Sentences with phrase «water samples at»

Managed, organized and collected PRB water samples at over fifty locations weekly for Candlewood Management Service, Inc..

Ph D student Uditha Wijethunga collecting water samples at a toad - breeding pond, to check water chemistry.

Subsequently, the researchers took water samples at regular intervals over a period of six days in order to be able to evaluate the efficiency of the eDNA analysis over time as well.

Researchers from the University of Genova in Italy and collaborating universities studied cold and hot water samples at two tertiary care hospitals for a year from faucets used by healthcare professionals for handwashing, surgical washing, and washing of medical equipment.

A summer internship taking water samples at a plant in Butte that her father had helped build «made me realize I did not want to spend my life in the lab,» she says.

They have collected nearly 30,000 water samples at various depths from 787 locations from around the world and developed strict sampling and analytical methods.

They took 31 water samples at 11 locations over a stretch of 820 kilometers.

The day after results from water samples at Ulster County facilities showed elevated levels of lead, Kingston city officials released their most recent water testing results.

Not exact matches

While the first draw samples showed very few high lead levels, with multiple samples, nearly half of the homes tested had at least one liter of water over the EPA's limit for lead.

The Chicago Park District closed 63rd Street Beach to swimming at midday after test results from water samples taken Tuesday indicated that E. coli bacteria levels were too high for safety, a district spokesman said.

Chicago Park District employee Mario Viramontes collects a water sample Thursday at Rainbow Beach off 79th Street.

NAPERVILLE — Trapshooters at the shuttered Sportsman's Park range must cool their heels for at least two more weeks while officials of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and the Naperville Park District await test results from ground water samples taken near the park.

The swimming bans, which will be in effect at least through Saturday morning, were enacted Friday after Lake Michigan water samples taken Thursday morning were tested and found to contain high levels of E. coli bacteria, which can indicate the presence of other harmful bacteria.

In response to Stone's concerns about water contamination, a Naperville laboratory studied a sample from the well at the gun club in March.

Examples of barriers to breastfeeding include placement of the stable, healthy, full - term newborn on an infant warmer immediately upon delivery rather than skin - to - skin with the mother, provision of infant formula or water to breastfed newborns without medical indication, removal of the newborn from the mother's room at night, inadequate assurance of post-discharge follow - up for lactation support, and provision of promotional samples of infant formula from manufacturers.

For the first time, Georgia Division of Environmental Protection will check the addresses where water systems take their samples to be sure those sites are at the highest risk for lead contamination.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.&rwater sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.&rWater Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

Raw, untreated water runs from a pipe at the city of Auburn's water treatment plant, where the Cayuga County Health Department collects its samples

As New York City retests all public school buildings for lead in the water, 140 have had at least one water sample showing elevated levels so far.

The designation came 17 months after a resident first reported that PFOA, a toxic chemical, was detected in water samples in the village's well system at levels exceeding those recommended by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Rensselaer County village is currently dealing with a water contamination crisis after samples taken from public and private water wells detected perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, at levels above federal guidelines.

The department has been able to test as many as six water sample per month, in contrast to the previous two years, when «we basically got zero,» Mr. Collins said at Tuesday's Town Board work session.

Following proactive tap water testing undertaken at 26 Ulster County owned or leased facilities in Kingston, 20 of 29 samples showed elevated lead levels of lead, including in the building that houses Ulster County Executive Mike Hein's office.

«On arrival at the community, we interacted with the locals and samples were taken from their water sources and food supply.

MELISA consists of a water bath heater that incubates samples at a target temperature and analyzes them via images taken by mobile phone.

The findings are consistent with water samples the EPA has collected from at least 42 homes in the area since 2008, when ProPublica began reporting on foul water and health concerns in Pavillion and the agency started investigating reports of contamination there.

Back at her lab, Rochman has started analysing the water and plastic samples for the presence of POPs.

Some of the samples sat in freezers, others under the sink, and still others in water baths maintained at various temperatures.

For this particular research, the scientists tested samples of common salt — sodium chloride — along with mixtures of salt and water, in their vacuum chamber at Europa's chilly surface temperature of minus 280 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 173 Celsius).

Then, chemical analysis of water samples collected from boreholes showed that fluids flows northeast before emerging at Baby Bare, 52 kilometers away.

Biocrusts from the same source — representing four successive stages of maturation — were wet, and the soil water was sampled at five time points.

They also performed DNA analyses of water samples to identify larvae of vent animals and stable - isotope analysis to assess food supplies at each vent field.

A peak microplastics concentration was measured at Rees on the Nederhijn, where 3.9 million plastic items per square kilometer (or 21,839 particles per 1000 cubic meters) were found in a single water sample.

It will also explore the lake in stages; at first it will only suck up a water sample before allowing the bottom of the hole to refreeze.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

At Iowa's Hillandale Farms, which used the same feed supply, samples of the water used to wash whole eggs also contained the bug.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

To find out whether they had evolved to cope, Andres Moreno at Stanford University in California and colleagues looked at the variation of a gene known to be involved in water retention in the kidney, called FOXI1, in DNA samples from 20 Europeans, 20 east Asians and 20 Yoruba.

Another robot, operated remotely from a ship, allowed the team to get a closer look at specific features in and around the caldera, and to take rock and water samples.

«Almost every bit of water we sampled was below 3.5,» says Tilbrook, who presented his findings at Greenhouse 2011 in Cairns this week.

It remains unclear at this point which particular species bloomed as a result of the HSRC iron release but the team is sending out for analysis more than 10,000 water samples, data the HSRC team says it will share as other iron fertilization experiments have done.

«As the observed NMR signal is proportional to the amount of ortho - water in the sample (para-water «NMR silent»), we can track the percentages of ortho and para isomers at any time and any temperature,» Mamone explained.

In April 1998, bay water samples routinely monitored by Chris Scholin, a molecular biologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, first showed a tiny rise in an alga called Pseudo-nitzschia australis.

Researchers at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center examined the water samples under a high - resolution scanning electron microscope to identify the species present.

Besides collecting water and sediment samples, her team is using electronic instruments to measure temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll biomass, sunlight penetration, and other parameters at depths from 5 to 30 meters.

Scientists took nearly 200,000 water, plankton, atmosphere particles and gases samples in 313 points of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans at depths of up to 6,000 meters.

McKay suggested that the Viking Mars lander may have inadvertently oxidized any evidence of life it its samples of Martian soil, proposed an expedition to gather samples of water from the Saturn moon Enceladus, and offered a child - friendly analogy for how alien life might differ from life on Earth: «I could build a table out of Lincoln logs and you could build a table out of Legos: At the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atomAt the macroscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be tables; at the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atomat the microscopic scale they'd be the same — they'd both be built from carbon atoms.

The rule, enacted in 1994, requires cities to monitor drinking water at customer taps and take action to reduce corrosion if certain numbers of samples contain lead or copper above specific levels.

The probe was tested on concentrated water samples from an area on Florida's East Coast where manatees congregate, in the Florida Panhandle, where they are less numerous, and at locations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and Lake Ossa, Cameroon, where observers sometimes see the animals in the water.

With his pals in Cleveland, Ohio, where he grew up as the oldest son of a psychiatrist and an artist, Tatar entertained himself by scooping up pond water samples and, with a microscope, peering at the algae and protozoa trawling about within.