Sentences with phrase «in soil sampling»

I am a highly skilled military veteran with substantial experience in soil sampling, cultivation, and crop management for large - scale farm operation.

When the experiment was repeated in soil samples that had been sterilised through gamma irradiation, the growth was no longer affected by the soil being Swedish or Canadian.

«By comparing the two timelines, we saw the appearance of each specific gene in the soil samples was consistent with the evolution of similar types of resistance in medicine.

The breakthrough is another major step forward on the journey to develop a commercially viable drug version based on teixobactin — a natural antibiotic discovered by US scientists in soil samples in 2015 which has been heralded as a «gamechanger» in the battle against antibiotic resistant pathogens such as MRSA and VRE.

But a 2001 National Research Council report says biologists already have difficulty detecting microbes in soil samples from Earth, so detecting something we've never encountered before strains the imagination.

NASA's Viking landers did just that in 1976, laying out a tasty solution of nutrients to attract any microbes that might be living in a soil sample, like cookies left on a plate for Santa.

Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane - eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

They found a promising lead in a soil sample from the Shinjuku area of Tokyo which contained a particular strain of A. fumigatus.

So Allaby says the wheat in their soil samples may not have grown at Bouldnor Cliff.

u «Two Phoenix [Mars Lander] experiments identified calcium carbonates and clays in soil samples scooped up by the crafts robotic arm.

Metagenomics and metaproteomics extend these measurements to a comprehensive description of the organisms in an environmental sample, such as in a bucket of ocean water or in a soil sample.

experiments identified calcium carbonates and clays in soil samples scooped up by the crafts robotic arm.

But in soil samples with both cords and isopods, the team found, the mass of fungus matched that of control samples in which there were neither cords nor isopods.

Using techniques not unlike DNA fingerprinting, the scientists were able to detect the presence of antibiotic - resistant genes in soil samples gathered from all across the U.K.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

Its next moon mission: to return a lunar soil sample in 2017; if it succeeds, it will be the first collected since the last Apollo missions in the 1970s.

An initial screening cost of only $ 199 allows farmers to have their soil samples analyzed by Trace, which applies machine learning to uncover not just what's in there, but what it means for crop yield and productivity.

The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that analyzes the soil and atmosphere around the rover using a mass spectrometer, a gas chromatograph and a tunable laser spectrometer to detect oxygen and carbon isotopes in carbon dioxide and methane samples to see if they are biochemical in origin.

«The more we understand about the Soil Organic Matter system, the better we can monitor, measure and maintain it,» said organic produce grower Helen Atthowe who submitted samples from her and her husband's 26 - acre Woodleaf Farm in northern California.

Indulge in wine country cuisine at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant while sampling our wines crafted from grapes produced by the rich Southern California soil and Temecula Valley sun.

Indulge in wine country cuisine at Vineyard Rose Restaurant while sampling our wines crafted from grapes produced by the rich Southern California soil and Temecula Valley sun.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

The results of chemical analysis of soils samples collected before planting and harvest of the strawberries indicates that the organic matter content in the soil of the organic system was higher than that of the non-organic system (see table below).

Susan Lorenz studied soil, sediment, ground and surface water samples, and said that although she found lead present in surface soils, it had not migrated to deeper soils or ground water.

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

Soil sampling began in backyards last week to gauge the effect of Tonawanda Coke's illegal air pollution in the Town of Tonawanda, Kenmore and Buffalo.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

In fact, crews began work this week to collect water, soil and sediment samples.

Walking on a diagonal line across the site, the biologists collect at least five samples of soil in plastic bags.

A particular isotope, or version, of carbon found in the samples speaks to the dryness of conditions at the time of the soil's deposition.

The researchers collected samples of radium - contaminated soil and sediment from two spill sites in West Virginia and North Dakota.

Following an expected soft landing in the northern polar region, Phoenix will study the planet's ice cap and use a robotic arm to dig into the Martian subsurface, collecting ice and soil samples.

Caves and colleagues instead looked at samples over extensive geographic and temporal spans in order to draw a fuller portrait of the climatic changes influencing soil composition.

With this compelling demonstration of using ancient soil samples as proxies for regional climate in Asia, Caves now plans to extend his investigations elsewhere on the globe.

For a year, in addition to testing air samples for radioactive isotopes, Bartke collected soil organisms, insects and other invertebrates, and a few snakes and lizards, making do with the little equipment and few supplies that he had.

Taylor found he could melt a pile of lunar soil in 10 to 20 seconds.Then he focused a single magnetron on another sample: «With 50 watts of energy I took a one - centimeter block of lunar soil to 1700 degrees Celsius (3100 degrees F) in 10 seconds,» he says.

To their surprise, the researchers found that the samples from the thermokarst sites had lower levels of colored dissolved organic matter than did reference sites, suggesting that the carbon in the deeper soils exposed by thermokarst failure is significantly different from the carbon draining from the topmost, active layer of the permafrost, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

If scientists can collect and analyze samples of the terrestrial oxygen embedded in lunar soil, it could provide insights into how Earth's atmosphere has evolved over the eons.

In the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South DakotIn the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South Dakotin South Dakota.

In search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionIn search of microscopic life, molecular ecologist Kay Bidle of Rutgers University looked for microbial DNA in the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditionin the soil and ice core samples Marchant gathered for him during one of his expeditions.

Nathan Cude works in Novozymes» agbiotech division in Durham, North Carolina in the microbial discovery group, which isolates and identifies thousands of microbes collected from soil samples around the United States.

Dartmouth scientists examined the variability of soil phosphorus in the McMurdo Dry Valleys by evaluating two forms of phosphorus in surface soil samples: labile phosphorus, which is immediately available to organisms, and mineral phosphorus, which needs to be broken down by weathering before organisms can use it.

Zipping back down from the canopy to the ground, leaf and soil samples carefully stashed in backpacks, the researchers head to the lab.

Every summer during the study, which concluded in 2014, Cardelùs, Woods and a team of students spent countless hours suspended in midair, cataloging and sampling hundreds of epiphytes and the canopy soil they grow in.

This is the largest ever study estimating above and below - ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.

In the first run of the Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer (TEGA), described in a press conference, Phoenix heated a soil sample to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees C) and then to 350 degrees F (175 degrees CIn the first run of the Thermal and Evolved - Gas Analyzer (TEGA), described in a press conference, Phoenix heated a soil sample to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees C) and then to 350 degrees F (175 degrees Cin a press conference, Phoenix heated a soil sample to 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees C) and then to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

The research is in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [Kelly S. Ramirez et al, Biogeographic patterns in below - ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally] Investigators looked at 596 separate soil samples from the park and found thousands of different types of microbes.

Embedded in an artificial diamond will be four hollow gold pellets, the size of BBs, containing samples of air, seawater, soil — the life - giving elements — and human blood.

To study viral diversity in the ocean or within soil samples, environmental microbiologists must count how many viruses they find.

Another team of researchers led by Leticia Fimiani of the Technical University of Munich also found 60Fe in lunar soil samples collected by Apollo astronauts.