Sentences with phrase «surveyed by aircraft»

Not exact matches

Between 2003 and 2006, Mass Audubon staff conducted extensive aerial surveys (visual counts from small aircraft) of the Sound to identify areas used by sea ducks during daylight hours.

In fact, little is known about how penguins and other birds are reacting to increasing activity by low - flying aircraft, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).

The model is supported by observations from satellites, ground - based networks that measure ozone - depleting chemicals in the real world, and by observations from two decades of NASA aircraft field campaigns, including the most recent Airborne Tropical Tropopause Experiment (ATTREX) in 2013 and the Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) global atmospheric survey, which has made three deployments since 2016.

The research team, led by Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, used innovative remote sensing technology on aircraft to survey the impact of invasives on more than 220,000 hectares (850 square miles) of rain forest on the island of Hawaii.

(7) Disturbing a seabird or marine mammal by flying a motorized aircraft at less than 1,000 feet over the waters within one nmi of any Island, except To engage in kelp bed surveys; or to transport persons or supplies to or from an Island.

After the recent incident, the survey aircraft was grounded by weather, and it seems probable the same thing occured again.

This grew out of our Office of Naval Research - funded Seasonal Ice Zone Reconnaissance Surveys done by Coast Guard Station Kodiak in their C130 aircraft.