Sentences with phrase «used isotopic analysis»

Last year Dr Nisbet's team used isotopic analysis and weather models to trace a cloud of methane over the North Sea not to one of its many oil rigs but to cows in the county of Lincolnshire.

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Researchers also may be able to extract DNA from his exceptionally well preserved teeth or use isotopic chemical analysis to discover what he ate.

Rather than excavate, the team intends to use the Swedish Research Council's largest ever archaeo logical grant to reexamine spectacular existing finds using modern methods such as isotopic analysis.

After ScienceInsider revealed last week that scientists were condemning its use of DNA testing and isotopic tissue analysis to decide the fate of asylum seekers, the U.K. Border Agency has apparently changed its plans.

Today, researchers are able to extract vast amounts of information using current methods — such as precise digital measurement and categorization of the bones, examination of the conditions in which the bone fragments were preserved, as well as isotopic and genetic analysis.

The hockey stick - shape temperature plot that shows modern climate considerably warmer than past climate has been verified by many scientists using different methodologies (PCA, CPS, EIV, isotopic analysis, & direct T measurements).

Using innovative isotopic analysis techniques and mathematical modeling, he has shown that Mars is a planetary embryo, found isotopic similarities between the Moon, Earth and meteorites, and proposed a new narrative for the origin of Earth's unique iron composition.

Mortimer et al. (2017b) discuss new Ar / Ar and limited U — Pb ages and geochemistry (both trace element and Nd isotopic analyses) of widespread volcanism on the northern part of the Zealandia continent by using dredged samples obtained in different cruises and integrated with their earlier findings on the southern Zealandia in an attempt to give a more updated picture of magmatism across the whole Zealandia continent.

Isotopic analysis is used in a variety of fields across the sciences, such as Geology, Biology, Organic Chemistry, and Ecology.

Because carbon cycle processes such as photosynthesis fractionate the heavy isotope 13C from the lighter 12C, isotopic analysis can usually be used to «trace» sources and sinks of carbon.

(Isotopic analysis of the oxygen in tooth enamel has also been used to study climate swings, including the onset of the Little Ice Age).

To those that still question Mike's research, know this: since the first hockey stick paper of 1998, there have been more than a dozen studies published by many scientists using different methodologies (PCA, CPS, EIV, isotopic analysis, & direct T measurements) that duplicate the hockey stick.