Sentences with phrase «museum scientists»

A new group of beetles with a heart - shaped leg joint has been discovered in the Belize rainforest by Museum scientist Max Barclay.

A television documentary will follow Museum scientists as they help deduce the astonishing facial appearance of Britain's oldest complete skeleton, Cheddar Man.

«Most bumblebees in the U.S. are known from dozens to thousands of specimens, but not this species,» said Douglas Yanega, senior museum scientist at UC Riverside.

«Almost all of our knowledge about land animals from this time, comes from a handful of regions in North America and western Europe, which were located near the equator,» said Field Museum scientist Ken Angielczyk, one of the paper's authors.

The Museum's world - renowned Imaging and Analysis Centre then worked with Museum scientists and animation teams to create a scientifically - accurate model and animation for each specimen.

Stout infantfish were captured in a plankton net on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia by a field researcher in 1979, then overlooked for more than two decades until H. J. Walker, a senior museum scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and William Watson of the National Marine Fisheries Service, realized they were an unknown species.

Nature Museum scientists obtain species of females and their host plants in the hopes of seeing caterpillars emerge in the spring.

It's a chance to support scientists and science teachers throughout the world, including our own Museum scientists, science educators and volunteers.

Field expeditions to learn about and describe biological and cultural diversity and the history of life and civilization generally require museum scientists engage on a global scale with their counterparts to gain access to field sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

In these cases museum scientists are working at transboundaries that are beyond politics but that can generally facilitate policy, such as with climate change and conservation issues.

«Once we'd dealt with the tiny size of the bone samples, the highly degraded state of the DNA, and the lack of any similar genomes to compare to, the analysis was a piece of cake,» said Natural History Museum scientist Dr. Selina Brace.

Food packaging and fishing gear were among the discarded items found by Museum scientists visiting some of the remotest parts of both the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

In celebration of Earth Day in 2008, Museum scientists answered questions from kids about everything environment - related, from pollution to endangered species to global warming.

This question has long been a debated topic among scientists, but thanks to new research from Field Museum scientists, we may have an answer for one of the largest groups of migratory birds.

Kids will love diving into a replica of Woodstock's nest and seeing specimens of other birds and nests, playing inside a massive Great Pumpkin («It's not like the pumpkin you'll carve at Halloween,» Miller says), and getting answers to their scientific queries at Lucy's Psychiatry Booth, which is staffed by museum scientists.

Students can move through time meeting extinct dinosaurs, tour the solar system and the Milky Way galaxy, explore DNA that can't be seen by the human eye, read interviews with museum scientists and student scientists like themselves, play games, collect Ology cards and create projects with them, learn about expeditions, take quizzes, and more.

The 27 large prints in the «Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies» exhibit showcase what the museum's researchers see as they pore over animals, artifacts, and other targets of inquiry.

After getting his Ph.D., Farmer worked for 5 years as a museum scientist at the University of California (UC), Davis, collecting and maintaining the geology department's teaching and research collections.

For example, the February / March 2002 issue of in Chemistry will highlight the career of a museum scientist as well as a science writer.

What the museum scientists know about Indians, whales, and elephants is more than enough to mimic real life.

When it comes to dinosaurs, all museum scientists really have to work with is an incomplete jumble of bones.

Field Museum scientist, curator, and millipede expert Petra Sierwald describes a recent expedition.

Despite weathering hiring freezes and repeated budget cuts in the past few years, Field Museum scientists are reeling from the latest announcement, which they feel may cut into crucial scientific capabilities.

Museum scientists have reconstructed the diets of extinct mammals in Britain, thanks to a new way of analysing fossilised teeth.

Museum scientists have found that Osedax worms, which feed on the bones of whale carcasses, can live in shallow Mediterranean waters.

DNA sequencing by Museum scientists has revealed how endangered Australian crayfish and their symbiotic flatworms evolved together - and may soon become extinct together too.

From skeletal remains found among centuries - old owl pellets, Museum scientists have recovered the first DNA sample of the extinct Caribbean mammal genus Nesophontes.

The loss of species diversity has reached unsafe levels across 58 % of the world's land surface, according to a new assessment led by Museum scientists.

Those answers — and lots more information — are provided by Museum scientists.

Students who researched particular planets or star clusters were able to partner with the museum scientists to teach the class about the viewable stars and planets.

They are in part the results of research by Museum scientists and in turn serve as a vast research archive for ongoing investigations.