Sentences with phrase «poring over maps»

Prior to those days, we had researchers poring over maps with t - squares and rulers.

Late into the night we pored over maps, swapping references, comparing impressions.

Foundling, the first in the planned Monster Blood Tattoo trilogy, sucked our then twelve - year - old son in on the first page and spat him back out a couple of days later only after he'd read the book cover to cover (including the glossary and the 100 page appendix which particularly fascinated him) and pored over the maps and illustrations In the intervening period we did see him from time to time - for meals and breathless plot updates - but in essence, although his body was with us, his mind was somewhere in the Half - Continent!

I love to pore over maps to see if I can find a way home that gives me one more minute of my life every day.

Hall and Dr. Atiq Rahman, a climate scientist, pore over a map and check out just how low the low - lying Bangladeshi coast is: «Around 80 percent of the country is located in floodplains and nearly 25 percent of its land is less than 7 feet above sea level.»

Not exact matches

Poring over data from Lilongwe, she mapped out who infected whom and at what point in the course of their infection.

Twenty years ago, a driver lost at night would pull his car over, take out a paper map bought at a gas station, and pore over its folds under a dim light.

He has spent years poring over studies of long - distance connections in the rhesus macaque monkey brain, ultimately creating a map of 383 different brain areas, connected by 6,602 individual links.

When equipment breaks down, Julian and Carol Pudsey, the BAS co-PIs, pore over their bathymetry map and scramble to adjust their plans.

The AUV team, led by MBARI engineer David Caress, pored over the detailed bathymetric map they created from the AUV data and saw a number of mounds and spires rising up from the seafloor.

In particular, Census officials set a goal of having in - house employees verify 75 % of the nation's housing units by poring over satellite imagery and other data from commercial mapping services.

Eventually, with the advent of Google Earth, he had the opportunity to look for the needle in a haystack he once called home, and pore over satellite images for landmarks he might recognize or mathematical equations that might further narrow down the labyrinthine map of India.

Poring over some old - fashioned maps in our hotel room in Como revealed that the Engadin Region was the closest and easiest to get to from where we were and ideal for a day trip and so we headed out to St. Moritz, the most glamourous of ski resorts frequented by the rich and famous when it comes to skiing holidays.

To the right of the map are a series of icons that you might not even notice if you're not the type to pore over help screens (Phantom Pain is very well documented).

-- Scientists poring over military and satellite imagery have mapped the unimaginable: a network of rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and even a waterfall, flowing over the ice shelf of a continent with an annual mean temperature of more than -50 C.

LONDON, 22 April, 2017 — Scientists poring over military and satellite imagery have mapped the unimaginable: a network of rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and even a waterfall, flowing over the ice shelf of a continent with an annual mean temperature of more than -50 C.