Sentences with phrase «research expeditions in»

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.

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 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.)

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

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.

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.

A 2009 research expedition in the area turned up a new species of squid, and the marine scientists on board the RRS James Cook are hopeful that they may, too, discover a new species, as well as save some known ones.

Not exact matches

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.

«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 UK's involvement in the IODP expeditions is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council.

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.

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.

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.

In this episode, the J. Craig Venter Institute's senior computational biologist Douglas Rusch talks about the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition's genomic treasure hunt and the first batch of research results that just came out.

Before a brutal 10 - week research cruise in the Southern Ocean in 2009, oceanographer Victor Smetacek, a co-leader of the expedition, encouraged scientists to bring swimsuits for the ship's sauna and small swimming pool.

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.

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 PolarsterIn 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 Polarsterin 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 Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

Mountains are not climbed alone, and research is not done in a vacuum; if the expedition leader or PI doesn't know how to choose and get the most out of team members, a project has little chance of success.

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.

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.

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.

«This expedition would not have been so successful without the hard work and collaboration of all the scientists from Cuba and the United States who participated in the cruise,» said John K. Reed, chief scientist and research professor at FAU's Harbor Branch.

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.

Cornell's Institute for Computational Sustainability received a $ 10 million NSF Expeditions in Computing Award that helped support the optimization research.

To figure out how much refuse is floating in those garbage patches, four ships of the Malaspina expedition, a global research project studying the oceans, fished for plastic across all five major ocean gyres in 2010 and 2011.

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spuriouIn an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spuriouin lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

This research was supported by the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program.

Albert Estrada of the Institute for Forestry Research in Havana and Blair Hedges of Pennsylvania State University discovered four of the miniature frogs — three males and a female — during an expedition in 1993.

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.

He also discusses the expedition's scientific findings in the context of subsequent research in oceanography, marine geology, and ecology.

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.

Faruk's first experience of doing research abroad was volunteering for Operation Wallacea, an organisation that runs expeditions for biologists in some of the most remote parts of the world.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 201In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 201in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 201in January 2013.

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.

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 International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) at Texas A&M University invites applications for anAssistant Research Scientist (Expedition Project Manager / Staff Scientist) in our Science Operations section.

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...

Since 2009, Belgian - Japanese scientific expeditions have stayed at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica research station in search of meteorites.

CompSustNet is a research network sponsored by the National Science Foundation through an Expeditions in Computing award.

Based upon eight (8) joint Russian / American scientific expeditions into the Arctic under the aegis of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University Alaska Fairbanks, methane fields of a breathtakingly fantastic scale have been discovered with plumes over a half - mile wide spewing methane directly into the atmosphere in concentrations 100 times higher than normal.

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.

The experiment involves detailed medical and biological studies of the human body in space, including research deemed important for a possible future expedition to Mars.