Sentences with phrase «making fieldwork»

This conversation made me realize that I had to look down to place my feet while hiking out in the field, greatly slowing down my progress and making fieldwork more dangerous.

The oxymoronic nature of their discourse, the fact that they command billion - dollar budgets, and the tension they feel and express between «old - paradigm» competitive models of business, and «new - paradigm» partnership models, makes this fieldwork project expecially fascinating.

So that made fieldwork difficult to do.

British paleobiologist Dave Martill (right) and Ibrahim enjoy some shade during an expedition to the Kem Kem, where the Sahara's relentless daytime heat, cold nights and remoteness make fieldwork challenging.

Not exact matches

From my extensive fieldwork in these marginalized regions in Colombia, I learned that people often make a pragmatic decision to support FARC or ELN, rather than an ideological choice.

Although a good portion of my time is now devoted to administrative duties such as project management, meeting with colleagues, and communicating results in written and oral form, I do make time for laboratory and fieldwork, which still gives me the excitement it did when I was a student.

Linguist R.M.W. Dixon of James Cook University, Cairns, in Australia, who made his name in the 1960s and 1970s doing fieldwork on Aboriginal languages, says these languages are so unique that new theories of linguistic change must be invented to explain them.

Making a case to government officials that oral vaccines are necessary conservation tools took decades of fieldwork, genetic testing and meetings upon meetings.

And making music, when it's good, has that same sort of expansive open feeling that doing fieldwork does.

Over the next few years, she and Irit Meir, a colleague at Haifa, made cautious forays into Al - Sayyid, setting in motion the diplomacy that is a critical part of linguistic fieldwork: explaining their intentions, hosting a day of activities at the village school, over time earning the trust of a number of the villagers.

Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Heriot - Watt University made the discovery while carrying out fieldwork on coralliths in the tropical waters of the Maldives.

But as technology made both underwater photography and fieldwork more accessible, the glass sculptures became obsolete.

So the alternative, according to Carlos Herrera, an ecologist at the Doñana Biological Research Station in Spain, is to make remote, lone fieldwork safer.

The fieldwork revealed that adult animals were more likely to get infected, which makes sense because they are in closer contact with each other — through fighting for mating and breeding, for example — than are juveniles.

«Despite decades of fieldwork, however, very little is known about how they make and use their foraging tools in the wild, which is largely owing to the difficulties in observing these shy forest birds.»

Marine policy / fisheries management, marine environmental anthropology, stakeholder participation and local knowledge in policy - making, collaborative fisheries research, ethnographic fieldwork, social impact assessment

The photographs, specimen samples, and data recording notes all made their way into our school's student - curated Natural History Museum, a typical learning extension of our project - based learning (PBL) fieldwork.

Our findings suggest that technology - integrated fieldwork in a special education setting allows preservice teachers to experiment with technology and make decisions that utilize various dimensions of TPACK when planning and implementing lessons.

Other studies of preservice teachers» decision making have used the TPACK framework as a basis for understanding their choices when completing design tasks during educational technology courses or during fieldwork experiences in general education classrooms.

The twelve students who make up this year's SVC group met weekly and earned high school credit for their fieldwork, leadership, and action.

However, in the 1950's the Field Spaniel was redeveloped with longer legs, making it far more suitable for fieldwork.

Each of these projects was made during, or after, Kopelman engaged in fieldwork, travelling to comprehend and, ultimately, to render these environments.

He does his own fieldwork, travelling extensively throughout China's rural areas, where entire villages have been demolished due to heedless industrialisation and to make way for vast, disruptive infrastructure projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

«Yun - Fei Ji's sensitive depictions of the plights faced by villagers in contemporary China, resulting from natural and man - made disruptions, are based on his own fieldwork and first - hand experiences,» says Eichman.

Finally it was the stories of the scientists themselves, the adventure of fieldwork and the excitement they conveyed to me of discovering how the world works, that gave us the key to making it interesting to kids.