Sentences with phrase «on research expeditions»

Raoul goes on research expeditions to survey biodiversity around the world, including Bolivia and Vietnam.

Since 2004, she has been visiting the Arctic on research expeditions, tracking retreating glaciers.

At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.

A scientist on a research expedition in the Amazon is killed by the venomous bite of a spider, which then stows away in his backpack.

Newsnight reporter Allegra Stratton has embarked on a research expedition into early years education to find out if we can learn a lesson from across the Channel.

Welcome to the new World: Taking on the role of a hunter, players are tasked with going on a research expedition to a newly discovered continent known only as «new world» as they venture on quests to discover more about this mysterious land.

Pamela Longobardi (below) is among a group of artists who will join a team of scientists on a research expedition in Alaska in June.

The 5 Gyres Institute, a leading research organization focusing on plastic pollution in the world's oceans, recently discovered microbeads on a research expedition in the Great Lakes, where they found as many as 466,000 microplastics per square kilometer.

Not exact matches

Our second lunar expedition will utilize our MX - 2 exploration system to establish a research outpost on a «peak of eternal light» at the Moon's South Pole, where direct solar energy and communications with Earth are possible.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

«These trips have a real feeling of exploring the frontier in a way that research expeditions on land perhaps no longer provide, in part because the terrain and the animals that are encountered are so often unfamiliar and surprising,» says Webster.

The team investigated sediment cores collected from Pine Island Bay in the Amundsen Sea from the German research vessel RV Polarstern on two expeditions in 2006 and 2010.

On a 2003 expedition, two research teams made simultaneous fossil finds at the two locations roughly a week apart.

The research group's discovery is based on unique data collected by the article's authors on, for example, winter expeditions in the North Atlantic on DTU's marine research vessel Dana.

There are no press releases on the website of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the government agency that oversees the country's polar science expeditions.

During two different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

«The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,» says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature.

The data was gathered in summer 2012, during an Arctic expedition on board the research icebreaker Polarstern.

The results are based on six ship expeditions since 2010, including three with the German research vessel METEOR.

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.

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

The published data are based on three expeditions of the German research vessel METEOR, which took place off Peru between November 2012 and March 2013.

The DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition will travel to the Southern Ocean aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross, departing Punta Arenas in Chile on Friday 17 March.

In response, the committee's Democrats wrote to Smith on 23 October, noting that the subpoena «appears to be furthering a fishing expedition» and saying that it oversteps the committee's bounds, as the paper is a research study and not a policy decision.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Back inside the orbital lab, the Expedition 54 crew researched how microgravity affects muscles to help humans on Earth.

Research on patients is governed by national and international standards - particularly the Helsinki declaration - and no reputable hospital review board would have endorsed the kind of fishing expedition Wakefield embarked on for Barr.

The research vessel JOIDES Resolution about to leave Australia as it embarks on the expedition (Credit: IODP)

Lonely and distraught, she volunteers for a top - secret expedition of her own: a research trip into a quarantined area on the American coast, where an asteroid crash has resulted in bizarre, biological mutations.

While not many plot details are known about it, the film is set to follow Lara as she embarks on her first expedition to try and complete her father's research, uncover ancient secrets, and simultaneously clear his disgraced name along the way.

We first meet research scientists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace, a worthy Ripley - in - waiting) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall - Green) on an archaeological expedition on the Isle of Skye, where they discover some ancient cave paintings indicating the presence of space visitors a couple of millennia earlier.

We intend to build our own Outdoor Centre, run Bushcraft Clubs in all of our schools, equip our Sixth Formers with the skills to run their own private fieldwork expeditions when they are at university, expand the teaching of subjects that happens in specialist outdoor areas on ‑ site, and continue our university ‑ level research to understand how we can best improve learning through the outdoors and on major expeditions.

As a research - based reading intervention solution, the program focuses on engaging and motivating students with age - appropriate instruction and content that includes real - world relevant, captivating Expedition themes and technology components that support and enhance instruction.

: o (Enter May and I was on a mad research expedition to find a new car.

Throughout her career, Dr. Gross has also taken opportunities to study and work on elephants in the wild, completing an expedition to track migration patterns in Africa as well as research on behavior and vocalizations in Nepal.

Dr. Jaime Jahncke, California Current Group Director for Point Blue Conservation Science, went on an eight - day research expedition along the California coast in May 2016 and observed about 30 to 80 whales every day — mostly humpbacks and a few gray whales.

Zoologist Kristofer Helgen is a National Geographic Explorer who has led research expeditions to remote areas on almost every continent in his search for undiscovered species.

His Alps research has been sponsored by the National Geographic Expeditions Council, and he frequently lectures for National Geographic on Hannibal and the European mummy nicknamed Ötzi the Iceman.

Research biologists, Dr. Milton Love and Mary Yoklavich highlighted results of a recent month - long expedition to count fish, black coral, and other deep - sea residents living on the offshore rocky banks of southern California.

Research biologists, Dr. Milton Love and Mary Yoklavich will highlight results of a recent month - long expedition to count fish, black coral, and other deep - sea residents living on the offshore rocky banks of southern California.

An avid scuba diver, Tam goes on many ocean research expeditions, and is an amateur underwater photographer.

All our expeditions are hosted by Nicole Nasby Lucas from the Marine Conservation Science Institute and / or by our CEO and citizen scientist Martin Graf who will share their knowledge with powerpoint presentations of their research, instructions on how to identify the individual sharks and they are always available to answer questions.

Prepare your treasure hunt; collect Insight, Research, Gold, and Status on your expeditions to acquire supplies and support for your next adventure

Here, you can eat, meet up with friends, research monsters, complete quests, buy and upgrade gear, plan future endeavors, and take off on expeditions.

To research a piece on the life of the African - American explorer Matthew Henson, who accompanied Robert Peary on several expeditions, including the one Peary said reached the North Pole in 1909, Mr. Adkins traveled to the Arctic to experience Henson's milieu firsthand.

The nonprofit organization Artis funds research trips to Israel for artists and curators, and it was on one of these expeditions that the curator Prem Krishnamurthy was taken with the work of Noa Eshkol — a modern dancer who developed a rigorously mathematical movement notation system and later made dynamic tapestry collages from found scraps of fabric.

On September 3, a high - tech team from the Arctic Research Foundation, using side - scan sonar and an underwater robot to probe a remote Canadian bay, found and began exploring an extraordinary prize — the sunken H.M.S. Terror from the heralded and doomed 1845 expedition in which Sir John Franklin * sought the Northwest Passage over North America but perished with 128 men.

On the same ship a few years earlier, as expedition leader Howard Whelan recounted to me, «We traveled more than 1,000 miles out of our way to pick up scientists from a research station who otherwise would have overwintered a second year.

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.