Sentences with phrase «on soil samples»

U.S. Secretary of Education John King discusses an experiment on soil samples with students Shamon Gurley and Jordyn Smith in Ariee Smith's AP Environmental Science class.

Jiangxiao Qiu, a former graduate student in Turner's laboratory and now a postdoctoral researcher with The Nature Conservancy, studied the impact the Asian worms — of the species Amynthas agrestis and Amynthas tokioensis — from July through October of 2014 in the forest at the UW Arboretum, and conducted an experiment on soil samples taken from around southern Wisconsin.

Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

We provide an extensive range of chemical analyses on plant, soil and water samples for inorganic nutrients, trace elements and heavy metals.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

Walking on a diagonal line across the site, the biologists collect at least five samples of soil in plastic bags.

So he handed out plastic bags to students departing on break, telling them to bring back soil samples.

With this compelling demonstration of using ancient soil samples as proxies for regional climate in Asia, Caves now plans to extend his investigations elsewhere on the globe.

Previously, scientists had relied on these sorts of soil sample measurements primarily to study plant types and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Taylor found he could melt a pile of lunar soil in 10 to 20 seconds.Then he focused a single magnetron on another sample: «With 50 watts of energy I took a one - centimeter block of lunar soil to 1700 degrees Celsius (3100 degrees F) in 10 seconds,» he says.

Rexer - Huber took samples of the frogs» skin secretions and from the soil they were resting on.

This is the largest ever study estimating above and below - ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.

Susannah Tringe uses a corer to extract soil samples in a wetland on Twitchell Island in the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta.

The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.

For instance, on one day that hay was cut — two weeks after a major rainfall that shunted diluted manure into the field — only four of 10 tested soil samples hosted Escherichia coli O157.

The breakthrough is another major step forward on the journey to develop a commercially viable drug version based on teixobactin — a natural antibiotic discovered by US scientists in soil samples in 2015 which has been heralded as a «gamechanger» in the battle against antibiotic resistant pathogens such as MRSA and VRE.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

Their probe, called Fobos - Grunt («Phobos soil» in Russian), will not only land on Phobos but also scoop up some samples of the surface and send them to Earth.

On her summer expeditions, she collects bits of burned bone and soil samples in the hope of proving her case.

Over the next year and a half, she sampled microbes on the decaying mouse skin, in the guts, and in the soil.

As Curiosity carries on, researchers plan to analyze soil and sediment samples for organic material and to team up with Mars orbiters to search for methane patterns in the atmosphere.

Although Jack and Malcolm had never met F2F, they were a tight team with a good rep on the Distributed Biology Network: gene hunters who amplified bacterial DNA from soil and water samples, shotgun sequenced it, and identified genes that weren't in the catalogs.

Phobos — Grunt will not only take microbes to Phobos and back, but will also scoop up soil samples and return them to Earth — an ambitious feat never before accomplished on another planet's moon.

To people who believe there may once have been life on Mars, this is why the Viking landers in the 1970s found no evidence of it: They scooped samples only from the top few inches of soil.

Phobos - Grunt aims to land on Mars's larger moon Phobos and return samples of its soil to Earth (grunt is Russian for soil).

The researchers created methods based on capillary electrophoresis to process soil or ice samples and detect 17 different amino acids simultaneously.

They suggest conducting experiments to test that hypothesis.Meanwhile, John Hall Cushman of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, showed that soil samples taken along hiking trails have much higher rates of P. ramorum spores than those taken away from the trails, and that plants in areas with high visitation rates, such as public parks, had greater infection rates than those on sites where access is restricted.

The survival of organic material is really dependent on the particular chemical properties of the soil, so you never know what you will get until you sample.

They sent soil samples for DNA testing, looking for matches with particular genes known to be found in microbes and fungi; they tried to stimulate microbial growth on a wide variety of substances and then count the cells produced; and they used highly sensitive radiorespiration activity assays, which involve feeding the soil microorganisms a food source which has been labelled with radioactive carbon, which can then be used to detect if the microorganisms are active.

They spent nearly 21 hours on the lunar surface, collecting samples of rock and soil and setting up remote instruments.

Their 38 - page report (including appendices) contains sections on environmental samples such as soil and swipes from rockets; interviews with more than 50 survivors and with medical staff members; and blood, urine, and hair samples from survivors.

Now, a team led by mineralogist Carlos Rodríguez - Navarro at the University of Granada reports promising results from tests of an abundant soil bacterium, Myxococcus xanthus, on samples of limestone used extensively in historic buildings in Spain.

The researchers worked on sites in the Arctic and Antarctic and took precautions to limit the impact of sunlight and wind, using tarpaulins to protect their sample sites and positioning themselves on the middle of a glacier away from soil and other forms of polar wildlife which might contaminate the snow.

NASA's Viking landers did just that in 1976, laying out a tasty solution of nutrients to attract any microbes that might be living in a soil sample, like cookies left on a plate for Santa.

The researchers weren't expecting to make that particular discovery in November 2014, when they collected soil samples from sites around Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, a 573 - acre freshwater wetland on the southern point of Lake Erie near Huron, Ohio.

Additionally, researchers collected soil samples to check on the plant roots and determine how much carbon was being stored in the soil.

Phobos - Grunt, launched on November 9, was designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos.

Specifically, the researchers are evaluating soil samples from the warming chambers to determine the presence and prevalence of fungal pathogens that attack insects and how that prevalence changes based on environmental temperatures.

The JCVI teams are focused on a variety of genomic research areas including continued work in synthetic biology; sampling and analysis of the world's oceans, fresh water and soils to better understand the microbes living in these environments; and new analysis on the human genome in the hopes of discovering new insights into disease prevention and treatment.

Phoenix's detection was made by performing chemistry experiments directly on martian soil, and it was made by two different instruments: TEGA, which heated soil samples and sniffed for released gases, and MECA - WCL, a wet chemistry lab.

Uses equipment to collect and analyze water and soil samples, as well as researches ways of minimizing the impacts of erosion, sedimentation and pollution on the environment.

It's called PlanetVac, and it's an amazingly simple way to collect a soil sample on Mars.

The mission seeks signs of life on Mars and will test technology for human exploration and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth.

By drawing on more than 27,000 samples of soil, tissue, and water from the Arctic to Antarctica, more than 300 scientists at scores of institutions worldwide have created the first reference database of bacteria inhabiting the planet.

«One of the cheapest, inexpensive management methods you can do on the ranch is getting a soil sample for as little as $ 10.

To read pages upon pages of text accompanied by black and white illustrations, or to find yourself on Mars and gather soil samples by hand?