Sentences with phrase «own field station»

Prairie Ridge Ecostation is the Museum's off - site field station where teachers, students and the general public can learn about sustainable living and experience the natural world.

The Polish Academy of Sciences had an agreement with North Vietnam to collaborate on geophysics studies at a field station in the mountains of the Southeast Asian country.

Researchers including Dr Brent have raised more than # 70,000 to repair the field station and support people living nearby.

along the creeks in the 20th century, to big - game hunters who used Taylor Ranch as a base before the university acquired it and turned it into a biological field station.

The data came from 429 adult rhesus macaques at the Cayo Santiago field station in Puerto Rico, which was devastated earlier this year by Hurricane Maria.

The tsunami flooded one building at a field station of the Graduate School of Agricultural Science on the coast north of Sendai, and six buildings on the main campus are too dangerous to enter.

The National Science Foundation — sponsored network, called the National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, will link 20 field stations selected to provide data from 20 distinct U.S. biomes as well as 40 portable stations that can be moved from site to site.

Their commitment to wilderness is as fervent as any I have come across, but it pays tribute to the historical presence of human beings, from the original residents, whom the pioneers called Sheep Eaters, to the gold miners of the late 19th century, to the ranchers who strung telephone wire along the creeks in the 20th century, to big - game hunters who used Taylor Ranch as a base before the university acquired it and turned it into a biological field station.

At the time, many prominent conservationists, including John Terborgh of Duke University, a MacArthur fellow who has operated a field station in the Peruvian Amazon since 1973, decried the embrace of such «soft» conservation schemes.

In a 32 - degree Fahrenheit room in the Institute's field station, researchers Charles Fierz and Thorsten Baunach create depth hoar in a box to determine how quickly it grows under various snow and weather conditions.

I like to think I'm helping inspire the next generation of students, as I was inspired by my own field station visits years ago.

One summer, I spent 2 weeks at a field station — Great Gull Island in Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut — banding terns.

► Gretchen Meyer, a field station manager and staff biologist, drifted for a while, but her early experiences ultimately took her back to nature.

But full - time teaching had never been my dream, and when I saw an ad for a field station job, I applied.

Shark biologist Samuel Gruber of the Bimini Biological Field Station in Miami, Florida, says the paper has changed his view of the debate.

Gretchen Meyer is manager and staff biologist at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Field Station.

On the east bank of the river, the populated side, there is a field station run by the Illinois Natural History Survey.

He immediately alienated many of the 500 scientists under his purview with calls to reorganize research programs and threats to close a zoological field station and a lab for materials science research and education (Science, 13 July 2001, p. 194).

A helicopter refuels near Taylor Glacier in the Dry Valleys as a field station team helps to dig out stored barrels of fuel.

The Toolik Field Station on the eastern shore of Toolik Lake in the northern foothills of Alaska was established in 1975, making it one of the oldest research outposts in the Arctic.

Remy Ware (right), a postdoc in his lab, took on teaching his classes and leading his lab and field station.

At the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center's (UNDERC) field station in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, more than a dozen doctoral students went beyond the bounds of academia to combat invasive plants and animals.

Members of his team, he says, are required to tell other staff exactly where they will be and to phone the field station at the end of each day's work to let others know that they are safe.

«I've always thought real biologists shouldn't be afraid to eat their study organisms,» says Andrew Deines, who spent a few weeks during the past few summers at the field station wading through rivers and wetlands with his gastronomically intrepid colleagues.

A memo from Dan Goldin, NASA's administrator, to directors of the agency's field stations is contradictory.

It was a potluck favorite at the field station, where the team caught crawfish with minnow traps in order to dissect them back in the lab, although more than a few were diverted to the kitchen while en route.

But evenings at the Michigan field station saw the team experimenting with another approach to controlling invasives — eating them.

Blackmore spent a couple days at BBG last week after a visit to a field station in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

At the DPZ - field station Estación Biológica Quebrada Blanco in the Peruvian Amazonian lowlands, scientists studied how feeding, sleeping, and ranging habits of two species of New World monkeys affect the dispersal of the neotropical legume tree Parkia panurensis.

Improvising in an abandoned field station in Mexico, Borlaug developed new varieties of wheat that could resist a devastating fungal disease — clashing with bureaucrats along the way.

Among Lockheed's biggest challenges will be satisfying the demands for computing power, remote access, and data management spawned by the growing number of scientific instruments at the South Pole, as well as improving logistical support for field stations located deep into the continent.

Located in the rainy Inter Tropical Convergence Zone, it may be the only pristine tropical island in the world with a runway, a field station, and enough lab facilities for scientists to study its ecosystem for months at a time.

Sitting in his tiny office in a ramshackle field station at Bard, on the banks of the Hudson River, Kiviat says, «Twenty years ago the public thought raptors were bad and songbirds were good.

Much of Schneegurt and Rogers» research work was conducted at the WSU Biological Field Station, Ninnescah Reserve.

The system captures 1 - minute audio segments at regular intervals using an iPhone in a solar - powered field station and immediately sends them to a master server.

During a stay at a field station in Venezuela, he had his first exposure to the accelerated aging of the opossum.

We are working directly with Angie Ruiz - Lambides, Associate Director of the Cayo Santiago Field Station, and Dr. Melween Martínez, Director of the Caribbean Primate Research Center, to identify needs for the macaques on Cayo Santiago and to receive recommendations on how these funds can best be directed.

This was found to be the case in both a plant manipulation experiment conducted at the Lancaster University Field Station, and at a large scale plot experiment in Jena, Germany.

Researchers studied rhesus macaques at the Cayo Santiago field station in Puerto Rico (photo: Lauren Brent)

The Richmond site plans call for a 2 - million - square - foot facility at the 120 - acre Richmond Field Station that will house more than 800 scientists doing research in bioscience, cancer, bioenergy and other research.

A student doing research at a biological field station just outside St. Louis has discovered an invasive Asian mosquito that is capable of carrying West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.

In 1986, they set up a field station for White's Bangkok research unit: little more than a centrifuge and microscope within Nosten's rickety house.

«Be the Dinosaur ™» is a groundbreaking fusion of state - of - the - art video game technology and traditional exhibits, featuring full - size dinosaur bones, a paleontology field station, a Safari Jeep and more.

The campus enrolls more than 36,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and has more than 1,500 full - time and 500 part - time faculty members in more than 130 academic departments and more than 110 interdisciplinary research units and field stations.

They collected a wide range of specimens — 13 separate species from nine different orders — many of them at the Smithsonian Field Station in Belize.

Her master's research focused on the causes and consequences of vaterite deformations in the sagittal otoliths of farmed salmonids, and was primarily conducted at the Institute of Marine Research field station in Matre, Norway.

Dr Greg Brown and Dr Michael Crossland are still based at the field station near Fogg Dam, where they have been joined by other postdocs.

Upcoming articles will cover careers in ecological consulting, science editing, federal agencies, biological field stations, wildlife filmmaking, federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), and cooperative extension services.

Thierry Work is a wildlife disease specialist and project leader of the Honolulu Field Station.

While growing up, I lived at this field station for several years while my father did field work.