Sentences with phrase «took soil samples»

The team also took soil samples and analyzed their carbon content in the ecology lab.

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.

At field sites in Iowa, Kansas and Wisconsin, they took soil samples using tools called corers — foot - long hollow tubes designed to slice through the soil.

Galloway took soil samples to find out if there were still any viable fynbos seeds left in the soils of the former plantation sites.

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

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

Taking soil samples from the garden is a simple procedure.

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

What's next: The team will study different techniques to separate carbon - emitting sources by taking soil samples and measuring the fluctuation of carbon dioxide.

See how engineers take a soil sample using her stunt double.

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.

A geologist can take soil samples, sample cores taken from a tropical ocean or sample cores from beneath the polar ice caps.

Not exact matches

The study, headed by Professor Edward Guinan of the school's astronomy and astrophysics department, initially looked at which crops would thrive in soil that is similar to that found on Mars (based on readings taken by the Phoenix Mars lander and samples recreated on earth).

Based upon the soil sample report and the gardener's own experience, some steps can be taken to improve the soil for the gardening of peppers and other vegetables.

I would not trust the Detroit government of taking the time and the cost to actually do proper soil sampling and monitoring.

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.

Soil samples are run through powerful machines to have their microbes genetically sequenced, drones are flying overhead taking hyperspectral images of the crops, and soon supercomputers will be crunching the massive volumes of data collected.

The research group took saturated soil and allowed blue dye to flow through the sample.

Taylor found he could melt a pile of lunar soil in 10 to 20 seconds.Then he focused a single magnetron on another sample: «With 50 watts of energy I took a one - centimeter block of lunar soil to 1700 degrees Celsius (3100 degrees F) in 10 seconds,» he says.

Rexer - Huber took samples of the frogs» skin secretions and from the soil they were resting on.

Soil samples taken from a 50 - mile radius around the Macondo well reveal striped layers of thick goo, possibly containing oil.

The photo is taken during soil sampling in a remote corner of the Amazon basin.

Furthermore, carbon isotopes of soil samples suggest that grass increasingly took root in the region during this time.

Phobos — Grunt will not only take microbes to Phobos and back, but will also scoop up soil samples and return them to Earth — an ambitious feat never before accomplished on another planet's moon.

Dr Harris says: «Traditionally, soil - based measurements involve taking samples and transporting them to the laboratory for analysis.

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.

Soil samples were taken from the floor of the nests and the nestlings were examined at regular intervals and at the end of the experiment.

The researchers worked on sites in the Arctic and Antarctic and took precautions to limit the impact of sunlight and wind, using tarpaulins to protect their sample sites and positioning themselves on the middle of a glacier away from soil and other forms of polar wildlife which might contaminate the snow.

To determine the levels of PAHs in soil and sediment, researchers first extract the compounds from a sample, a step that can take up to 16 hours and requires large amounts of hazardous solvents.

Scientists took samples from the top organic layer of soil and the underlying mineral layer.

«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.

Jiangxiao Qiu, a former graduate student in Turner's laboratory and now a postdoctoral researcher with The Nature Conservancy, studied the impact the Asian worms — of the species Amynthas agrestis and Amynthas tokioensis — from July through October of 2014 in the forest at the UW Arboretum, and conducted an experiment on soil samples taken from around southern Wisconsin.

Soil or water samples are routinely detained by authorities; equipment can take months to import or export.

The cool thing about this technology is that if you take a small sample of soil, maybe 10 microns by 10 microns, you could theoretically use this technique to identify where the active members of that community.

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.

Ebright and his colleagues developed a new antibiotic from a soil sample taken in Italy.

Although soil taken from the barren center did not inhibit germination of grass seed, it supported plant growth poorly, whereas that from the edge and matrix allowed growth [1]--[4], but these effects were not consistent for all areas or sampled years [2].

«Kirk routinely assumes the responsibility of liaison between cooperating programs and is responsible for data collections that range from soil sampling to plant biomass sampling to taking physiological measurements with delicate instrumentation,» Xue said.

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.

For the Armory installation, he created a spacecraft, exploratory vehicles, and a Martian landscape, where a crew of studio assistants can rip open the «floor» of the planet and take core samples of soil to be «analyzed» by scientists.

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.»

They measured the organic carbon content of the samples and determined how much of the soil volume was taken up by large bodies of ground ice.

The models the research team used took into consideration various climate data, land use, soil samples, the growth of different crops, irrigation systems, population densities and industries.