Sentences with phrase «of field expeditions»

To help answer these questions, American Bird Conservancy (ABC) is mounting a series of field expeditions with conservation allies in South America.

Arantes and Winemiller conducted a number of field expeditions to the Lower Amazon River to find how deforestation affects fish diversity.

The bones of Timurlengia were collected during a decade of field expeditions to Uzbekistan's desolate Kyzylkum Desert, one of the driest areas of the world, led by my colleagues Alexander Averianov and Hans - Dieter Sues.

Geochemist Ken Caldeira of the Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California, and his wife decided that she should shift from a full - time job to a contract position to allow her to serve as a field assistant on some of the field expeditions Caldeira leads.

There he met biologist Imre Friedmann, who was looking for someone to build temperature and moisture sensors as part of a field expedition to Antarctica's Dry Valleys.

Not exact matches

From controlling the foreign Affairs of Afghanistan after the 1st Anglo - Afghan war to drawing the Durand line between the Pashtuns after the 2nd Anglo - Afghan war, Why should the Afghans trust the British when the forefathers of Afghans fought against the Empire and today you send your royal family member on military expeditions in Afghanistan, why good have you done for any other country you have entered into militarily - what good can you do for Afghanistan when you have never been sincere with Afghans, Afghan never bought the story of Britain entering the war to eliminate poppy fields, the world is aware poppy production increase where British are present and Afghans know very well the British empire introduced poppy growing over 200 years ago to Afghanistan for transport through silk road and on to Hong Kong.

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 taField 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 tafield sites, samples, and permits, and to begin a discourse of the study target.

Here, NSF - funded paleontologists Peter Makovicky and Nathan Smith from Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History use jackhammers to drill through rock during a 2010 - 2011 expedition.

«When Greg first spotted the worms gliding through a clam field in Monterey Bay, we jokingly called them purple socks,» said MBARI scientist Robert Vrijenhoek, a co-author of the study who led the deep - sea expeditions using remotely operated vehicles.

This expedition landed on the southwestern confines of the Ross Sea, and, by its explorations, showed that the great ice barrier is in reality the front of an enormous ice field or glacier, mainly floating on the surface of an extended bay or sea, and fed by glaciers coming down from the elevated land on the westerly side and probably also on the eastern.

Biologist Mark Laidre of Dartmouth University actually witnessed this scene in March 2016, during a two - month field expedition to study the crabs in the Chagos Archipelago.

For example with our colleagues from the Chicago Field Museum, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with support from the McArthur Foundation we have been able to implement for almost 10 years management plans that we developed in joint expeditions with Cuban scientists and the people from protected areas.

When not on expeditions, back home outside San Francisco, Lewin treated all manner of exotic parasites in scientists returning from the field.

A field expedition to a remote region of Myanmar in Southeast Asia ended in tragedy earlier this month, when a prominent snake expert succumbed to a poisonous snakebite.

Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

He was asked to collaborate on this discovery because several of the co-authors of the paper, including Kobayashi and lead - author Tanaka, have been members of his field team during past Alaska expeditions.

By the end of last year's field season, I had identified 89 quarries from which Tarbosaurus skeletons had been extracted; fewer than a third of them had been collected by legitimate expeditions.

We have the capability to do so much more, to do real geological field exploration of the moon and the asteroids and field expeditions to Mars.

Tulaczyk's flight was the first to shuttle expedition scientists, engineers, technicians and gear to the field, and a stranded plane could prevent the rest of the crew and the last of the equipment from arriving in time.

The challenging part: Marine biologists are able to explore the Mothra Field in submersibles, but an expedition requires funding and years of planning.

For Francisco and Lohmann it took three field expeditions to different states of the Brazilian Amazon, combined with deep morphological and molecular studies, to set straight uncertainties in the complex taxonomic history of Pachyptera lianas.

Earthwatch Expeditions From the coffee fields of Costa Rica to the edge of the Arctic, roll up your sleeves and help solve environmental problems along with scientists and experts in their fields.

To answer that question, Helgen called on Roland Kays, director of the Biodiversity and Earth Observation Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, to help organize a field expedition.

«We have concluded by a preponderance of the evidence that Dr. [David] Marchant engaged in sexual harassment in violation of Boston University's Sexual Harassment Policy... by directing derogatory and sex - based slurs and sexual comments at you during the 1999 - 2000 field expedition to Antarctica,» Kim Randall, the executive director of BU's Equal Opportunity Office, wrote to Willenbring in a 16 November letter obtained by ScienceInsider.

In January 2013, a joint German - South African inspection of Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [5], under the Antarctic Treaty and Protocol on Environmental Protection, commended to all Parties to the Treaty the station's energy and waste management systems, and commented on the «excellent science is undertaken by internationally staffed expeditions that do field work» around the station.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

Having returned from their field campaign in the Sør Rondanes, the team of the Japanese JARE 51 expedition, along with Steven Goderis from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, is able...

As the International Polar Foundation was intimately involved in the planning of these expeditions and assuring the logistics and security of field operations, the research groups preferred to wait until the next season.

Read Annie's illustrated chronicle (includes over 90 photographs) of a Nevada field expedition she financed and participated in 112 years ago.

As the title suggests, this is a humanity - in - peril yarn, and Kane's expedition was an attempt to find some kind of explanation for «The Shimmer», a sort of hungry force field steadily expanding outwards to devour and transform chunks of the planet.

The story, as it were, focuses on an all - female expedition into the depths of the unknown — it's The Descent, but instead of spelunking into hell we're just going to walk there, armed only with assault rifles and PhDs in various applicable fields of study.

However, the action really does drag in this instalment as, to be honest, the storyline is pretty dull and just involves our pint - sized heroes camping in a field and squabbling like they're on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition for much of the time.

Learning experiences in museums, theatres, places of worship constitute Route 1 for the activities with least risk, whilst field studies, expeditions, study tours, farm visits and adventurous activities constitute Route 2 where the regime is more rigorous.

More than 20 additional HMH Field Trips, as well as iOS availability of the Expeditions app, are planned for release over the coming months.

Interactive experiences through week - long expeditions and enrichment Fridays that focus on topics such as drama, music, art, robotics, and coding taught by professionals in their fields of expertise.

In expeditions to sites around the nearby bay, the team of students made close observations — scientific, cartographic, etymological, even poetic and political — that they brought together as a striking and useful field guide called Perspectives of the San Diego Bay (September 2005)

expeditionary learning — Learning through expeditions, including long - term investigation of important questions and subjects that include individual and group projects, field studies, and performances and presentations of student work.

Characteristics of expeditions include interdisciplinary learning, field lessons away from campus, guest experts on the topic of study, and a high - quality final product.

This beautiful entry in the award - winning Scientists in the Field series follows an expedition to the French Polynesian island of Moorea to study Pacific day octopuses — not octopi — in the wild and unlock some of the mystery surrounding this marine animal.

Straight from the sandy white shores of Boracay, you can opt to explore the mainland as you go on an adventure filled expedition trekking through rice fields and exploring jungles.

For birding expeditions, visitors can attend the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival — a 6 - day annual event of educational field trips, classes and workshops that promote the conservation of nature.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibiField Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibifield - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibifield work is the subject of this exhibition.

«Green Parrot Fish,» center, by Isabel Cooper, in the show «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions,» at the Drawing Center.

I've been reading (and looking at) Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field Expedition, a book that Mark Dion put together with The Drawing Center.

Many of these New York - based artists are also leading expeditions, such as the Floating Studio for Dark Ecologies's «A Field Guide to Whale Creek» audio tour at the Newtown Creek Nature Walk, and the exhibition is an experiment in bringing time - based, site - specific practices indoors.

Her activism led her to make research expeditions to the ice fields of Antarctica, Greenland, Patagonia, and Svalbard where she documented and collected data for her work.

The drawings are all made from organic material discovered during Rockman's field expeditions on the East End, making use of sand, soil or other natural items with acrylic polymer on paper.

Camping in sub-freezing temperatures and working alongside researchers at remote field sites, from the crater of Antarctica's most active volcano to the glacial - carved McMurdo Dry Valleys, Simonson reframes the role of the expedition artist in contemporary culture.

Early this morning, I received an e-mail message from one of many polar scientists whose important and costly field research in Antarctica has been seriously disrupted by the diversion of icebreakers to try to evacuate the journalists, tourists, crew and scientists on an unessential «expedition» aboard a chartered Russian ship.

For our expedition, Marc and Petter [Nyquist] were in charge of logistics, safety and cook for our remote field camp of six researchers.