Sentences with phrase «soil samples as»

Now that we know to look for them, hairs have been found in other soil samples as well,» explains Tuija Kirkinen.

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.

«It maintains the soil sample as it was.»

Not exact matches

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

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.

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).

• As with the previous location, gather the leaf litter and soil within the sampling frame (down to approximately two cm deep).

The next NASA mission planning to use an MMRTG is the Mars 2020 rover, due to be launched as part of NASA's Journey to Mars, to seek signs of past life on the Red Planet, test technology for human exploration, and gather samples of rocks and soil that could be returned to Earth in the future.

Star of the show at the AGU meeting was the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment, which can sniff the atmosphere and can analyse the gases given off when soil samples are heated to as much as 1100 °C.

Those markers of life were the most bountiful at the first sampling time, and then declined as the soil dried out again.

He and his colleagues drove mining vehicles into the desert to collect soil samples just a few weeks after the storm, and then returned again in 2016 and 2017 to track changes as the moisture dissipated.

The breakthrough is another major step forward on the journey to develop a commercially viable drug version based on teixobactin — a natural antibiotic discovered by US scientists in soil samples in 2015 which has been heralded as a «gamechanger» in the battle against antibiotic resistant pathogens such as MRSA and VRE.

As Curiosity carries on, researchers plan to analyze soil and sediment samples for organic material and to team up with Mars orbiters to search for methane patterns in the atmosphere.

«Thin microscopic sections of dirt samples show organization of soil grains, revealing whether an earthen structure was human - built or laid down as part of a natural sedimentation process,» Kidder said.

It is a spacecraft that would scoop as much as 2 kilograms of rocky soil off a 600 - meter - diameter asteroid in 2020 and return the sample to the Utah desert in 2023 for laboratory analysis.

In order to characterize the biological properties of soil treated with biochar, the team incorporated torrefied plant residual biomass from the biodiesel crop Jatropha curcas into aridisol, a type of soil found in arid regions such as Botswana, and compared several soil properties with samples that had not been treated.

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.

They suggest conducting experiments to test that hypothesis.Meanwhile, John Hall Cushman of Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, showed that soil samples taken along hiking trails have much higher rates of P. ramorum spores than those taken away from the trails, and that plants in areas with high visitation rates, such as public parks, had greater infection rates than those on sites where access is restricted.

But only one of them — Serratia marcescens, which resides in the guts of humans and other animals as well as in soil and water — is capable of causing whitepox in healthy coral samples, the team reports.

Their 38 - page report (including appendices) contains sections on environmental samples such as soil and swipes from rockets; interviews with more than 50 survivors and with medical staff members; and blood, urine, and hair samples from survivors.

When it comes to testing anything solid, such as food or soil, samples need to be processed into a liquid form.

«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.

By analyzing variation in a specific bacterial gene in his samples — the greater the variability, the higher the variety of species — Fierer found that deserts contained up to twice as many bacterial species, roughly 10,000 per 10 square meters, as did acidic rain forest soils.

Most strikingly, the warmest soil sample in Jansson's study — the spongy bog soil — revealed an array of microbial genes and proteins involved in the production of methane, a greenhouse gas more than 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide.

But in the freezing and thawing soil layer, sequencing showed that bacteria within the soil samples were producing some intriguing proteins, including enzymes that snip long chains of carbon molecules, like cellulose from plants, into shorter, simpler sugar compounds that the bacteria can use as fuel.

Later, as a young microbial ecologist at Stockholm University in Sweden, she started to catalog the microorganisms she collected during soil sampling trips, deciphering their genetic code so she could understand both their internal workings and how they fit into their underground habitat.

When scientists at the University of Delhi in India took soil samples from a pesticide dump and compared them with samples from a cleaner control site, they reported that the soil from the waste site contained a higher concentration of gene sequences from certain bacterial groups, such as Pseudomonas, Novosphingobium and Sphingomonas, that are known to degrade common pesticides like hexachlorocyclohexane.

Finally, the microbial metagenome of both samples was dominated by Actinobacteria, as observed for permafrost soils (22, 23) and other Arctic horse bones (24).

The rover has since taken its first photos and soil samples in what is expected to be at least a two - year study that may prove Mars once held water — and possibly life as we know it.

At the heart of mass spectrometry is the ability to precisely measure tiny samples of substances such as chemicals in soil and water or cancer cells in a tissue sample.

Uses equipment to collect and analyze water and soil samples, as well as researches ways of minimizing the impacts of erosion, sedimentation and pollution on the environment.

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

Metagenomics and metaproteomics extend these measurements to a comprehensive description of the organisms in an environmental sample, such as in a bucket of ocean water or in a soil sample.

«One of the cheapest, inexpensive management methods you can do on the ranch is getting a soil sample for as little as $ 10.

Procrustes analyses of core and cortex samples were conducted as a control study to assess the fecal microbiome in the coprolites and to see any differences from obvious soil contaminants.

Silver Nanoparticles: No Threat to the Environment - This report will demonstrate that silver nanoparticles do not remain «nanosize» when they come in contact with normal environmental samples, such as soil and water, but they agglomerate to form much larger, much less biologically effective, silver particles which are non-toxic, non-ionic and have no history of being harmful to the environment or aquatic life.

Spinosad, one of its active ingredients, is produced by a bacterium first isolated from natural sources (a soil sample collected in the Caribbean).3 Spinosad demonstrates selective toxicity to the flea's nervous system but has low toxicity to mammals and other nontarget organisms.4 However, as with all medications, sensitivities due to individual animal variation can occur, sometimes resulting in side effects.

I love Take On Mars, which is silent except for the lonely howl of the Martian wind as you scoop up soil samples and grow potatoes.

The garden was on land rightfully owned by indigenous people, as every inch of American soil is, but its bounty was beyond owning, there for everyone to sample.

You answer: «Depends of what time of the day (and in what season) samples were taken: at night and mornings, the highest levels are found, as at night plants and soil bacteria respire CO2 and wind speeds are often low, thus all CO2 of all sources (including human sources) accumulate, typically with over 100 ppmv compared to background.»

Although the melting of underlying permafrost will release huge amounts of the greenhouse gases blamed for fueling global warming, researchers who sampled three sites in boreal Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have discovered that the warmer, softer, wetter soil that results also promotes the growth of new mosses that capture and store about as much carbon from the atmosphere as the thawed ground releases.

10 See, e.g., Cliff Villa, Sampling the Garden Soil, Environmental Justice in Action: Blogging about Efforts to Achieve Environmental Justice in Overburdened Communities (Nov. 24, 2014), http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/11/ sampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law proSampling the Garden Soil, Environmental Justice in Action: Blogging about Efforts to Achieve Environmental Justice in Overburdened Communities (Nov. 24, 2014), http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/11/ sampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law professSoil, Environmental Justice in Action: Blogging about Efforts to Achieve Environmental Justice in Overburdened Communities (Nov. 24, 2014), http://blog.epa.gov/ej/2014/11/ sampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law prosampling - the - garden - soil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law professsoil / (author is Assistant Regional Counsel for EPA Region 10 as well as an adjunct law professor).

Extensive knowledge of FEI's $ 6.5 m inventory of air quality sampling equipment as well as soil and water testing equipment.

A successful resume sample for Environmental Geologist should mention duties such as helping to minimize impact on the environment, choosing landfill locations, planning underground waste disposal, creating soil and water monitoring plans, and cleaning up contamination.

• To obtain a position as an Environmental Technician with Troon Golf using talents in assessing pollutants in air, soil and water through effective collection and sampling procedures.

Offering excellent skills in sampling and assessing soil, groundwater and other materials, observing and documenting field activities and providing viable solutions to problems such as toxicity.

After training as an environmental technician, I have been busy sampling and assessing different types of soils and groundwater to determine presence of hazardous materials and toxins, and have proactively provided solutions to counter these problems.

Agronomist Worker resume objective 3: I am looking for a job of an agronomist worker under a dynamic agronomist as I have past experiences in collecting soil samples an evaluating the plants and crops.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE SHARP HEALTHCARE, Livermore Falls, ME (6/2010 to Present) Biology Lab Assistant • Prepare specimens for laboratory experiments by following appropriate standards and procedures • Set up, adjust, calibrate and maintain laboratory and field equipment • Troubleshoot laboratory equipment to ensure that it is in proper working order when needed during experiments • Prepare specimens that need to be used in experiments in accordance to specific instructions provided • Analyze experimental data and ensure that interpreted results are properly documented and reported • Assist in conducting research and collecting information and samples such as soil, water, plants, animals and blood • Measure and weigh compounds and other materials to be used for testing purposes • Monitor all laboratory work to ensure that it complies with set laboratory standards • Provide technical support to scientists and monitor and observe experiments to increase informational database • Feed and look after livestock and laboratory animals • Provide support to operational programs such as fish hatcheries and greenhouses