Sentences with phrase «of a remote island in»

If you do a PhD in anthropology of a remote island in the Pacific, then your changes are thiner.

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UAF has worked extensively with both institutional and commercial partners in Alaska and in recent years, using drones to monitor sea lion populations in the Aleutian Islands, conduct ice flow and environmental surveying missions for NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, inspect pipelines for oil and gas giant BP and assist a Russian tanker during a dangerous late - season fuel delivery to the remote Alaskan outpost of Nome.

Okinawa, a remote island to the south west of Japan, has an unusually large population of centenarians and is often referred to in examinations of ikigai — though not by Gordon.

We made our first purchase of 320 water purification units on Nov. 20th, and our partner, the Puerto Rico Brain Trust for Tropical Disease Research and Prevention, is overseeing the distribution and educational programming in remote cities on the island.

Another common factor here is that many of the places that suffered long blackouts have remote populations or have cities strewn across islands, making it difficult and tedious to get the necessary repair supplies in place.

In some of the remoter parts of the island, rescue workers are just barely beginning to arrive.

Ted is a Catholic priest on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, and he deals with small but hilarious issues in his parish.

Marriage is neither a Disney movie, nor an episode of The Bachelor with dates in helicopters on remote jungle islands.

We are on a desert island, in a town at the edge of a crumbling empire, at an obscure farm in the remote heart of the country, or in the middle of a war.

Scottish theologian Ronald Gregor Smith said in 1966: «The tide of secularism has swept over the whole of the western world, the world that was once called Christendom, and beyond that it has reached into every land... It has flooded over every island and the remotest parts of the world».5 No longer can it be said that Christian beliefs, values and aspirations are shaping our public life.

«The versatility and efficiency of our clarifier product has been demonstrated in a number of applications undertaken recently in partnership with Smith and Loveless, including an installation on a remote island, where two (11.

Last summer we went on a cruise to the Caribbean Islands, and when our ship stopped in St. Lucia, we took a catamaran to a remote part of the island as part of a shore excursion.

Just seen an advert on the Sky News website, «remote island seeks police inspector» straight away I thought the perfect job for Wenger, can be a Dictator on he's own little island in the middle of the Pacific.

There are only three pinpricks of land within 1,000 miles of the Hawaiian chain, and so the islands have a constant surge around them, a surge that is often mild but at times strong when the violence of remote storms awakens again in the shoaling waters.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President James Oddo enlisted the help of a fast ferry service and conducted test runs to show that service is a viable option for more remote locations on Staten Island, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the opISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President James Oddo enlisted the help of a fast ferry service and conducted test runs to show that service is a viable option for more remote locations on Staten Island, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the opIsland, not just in Stapleton, and he is pushing the city to study the options.

According to research on telecommuting, Long Island lags the rest of the country in remote office working.

In 1780, a Japanese ship foundered off the coast of a remote Aleutian island, and the Norway rats in the hold lived up to their reputation by fleeing the sinking shiIn 1780, a Japanese ship foundered off the coast of a remote Aleutian island, and the Norway rats in the hold lived up to their reputation by fleeing the sinking shiin the hold lived up to their reputation by fleeing the sinking ship.

The desiccation of a remote island lake in Central Asia is one of the world's worst ecological disasters.

Years later, she heard large corals were still alive near Wolf Island in the remote northern part of the Galápagos archipelago, so in 2010 she followed up on the tip with a team that included co-authors Tudhope and Thompson, then a UA graduate student.

Islands of wolf populations persist in remote highland areas surrounded by oceans of free - ranging dogs.

The fact that the fungus has been identified in a very remote part of the island has puzzled the researchers.

You need to be fit to keep up with him on the hills of the McGill University neighborhood in Montreal, let alone on the remote islands of the Canadian Arctic where he searches for fossils in summer fieldwork.

Published in the journal Nature this week, the group challenges reports that these inhabitants of remote Flores island co-existed with modern humans for tens of thousands of years.

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C.

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working and diving with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

But in 1980 a team discovered 13 populations of the toad in the remote mountains of the island in Spain, providing a chance to study how the toads have survived the snakes.

Around the same size as Jamaica, this is one of the most remote and difficult to access islands in the Canadian High Arctic, and as such not much was known about the geology.

By FRED PEARCE Volcanic rocks in mid-Atlantic, coral atolls, white - beached Caribbean tourist traps, Pacific islands so remote that even the Polynesians have abandoned them — the leftovers of the British empire are a curious mixture of the military and the forgotten.

The Canadian Arctic In 2004 on a remote island in the Arctic wilderness, American scientists uncovered the remains of a fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae, that first crawled on land about 375 million years agIn 2004 on a remote island in the Arctic wilderness, American scientists uncovered the remains of a fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae, that first crawled on land about 375 million years agin the Arctic wilderness, American scientists uncovered the remains of a fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae, that first crawled on land about 375 million years ago.

The research found that sand fleas from the remote British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island change their colour to match the beaches they wash up on, which vary widely in colour and brightness from black to light yellow.

Some of her species are «just beginning to flower» in chilly Edinburgh, and she'll be able to do some «more controlled experiments» than were possible on some of the world's most remote islands.

Using a single satellite image collected at UM's Center for Southeastern Tropical Remote Sensing (CSTARS), the research team was able to determine that a roughly 60 - meter high internal wave was traveling at a speed of three miles per hour (1.4 meters per second) near Dongsha Island in the South China Sea.

The group, part of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, is part of an ongoing project to develop evacuation plans and shelters for communities along Sumatra's remote southwestern coast after a devastating 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit the island in 2004.

Turtles nest unbothered on the remote beaches of the southern Line Islands, whereas in most other places they are killed for meat and their eggs are collected.

A scientific expedition in Panama in the early 2000s, also led by WHOI scientists, led to the construction of the «Liquid Jungle Lab» on a remote island to enhance oceanographic research.

A group of scientists of the Institute of Applied Geosciences (AGW) and the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research — Atmospheric Trace Gases and Remote Sensing Division (IMK - ASF) of KIT as well as of ETH Zurich recently analyzed above - ground and underground heat islands in four big cities in Germany in relation to each other.

The original London specimen was collected in 1870 from the remote Mortlock Islands, a series of low - lying atolls and part of the Federated States of Micronesia in the west - central Pacific Ocean.

Wolves are the only predators of moose on the remote island national park in northwestern Lake Superior.

This rare species lives only on two tiny islands — Waigeo and Batanta — in the Raja Ampat chain, a remote collection of islands off West Papua, an Indonesian province of New Guinea.

Bone measurement analysis indicates that the remains found on a remote island in the South Pacific were likely those of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, according to a UT researcher.

I was so inspired by Collapse that shortly after it came out, my wife Cristina and I made a trip to Easter Island, one of the places that is featured in Jared's book and one of the most remote corners of our planet.

Written by a collective of academics, including Dr Alice Samson (University of Leicester) and Dr Jago Cooper (British Museum), the paper is the result of three - years of research from 2013 to 2016, on the currently uninhabited and remote Mona Island in the Caribbean.

A published report identifying the Roti Island snake - necked turtle (Chelodina mccordi) in remote Indonesian wetlands was enough to spur a flurry of illegal trade that drove the newly discovered reptile to the brink of extinction.

Seabirds, which reflect the health of their marine ecosystems, often build their nests in inaccessible areas — wedged into vertical cliffs or on remote islands battered by intense waves.

The findings also lend support to claims that the small brain of the human ancestor Homo floresiensis, whose 18,000 - year - old skull was discovered on a remote Indonesian island in 2003, isn't as remarkable as it might seem.

The Marshall Islands were one of the United States's go - to nuclear testing sites in the 1940s and 1950s: Sixty - seven of the almost 200 tests during that period took place in these remote Pacific iIslands were one of the United States's go - to nuclear testing sites in the 1940s and 1950s: Sixty - seven of the almost 200 tests during that period took place in these remote Pacific islandsislands.

Oppel and his colleagues set up sound recorders on a remote island in the North Atlantic for two years to «count» the number of nesting birds by recording their calls at night.

Ancient DNA has revealed the origins of the first Polynesians, who settled remote Pacific islands in outrigger canoes.

They left a trail of distinctive red pottery but few other clues, and scientists have confronted two different scenarios: The explorers were either farmers who sailed directly from mainland East Asia to the remote islands, or people who mixed with hunter - gatherers they met along the way in Melanesia, including Papua New Guinea.