Sentences with phrase «mountains at an elevation»

The Jungfraujoch, a ridge between the Mönch and Jungfrau mountains at an elevation of almost three and a half thousand metres above sea level, is home to highest railway station in Europe.

The capital and largest city in the state of Colorado, Denver sits at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of 5,280 + feet above sea level (hence its nickname, The Mile High City).

Not exact matches

The Blue Ridge Mountains where the bison graze are more than 3,000 feet above sea level, and Dr. King feels that helps the bison the same way it creates more red blood cells in athletes training at elevation.

From our Vineyard perched on top of Howell Mountain at at elevation of 2,100 feet, this Cabernet reflects the power and intensity characteristic of a terroir of decomposed volcanic ash and red clay.

• Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) at Toyon Bay, Cherry Cove and Fox Landing • Astrocamp, located at an elevation of 5,000» in Idyllwild, California, in the mountains above Palm Springs.

The air pressure atop Mount McKinley is lower than is found at the same elevation on other high mountains in temperate latitudes.

Depending on your and your baby's needs, I may also recommend breastfeeding support group (I facilitate one at Elevations Health in Denver and one at Mountain Midwifery Center in Englewood).

After our stop in Boulder, we drove about 3 hours into the mountains to a small town called Buena Vista situated at an elevation 7,965 feet.

The highest elevation in the county is Rockhouse Mountain, at 391 m (1,283 feet).

The highest elevation in the county is a U.S. Geological Survey benchmark known as «Bailey» at approximately 299 m (980 feet) above sea level in Mountain Lakes Park near the Connecticut state line.

The highest elevation is Hunter Mountain, at approximately 4,040 feet (1,232 m) above sea level; the lowest is sea level along the Hudson.

It was found at an elevation of about 5,200 feet in the Muller Range mountains.

13,200 feet Groups living in mountain ranges at high elevations have evolved to survive the thin air there.

For glaciers that extend from low to high elevation, measurements taken at the low end — the glacier's «snout» — may not tell scientists much about how the same ice sheet is behaving higher up the mountain.

Between September 2004 and July 2008, the team took hourly humidity and temperature readings at 10 elevations on the mountain.

Previous research has shown that plants at the highest elevations on mountains (and in the polar regions) have been shifting to adjust to global warming.

The researchers, all hailing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, trekked into the Rocky Mountains to collect soils and seedlings beneath cottonwood trees at low and high elevations.

This spells bad news for many mountain species, says Chris Thomas, a biologist at the University of York in the U.K. «The fact that you're getting elevation shifts is symptomatic that some species might get pushed right off the top of the mountains,» Thomas says.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

Snow leopards (Panthera uncia) in the Himalayan mountains often prowl at elevations between 3500 and 5000 meters.

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

Gill led a field team that traversed watersheds in the wilds of Colorado's Rocky Mountains and in the remote Ecuadorean Andes to collect and analyze thousands of mayflies at comparable elevations.

D. birchii was most common at intermediate elevations, with abundance declining at colder sites towards the summit, but also at warmer sites towards the bottom of mountains, where flies in cages thrived.

As their habitats heat up, pikas living at low elevations have one major shot at avoiding extinction: migrating to cooler, higher parts of the mountain.

Mountains are useful for exploring the effects of climate change because they show predictable changes in temperature and humidity with elevation: In general, sites at low elevations are warmer and drier than higher elevation sites.

Seems the bears snack on the fruits that are found at the foot of the mountains in spring and then make the climb to higher elevations to enjoy young leaves and buds and flowers, particularly as the season progresses.

Sampling song from males at high and low elevations from two different mountains allowed us to (i) assess the presence of any differences in song structure at different elevations and (ii) consider the potential mechanism generating variation or song dialects on a small spatial scale.

If this were the case, females at high elevation on each mountain are more likely to encounter a male from low elevation from the same mountain rather than a male from high elevation from a different mountain.

The entire site sits at an elevation of 3,000 meters in Colorado's Rocky Mountain range and is characterized by alpine tundra, glacial lakes, permafrost and other features.

If there is no movement between birds from different elevations and / or mountains, then song structure could be different at all four locations.

Song structure varied significantly between high and low elevation adjacent populations from the same mountain and between populations from different mountains at the same elevations, despite a continuous distribution across each mountain slope.

Although some insects are known to forage at high elevations, he says that there are relatively few insects in the cold, high mountains, leaving room for hummingbirds to take their place pollinating flowers.

Male songs were collected from high and low elevations at two different mountains (separated by 35 km) to test whether song differs between elevations and / or between adjacent populations at each mountain.

Like many mountain ecosystems, Niwot Ridge serves as an important «water tower,» regulating downhill water flow as snowmelt replenishes lakes and streams at lower elevations.

After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

From the DistantEarths blog of Daniel Apai After two hours of hike up on a rocky trail in the Italian Alps, finally I stand at an elevation just above 2,500 meters, staring at a breathtaking and unique mountain range, the Dolomites, that holds an exciting clue to the habitability of our planet.

In the Rocky Mountains, spring (February - March) warming since the 1980s has been largely responsible for recent snowpack declines at mid - and low - elevation sites (Pederson et al. 2013b).

Northwestern Montana receives an average of 9.4 inches (23.9 cm) of winter precipitation, but locally, and at higher elevations within the mountains, this value can increase to greater than 20 inches (50.8 cm).

I had a misfill from the pharmacy so I had more thyroid in my pills than we thought was in them and had spent a couple days at 10,000 feet elevation up in the mountains and flew right from there into a studio and did a plank pose on the Whole Body Vibration Plate called the Bulletproof Vibe that I manufactured.

Keep in mind though that I'm an avid hiker and mountain biker in the summer, and I live at high elevation (7500 feet above sea level), so I get a good deal of daily sun, which is why my levels jumped from 35 - 52 ng / ml after a couple months of daily summer sun.

Water naturally boils at a lower temperature in the mountains (190 °F / 88 °C) than at the beach (212 °F / 100 °C) due to the reduced air pressure at high elevations.

The training started with a weeklong retreat at Drala Point, a remote retreat center at 3,500 feet in elevation in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

It includes numerous temples and caves and is set on the side of a mountain that is something of a challenge to reach, at an elevation just over 1,500 feet.

Olga Martsinko was enjoying lying in the warm waters of the Red Sea when her outstretched left hand touched something solid with a rough skin as it dived The town of St. Katherine is in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt at an elevation of about 1600 meters from sea level, at the foot of the Sinai High Mountains.

Our track time was spent lapping the East Circuit at Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, a 2.1 mile road course with fast sweepers, elevation changes, double apexes, a long front straight, and a slalom course set up on the back straight that was set up for this particular event.

It is at the foothills of the Oquirrh Mountains and is at an elevation of 4,330 feet.

The city's elevation goes from sea level all the way to 370 metres (1,200 feet) above, at the summit of Burnaby real estate Mountain.

At an elevation higher than most other wineries on Spring Mountain, this family - owned estate opened its facility to visitors in 2008.

For a high elevation ski trip, try the Mountain Blend: These beans release oils at a lower temperature, so java brewed at altitude will be flavorful and complex instead of bitter.

The course is situated on the east side of the Sandia Mountains, at elevations ranging from 6,500 to 7,000 feet, surrounded by the mountainous terrain and vegetation of the New Mexican high desert.