Sentences with phrase «surfaced observations on»

In a team meeting that day, his colleagues surfaced observations on the students» learning process, and he realized that too often he responded to students» calls for help on problems by providing the answer.

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They sometimes compare historians of religions, uncharitably to be sure, to «flies crawling on the surface of a goldfish bowl, making accurate and complete observations on the fish inside... and indeed contributing much to our knowledge of the subject; but never asking themselves, and never finding out, how it feels to be a goldfish.»

One observation to the wise: the filling is a dense liquid when poured into the gingersnap shell, so you're balancing the pecans and pumpkins seeds on the surface; the pecans particularly can be submerged if inattentively dropped.

Water ice is present on the surface of Comet Tempel 1, suggest observations from NASA's Deep Impact mission.

The three - day observations show that the comet shards brighten and dim as icy patches on their surfaces rotate into and out of sunlight.

Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new computer simulations to model the flow of plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become powerful enough to burst free and erupt on the sun's surface.

The new observations suggest water ice, mixed with organic molecules, is «widespread on the surface of the asteroid», Humberto Campins of the University of Central Florida in Orlando reported at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division of Planetary Sciences in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, last week.

Today, 14 of the 15 satellites currently making climatic observations on Earth are far beyond their designed life - expectancies, with the exception being the Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM):

«Because neutron spectroscopy could «see» hydrogen due to its large neutron scattering cross-section, it succeeded where optical spectroscopy techniques failed and enabled the first direct observations of cerium hydrides both on the surface and in the bulk of a cerium oxide catalyst,» Wu said.

To address those and other questions, the TOAR research team has produced the first - ever global - scale scientific assessment of tropospheric ozone, based on all available surface observations and the peer - reviewed literature.

The first observation of hydrides both on the surface and in the bulk of ceria was important because it established that the bulk of the material also can participate in chemical reactions.

«We created the largest database of surface ozone from hourly observations at more than 4,800 monitoring sites worldwide, and we're making these data freely available to anyone who wants to investigate the impact of ozone on human health, vegetation, and climate.»

Researchers need more detailed observations to better understand how water moves around on the lunar surface and into the atmosphere.

It would focus on the composition and thickness of the ocean, already reckoned to be briny and rich in magnesium salts following previous observations of seeps to the surface by other space probes flying nearby.

But observations of CMEs on and near the sun — whose surface temperature is about 5,500 degrees Celsius — are extremely difficult to accomplish.

Plus, recent observations on Ceres» surface of ammonia (of household cleaner fame) also hint toward a more distant origin, to a time and place when such compounds were more common.

The observation of ionic distribution and the investigation of magnetic particles on the lunar surface gives researchers information on the material that composes the moon's surface and helps elucidate the moon's interaction with solar winds.

The team's observations, published online today in Current Biology, suggest that flies base their cruising altitude on horizontal edges and landmarks — such as table surfaces or tree tops — and not on how fast the ground is moving beneath them.

We see dark sunspots on the northern visible pole, while the observations reveal that the lower latitudes are areas with sunspots that do not last, but appear and disappear again with an asymmetrical distribution on the surface of the star and this was surprising,» says Heidi Korhonen, who is an expert on sunspots.

Using satellite observations of meteoric «flares» in the atmosphere («shooting stars») and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts.

Box pointed to nearly ice - sheet - wide melting on Greenland, with extensive surface melting documented for first time at the highest elevations of ice sheet, and the longest melt season since satellite observations began in 1979.

That careful timekeeping enables scientists at Haystack to correlate observations made at different spots on Earth's surface, taking into account the curvature of the Earth and the location of each telescope to within a centimeter.

Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.

Although some observations were made earlier, it was really the telescope that allowed consistent sightings of dark blotches on the sun's surface.

The study, which combined experimental observations with mathematical modeling, showed that the flow of liquid can have two significant effects on microbes: «It quenches the ability of microbes to chase food,» Stocker says, «and it helps microbes find surfaces.»

«Warm summers could weaken ocean circulation: Long - term observations reveal the influence of increased surface freshening on convection in the subpolar North Atlantic.»

Scientists were already fairly confident in the ocean's existence, based on the moon's smooth icy surface — evidence of past resurfacing by the ocean — and other observations by the Galileo spacecraft, which made a handful of flybys in the 1990s.

But until recently their theories were based on observations of the behaviour of cells on inorganic surfaces such as glass or plastic.

In order to identify the part of their brains responsible for seizures, the patients underwent 1 to 4 weeks of observation through electrocorticography (ECoG), a technique that provides precise neural recordings via electrodes placed directly on the surface of the brain.

Measurements of surface chemical composition, either by direct sampling (as has been done on Earth, the moon, and Mars) or through spectroscopic observations, can be used to estimate elemental abundances and the degree of chemical differentiation that occurred as the planets condensed from the solar nebula.

Taking observations from twin telescopes mounted on the noses of the planes, Caspi will capture the clearest images of the Sun's outer atmosphere — the corona — to date and the first - ever thermal images of Mercury, revealing how temperature varies across the planet's surface.

Based on field observations, seismic shaking data, GPS measurements, and radar imagery from satellites, Hamling and his colleagues found that surface ruptures in the New Zealand quake were widely separated — in one case by more than 15 kilometers.

Smith, T.M. and R.W. Reynolds, 2005: A global merged land air and sea surface temperature reconstruction based on historical observations (1880 - 1997), J. Clim., 18, 2021 - 2036.

With UCSC graduate student Jonathan Langton, he is studying the surface flows on strongly irradiated extrasolar planets, and is comparing the results of these simulations to observations made with the Spitzer Space Telescope.

To explain that observation, the researchers developed a model in which each bump in the topography on the surface of Titan is offset by a deeper «root» big enough to overwhelm the gravitational effect of the bump on the surface.

All these observations will be combined to improve climate models, which will provide an estimate of present - day and future surface melt on the East Antarctic ice shelves.

These observations represent the first constraints on the atmospheric dynamics of a highly irradiated brown dwarf, and the atmospheres of irradiated giant planets at high surface gravity.

With photometric and spectroscopic observations, we have been able to learn about the surface properties and the physical processes acting on these large planetoids.

Despite Mercury's generally hot surface, observations strongly suggest the presence of ice on the planet.

By using advanced high contrast imagers, it is possible to conduct high resolution spectroscopy on imageable exoplanets, after the star light is first suppress... ▽ More Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity of exoplanetary atmospheres.

«Based on our observations in the sea - surface microlayer, we think that this could be very important as it may imply a positive feedback on atmospheric CO2 from oceanic sources, that is, from microbial metabolism at the air - sea interface.»

Milliken, R.E., Mustard, J.F. & Goldsby, D.L. Viscous flow features on the surface of Mars: Observations from high - resolution Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images.

However, comparison of the global, annual mean time series of near - surface temperature (approximately 0 to 5 m depth) from this analysis and the corresponding SST series based on a subset of the International Comprehensive Ocean - Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) database (approximately 134 million SST observations; Smith and Reynolds, 2003 and additional data) shows a high correlation (r = 0.96) for the period 1955 to 2005.

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Based on these observations and experiments, Harker and Pevtsov conclude that the observed magnetic transient is not an artifact created by the SDO / HMI observation process, but instead represents a real change in the vector magnetic field; since the active region was located so close to the solar limb, this suggests that the transient manifested in the horizontal component of the magnetic field (relative to the solar surface).

Observations suggest that nicotine exposure affects the ratio of these receptors on the surface versus those in the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell and thus the cells» sensitivity to these receptors» natural ligands.

«Crucially, our study also suggests that tidal heating could make deeply buried oceans more accessible to future observations by moving them closer to the surface,» said Joe Renaud of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, a co-author on the paper.

She currently is working on identifying a set of model versions that are consistent with recent observations of the ocean surface and subsurface.

Forster and Gregory (2006) estimate ECS based on radiation budget data from the ERBE combined with surface temperature observations based on a regression approach, using the observation that there was little change in aerosol forcing over that time.

In the early seventeenth century, Galileo pioneered telescopic observations of the Sun, making some of the first known observations of sunspots and positing that they were on the surface of the Sun rather than small objects passing between the Earth and the Sun.