Sentences with phrase «fieldwork by»

The paper presents the results of National Geographic funded fieldwork by an Anglo - Puerto Rican team, who uncovered extensive and undocumented rock art deep inside the islands labyrinthine cave systems.

Environmental students learned about the prairie ecosystem, collecting data for fieldwork by identifying plants, looking at invasive plants and studying wildlife.

Not exact matches

A commercial market research firm conducted the fieldwork, to allow timely data collection by experienced interviewers.

We have offices in strategic locations around the world, supported by world - class Sensory Science Centres - plus a first - rate global fieldwork accreditation scheme.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

She completed her doctorate in Political Science at McGill University, where she researched the political impact of the provision of budget support by international donors to governments in sub-Saharan Africa, conducting fieldwork in Malawi, Uganda and Zambia.

Taking the latest Populus poll (fieldwork conducted 17th - 19th April) as an example — and as I say, this is by no means limited to Populus, everyone does it — of the 2,048 respondents only 61 per cent said that they were absolutely certain to vote.

This project aims to inform such a strategy, and through fieldwork and interviews across Colombia's most troubled regions, the research has provided a better understanding of how local people are affected by the conflict, and their visions of a sustainable peace.

The former built a seat and vote share prediction model based on huge quantities of fieldwork (7000 interviews per week) plus the now - famous Multilevel Regression and Post-stratification (or MRP) that converted that data into seat - by - seat estimates.

«If the UK is to be confident of producing the next generation of scientists, then schools - encouraged by the government - must overcome the perceived and real barriers to providing high quality practicals, fieldwork and fieldtrips.»

Today, it delivers this objective by developing, supporting and promoting geography through research, expeditions and fieldwork, education, and public engagement, while also providing geographical input to policy.

Populus's fieldwork is conducted by ICM, their weighting figures are very close, they carry out almost the same re-allocation of don't knows by past vote, the fieldwork dates for the two polls were the same.

Two polls out today, but taken before the debate, both show a narrowing of the Conservative lead, in favour of the Liberal Democrats, though fieldwork for one of these polls, by face - to - face pollster TNS - BMRB, was conducted several days ago.

The fieldwork was «quite James Bond,» she jokes: Strapped in by a harness, Aderin - Pocock leaned out of an aircraft door midflight to photograph and monitor the behavior of missiles fired below.

For most zoologists, fieldwork involves lying low and watching quietly as animals wander by.

These low - frequency rumblings were first uncovered by ecologist Caitlin O'Connell, who now describes her revolutionary work.Her memoir evocatively captures 14 years of fieldwork and scientific experiments that moved an unorthodox hunch about elephant communication into the scientific mainstream.

But Grotzinger, whose intuition has been sharpened by decades of fieldwork, casually reads the mountain's history in subtle variations of shade and texture that I can barely see.

Not only have he and his team been able to select the most promising sites for on - the - ground fieldwork, but they can also use the images to reconstruct the Garamantes» regional footrpint — something that would have been very hard to do by excavating one site at a time.

Their project was inspired by a team member who had begun trying to conceive with her husband while conducting fieldwork in Bolivia.

By combining laboratory experiments, cross-cultural fieldwork, and analysis of the historical record, an interdisciplinary team has proposed that belief in judgmental deities was key to the cooperation needed to build and sustain large, complex societies.

The holotype (the name - bearing specimen of this new species) was collected during fieldwork off Kudat in Malaysian Borneo, funded by WWF - Malaysia.

McAlister honed her interest by doing fieldwork during her undergraduate years: She spent several months working at the now - defunct Institute of Terrestrial Ecology in Dorset, where she studied the effects of climate change on heather beetles.

The foundation's fieldwork has revealed an ever - growing synthetic sea where particles concentrate by season, trash commutes in the currents from far - off places, and plastic outweighs zooplankton, retarding ocean life.

Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted at six different locations in Borneo and Sumatra, Carel van Schaik of Duke University and his colleagues examined 36 behaviors performed by orangutans.

Here Zangger introduces new evidence, from his fieldwork at the important Mycenaean centre of Tiryns, northern Greece, that a flashflood triggered by an earthquake may have played a significant part in that city's decline.

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

They will also perform fieldwork to verify which species match with some of the new click types revealed by the algorithm.

For bench scientists, who love fieldwork and are driven to exploration by sheer curiosity, the shift to computing may require some careful reining in of natural impulses.

In addition, his own fieldwork, published last year, indicates that increased evaporation of the Indian Ocean caused by global warming has actually caused the sea level there to fall 30 centimeters in the past few decades.

«During the fieldwork I realized that the orchards whose owners had family harmony, were characterized by a rich vegetation and greater diversity of soil invertebrates was found.

Since our research involves the study of invertebrates, it did not have to get reviewed or approved by IACUC team for fieldwork.

The fieldwork for both surveys was conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.

The Mare Nullius project includes anthropological fieldwork in the diplomacy of the United Nations and at climate change summits; a strategy developed by Hviding and colleagues in the ECOPAS project.

The fieldwork was funded by the Mark Pryor Fund, the Balfour Trust, the Charles Slater Fund and the British High Commission in Brunei (all to U.B.), the German Academic Exchange Service (to H.S.) and the Leverhulme Trust (F / 09 364 / G to W.F.).

By comparing the fossils discovered from his fieldwork to specimens already in museum collections, Sidor and colleagues created two «snapshots» of four - legged animals about five million years before and about 10 million years after the extinction event.

Modern fieldwork, conducted by Didier Menard of the Pasteur Institute in Cambodia, will be used in conjunction with state - of - the - art genomic analysis conducted by David Serre and his team at the Genomic Medicine Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

Our fieldwork has recorded the changes in zoobenthos by collecting samples from the seabed and taking underwater photos.

Academic fieldwork clearly enhances the teaching of science and geography, but other subjects such as history, art and design and citizenship can also be brought to life by high quality educational visits.

In our site - based work, which included in - depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork, we examined 24 high schools with varying legal environments situated across three states (New York, North Carolina, and California), stratified by school type (traditional public, charter, and Catholic) as well as by student socioeconomic composition.

My fieldwork and other surveys suggest that teachers who choose charter schools tend to be attracted by a school's curricula and mission.

We were able to increase uptake of Geography by 12 % last year - partly with fieldwork and Royal Geographical Society Ambassadors scheme - however we used innovative taster sessions.

The fieldwork for CEP has been undertaken by organizations with a reputation for scientific rigor and independent analysis.

It can also be used by the students to help them with their own fieldwork required in the common entrance syllabus.

Part of service learning often includes place - based learning, where students can see intersections of learning by doing authentic fieldwork and partnering with community stakeholders.

by creating posters focusing on embedded literacy, science and social studies topics, high quality products and fieldwork, experts, and service - learning.

Further interviews and fieldwork suggest that the Arizona districts hit hardest by competition react in the following ways:

All of the preservice teachers were enrolled in a special education course, taught by the third author, which included a 30 - hour fieldwork component.

The level of in - depth learning was exemplified recently through the fieldwork site trip to extend the learning on nature's engineers by examining beaver activity, learning from experts and surveying local citizens.

The content of a preparation program is determined largely by the institution at which it is being offered and can include fieldwork, research, or student teaching.

Over the past three years, we have had the chance to interact with hundreds of educators and to present emerging versions of this book at venues hosted by leading organizations such as ASCD, the Education Trust, the National School Boards Association, High Schools That Work, the Center for Innovation and Improvement, the American Association of Educational Service Agencies, the National Title One Association, the Kentucky School Boards Association, the Idaho State Department of Education, Boise State University, Castleton State University, Georgia Southern University, Hosei University (Tokyo, Japan), and Louisiana State University, as well as the Minneapolis Principals Network and the following school districts from our fieldwork: Boise, Idaho; Fairfax, Virginia; Godwin Heights, Wyoming, Michigan; Granger, Washington; Lapwai, Idaho; Molalla, Oregon; Port Chester, New York; Queens, New York; St. Paul, Minnesota; and Tekoa, Washington.