Sentences with phrase «make field observations»

Only later did Hutton make field observations that lent empirical credibility to his speculation.
There are many kinds of citizen science, among them: making field observations as in the sunflower project, analyzing images and video such as the terrific Zooniverse.org projects, data crunching with spare computing power, and more.

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The only protruding features beyond the shield are a 10 - metre electric field antennae and an 11 - metre magnetometer boom (used to make magnetic observations).
«To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.
The spacecraft also made magnetic field observations when it got closer to the Saturn.
In the several centuries that we have been making detailed biological observations, and in thousands of years of selectively breeding plants and animals, we have not seen any Darwinian evolution in the lab, farm or field.
To the extent that an analogy is intended between the fourteenth - century theory of impetus and Whitehead's formulation of GTR, the following observation may be made: the concept of impetus in both cases designates a physical characteristic attributed either to the mass - particle or to the physical field which it causes and in both cases is developed in opposition to theories which would attribute this physical characteristic to the surrounding air or to the spatiotemporal frame of reference and its metric structure.
According to the popular stereotype, the scientist makes precise observations and then employs logical reasoning; if such a procedure is to be adopted in all fields of enquiry, should not religion be dismissed as prescientific superstition?
While students are out exploring, they have opportunities to use scientific tools, make observations, and experience real science in the field.
On your way to Boyce Field or along the Beeline Trail make sure to stop at one of the observation platforms around the deer pen.
The Hubble observations were made with Hubble's sharp - eyed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), and were conducted by the Supernova H0 for the Equation of State (SH0ES) team, which works to refine the accuracy of the Hubble constant to a precision that allows for a better understanding of the universe's behavior.
This modeling would be aided by observations that somehow capture the direction of the magnetic field within the CME as it leaves the sun and by «a better understanding of how the magnetic field will change and evolve as the CME makes its multiday transit from the sun to Earth,» Viereck says.
The cosmological principle opened the field of modern cosmology to practical investigation because it implies that observations made from our single vantage point in the universe are representative of the universe as a whole.
The researchers analyzed observations made with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 by co-author Drake Deming at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The researchers made these findings after conducting field observations over a period of six months between 2009 and 2012.
Bismuth is a historically interesting element for scientists, as a number of important discoveries in the metal physics world were made while studying it, including important observations about the effect of magnetic fields on electrical conductivity.
This cloud is now making its closest approach and new VLT observations show that it is being grossly stretched by the black hole's extreme gravitational field.
The model is supported by observations from satellites, ground - based networks that measure ozone - depleting chemicals in the real world, and by observations from two decades of NASA aircraft field campaigns, including the most recent Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) in 2013 and the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) global atmospheric survey, which has made three deployments since 2016.
This is in line with field observations of hybrid birds made by study co-authors Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists at Princeton University in New Jersey who have worked in the Galapagos for decades.
Researchers previously assumed that the formation of a new species takes a very long time, but in the Big Bird lineage it happened in just two generations, according to observations made by the Grants in the field in combination with the genetic studies.
Abstract: The K2 mission will make use of the Kepler spacecraft and its assets to expand upon Kepler's groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of exoplanets and astrophysics through new and exciting observations.
Early science commissioning observations have shown an estimated photo... ▽ More The K2 mission will make use of the Kepler spacecraft and its assets to expand upon Kepler's groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of exoplanets and astrophysics through new and exciting observations.
Hubble's new observations, using its most advanced instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3, are the most detailed ever made of this galaxy (Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration.
He plans to use Hubble's new Wide Field Camera 3 to make more Pluto observations prior to the arrival of New Horizons.
They deploy instruments to measure the glaciers, take photographs and make observations in the field.
It probably won't be a surprise that architecture is the greatest source of inspiration for not only fashion designers but stylists, fashion bloggers and, according to my observations, many other creative fields including photographers, choreographs and make up artists.
In expeditions to sites around the nearby bay, the team of students made close observations — scientific, cartographic, etymological, even poetic and political — that they brought together as a striking and useful field guide called Perspectives of the San Diego Bay (September 2005)
Mick Walsh, a leader in the field of Positive Education, founder of The Learning Curve, and a friend and colleague of mine, recently made an interesting observation.
Gina began making abstractions in the studio and I began making large collages in acrylics; the colors I added became less about enhancing the colors in the subject and more about making new relationships emerge from the field — in this sense I see myself going back to the way I worked in «Night», although now including work from observation (I start the collages with painting outdoors).
In both fields women made significant contributions to observation, data collection, and computation.
The small size and cheap cost mean that these microscopes could be used by anyone from first responders inspecting suspicious materials to researchers and medical professionals in the field to school kids making their first up - close observations of objects.
Our observations were made during a field trip to deploy satellite transmitters on walruses that came ashore in the eastern Chukchi Sea.
Unique to the field of AGW I have provided testable daily forecast results for a six year period, after observation and ongoing study of the original data sorting program, I am going to make revisions to upgrade the software to compensate for problems found in the original method I used to generate these maps.
Computer modellers from other fields to check GCMs are being done right, statisticians to check that the climate scientists sums are being done right, physicists to check the physics, mathematicians to check the maths, technicians to check the equipment being used to make observations that constitute the data.
We focus on assessing reliability against present - day climatology with rank histograms, but also investigate the effective degrees of freedom (EDoF) of the fields of variables which makes the statistical test of reliability more rigorous, and consider the distances between the observation and ensemble members.
Based on our collection of resume samples in the field, main job requirements are knowledge of security systems, computer competences, strong observation skills, being able to stay calm under pressure, physical strength, and decision making.
Participant - observations were made by the first author who participated in all sessions and wrote field notes immediately afterwards.
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