Sentences with phrase «soil samples from»

In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes their findings after taking soil samples from 30 islands in two lakes in northern Sweden.

Manuel Delgado - Baquerizo of the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, in Seville, Spain, and fellow scientists report in Nature that they looked at soil samples from 224 dryland ecosystem plots in every continent except Antarctica.

By Jesse Barrett — Rodale Institute, Organic Allentown Program Manager After assisting Rodale Institute Research Technicians, Tara Caton and Emily Lesher, with collecting the zero to twenty centimeter soil samples from our FST (Farming Systems Trial) fields, I was left... Continued

What do you get when you mix soil samples from Ghana, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Cameroon?

The probe contains Martian soil samples from which British exobiologist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) is able to isolate a single - celled organism, which he aims to bring back to life.

Specifically, the researchers are evaluating soil samples from the warming chambers to determine the presence and prevalence of fungal pathogens that attack insects and how that prevalence changes based on environmental temperatures.

The rovers (named Spirit and Opportunity) landed at different places, enabling them to use their special instruments to take soil samples from two areas.

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.

They collected soil samples from the sites and screened them for antibiotic - resistant bacteria.

Phobos - Grunt, launched on November 9, was designed to bring back rock and soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos.

The researchers weren't expecting to make that particular discovery in November 2014, when they collected soil samples from sites around Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Reserve, a 573 - acre freshwater wetland on the southern point of Lake Erie near Huron, Ohio.

For the new study, the scientists analyzed bacterial DNA in 18 soil samples from agricultural and grassland sites from Minnesota and Michigan.

Now researchers report that they've found a new strain of methane - eating microbes in soil samples from Axel Heiberg Island, in the Canadian high Arctic.

University of Western Australia researchers are looking for citizen scientists to send them soil samples from around the state to better understand region's biodiversity and environmental health

In the three - year study, researchers from Radboud University Medical Centre and The University of Manchester compared resistance profiles in 230 fungal samples, collected from rural areas in West Yorkshire which were treated with fungicides, to 290 air and soil samples from inner city sites across Greater Manchester.

Working on soil samples from a highly alkaline industrial site in the Peak District, which is not radioactive but does suffer from severe contamination with highly alkaline lime kiln wastes, they discovered specialist «extremophile» bacteria that thrive under the alkaline conditions expected in cement - based radioactive waste.

But a 2001 National Research Council report says biologists already have difficulty detecting microbes in soil samples from Earth, so detecting something we've never encountered before strains the imagination.

By contrast, soil samples from the meteorite's fall site contained uracil with more carbon 12.

My research activity consisted of collecting soil samples from different areas of the Mississippi River and investigating the behavior of nitrogen compounds in the special conditions of flooded soils.

UBC PhD candidate Taylor Holland has spent the better part of three years studying soil samples from vineyards throughout the Okanagan.

Miranda Hart, an associate professor of biology at UBC's Okanagan campus, her PhD candidate Taylor Holland, along with Agriculture Canada research scientist Pat Bowen, has spent the better part of three years studying soil samples from more than 15 vineyards throughout the Okanagan.

The researchers took soil samples from a central Iowa cornfield and subjected the sample to various conditions before conducting chemical analyses.

The research is in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. [Kelly S. Ramirez et al, Biogeographic patterns in below - ground diversity in New York City's Central Park are similar to those observed globally] Investigators looked at 596 separate soil samples from the park and found thousands of different types of microbes.

They tested the blood of surviving children, took soil samples from family compounds and questioned parents about their dead children's symptoms.

In the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South Dakota.

The group scooped soil samples from seven European and Russian caves known to have housed prehistoric peoples.

«Together with 35 research institutions we collected approximately 15,000 soil samples from various areas across the world.

Taking soil samples from the garden is a simple procedure.

By Jesse Barrett — Rodale Institute, Organic Allentown Program Manager After assisting Rodale Institute Research Technicians, Tara Caton and Emily Lesher, with collecting the zero to twenty centimeter soil samples from our FST (Farming Systems Trial) fields, I was left... Continued

«The removal of a soil sample from its natural environment also means that the same sample can only be measured once, so the traditional (destructive) method is not suited to measuring changes at a point over a period of time..»

They found a promising lead in a soil sample from the Shinjuku area of Tokyo which contained a particular strain of A. fumigatus.

A soil sample from an asteroid can give us clues about the raw materials that made up planets and asteroids in their formative years, and about the state of the inside of a solar nebula around the time of the birth of the planets.

Not exact matches

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.

«The more we understand about the Soil Organic Matter system, the better we can monitor, measure and maintain it,» said organic produce grower Helen Atthowe who submitted samples from her and her husband's 26 - acre Woodleaf Farm in northern California.

Indulge in wine country cuisine at The Vineyard Rose Restaurant while sampling our wines crafted from grapes produced by the rich Southern California soil and Temecula Valley sun.

Indulge in wine country cuisine at Vineyard Rose Restaurant while sampling our wines crafted from grapes produced by the rich Southern California soil and Temecula Valley sun.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

DNA soup: Despite cleaning, the extract is a soup of DNA from the sample and contaminated material, mostly microbes from soil where the remains were buried.

When this test came up positive, they analyzed the DNA from a soil sample and looked for strands that had incorporated the carbon - 13.

Researchers have been able to identify animal and plant DNA from soil samples since 2003, but this is the first time they've extracted hominin DNA.

When he and his colleagues examined 98 soil samples, from the Arctic tundra to the Amazonian rain forest, they were floored by the results.

Nathan Cude works in Novozymes» agbiotech division in Durham, North Carolina in the microbial discovery group, which isolates and identifies thousands of microbes collected from soil samples around the United States.

Zipping back down from the canopy to the ground, leaf and soil samples carefully stashed in backpacks, the researchers head to the lab.

Samples collected from soil contained the most diverse pool of resistance genes, the authors found.