Sentences with phrase «own research expeditions»

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

You can be part of Chuck's team in the Bahamas in two ways: Sign up for Shedd's next iguana research expedition or support his 20 - years - and - counting conservation fieldwork for these endangered species through a generous donation to our annual fund.

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.

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.

During research expeditions, researchers occasionally retrieve trash from the deep sea.

A site for teachers interested in joining research expeditions at the poles.

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.

Antje Boetius was a young biogeochemist aboard one of the research expeditions off Oregon in 1999.

Today, scientists returned from a 28 - day research expedition aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai exploring the deep coral reefs within Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

He has published 100 academic papers and has led more than 25 research expeditions in the Arctic and Antarctic.

(Read Douglas Fox's story about this research expedition in «The Ground Zero of Climate Change,» DISCOVER, September 2008.)

Over the last decade, the Chinese National Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the «acidified» water in the upper water column.

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 study used video footage from a robotic remotely operated vehicle (ROV) up to 3 km deep, collected during a research expedition.

Funding for the research expedition and for the development of Sentry came from National Science Foundation grants (#OCE -1036843, #OCE -1030453 and #OCE -1031050).

South African Wildlife Research Expedition, Global Vision International, Postnet Suite 3, Private Bag X3008, Hoedspruit, 1380, South Africa.

As a result, a 68 - day research expedition to study the deep coal bed biosphere off Shimokita, Japan, has been canceled.

The US National Science Foundation funded several research expeditions in the Gulf under a program designed to enable researchers to respond to sudden events.

He resolved to join this year's research expedition.

Meanwhile, volcanologist Scott Bryan of Kingston University in London was gunning for a research expedition to the island before it disappeared.

The women allege that David Marchant, then an assistant professor, harassed them during different research expeditions starting 2 decades ago, while they were isolated in small groups in the Antarctic.

The research expedition is at sea through July 28.

Antarctica, 22 November 2012 - Nine scientists from Belgium, UK, Japan and Germany [1], touched down today at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [2], to begin the Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) summer science season.

The second Belgian Antarctic Research Expedition (Belare 2005) visited the base construction site in Utsteinen Nunatak to take additional topographic and ice thickness measurements and to refurbish the Automatic Weather Station...

Inquire at a university or museum about a guest speaker who has been part of a research expedition.

It was named for Holger Jannasch of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, the microbiologist who led the research expedition that identified the organism.

(14 kilograms) rock was found by scientists with the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition in 2000 at the Yamato Glacier in Antarctica.

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica is proud to host several projects under the name of the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition (JARE), which incorporates several Japanese governmental agencies cooperatively...

The research expedition was made possible by partnerships and collaboration among government and academic partners including NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA National Center for Coastal Ocean Science's, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries, the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Academy of Sciences.

The research expedition is led by Chief Scientist Chuck Fisher, a Penn State University professor of biology.

During his own research expeditions in the 1930s, Dr. Weston A Price — progressive dentist and nutrition expert — noted similar findings about the healing prowess of emu oil.

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.

From community project work and treks to sports tours and scientific research expeditions, the journeys show that boundaries can be pushed even in risk averse times.

Learn about a unique program that gives K - 12 teachers the opportunity to travel to the ends of Earth to participate in polar research expeditions!

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.

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

Scientists had used the Knorr, a 244 - foot steel - hulled research vessel that was operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for thousands of research expeditions around the world, including one that led to the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.

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.

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

She explored the Amazon River Basin in depth during a two - month research expedition to Peru, and has joined more than 20 trips to the country as a field lecturer.

Tromsø is one of the biggest cities within the Arctic Circle; it's historically been the launching point for research expeditions and is home to the world's northernmost university (University of Tromsø).

Based at her home port of Cairns the 27 metre motor yacht is ideal for those seeking the ultimate exploration charter, whether it be for snorkeling, scuba diving, fishing or a research expedition.

Whether you are planning a snorkel or scuba diving trip, a fishing trip or a research expedition, the vessel has everything you need for a luxurious and relaxing discovery of the Great Barrier Reef.

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.

This talk will introduce a spectacular range of unfamiliar morphologies and behaviours as well as bee pollinators and explain how discoveries from research expeditions reveal their secrets.

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.

Notice the news crawl said «humpbacks will not be harvested now in Japan's WHALING RESEARCH EXPEDITION» --(emphasis mine).