Sentences with phrase «of volunteer scientists»

GCRA is a coalition of volunteer scientists, divers, environmentalists and other individuals and organizations, committed to coral reef preservation.

For over thirty years, the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory's 300 + team of volunteer scientists have counted and banded raptors on fall migration.

The eighth in a series of BioBlitzes being held in national parks across the United States leading up to the centennial celebration of the National Park Service in 2016, the Golden Gate National Parks BioBlitz will gather thousands of volunteer scientists, students and community members to measure and highlight the biodiversity of these unique national parks in the heart of the urban Bay Area.

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To come to this conclusion, the scientists created five artificial social networks made up of volunteers.

Ahlborn assembled a team of volunteer engineers and scientists shortly after Musk put forth the idea, offering equity in the company instead of pay to those willing to put in at least 10 hours of work each week.

Gaining the correct experience that will help you develop your career in sustainable agriculture requires dedication, knowledge and sometimes volunteering, but above all else, a group of colleagues and mentors from a variety of different disciplines and sectors is crucial to growing as a researcher and scientist.

Our wildlife sanctuaries around the state are living laboratories where scientists, naturalists, and volunteers monitor and measure a wide range of natural occurrences from stranded sea turtles to osprey migration to salamander counts.

While nonprofit organizations benefit from the work of citizen scientists, the volunteers enjoy another benefit; remaining lifelong learners while they contribute.

Shedd acknowledges and appreciates all volunteer citizen scientists and extends its gratitude to organizations facilitating the research efforts, including the Park District of Highland Park, Urban Ecology Center, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Ridges Sanctuary, Door County Land Trust, Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission, and the Huron Mountain Club.

As prominent scientists wrote to the home secretary last week, a researcher who develops a new substance which could help combat depression will currently be in contravention of the law if they do volunteer trials.

There is evidence from Canada and Argentina that initially yields increased with GM and pesticide use fell.However, Charles Benbrook, an independent US scientist formerly of the US Department of Agriculture, carried out a series of systematic studies that showed that over a five - year period, yields began to fall and pesticide use markedly increased to counter the proliferation of volunteers and superweeds.

There's a variety of reasons why scientists might choose to dedicate a few weeks, a summer, or even a couple of years to volunteering in a developing country.

The program's goal is to train volunteers to serve as citizen scientists, documenting shoreline conditions along Alabama's shoreline using GPS coordinates and alerting officials and COAST partners to the presence of oil and / or affected wildlife.

The folks who volunteer to lie in bed for three months with their feet elevated slightly above their heads so that scientists can study the physiological effects of being in zero gravity tend to be passionate about space flight.

To respond to these and similarly urgent requests, we have created an On - call Scientists Hotline made up of especially experienced On - call Scientist volunteers each with an exemplary record of contributing to human rights questions in a wide breadth of fields.

Connects scientists, engineers, and health professionals interested in volunteering their skills and knowledge with human rights organizations that are in need of technical expertise.

In addition to the scientist, engineer, and health professional volunteers - who now number over 1,200 in 65 countries — human rights practitioners can now consult with a vanguard team of scientists and engineers who are available to answer one - off questions quickly, in real time.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

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The scientists and volunteers were excavating a site that produced parts of several immature sauropods when Dana Biasatti, then a student at UT - D, «stretched her legs» and came upon the remarkable remains of an adult titanosaur a few hundred yards away.

In May we invited scientists, engineers, mathematicians, doctors and others to volunteer to visit classrooms as part of our three - year (that's the 1,000 days) Change the Equation program.

Despite such glowing testimonials, some researchers worry about the potential for serious psychic damage if these compounds are used by hundreds of therapists on thousands of patients, instead of by a small cadre of dedicated scientists testing carefully screened volunteers in tightly controlled situations.

University of Arizona scientists recently fed psilocybin to nine volunteers whose obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD) was so disabling that many could not hold down a job or leave the house; they would observe elaborate cleaning rituals or shower for hours until they felt comfortable.

And of course, it is not lost on Markovic — and certainly not on his wife, he says — that this promising line of inquiry might never have been explored, had that female colleague not been working as a medical research scientist at the Mayo clinic eight years back; had she not volunteered to donate her blood for Markovic's research; and had she not continued to work — and donate — after becoming pregnant.

To find out, scientists gave volunteers a single dose of amphetamine, a drug that gets the dopamine flowing, and then looked at their brains.

Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out The British scientists injected either a harmless saltwater concoction (a placebo) or two milligrams of psilocybin directly into the veins of 30 volunteers while they were lying inside a magnetic scanner.

She also encourages early - career scientists to volunteer in the local school system or science museum — another way of finding out if you like this kind of work.

The scientists obtained samples of H. pylori from two volunteers infected with the microbe and then wiped out the infections with antibiotics.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Answer questions for any of several online «Ask a Scientist» programs that welcome volunteer experts:

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

Members of the scientific community can share information about public lectures, volunteer opportunities and family science events where children can meet scientists — opportunities for «crucial,» face - to - face communication that only magnify its impact, Aicher said.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

Scientists have a duty to inspire the next generation of researchers, says Knight, shown here explaining the workings of an MRI with the help of a young volunteer.

One day last year, cognitive scientists Joshua Greene and Fiery Cushman, who designed the study, pulled up a series of brain scans taken as volunteers resolved the dilemma while inside an MRI machine.

Those limited resources mean that JunoCam's scientists rely on a small army of volunteer «citizen scientists» using backyard telescopes to flag transient features in the Jovian atmosphere as «points of interest» for the instrument to observe.

[Johannes Michalak, Katharina Rohde and Nikolaus F. Troje, How we walk affects what we remember: Gait modifications through biofeedback change negative affective memory bias] Scientists showed volunteers a list of negative and positive words, like afraid and anxious, or sunny and pretty.

Next, to explore the potential role of handshakes in communicating odors, the scientists used covert cameras to film some 280 volunteers before and after they were greeted by an experimenter, who either shook their hand or didn't.

The scientists presented their volunteers with three vials of scents at a time: two matched, and one different.

«Our goal was to obtain a more comprehensive view of the current state of knowledge on the benefits of volunteering among older adults,» said Dr. Anderson, a senior scientist with Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute and associate professor, University of Toronto.

The scientists tested some of the volunteers 10 minutes after they had generated the imaginary future scenarios, and they tested others a day later.

So scientists at Complutense University of Madrid actually got into cars with volunteer drivers and distracted them.

Dr Cox said that it is important to understand the motivations of citizen scientists due to the possibility of increased competition to recruit and retain such volunteers in the future.

But despite an army of scientists and volunteers monitoring the area, the spill's impact has yet to be quantified.

The volunteers, using a total of 200,000 computers, were assigned potential primes to test as part of an international project started by American computer scientist George Woltman in 1996.

«ECAS was pleased to work with community scientists to study the long - term effects of this beautiful lake and the birds that depend upon it,» said John Reuland, volunteer coordinator for the Lake Abert study.

EPSRC is hoping to reduce the volume of grants that volunteer scientists must evaluate, but some researchers were so angered by the new policy that they vowed not to look at grant submissions to the council.

He asked scientists to volunteer their time so that he could meet his goal of having «the very best reviewers in the country.»

Each will be graded by a panel of external reviewers — scientists who volunteer to rate the merit of the ideas presented by their peers.