Sentences with phrase «from research expeditions»

This talk will introduce a spectacular range of unfamiliar morphologies and behaviours as well as bee pollinators and explain how discoveries from research expeditions reveal their secrets.

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

Not exact matches

Our third expedition will bring back samples of lunar dust and rocks that everyone can own, providing scientists with a new source of lunar materials for research, and making these treasures from the Moon available to collectors and commercial purposes.

The team investigated sediment cores collected from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea from the German research vessel RV Polarstern on two expeditions in 2006 and 2010.

During research expeditions, researchers occasionally retrieve trash from the deep sea.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

Today, scientists returned from a 28 - day research expedition aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai exploring the deep coral reefs within Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

«This expedition would not have been so successful without the hard work and collaboration of all the scientists from Cuba and the United States who participated in the cruise,» said John K. Reed, chief scientist and research professor at FAU's Harbor Branch.

The Pine Island Glacier expedition deployed multiple, unique sensor packages, developed by NPS Research Professor Tim Stanton, through 500 meters of solid ice to determine exactly how quickly warm water was melting the massive glacier from beneath.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

The study used video footage from a robotic remotely operated vehicle (ROV) up to 3 km deep, collected during a research expedition.

Funding for the research expedition and for the development of Sentry came from National Science Foundation grants (#OCE -1036843, #OCE -1030453 and #OCE -1031050).

The international research team led by the University of Tasmania and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) used the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry and the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Jason to explore, map, and collect erupted materials from the Havre volcano during a 2015 expedition.

The expedition was part of a 10 - year research project called the Census of Marine Life, a loose collaboration of more than 2,000 researchers from 80 countries who are organizing dozens of expeditions to all corners of the planet.

Close to ten years ago, researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) caught «Calvin the Cod» and hauled him out of the cold Arctic waters during an oceanographic expedition to the Barents Sea and the northern coast of Norway and the Lofoten archipelago.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

The trip, officially the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Expedition, is made possible by a five - year research permit from the U.S. Forest Service, which oversees this wilderness.

Antarctica, 22 November 2012 - Nine scientists from Belgium, UK, Japan and Germany [1], touched down today at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [2], to begin the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) summer science season.

Research cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unperturbed.

The 2009 AP3 expedition extended from November 18 to December 24, 2009 and was supported by the United States Antarctic Program research vessel ARSV Laurence M. Gould.

A team of four scientists from Japan's National Institute of Polar Research's (NIPR) JARE - 55 expedition are due to arrive at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica this week.

GGI collecting expeditions are conducted only with the full permission of the countries involved, with specimens stored in local facilities with clear agreements ensuring that those nations benefit from related genomics research.

From community project work and treks to sports tours and scientific research expeditions, the journeys show that boundaries can be pushed even in risk averse times.

Newsnight reporter Allegra Stratton has embarked on a research expedition into early years education to find out if we can learn a lesson from across the Channel.

Maritime Museum of Ushuaia Housed in the former Prison of Ushuaia with collections ranging from naval models, the history of Antarctic exploration and other various aspects such as austral wildlife, gold prospecting, the primitive inhabitants, as well as ongoing expeditions and research.

All our expeditions are hosted by Nicole Nasby Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute and / or by our CEO and citizen scientist Martin Graf who will share their knowledge with powerpoint presentations of their research, instructions on how to identify the individual sharks and they are always available to answer questions.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibition.

«Green Parrot Fish,» center, by Isabel Cooper, in the show «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions,» at the Drawing Center.

I've been reading (and looking at) Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expedition, a book that Mark Dion put together with The Drawing Center.

Undertaking poetic expeditions that highlight specific global exchanges, the British - born neo-conceptual artist works across multiple disciplines — drawing from extensive research to construct meaning.

The nonprofit organization Artis funds research trips to Israel for artists and curators, and it was on one of these expeditions that the curator Prem Krishnamurthy was taken with the work of Noa Eshkol — a modern dancer who developed a rigorously mathematical movement notation system and later made dynamic tapestry collages from found scraps of fabric.

On September 3, a high - tech team from the Arctic Research Foundation, using side - scan sonar and an underwater robot to probe a remote Canadian bay, found and began exploring an extraordinary prize — the sunken H.M.S. Terror from the heralded and doomed 1845 expedition in which Sir John Franklin * sought the Northwest Passage over North America but perished with 128 men.

On the same ship a few years earlier, as expedition leader Howard Whelan recounted to me, «We traveled more than 1,000 miles out of our way to pick up scientists from a research station who otherwise would have overwintered a second year.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

«This expedition was organized on a short notice by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research and the U.S. National Science Foundation following the discovery of a dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas from the seabed in the eastern part of the Arctic», said Professor Igor Semiletov, the head of the expedition.

Data from a 19th century scientific mission, the first global marine research expedition, have provided strong evidence that humans have influenced climate throughout the entire 20th century.

Andy Revkin Annoyed With «Climate Change Contrarians» Being «Energized»: «Revkin is using terms like «bungled trip», «unessential expedition»,» misadventure»,» distraction from serious research» and «tarnish the wider field of Antarctic science»

Stroeve's research expedition comes at the cusp of fundamental changes to the Arctic's sea ice cover — from older ice that is hard to melt, to seasonal ice that melts more quickly.

-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration — Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?

In case you missed it, The Smog Of The Sea, is a new documentary from filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn), that chronicles a 1 - week research expedition through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea.

Meanwhile, Climate Central has an update from the Arctic expedition by Christian Berndt of the GEOMAR / Helmholz Center for Ocean Research:

From the press release: «During field expeditions, the research team used a variety of techniques — including sonar and visual images of methane bubbles in the water, air and water sampling, seafloor drilling and temperature readings — to determine the conditions of the water and permafrost, as well as the amount of methane being released.»

Before 1950, Sir John Burton Cleland wrote one in every six articles about Indigenous health in the MJA, and was the most prominent doctor in salvaging Indigenous data for science.7 Professor of Pathology and Microbiology at the University of Adelaide, he joined annual anthropological expeditions to Central Australia from 1925 to 1939 to collect these data, often describing the expeditions in the MJA.18 Following European research on the distribution of blood groups in different populations, 19 these expeditions examined blood groups to provide precise scientific demarcations between races, but contradictory evidence soon could not be ignored.