Sentences with phrase «running field experiment»

GREENHOUSE GASSED In a long - running field experiment in Minnesota, scientists are studying the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on plots of grassland.

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Other scientists in the field, meanwhile, fear the public rebuke will make it harder for them to run their own experiments.

Besides spending time with bivalves, I lead materials science experiments at local elementary schools with UCSB's Family Ultimate Science Experience, and help run a student group, Graduate Students for Diversity in Science, to promote inclusion within STEM fields.

Nosek has been at the forefront of efforts to clean up his field — he and more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.

They also ran the experiments under a second, perpendicular magnetic field and were able to observe changes in electron behavior at given field strengths.

To simulate the uptake of lead particles by scavengers when feeding on shot wildlife, the scientists ran feeding experiments in the field where they provided mammalian carcasses prepared with metal particles of different size and shape.

For women in science — who may be running experiments, working in the field, or travelling to conferences and seminars — the everyday challenges of feeding an infant are amplified even further.

To confirm that wet weather was indeed behind the species switch - ups, Chang's team ran an experiment in addition to the 13 - year field surveys, taking panels from the marina and exposing them in lab to near - freshwater (wet year), near - oceanic saltwater (dry year) or medium - saltwater (moderate year).

Despite the shortness of the first 30 - day science run the sensitivity of XENON1T has already overcome that of any other experiment in the field, probing un-explored dark matter territory.

After eight generations, his team was able to run open field tests — experiments during which the birds were put in a brightly - lit arena and assessed for how much time they spent cowering on the periphery instead of strutting through the room.

During this period, Elsen has also co-authored two books — the most recent on the physics harvest of the LHC Run 1, worked on over 450 publications in various fields and held many committee positions — including chairing the LHC experiments committee from 2011 - 2014.

Among his priorities, he says, is to seek «new ways to lower the costs for faculty and students to run randomized field experiments, which will provide much - needed context to my work and amplify findings across the field.

«For me it is not just about leading an organization that runs high - quality experiments in the field of education.

I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with the AI and learned that if I simply run in the direction I came from, once I reach the end of the sunflower field — even if the Executioner is hot on my trail — he'll end the chase and return to his patrol pattern.

That field has been the site of a long - running experiment in carbon storage monitored by the Paris - based International Energy Agency.

Expanding on this work, a large - scale field experiment is being run to test when NGOs can be motivated to monitor the performance of international organizations.

Of course there's another big difference between my field and that of climate science: we can run actual experiments to test our theories, and this gives dogmatic thinking much less room to play in.

Conducted field investigations in the wetlands of Georgia, studying the parasite L. panopeus in mud crab populations while learning hands - on how to run a successful long - term experiment