Sentences with phrase «geologist peter»

Geologist Peter Lang (I won't call him an ex-geologist) gave the correct numbers here.

«Where these vortices encounter the surface, they sweep away the small particles that sit loose on the surface, exposing the bigger blocky material underneath, and that's what gives us these streaks,» Brown University geologist Peter Schultz explained in the statement.

In contrast, geologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee from the University of Washington have proposed a hypothesis — the Rare Earth Hypothesis — that life on Earth is unique.

(Regaliceratops in Latin means «royal horned face,» and peterhewsi is in honor of local geologist Peter Hews, who discovered it.)

And astronomer and geologist Peter Schultz talks about his chosen method of learning about the universe — smashing things into each other.

And astronomer and geologist Peter Schultz talks about his chosen method of learning about the universe — smashing stuff.

Climatologists will have to begin taking seriously alternative theories about why the ice ages began, says geologist Peter Molnar of University of Colorado at Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

«We know that the only thing changing in the Northern Hemisphere [20,000 years ago] were these orbital changes» that affect the amount of sunlight striking the far north, explains geologist Peter Clark of Oregon State University, who guided Shakun's research.

In looking at NASA images of Mars a few years ago, Brown University geologist Peter Schultz noticed sets of strange bright streaks emanating from a few large - impact craters on the planet's surface.

One of those studies, led by Brown geologist Peter Schultz and published last year, found organic molecules and even plant matter entombed in glass formed by an impact that occurred millions of years ago in Argentina.

Some now call this evolved world (or new layer of the planet) the «technosphere,» a term coined by Duke University geologist Peter Haff.

Not exact matches

Perth - headquartered Kalia also said that Nick Burn has resigned as an Executive Director of the company and Peter Batten, the company's in - country geologist has been appointed Technical Director.

Although this is a big concern for West Antarctica, geologists have always thought East Antarctica's bed was above sea level — for the most part — and therefore more stable, says Peter Fretwell from the British Antarctic Survey, who was not involved in the study.

Peter Thomas, a planetary geologist at Cornell, got a good look at Vesta when it came within 110 million miles of Earth last May.

Providing the key geo - logical concepts of context and sequence, without which the animals were so many cherries without a cake, the scheme is well explained by Peter Doyle and Eric Robinson's complementary (and, by Sod's law, near - simultaneous) article (Proceedings of the Geologists» Association, vol 104, pp 181 - 194) which gives much fuller references than the book's skimpy listing (see also vol 106, pp 71 - 78).

Hyperion may be unusual, says Peter Thomas, planetary geologist at Cornell University, in that it somehow retains those knocked - off bits on its surface.

«What we have now is we actually have concentrations,» says Peter Schultz, a planetary geologist at Brown University who co-authored two of the Science papers.

A team of 20 Australian scientists headed by Peter Davies, a marine geologist from the University of Sydney, was commissioned by the Australian environment minister, John Faulkner, to analyse the impact of testing on the atolls.

Nations that do not have the money to gather their own data sets could use the free EMU data and visualizations to manage their marine resources, says Peter Harris, a marine geologist at the environmental information - management centre GRID - Arendal in Arendal, Norway.

«They have a lot of well - paid geologists and natural resources workers who go up there and then migrate back to other parts of Canada,» explains Peter Miron, senior research associate at Environics Analytics.