Sentences with phrase «volunteer scientists from»

Led by more than 320 volunteer scientists from across the country, thousands of amateur explorers, families, and students on school field trips conducted a comprehensive inventory of the plants, insects, mammals, birds, and other species that inhabit national park sites north and south of the Golden Gate, including Point Reyes National Seashore, Muir Woods National Monument, the Marin Headlands, the Presidio of San Francisco, Mori Point, and Rancho Corral de Tierra.

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Gaining the correct experience that will help you develop your career in sustainable agriculture requires dedication, knowledge and sometimes volunteering, but above all else, a group of colleagues and mentors from a variety of different disciplines and sectors is crucial to growing as a researcher and scientist.

Our wildlife sanctuaries around the state are living laboratories where scientists, naturalists, and volunteers monitor and measure a wide range of natural occurrences from stranded sea turtles to osprey migration to salamander counts.

While nonprofit organizations benefit from the work of citizen scientists, the volunteers enjoy another benefit; remaining lifelong learners while they contribute.

There is evidence from Canada and Argentina that initially yields increased with GM and pesticide use fell.However, Charles Benbrook, an independent US scientist formerly of the US Department of Agriculture, carried out a series of systematic studies that showed that over a five - year period, yields began to fall and pesticide use markedly increased to counter the proliferation of volunteers and superweeds.

While some citizen science programs are modeled on the idea that volunteers are strictly there to learn from professionals, Shirk said citizen scientists also want to be part of a discovery and help gather data relevant to a problem that interests them in calling upon programs to embrace learning together.

Refer broader, longer - term research questions or needs for additional input from other scientific fields back to AAAS staff so they can identify a longer - term partner or team of volunteers for the project from the On - call Scientists roster.

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The scientists could also directly detect mind wandering from the volunteers» brain activity.

Scientists who volunteer to take part in the scheme are paired with an MP, usually from the scientist's area.

The scientists obtained samples of H. pylori from two volunteers infected with the microbe and then wiped out the infections with antibiotics.

These techniques include: human tissue created by reprogramming cells from people with the relevant disease (dubbed «patient in a dish»); «body on a chip» devices, where human tissue samples on a silicon chip are linked by a circulating blood substitute; many computer modelling approaches, such as virtual organs, virtual patients and virtual clinical trials; and microdosing studies, where tiny doses of drugs given to volunteers allow scientists to study their metabolism in humans, safely and with unsurpassed accuracy.

Lead investigator Dr. Nicole Anderson, together with scientists from Canadian and American academic centres, examined 73 studies published over the last 45 years involving adults aged 50 - plus who were in formal volunteering roles.

Thanks to the Internet, amateur volunteers known as «citizen scientists» can readily donate their time and effort to science — in fields ranging from medicine to zoology to astrophysics.

A clinical trial in which volunteers were infected with dengue virus six months after receiving either an experimental dengue vaccine developed by scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) or a placebo injection yielded starkly contrasting results.

Back in the Netherlands, scientists gave both the twelve trained subjetcs and twelve healthy non-trained volunteers an injection containing endotoxin, a component from the cell - wall of bacteria that elicits a response from the immune system.

The scientists could tell from the scans which hand participants were going to use as early as 10 seconds before the volunteers were aware that they made up their mind.

To do so, scientists from the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, recruited 10 volunteers and asked them to wash with mild soap for 1 week.

The team — which includes marine scientists, a commercial mussel farmer, and volunteers from a New York City — based youth development program — spent several exhausting days collecting nearly 32,000 adult ribbed mussels from the salt marshes and mudflats of Jamaica Bay in New York City.

After all, it is typically an anonymous, volunteer effort for which scientists receive nothing more than thanks from journal editors and the good feeling of contributing to the scientific community.

The data that Old Weather volunteer citizen scientists meticulously transcribe from the logbooks are used to drive climate and sea ice models to help understand changes and improve predictions.

Their app, Cachalot, is available for free on the iPad and was created with the help of volunteers: marine scientists wrote it without charge from lecture notes, a computer science class designed it, and institutions, including the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, donated images and video.

For volunteers and scientists alike, working at the event resonated with what they've taken away from a lifetime of working in the sciences — both the good and the bad.

The database relies upon studies by scientists and conservationists, as well as data from tens of thousands of volunteer and professional naturalists.

La Serena, Chile — Last week, scientists and staff from Carnegie's Las Campanas Observatory volunteered for Astroday 2018 at a 170 - year - old school in the nearby city of Las Serena, the Colegio...

Our report was a community effort — we received input from a large number of exoplanet scientists who volunteered their time and expertise to explore what the future should bring.

Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange, N.J.

The team, led by scientists at the UCL Huntington's Disease Centre working with colleagues in Sweden, the USA, Canada, France and the Netherlands, measured neurofilament levels in blood samples from the TRACK - HD study, an international project that followed 366 volunteers for three years.

Sleep scientists from the University of Liege used MRI scans to chart the volunteers» brain activity as they performed tests of attention and reaction time.

Scientists prepared a tea made from burdock root and fed it to several human volunteers with knee osteoarthritis.

Since its founding in 1992, NatureMapping has grown from its origin as a small - scale Washington State nature program that enlisted retired resources professionals, zoo docents, and Audubon Society members as citizen - scientist volunteer wildlife reporters.

«Our team of volunteers, which includes scientists and practitioners from fields of education and psychology, began exploring options to develop social and emotional competence in kids in the best possible way.

This title, an entry in the exemplary Scientists in the Field series and the 2011 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winner, follows a team of scientists and volunteers who are working to rescue the birds and save them from eScientists in the Field series and the 2011 Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal winner, follows a team of scientists and volunteers who are working to rescue the birds and save them from escientists and volunteers who are working to rescue the birds and save them from extinction.

They offer classes and field trips «presented by volunteer instructors from the area, including retired scientists, UT professors, retired teachers, people with in depth knowledge of hobby subjects and retired ministers,» said Don Miller of Oak Ridge.

GRE (Graduate Record Exam) test scores (should be taken by October 1st) 3 - 4 Letters of recommendation (at least one from a veterinarian or research scientist) Minimum GPA of 3.00 + Significant volunteer / work experience w / animals in a hospital, clinic, kennel, shelter, lab, zoo, etc..

Our volunteer directors include scientists and practicing farmers from across the country.

All volunteers receive extensive training in raptor identification, and banding volunteers learn banding techniques from trained scientists and staff.

In a 24 - hour period — from noon on Friday, March 28 to noon on Saturday, March 29 — volunteers will join team up with naturalists and scientists to tally the plants, mammals, birds, fish, fungi, and other species they observe.

The rescue team ultimately included a Santa Barbara veterinarian who specializes in marine mammals, Marine Mammal Center scientists from Sausalito and lots of San Luis Obispo County volunteers, including Gary Angeles and his two kayaks.

Little progress is made over the next 15 years, until a breakthrough is made where the scientists have discovered a way to fuse organic material from the E.B.E. to metal, and implant those fused plates into human soldier volunteers as a permanent exoskeleton armor.

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I think part of this comes from scientists, both those working in that specific area of climate science and particularly those from outside that area, speaking not as scientists with their inherent tendency not to claim something conclusive without a good deal of statistically tested certainty, but speaking as someone who has been imposed upon or volunteered to give a scientific best guess without bothering the public with the details of uncertainties.

The research for the paper was done by a team of unpaid non-specialist volunteers of students and industrial and academic scientists, along with other enthusiasts and the funding for its publication was raised by donations from Skeptical Science readers.

Glass air flasks are filled with ambient air by volunteers and scientists from locations all across the world in order to monitor greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

Our volunteers come from all over the world, with scientists, students, laypeople, engineers, illustrators making up our numbers.

In real science, it doesn't matter whether a scientist is on the payroll of the American Cancer Society or a tobacco company, whether he is a Communist, or a Jew or a Baptist, or whether she beats her spouse, or whether he volunteers at a soup kitchen or steals from the church poor box.

The passage cites a report from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an organization that includes more than 1,000 government and NGO member organizations, and nearly 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.

Get the inside stories about the Museum's galleries, collections and research from the volunteers, curators and scientists.

«Our team of volunteers, which includes scientists and practitioners from fields of education and psychology, began exploring options to develop social and emotional competence in kids in the best possible way.