Sentences with phrase «samples of soil»

For the Armory installation, he created a spacecraft, exploratory vehicles, and a Martian landscape, where a crew of studio assistants can rip open the «floor» of the planet and take core samples of soil to be «analyzed» by scientists.

A simple technique for extracting samples of soil solution by high speed centrifugation is described.

By drawing on more than 27,000 samples of soil, tissue, and water from the Arctic to Antarctica, more than 300 scientists at scores of institutions worldwide have created the first reference database of bacteria inhabiting the planet.

The instrument also will analyze samples of soil and rock, as well as more atmosphere samples.

«We collected data from more than 70,000 trees and took more than 5,000 samples of soil, dead wood and other components of what is known as carbon stock.

Haggerty now has some heavy machinery in place, and early next year, after the rainy season is over, he will evaluate bulk samples of the soil above the Camp Alpha pipe to see if it is worth mining.

A self - burying probe will dig itself down as far as six feet to recover small samples of soil that are more likely than oxidized surface dust to contain life.

Phobos - Grunt aims to land on Mars's larger moon Phobos and return samples of its soil to Earth (grunt is Russian for soil).

He searched samples of soil, sewage, compost, and water.

Last December Whittaker, who is also a contender with a separate team for the $ 30 million Google Lunar X-Prize, demonstrated the four - wheeled rover, collecting samples of soil and rock guided by a laser camera.

Walking on a diagonal line across the site, the biologists collect at least five samples of soil in plastic bags.

Samples of soil cores are used to make connections between soil types and plant communities.

ACO conducts sampling of both soil and certified products during onsite inspections, as well as the marketplace.

The scientists collected a diverse sample of soils from cornfields, forests, swamps, even the Boston Public Garden.

The wafer can be used inside either an insulated handpiece for manual sampling or a longer probe for remote sampling of soil and spaces under buildings or in luggage or other containers.

The cool thing about this technology is that if you take a small sample of soil, maybe 10 microns by 10 microns, you could theoretically use this technique to identify where the active members of that community.

In one of the most in - depth looks to date at a soil metagenome — all the genetic material recovered from a sample of soil — the team reconstructed portions of the genomes of 129 species of microbes.

Now scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have untangled that Kansas - based mess of microbes more fully than scientists have ever done for a sample of soil.

Scoop a sample of your soil in a box, send it in, and get a full analysis outlining exactly what nutrients your lawn needs.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

An initial screening cost of only $ 199 allows farmers to have their soil samples analyzed by Trace, which applies machine learning to uncover not just what's in there, but what it means for crop yield and productivity.

Interpretation of the geophysical data over the Mount Philip target will allow Hammer to prepare a regional soil sampling and reconnaissance mapping program for the area.

The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, or ASPX, that irradiates samples of Martian soil to determine the elemental composition of the soil.

Many of the soil and stream samples returned indications of gold mineralisation, however they were not followed up.

A rendering of Moon Express's proposed MX - 9 return vehicle, which would return from the moon to Earth with samples of rock and soil.

Four of the licenses target Kupferchiefer style sedimentary copper mineralization; soil sampling highlights large anomalies; drill testing required.

We provide an extensive range of chemical analyses on plant, soil and water samples for inorganic nutrients, trace elements and heavy metals.

Based upon the soil sample report and the gardener's own experience, some steps can be taken to improve the soil for the gardening of peppers and other vegetables.

The soil sample report will typically give the following information: soil type or texture, pH, salinity (expressed as electro - conductivity), percentage of organic matter, and fertility status as indicated by the levels of nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorous.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

The results of chemical analysis of soils samples collected before planting and harvest of the strawberries indicates that the organic matter content in the soil of the organic system was higher than that of the non-organic system (see table below).

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

I would not trust the Detroit government of taking the time and the cost to actually do proper soil sampling and monitoring.

Before using produce from the school garden, the USDA recommends visiting the garden and asking the lead gardener about growing practices, including the history of the land use, water sources, soil sampling and results, use of fertilizers and pesticides, and animal control measures.

Elevated levels of radium have been found in groundwater samples from shallow monitoring wells on the Bethpage High School campus and the state DEC plans to take more samples and scan field and soil areas there for more radioactive elements.

Soil sampling began in backyards last week to gauge the effect of Tonawanda Coke's illegal air pollution in the Town of Tonawanda, Kenmore and Buffalo.

The EPA has asked nine City of Lockport residential property owners for permission to take soil samples at their homes, because it is trying to determine whether there was off - site contamination from the former Flintkote plant on Mill Street, which the agency tore down last year in a Superfund cleanup project.

Soil samples are run through powerful machines to have their microbes genetically sequenced, drones are flying overhead taking hyperspectral images of the crops, and soon supercomputers will be crunching the massive volumes of data collected.

A particular isotope, or version, of carbon found in the samples speaks to the dryness of conditions at the time of the soil's deposition.

The researchers collected samples of radium - contaminated soil and sediment from two spill sites in West Virginia and North Dakota.

Using historical aerial photo analysis, soil and methane sampling, and radiocarbon dating, the project quantified for the first time the strength of the present - day permafrost carbon feedback to climate warming.

Caves and colleagues instead looked at samples over extensive geographic and temporal spans in order to draw a fuller portrait of the climatic changes influencing soil composition.

With this compelling demonstration of using ancient soil samples as proxies for regional climate in Asia, Caves now plans to extend his investigations elsewhere on the globe.

He and several co-authors traveled to Mongolia, eastern Kazakhstan and northern China to collect the bulk of 171 new soil samples, while Russian co-authors collected samples near Lake Baikal.

Previously, scientists had relied on these sorts of soil sample measurements primarily to study plant types and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Taylor found he could melt a pile of lunar soil in 10 to 20 seconds.Then he focused a single magnetron on another sample: «With 50 watts of energy I took a one - centimeter block of lunar soil to 1700 degrees Celsius (3100 degrees F) in 10 seconds,» he says.

Rexer - Huber took samples of the frogs» skin secretions and from the soil they were resting on.

To their surprise, the researchers found that the samples from the thermokarst sites had lower levels of colored dissolved organic matter than did reference sites, suggesting that the carbon in the deeper soils exposed by thermokarst failure is significantly different from the carbon draining from the topmost, active layer of the permafrost, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Fernández — who investigates the rehabilitation of degraded agricultural soils and their carbon sequestration potential for climate change mitigation — considers himself «lucky» because he managed to gather all the samples he needed before the budget restrictions.

Biocrusts from the same source — representing four successive stages of maturation — were wet, and the soil water was sampled at five time points.