Sentences with phrase «ice fields for»

Since 1978, the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) has sent between four and 12 people at a time to spend austral summers (5 to 7 weeks, generally between mid-November and January) searching glaciers and ice fields for meteorite impacts.

«This is exceptionally important work,» he says, especially because Thompson's team has tracked these and other ice fields for 25 years.

Not exact matches

Contemporary people long for the tangible and specific — for soccer fields and peppermint ice cream — not merely as promises of future reward but as a way to emphasize continuity.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

Even weather control is not as incredible as it sounds, for there is a delicate energy balance which can be changed by thin films on lakes and ice fields, or by air - borne particles.

The Skyhawks missed their final four field - goal attempts and Ledarrius Brewer iced it for Southeast Missouri State (12 - 15, 6 - 8 Ohio Valley Conference) with a pair of free throws with six seconds to go.

The Arsenal played well we had over 70 % position of the ball with something like 27 attacks were 8 were on target burnly had a game plan and that game plan was about hurting our players ankles and they got away scot free with it yet xaka gets red?????? Yes they were diddling about when that happened but compare it to the challenge on ozil and he was on goal yes koscienly came back from an offside position but the high boot on the head was dangerous I thought Arsenal played well and controlled the game well even when we were put under pressure in our own half when you look at the penalty awarded to them you will see a dive as coquelin barely touched him how many time did they push kosscielny of the ball???? hope he is ok as he was looking like he had a thigh problem I like the back four of todays as Gabriel did ok specially when we went down to ten men >> > I salute our Arsenal for wining the game on the 97 minit with only 10 men on the field What an iced cold penalty scored by Alexis

No matter who they field, we are playing Man Utd... Playing them is always a mental challenge for us, seeing that we haven't beaten them since the Ice Age!

For Team Rhum, they won this game with a few timely hits, great fielding and some excellent pitching from Robby «ice your arm for Thursday Night» FeldmFor Team Rhum, they won this game with a few timely hits, great fielding and some excellent pitching from Robby «ice your arm for Thursday Night» Feldmfor Thursday Night» Feldman.

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The renovation would include two new playgrounds for preschoolers and grammar school - age children, an ice - skating rink that can be used as an in - line roller skating rink during the summer, the reconstruction and realignment of two baseball fields and a new shelter with bathrooms.

The Ridgeland Common Dog Park Plus, a field open on weekends for dogs at 415 Lake St., will close permanently Aug. 4 as part of a $ 22.8 million renovation at the facility, which also includes building an expanded indoor ice rink and improvements to the swimming pool.

After Ridgeland Common undergoes its $ 23 million makeover, users can expect, among other improvements, a larger ice rink, new swimming pool features and locker rooms, additional activity rooms and updated lighting and fencing for the facility's athletic fields.

Concession stand — Common at baseball and football fields and ice rinks, the concession stand can be both a moneymaker and a convenience for sports programs.

Bo Jackson and the doctor who replaced his hip have something that Orland Park wants - a proposal for a huge athletic center that includes two indoor soccer fields and ice rinks.

Brave Buddies is designed to simulate a typical school day, allowing children many opportunities to practice real - life challenges including morning meetings; choice time; show and tell; field trips to places such as the library, ice cream store, and Central Park Children's Zoo; guests to interact with such as police officers and firefighters; and the always - popular daily trip to the Brave Buddies prize store — a simulated store where children can purchase prizes with the points they've earned for brave talking throughout the day.

The 9 - acre park, to be completed in November, will feature a playground, a sled hill, an outdoor ice skating rink, a wood chip mountain bike path, an asphalt jogging and bike path, a sand volleyball court and an open field for neighborhood children to play on.

It's also the source of state money recommended by Central New York lawmakers to help build youth athletic fields in DeWitt, fix water problems in Tully, save the ice rink at Meacham Park in Syracuse, build a better ice rink for the Syracuse Crunch, and make improvements to the Kallet Civic Center in Oneida.

«It won't take many more years like that to completely melt the ice fields,» Thompson said here on 18 February at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

The ice loss is already enough for satellites to detect changes in Earth's gravity field.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

This makes the ice fields of the Antarctic ideal for preserving meteorites free from contamination.

NASA scientists prepare for an unprecedented look at the Red Planet's ancient seas and modern ice fields — key sites in the ongoing search for life.

The new model is the first to document and quantify this new feedback — one that is not accounted for in climate models, says Jason Box, an ice scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in Copenhagen, who has documented rising impurities at a local scale during field campaigns.

Gas hydrates — a mixture of ice and methane — are found only under high pressure and at cold temperatures, and they are expected to make up a significant portion of the energy mix once existing oil fields dwindle, says David Scott, manager of the Northern Resources Development Program for Natural Resources Canada.

«Based on the UN climate panel's report on sea level rise, supplemented with an expert elicitation about the melting of the ice sheets, for example, how fast the ice on Greenland and Antarctica will melt while considering the regional changes in the gravitational field and land uplift, we have calculated how much the sea will rise in Northern Europe,» explains Aslak Grinsted.

But we don't have an easy way to measure geothermal heat flux except for extremely expensive field campaigns that drill through the ice sheet.

Now, a team of researchers has created for the first time the bizarre stuff that might occupy the frigid cores of these ice giants, potentially explaining their weird magnetic fields which can flip on and off daily.

USGS estimates that Alaska's glaciers and ice fields are responsible for nearly 50 percent of the water that flows into the Gulf of Alaska.

The report recommends beefing up forecasting systems for ocean and ice conditions, infrastructure for supply chains for people and equipment to respond, field research on the behavior of oil in the Arctic environment, and other strategies to prepare for a significant spill in the harsh conditions of the Arctic.

A team of scientists working at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and led by Northern Illinois University physicist and Argonne materials scientist Zhili Xiao has created a new material, called «rewritable magnetic charge ice,» that permits an unprecedented degree of control over local magnetic fields and could pave the way for new computing technologies.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

For reasons we don't entirely understand yet, Mars lacks this protection and possesses only remnants of a magnetic field at its polar ice caps.

Cable gave the example of satellite observations of Arctic and Antarctic ice fields, which are informing the planning for a Europa mission.

For example, the instrument was part of a massive field campaign in northern Alaska aimed to improve our understanding of the relationship between particle size and composition and their ability to form warm and ice clouds.

This spring, NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences are scheduled to launch the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow - On (GRACE - FO) mission, twin satellites that will continue the original GRACE mission's legacy of tracking fluctuations in Earth's gravity field in order to detect changes in mass, including the mass of ice sheets and aquifers.

«Ice isn't conductive enough to create such a field,» explains Dr. Kevin Hand, Deputy Chief Scientist for Solar System exploration at JPL.

Moreover, random interactions within the sun's magnetic field can flip the fluctuations from one cycle length to the other, matching the paleo - temperature record for ice ages on Earth for over the past 5.3 million years, when ice ages occurred occurred roughly every 41,000 years until about a million years ago when they switched to a roughly 100,000 - year cycle.

Marvel just released this killer new TV trailer for the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Marvel Studios released two new promo images for the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Marvel released this extended movie trailer titled «Uncover» for the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

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Students no longer had to pay for ice cream, yearbooks, field trips, and school T - shirts.

Furthermore, when asked about the coming Google Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, and how apps designed for it or Honeycomb will work on the Kindle Fire, the Amazon rep couldn't field an answer beyond noting that if Ice Cream Sandwich requires Amazon to do something to maintain compatibility, «we'll do our best» to do so.

Detroit sports fans know how important home - field (and home - ice, home - court) advantage has been for their championship franchises (except maybe the Lions).

Come December the lavender fields at Bridestowe Estate are transformed into a sea of purple, but even in winter the lines make for scenic photos (and the lavender ice cream is still on sale!)

Ice from nearby Lángjökull Glacier melts and travels into an ancient lava field, filtering underground through porous volcanic rock over 50 years before it emerges where you can go snorkeling or scuba diving in it for a very unique (but cold) experience.

The view of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field from the plane confirms that for me.

Chile has a wealth of adventure tourism for visitors to uncover from skiing down a volcano in Pucón, scuba - diving off Easter Island and ice - field walking in Patagonia, to taking a hot air balloon flight over the Atacama Desert and white water rafting on the Futaleufu River.

A hefty bill for hockey gear Just as rooting for the home team has costs, outfitting a son or daughter to take to the ice or field can rack up charges enough to score a credit card sign - up bonus.