Sentences with phrase «more fieldwork»

I learned that through scientific investigation and discovery, new knowledge could be added with more fieldwork, ever reminding me that the «authoritative view» always needed to be scrutinized through skeptical inquiry.

Biogeochemist Eric Davidson of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in Frostburg says researchers need to do more fieldwork to see how nutrient conditions affect the growth of forests.

Unable to do more fieldwork, he took a master's degree in geology then launched himself into a new field.

There are many aspects of interactive communications and collaborative structures that require more analysis and more fieldwork, both in political societies and in churches.

Not exact matches

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

YouGov did the fieldwork for two academic election surveys (the British Election Study and the SCMS) as well as their daily polling, and all three used different question ordering (daily polling asked voting intention first, SCMS after a couple of questions, the BES after a bank of questions on important issues, which party is more trusted and party leaders) so will allow testing of the effect of «priming questions».

This probably doesn't reflect a Lib Dem recovery just yet — the fieldwork was actually carried out before or immediately after Mark Oaten's resignation — it is more likely to be normal sample error or the minor effects of using a different sampling method (the MORI poll in the Sun was a phone poll, this was a face - to - face poll).

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.

It was supposed to be a laid - back week to collect a few more samples and enjoy a few final days tracking chimpanzees, a fieldwork victory lap of sorts.

Ibrahim wants colleagues in the international research community to hold fieldwork in Morocco, and more generally Africa, to the same high standards as elsewhere, insisting on geological context in published papers and not supporting the commercial trade of undocumented fossils.

To more fully understand Arctic lake dynamics and to document the changes we have observed requires also doing fieldwork under often harsh conditions during the cold and dark arctic winter,» said Benjamin Jones of the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage and co-author of the new study.

She carries out her fieldwork in an altogether more exotic location, however, because she is looking at the conservation genetics of two groups of endangered plants from St. Helena, a group of islands between South America and Africa.

New fieldwork in the Mortlock Islands revealed more than name changes.

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

This fieldwork piggybacks on a recent finding by Jessica Lundquist, a UW associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, and her lab that shows that tree cover actually causes snow to melt more quickly on the western slopes of the Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountains and other warm, Mediterranean - type climates around the world.

«We feel now that our fieldwork is much more dangerous than we believed,» says Rey, «and we do not receive appropriate support from universities or public funds.»

In recent fieldwork in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Wohl studied the wetlands and floodplains upstream of beaver dams — areas collectively called «beaver meadows» — along 27 streams draining watersheds covering more than 700 square kilometers.

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.

You can see photographs of our fieldwork and learn more about our research here.

Since 1973, the fieldwork at Hadar has produced more than 370 fossil specimens of Australopithecus afarensis between 3.4 and 3.0 million years ago — one of the largest collections of a single fossil hominin species in Africa — as well as one of the earliest known fossils of Homo and abundant Oldowan stone tools (ca. 2.3 million).

More than 2,200 fossils were collected across Tanzania and Zambia over the last decade of fieldwork.

After all, science is typically not a one - person endeavor, and many of us have more experience trying to understand research papers than capturing emotional turning points or colorful details of fieldwork.

A wise scholar of digital inclusion policies once told me, with regard to his extensive fieldwork, that «It takes a lot more than a laptop to get a job.»

On the other hand, research suggests teachers trained in gifted education, for instance, preservice teachers with practicum and fieldwork experiences working with gifted students, are more aware of their needs than peers without this training.

The fieldwork experience allows the prospective teacher to practice the craft of teaching and take on increased teaching responsibility under the guidance of Read more about New Research from NCEE on Teacher Retention -LSB-...]

Pupils who opt to take geography will be examined on the range of skills needed for fieldwork and there will be more emphasis on the human and physical geography of the UK.

The company's success — it has reached more than 2.2 million readers in its first five years — is down to what it describes as «fieldwork».

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

As an assistant trainer here at The Canine Center, you're bound to find Pam with a smile on her face and a dog in her hands helping to improve their skills in everything from sitting, agility, tracking, nose work, fieldwork, and more!

Developed from research into flora, slime and fertility and her recent fieldwork on the Isle of Eigg, Ihrman's Cooper Gallery exhibition questions the ability to thrive that all life carries; an ability that is governed by and dependent upon not only environmental conditions, but more importantly how culture portrays and understands nature and thus itself.

He has pioneered new methods for investigating tropical deforestation, degradation, ecosystem diversity, invasive species, carbon emissions, climate change, and much more using satellite and airborne instrumentation, coupled with on - ground fieldwork.