Sentences with phrase «from field observations»

Wells adds that a team of about dozen specialists prepared the Wildlife Action Plan, from field observations to drafting — representing the first time that the District has taken empirical observations and inventories into account for the plan.

It also includes bus transportation to and from field observations on Tuesday.

And instead of surmising the animals» thinking from field observations or working with a single trained subject, she conducted repeatable laboratory experiments, carefully designed to rule out alternative interpretations, with multiple birds whose history was uncorrupted by previous work.

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Based on my own observations from more than two decades in the field of business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions, many small businesses that survived the economic downtown are now seeing renewed strength in their top - line revenues, and solid or growing bottom - lines.

An inductive, empirical approach in a field such as anatomy would certainly demand more than that each new student start from scratch, with only such general observations as that people come with parts such as heads, thoraxes, loins, thighs, hearts, kidneys, spleens and an assortment of tubes.

Drawn from direct observation by Basketball Editor Jeremiah Tax and correspondents in the field, as well as from analyses especially prepared by coaches of each team, the reports cover 180 teams, including all those eligible for the NCAA championship.

ClickZ's Kate Kaye provides the latest installment, beginning with her own observations about what mattered in digital politics in the past year and moving on to extended quotes from a number of online politics observers (including e.politics and plenty of friends in the field).

He said the immense contributions by the media and CSOs to the work of the Commission, through constructive criticisms, suggestions, observation reports and feedbacks from the field, were helping to deepen democracy, strengthen the electoral process and in policy formulation.

Observations during the total solar eclipse may explain why the sun's atmosphere is so organized despite arising from a tangled magnetic field.

By combining observations from the ground and in space, the team observed a plume of low - energy plasma particles that essentially hitches a ride along magnetic field lines — streaming from Earth's lower atmosphere up to the point, tens of thousands of kilometers above the surface, where the planet's magnetic field connects with that of the sun.

The latest observations, reported online January 10 in Nature and at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, suggest the bursts are coming from an environment with an unusually strong magnetic field.

Due to its universal character, this theory is applicable to many fields of physics such as, e.g., the observation of the transition from metals to superconductors or the transition from ferromagnetic to paramagnetic systems.

BudBurst participants select that is convenient for them to observe on a regular basis and record their observations in a field journal (pdf) they download from the BudBurst Web site.

The scientists behind the new images took pictures of Jupiter using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 over a ten - hour period and have produced two maps of the entire planet from the observations.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

«In contrast to the long tradition of field guides authored by expert natural historians, Map of Life draws on collective wisdom, amalgamating global data sets of species observations from published sources and using a series of modeling techniques to convert them into species range maps,» Goldsmith wrote.

This modeling would be aided by observations that somehow capture the direction of the magnetic field within the CME as it leaves the sun and by «a better understanding of how the magnetic field will change and evolve as the CME makes its multiday transit from the sun to Earth,» Viereck says.

The cosmological principle opened the field of modern cosmology to practical investigation because it implies that observations made from our single vantage point in the universe are representative of the universe as a whole.

Astronomical observations aren't detailed enough to settle the argument, and computer models require a complex mix of data from general relativity, plasma physics, and magnetic fields.

Discovering a planet requires confirmation observations to distinguish a true planet orbiting the target star from a distant star that happens to sneak into GPI's field of view — a process that could take years with previous instruments.

In addition to her own field observations, the remoteness of the area necessitated that she gather sighting reports from fishermen, tour boat captains and others in the area who are interested in whales.

Using published data from the circumpolar arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling, and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

The entire GOODS survey field includes observations from Hubble, Spitzer, and several other space observatories.

But observations last year hint that the protostar's stellar wind was flowing more quickly from the object's poles (relative speeds depicted in bluish ovoid in image above), and its magnetic field had become aligned with that of the larger cloud of gas and dust that surrounds it, the researchers report online today in Science.

In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, scientists from the University of New Hampshire and colleagues answer the question of why NASA's Voyager 1, when it became the first probe to enter interstellar space in mid-2012, observed a magnetic field that was inconsistent with that derived from other spacecraft observations.

The new results come from Hubble's observations of Ganymede's magnetic field, which produces two auroral belts (pictured) that can be detected in the ultraviolet.

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.

From - the - field updates were broadcast digitally by JASON Learning to classrooms around the world and over 1,400 species observations were logged on the nature - tracking mobile app iNaturalist.

«Because the field lines are closed, the observations are incompatible with direct entry from the solar wind.

The study used advanced high - resolution observations from the Dunn Solar Telescope in New Mexico (USA) alongside complementary observations from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, to analyse the strongest magnetic fields that appear in sunspots.

The international team that discovered the extinct gorilla - like species C. abyssinicus (reported in the journal Nature in 2007) reports new field observations and geological techniques that the authors say revise the age - constraint of the human split from their brethren.

Previous observations showed that plumes sometimes emerge from this region, and theory had suggested that the plumes are born when an extra-strong electric field from the sun rips material away.

They combined observations in the visible and the near infrared from the Hubble Space Telescope with radio observations from the Very Large Array and the Submillimeter Array to explore the effect of the turbulence, stellar radiation, and magnetic field on massive star formation in the galaxy's nuclear ring.

«We found that the magnetic field direction is quite well preserved from large to small scales, implying that self - gravity and cloud turbulence are not able to significantly alter the field direction,» said lead author Hua - bai Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), who conducted the high - resolution observations while a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

The model is supported by observations from satellites, ground - based networks that measure ozone - depleting chemicals in the real world, and by observations from two decades of NASA aircraft field campaigns, including the most recent Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) in 2013 and the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) global atmospheric survey, which has made three deployments since 2016.

Co-author Dr Ivan Haigh, lecturer in coastal oceanography at the University of Southampton and also based at NOCS, adds: «Historical observations show a rising sea level from about 1800 as sea water warmed up and melt water from glaciers and ice fields flowed into the oceans.

«We couldn't be more thrilled with the quality of the images from the new Wide Field Camera 3 and repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys, and the spectra from the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph,» said Keith Noll, leader of a team at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which planned the early release observations.

Abstract: We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2 - 0847 (z = 0.439) from a combined weak - lensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program.

We find good agreement in the regions of ove... ▽ More We derive an accurate mass distribution of the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2 - 0847 (z = 0.439) from a combined weak - lensing distortion, magnification, and strong - lensing analysis of wide - field Subaru BVRIz» imaging and our recent 16 - band Hubble Space Telescope observations taken as part of the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH) program.

«The science from these recent observations is really interesting and what we've learned about the magnetic field is just the first part of it,» Catherine Johnson, a planetary scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and lead author of the study, said in a statement.

To support diversity of membership and international collaboration, GOA - ON is launching Pier -2-Peer, a scientific mentorship program that matches senior researchers with scientists new to the OA field, mostly from countries currently lacking OA observations, to provide professional guidance and technical support.

For the earlier generation of models, results are based on the archived output from control runs (specifically, the first 30 years, in the case of temperature, and the first 20 years for the other fields), and for the recent generation models, results are based on the 20th - century simulations with climatological periods selected to correspond with observations.

Field observations of microbes recovered from deep drill cores, deep mines, and the ocean floor, coupled with laboratory investigations, reveal that microbial life can exist at conditions of extreme temperatures (to above 110ºC) and pressures (to > 10,000 atmospheres) previous thought impossible.

«This FRB, like others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected by magnetic fields,» Ryan Shannon from Australia's ICRAR - Curtin University, the co-lead author of a study detailing the observation, said in a statement.

General relativity has been experimentally verified by observations of gravitational lenses, the orbit of the planet Mercury, the dilation of time in Earth's gravitational field, and gravitational waves from merging black holes.

Highlights of the annual meeting included a session focusing on the role of observations in climate change research and breakout sessions with topics ranging from current field campaigns to new instruments.

The cameras are aimed in an arrangement that stacks their field of view areas vertically, one atop the other, in a total 24 - by - 96 degree observation sector from the ecliptic to the celestial pole.

Now including near - infrared observations by the Wide Field Camera 3, installed in 2009, the HUDF / XDF shows us galaxies across some 95 percent of cosmic history, from the first star - bursting seeds of galaxies to the assembly of more massive, more regular structures of galaxies more like those we see today.

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Service, based in part on these observations, predicts strong disturbances to Earth's magnetic field on January 9 and 10 as energetic material from the flare passes by the Earth.