conditions permitting, we may stop at a remote field station to learn about coral reef research.
Possible ideas include an outdoor café, ecological field station with educational displays, kayak rentals and changing rooms.
I like to think I'm helping inspire the next generation of students, as I was inspired by my own field station visits years ago.
They felt they had no other way to be heard but to protest this ban, and they succeeded in pushing out the government after setting fire to the small government field station.
If conditions permit, stop at a remote field station to learn about reef research.
When team members at Marineland Dolphin Adventure and the Georgia Aquarium Conservation Field Station in Marineland, Florida are included in the totals, there are well over 300 full - time employees and about 300 part - time employees.
Also, the team at the Georgia Aquarium Conservation Field Station recently upgraded their marine mammal stranding equipment by designing and purchasing a new marine mammal ambulance.
Through their affiliation, artists will have opportunities to be embedded with Urban Field Station staff, projects, and sites, and will share their own work via internal brownbag talks and Science of the Living City public seminars.
The title of the installation, Precarity, questions the narrating impulse and casts us instead «in the break» — and Mark Dion's installation Field Station for the Melancholy Marine Biologist takes a similarly precarious position.
Shark biologist Samuel Gruber of the Bimini Biological Field Station in Miami, Florida, says the paper has changed his view of the debate.
Both Harvard Forest and the Toolik Field Station in the Arctic are Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites.
The data came from 429 adult rhesus macaques at the Cayo Santiago field station in Puerto Rico, which was devastated earlier this year by Hurricane Maria.
The Richmond site plans call for a 2 - million - square - foot facility at the 120 - acre Richmond Field Station that will house more than 800 scientists doing research in bioscience, cancer, bioenergy and other research.
Prairie Ridge Ecostation is the Museum's off - site field station where teachers, students and the general public can learn about sustainable living and experience the natural world.
Located on a 12 - acre site, Uplands Farm hosts the Agricultural Field Station where specialists help raise and maintain crops for Plant Biology research.
Now I'm manager of the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Field Station in Saukville, Wisconsin.
UC Santa Barbara established a summer geology class in 1963, and the Santa Cruz Island Field Station in 1966.
Working alongside Aberdeen University's Marine Biology Team in the Lighthouse Field Station in Cromarty, the Black Isle to create a multimedia installation called «The Terrestrial Sea» over a three month period over the summer the fruits of which are released on Gamma Proforma.
But evenings at the Michigan field station saw the team experimenting with another approach to controlling invasives — eating them.
On a morning outing to the Inkaterra Field Station, hear about bird - monitoring initiatives and discover methods of studying local birds.
Today, a combination of organizations which includes The Nature Conservancy, the National Park Service, the University of California Field Station, and the Santa Cruz Island Foundation work to protect the island's natural and historic resources.
The movies start at 7 p.m. on the jumbo screen at Target Field Station.
Still, spiders are not hamsters, and on the door of his lab at Hiram College's J. H. Barrow Field Station, 20 miles southeast of Cleveland, Marshall has posted rules for visitors: «Do not open or move any container.
Measurements from a handful of field stations across the basin, however, indicated the vegetation greenness due to increased sunlight in the dry season would decline once the water in the soils was used up — especially in drought years.
My destination is the citadel of basic science in the park, the Taylor Ranch Wilderness Field Station, an inholding, or piece of private land, owned by the University of Idaho.
Comparative biomechanist Andrew Biewener of Harvard University's Concord Field Station in Bedford, Massachusetts, agrees.
The National Science Foundation — sponsored network, called the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, will link 20 field stations selected to provide data from 20 distinct U.S. biomes as well as 40 portable stations that can be moved from site to site.
To infer past climates, paleoecologist Ken Cole of the U.S. Geological Survey's Colorado Plateau Field Station in Flagstaff, Arizona, and his colleagues have spent 25 years sifting through ancient dung piles, or middens, of packrats.
The bird, one of two kept at Oxford University's zoology field station, fashioned a hook from an ordinary piece of wire — something even a chimp can not manage.
He immediately alienated many of the 500 scientists under his purview with calls to reorganize research programs and threats to close a zoological field station and a lab for materials science research and education (Science, 13 July 2001, p. 194).
At the DPZ - field station Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in the Peruvian Amazonian lowlands, scientists studied how feeding, sleeping, and ranging habits of two species of New World monkeys affect the dispersal of the neotropical legume tree Parkia panurensis.
In the words of primatologist Frans B.M. de Waal, who observes chimpanzee social behavior at the Yerkes Primate Field Station in Atlanta: «Who fishes for ants and who doesn't, or who cracks nuts and who doesn't — that's the easy thing to see.
Improvising in an abandoned field station in Mexico, Borlaug developed new varieties of wheat that could resist a devastating fungal disease — clashing with bureaucrats along the way.
Among Lockheed's biggest challenges will be satisfying the demands for computing power, remote access, and data management spawned by the growing number of scientific instruments at the South Pole, as well as improving logistical support for field stations located deep into the continent.
Malula Field Station in Malaysia: The experiments are conducted under controlled conditions in the large, black cubes.
Sitting in his tiny office in a ramshackle field station at Bard, on the banks of the Hudson River, Kiviat says, «Twenty years ago the public thought raptors were bad and songbirds were good.
One hundred metres from the test site at the University of Oxford's Wytham Field Station is a nature reserve inhabited by rare moths.
The system captures 1 - minute audio segments at regular intervals using an iPhone in a solar - powered field station and immediately sends them to a master server.
This was found to be the case in both a plant manipulation experiment conducted at the Lancaster University Field Station, and at a large scale plot experiment in Jena, Germany.
A student doing research at a biological field station just outside St. Louis has discovered an invasive Asian mosquito that is capable of carrying West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.
«Be the Dinosaur ™» is a groundbreaking fusion of state - of - the - art video game technology and traditional exhibits, featuring full - size dinosaur bones, a paleontology field station, a Safari Jeep and more.
They collected a wide range of specimens — 13 separate species from nine different orders — many of them at the Smithsonian Field Station in Belize.
Her master's research focused on the causes and consequences of vaterite deformations in the sagittal otoliths of farmed salmonids, and was primarily conducted at the Institute of Marine Research field station in Matre, Norway.
Management and directing work of the radar field station in southern Spain.
one at the San Juan Field Station and the other at the «Guard Post.»
It also operates 69 national fish hatcheries, 63 fishery resources offices and 81 ecological services field stations.
Inkaterra, the Peruvian leader in sustainable tourism and hotel development, has introduced three new conservation - focused travel itineraries for guests staying in the Inkaterra Guides Field Station, which was recently opened to the public in the Madre de Dios region of Peru.
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