Sentences with phrase «ice fields of»

A research scientist at Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center, Mosley - Thompson collects ice cores from the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, while colleague Lonnie Thompson, a professor of geological sciences at Ohio State, collects cores from the mountainous ice fields of China and South America.

Her activism led her to make research expeditions to the ice fields of Antarctica, Greenland, Patagonia, and Svalbard where she documented and collected data for her work.

Players who dream of pulling off insane ski and snowboard tricks in the extreme peaks of Mount Denali and the Matterhorn, paragliding over the ice fields of Mont...

The Vegetation Like so many of the glaciers in Glacier Bay, the glacier that carved this bay is rapidly receding from the bay back into the ice fields of the Fairweather Mountains.

So begins The Cloud Sketcher, a passionate tale of love and war and art that ranges from the ice fields of the Arctic Circle at the dawn of the last century to the ruthless world of New York real estate speculation in the 1920s.

However, the Purdue team's convection model suggests that the age of the surface of the nitrogen ice fields of the Sputnik Planum region is even younger, around one million years old, he said.

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

Not exact matches

«Imagine landing on a vast field of tall sharp ice spikes, and remember that at the temperature of Europa ice has the strength of granite.»

The result is a wide variety of competitors in a wide variety of sports — football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer, golf, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, track and field, ice skating, and more.

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.

In «Born Survivor», Grylls negotiates his way out of a crevasse in the Southern Patagonian ice field, and takes shelter from icy blizzards in a snow hole.

With fandangle marketing suggesting green fields with cows, and «traditional» «pure» farm motifs, a quick look at an ingredients list on the current top selling supermarket ice creams show that they're nothing more than a mix of trimmed, skimmed and adulterated ingredients and numbers formed in a chemical laboratory, not a kitchen!

«We are excited to partner with DSR driver, Leah Pritchett, who recently closed out her impressive 2017 season with four NHRA event titles,» stated Chris Hall, Chief Operating Officer of Talking Rain Beverage Co. «At Sparkling Ice, we were immediately inspired by Leah's career, especially as a woman making waves in such a male dominated field.

Holding mid fielders must of been selling ice cream in the stands.

Devens played on three varsity teams at Dartmouth — field hockey, ice hockey and lacrosse — and the 5» 4», 125 - pounder was named a captain of all three.

Sometimes the pain of an ice bath can be worse than the pain of an extended cold streak on the court, field, or track.

The Robb Report Ultimate Gifts Guide offers to arrange an outing on the court, ice or polo field with the royalty of their respective sports.

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

Naturally, Torvill and Dean led the 19 - couple field from the moment they glided onto the ice, nailing down a mere nine out of nine judges en route to the finals and scoring three perfect 6.0 s in the Westminster waltz section of the compulsories.

Gengler, 24, was captain of the women's tennis, field hockey and ice hockey teams at Princeton.

Roy Terrell says, «America is a land of green grass and blooming fields, not of ice and snow, and to Americans cross-country skiing is an idiot's pastime.»

yesterday about 4 wee calf dragged out the business end of it's mother head held in a birthing do - dad arse walloped on the yard quick bucket of water round it's chops 15 mins later it traipsed across the field with it's mammy admittedly with all the grace of peter crouch ice - skating but traipsed it did rained all night the wee fecker just sauntered past me not a bother

His late goal was the icing on the cake of a world class performance from the Brazilian as he put out fires all over the pitch and moved the ball intelligently in all three thirds of the field.

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Again, while I am not a scientist or medical doctor, I don't necessarily agree, especially if the amount of what Bob Cantu calls «total brain trauma» can be significantly reduced through a combination of limits on full - contact practices and / or hit counts, rule changes, and if we do a better job of identifying concussive injury to get concussed players off the field (or ice, or field, or court, or pitch), and and hold kids out longer before they are allowed to return to play so the risk of reinjury is reduced as much as reasonably possible.

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.

Since 2009, the league, to its credit, has also been lobbying hard in favor of laws - now in place in 31 states and the District of Columbia, and with more sure to follow this year - requiring concussion education of parents and athletes, banning same - day return - to - play after a suspected concussion, and requiring medical clearance before a concussed athlete is allowed back on the playing field, diamond or ice.

The Park District is in charge of 57 park sites, three golf courses, a sports complex that includes a 10,000 - seat stadium, softball and soccer fields, an ice arena, a multipurpose center, two swimming pools and the Joliet Airport.

«We need to translate that now into how we improve upon the safety, the actual on - field, on - court and on - ice kinds of safety activities.»

The incumbents said they have upgraded fields at North Park, developed Maggie Rogers Park, installed an outdoor ice rink, increased the number of programs to more than 100 and hired Park Director Scott Piwowarczyk.

The usual sight of baseball gloves and cleats at Wrigley Field will be replaced this winter with mittens and skates as the city's newest ice rink opens next to the Cubs» home.

The Park District was considering spending up to $ 30,000 on the study, which would have looked at the economic feasibility of building a facility with ice hockey rinks and indoor soccer fields.

North and South Korea agreed on Wednesday to march their athletes together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month and to field a joint women's ice hockey team.

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.

Ice ages came and went as he went on and on, listing great Tory achievements in the endless European fight and reminiscing about the fields of Waterloo.

The field and ice of the foosball and hockey table are made of durable MDF.

By means of the wireless telegraph each master informs the vessels in his immediate radius of icebergs and field ice that he has sighted.

The needle on his voltmeter jerked sideways, registering a sharp drop in voltage on the crystal's surface — evidence of a microscopic electric field that might arrange and orient molecules on the ice's surface.

April 7th — Latitude 45 degrees 10 minutes, longitude 56 degrees 40 minutes, ran into a strip of field ice about 3 or 4 miles wide extending north and south as far as could be seen.

In 2004, they began monitoring Europe's largest ice field by area: Austfonna ice cap, a monster that is 560 meters thick in spots and straddles 8500 square kilometers, roughly the area of Puerto Rico.

Scientists have proposed that heat emanating outward from the planet's core may pass through an inner layer of superionic ice, and through convection, create vortices on the outer layer of ionic water that give rise to local magnetic fields.

April 14th — Latitude 42 degrees 06 minutes, longitude 49 degrees 43 minutes, encountered extensive field ice and saw seven icebergs of considerable size — «Pisa» (German steamship).

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

«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.

Mountains of water ice tower thousands of meters over fields of frozen nitrogen and methane.

Yet buried beneath the frozen boulder fields, tucked between grains of sand and buried ice, there is a surprising amount of biodiversity.

A shutdown would cut short a key NASA field campaign to survey Arctic land and sea ice, and a larger project it is part of.