Sentences with phrase «scientists visit the islands»

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

The islands also attract great research interest, and many scientists visit the islands each year for a variety of reasons, ranging from coral reef surveys to bird observation.

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The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

In 2001, a team of scientists visiting Ball's Pyramid, an isolated rock spire off Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea, discovered the world's rarest invertebrate: an apparent relict population of two dozen Lord Howe Island stick insects (Dryococelus australis).

His hosts showed him some of the islands, and told him Western scientists had not visited since the 1930s.

Over the past 11 years, scientists, astronomers, and engineers have engaged over 50,000 students while visiting over 3,000 classrooms on the Big Island during the annual «Journey» week.

The visiting scientists took photographs to identify the individual humpback whales on the archipelago's Socorro and Clarion Islands.