Sentences with phrase «gathering water samples»

The complaint contains allegations that officials manipulated test results by telling residents to «pre-flush» the taps before gathering water samples that were tested for lead.

One of my introductions to the strange world of climatism was a discussion at Climate Audit, where Steve McIntyre and his colleagues were trying to puzzle out the effect of a changeover in the early 20th century from leather to oaken buckets for gathering water samples for measuring ocean temperature.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Traditionally, water systems have been monitored through technicians gathering water samples by hand and sending them to the lab for analysis.

Up top there is Beth, a former biology teacher, whose task is to help Christy gather water samples to count copepods, and Eliza, a Harvard student interning for her third summer and who is today's photographer.

Not exact matches

Delivering on a promise for more PCB testing of the Hudson River, DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos said the state has invested $ 2 million to gather about 1,600 water samples this summer from Troy to Fort Edward.

Over just four weeks, Flint residents helped us gather and analyze 861 water samples — more than 12 times the number that city officials collected in six months.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Its name comes from a traditional Japanese tale in which the hero brings a casket back from a dragon's undersea castle, called Ryugu — just as Hayabusa2 will retrieve a sample from the asteroid, and those pebbles, like those gathered from Bennu, may well contain water.

They also gathered samples from the wells of families in town to assess the quality and mineral content of drinking water, using a mass spectrometer in a partnership with a local college laboratory.

We read of many expeditions to gather data — from a young David Keeling taking water samples from rivers from Big Sur to Chincoteague, to Taro Takahashi doing the same from Atlantic depths of up to three miles, to Scott Stine tramping the Owens salt flats of California to examine prehistoric stumps, and to George Denton helicoptering in to collect data from remote New Zealand glaciers.

The gliders will be chock full of onboard sensors that will take continuous samples of the water there, gathering data about the ecosystems down there as well as monitoring the water for pollution.

An Environmental Technician typically operates necessary equipment used to gather air, water and soil samples and test for pollutants.