Sentences with phrase «researchers at the national park»

Concerned about the clamor, researchers at the National Park Service and Colorado State University in Fort Collins (CSU) recorded noise at 492 sites across the country with varying levels of protection.

In fact, California's forests emitted more carbon than they absorbed between 2001 and 2010, and two - thirds of the loss was attributable to wildfires, according to a 2015 study by researchers at the National Park Service and the University of California, Berkeley.

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The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

Co-authors are Ok - Kyung Park, a visiting scholar at Rice and a postdoctoral researcher at Chonbuk National University, Republic of Korea; Rice postdoctoral researchers Almaz Jalilov and Rodrigo Villegas Salvatierra and graduate students Luong Xuan Duy, Sandhya Susarla and Jarin Joyner; Rice alumnus Sehmus Ozden, now a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory; Robert Vajtai, a senior faculty fellow at Rice; Jun Lou, a Rice professor of materials science and nanoengineering; and James Tour, Rice's T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering; and Professor Douglas Galvão of the State University of Campinas.

At the University of Helsinki, the researchers from the Digital Geography Lab have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand visitor's activities in national parks.

Now, researchers working with the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, have figured out how to overcome that problem.

Researchers from the Digital Geography at the University of Helsinki have been studying whether social media data could be used to understand visitor's activities in national parks and most recent results are presented in Scientific reports: Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas.

Researchers who participated in the research are: Bru Cormand, Claudio Toma, Bàrbara Torrico and Alba Tristán, from the Department of Genetics and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), affiliated centres with the campus of international excellence BKC; Concepció Arenas (Department of Statistics of the UB) and Mònica Bayés, researcher from the National Centre for Genome Analysis (CNAG), located at the Barcelona Science Park (PCB - UB), and the groups led by Amaia Hervás, coordinator of the Child and Adolescence Mental Health Unit at the Mutua de Terrassa University Hospital, and Marta Maristany, from Sant Joan de Déu University Hospital, affiliated centres with the campus of international excellence HUBc.

A study by researchers at the University of Tennessee on how cougars use wildlife passages along the Trans - Canada Highway in and around Banff National Park found the cats prefer underpasses to overpasses — particularly those near prime habitat.

More than 350 researchers from around the globe gathered at the Extreme Solar Systems (ESS) II conference in Grand Teton National Park, Wyo., to share their findings on these newfound exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, of every size and configuration.

Researchers working at the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda spotted an adult female mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) using a thick bamboo shoot to help her distressed infant climb from a thicket on the jungle floor to her higher perch (shown above), the team reports this month in Behavioural Processes.

The new study, led by the expert Andrea Hevia, researcher at CETEMAS - Asturias, analysed temporary changes in the chemical composition of annual growth tree rings in the Pyrenees, in particular those in subalpine black pine (Pinus uncinata) forests in the national parks in Ordesa and Monte Perdido, and Aigüestortes and Estany de Sant Maurici.

In 1995 U.S. researchers found that carbon isotope ratios in elephants at Amboseli National Park in Kenya had shifted over decades, reflecting changes in the elephants» diet as they crowded into the park to escape poaching, ate up the park's trees, and switched to grPark in Kenya had shifted over decades, reflecting changes in the elephants» diet as they crowded into the park to escape poaching, ate up the park's trees, and switched to grpark to escape poaching, ate up the park's trees, and switched to grpark's trees, and switched to grass.

«What the museum offers to the Park Service is something that we can not do for ourselves,» said Ann Hitchcock, registrar at the National Park Service, which doesn't have any cryogenic facilities of its own and depends on researchers who store samples offsite at a university or laboratory.

With help from a five - year, $ 480,000 National Science Foundation grant received in June, a team of researchers led by John Spletzer, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., has developed a prototype chair designed specifically for negotiating sidewalks, parking lots and other outdoor areas.

The Stanford researchers began to develop collaborations with other scientists studying lemurs, including those at the Centre ValBio near the Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar, who have been examining lemur ecology, family structure and behavior for decades.

In a separate study, researchers report that all samples drawn from 45 crocodiles at five sites in and around South Africa's Kruger National Park contained detectable levels of four PFAAs, often in different combinations with other of the 15 fluorinated organic compounds tracked.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are contributing key components for the project, known as LCLS - II, that will greatly increase the power and capacity of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a free - electron X-ray laser at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..

The researchers lived there for about a month at a time, often hiking for miles to find fossil sites and camping in villages and national parks.

AMHERST, Mass. — Cognitive neuroscience researcher Joonkoo Park at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who recently received a five - year, $ 751,000 faculty early career development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address basic research questions about how our brains process number and magnitude and how such processes give rise to more complex mathematical thinking, has co-authored a paper that reports this week where in the brain numerical quantity evaluation is processed.

See and photograph elephants in Kruger National Park, meet a researcher at the National Geographic - supported Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia, and explore the lush area around glorious Victoria Falls.

Embark on wildlife drives in Lake Manyara National Park (keeping your eyes open for elusive tree - climbing lions), meet one of the researchers at the Serengeti Wildlife Research Centre, and scan your surroundings in the protected Selous Game Reserve for the zeals of zebras that call these grasslands home.

Enjoy an unforgettable wildlife walk with a researcher in the panhandle of the Okavango Delta, drive through Hwange National Park in search of large herds of elephants, and sit down to a family dinner at a private home near Victoria Falls.

For instance, in the following 2 minute clip, two researchers from the Heat Island Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (California, USA) discuss different types of materials which could be used for making pavements and car parks:

Cancún, Mexico — Researchers taking a new look at the snow and ice covering Mount Everest and the national park that surrounds it are finding abundant evidence that the world's tallest peak is shedding its frozen cloak.

Slicing through the world - famous Serengeti National Park, researchers say the road would threaten one of the Earth's last great migrations and place the whole ecosystem at risk.

For example, Dr. Billings said, at Glacier National Park in Montana researchers found that walking trails used by people have increased the movement of seeds upslope.

The latest attempt comes from a group of researchers from various schools at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, as well as from the Sungkyunkwan University led by Jihun Park of UNIST.