Sentences with phrase «water samples from»

However, because extra energy warmth surface water, you would require to take water samples from below to really understand the entire situation.

She joins Arctic scientist Max Holmes» research team and enlists schoolmates in collecting water samples from the Lena River.

We read of many expeditions to gather data — from a young David Keeling taking water samples from rivers from Big Sur to Chincoteague, to Taro Takahashi doing the same from Atlantic depths of up to three miles, to Scott Stine tramping the Owens salt flats of California to examine prehistoric stumps, and to George Denton helicoptering in to collect data from remote New Zealand glaciers.

For example, for SSTs, the transition from taking temperatures from water samples from uninsulated or partially - insulated buckets to engine intakes near or during World War II is adjusted for, even though details are not certain (Rayner et al., 2006).

«Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm pose a massive environmental and human health risk when they enter our waterways,» said Abby Barrows, a marine research scientist with Adventure Scientists and College of the Atlantic, who is featured in the film and has analyzed thousands of water samples from around the world for microplastics.

In another study, 93 % of water samples from major bottled water suppliers from around the world showed signs of microplastic contamination, including polypropylene, nylon, and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

Berkeley Lab scientist Yuxin Wu pulls water samples from a soil / ice core.

This work documents an extensive collection of water samples from the Yamuna amassed by the artist every day over the course of a year, accompanied by short texts written by her and local residents.

The artists collected water samples from the Hoosic River, which were then poured over the paper during printing, imbuing the image with ripples of river water.

Officials took 10 water samples from fountains and sinks on campus.

At the same time, fifth and sixth graders were taking water samples from all the streams and lakes in town to test for pollution.

As fate would have it, soon after our system was installed, I found an article in The Washington Post about hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, showing up in water samples from 35 U.S. cities.

Researchers collected urine samples from 11,746 men and women and water samples from the wells they used to measure arsenic exposure.

Indeed, symposium talks covered diverse topics such as using DNA sequencing to track biodiversity in water samples from Monterey Bay (Collin Closek) as well as using crowdsourcing to create an open repository of research talks (Rajan Vaish).

In addition to Project BioEYES, the program has expanded to include a new project called Your Watershed, Your Backyard, in which middle - school students grow zebrafish embryos in water samples from their own local watershed to test the effects of pollution.

Researchers collected water samples from area lakes, ponds and streams and used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology to amplify — or copy — the entire mitochondrial genomes from the eDNA found in those environments.

Kelsey Poulson - Ellestad, a former graduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, now at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, works with a Conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) sampling rosette, which is lowered over the side of a vessel and is used to collect water samples from various depths.

Water samples from the urban slum were crawling with 20 times more bacteria than those from the rural site, the team reports online this week in PLoS Medicine.

The researchers collected water samples from gutters, puddles, and streams in two locations: an urban slum and a rural village.

So he contacted Gaetan Borgonie, a nematologist at Ghent University in Belgium, who collected and filtered tens of thousands of liters of water samples from five mines in the area to find the rare creatures, which belong to the worm group called nematodes.

In fact, he says, the study of sewage and river water samples from Japan demonstrates the relative safety of the vaccine - derived virus: Although virulent vaccine - derived viruses in the environment «are actually a pretty common event,» he says, «we don't see outbreaks» of vaccine - caused disease, even in areas where vaccination coverage is relatively low.

To learn more about the ways of open - ocean bacteria, J. Craig Venter of the Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives in Rockville, Maryland, and his colleagues collected water samples from the Sargasso Sea, a region of the mid-Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Bermuda.

The FACHEP team collected water samples from 357 randomly selected homes in Flint including 136 homes in 2016 and 221 homes in 2017.

The new filtering technique is so effective, water samples from Sydney Harbour were safe to drink after passing through the filter.

Looking for a challenge, Dr Seo and his colleagues took water samples from Sydney Harbour and ran it through a commercially available water filter, coated with Graphair.

The team used this ratio as a benchmark to identify and compare levels of mercury pollution caused by human activities across water samples from different oceans.

In the second step, which is based on genetic markers, we only concentrate on the fecally positive water samples from the first step.

He said that water samples from the Gulf of Mexico are showing signs that marine bacteria are already pitching in to help with clean - up efforts, and that populations of these bacteria in this area are likely to boom as they feast on the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

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.

Lake biologist John Priscu transfers Lake Whillans water samples from the borehole to the laboratory.

He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.

Hydrologist Robert Gilliom of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and his team tested waters in 51 areas across the country for 75 pesticides between 1992 and 2001, including water samples from 186 streams and more than 5,000 wells along with sediment from more than 1,000 waterways.

Beginning in 2008, the EPA took water samples from residents» drinking water wells, finding hydrocarbons and traces of contaminants that seemed like they could be related to fracking.

When last we heard from J. Craig Venter, he was sailing around the world in his 95 - foot sloop, Sorcerer II, collecting water samples from the sea and inland lakes.

Fecal and water samples from live poultry markets and the natural environment were also collected.

Two Syracuse University geology professors - along with a graduate assistant or two - are hurrying to collect water samples from drinking wells in the Southern Tier before - and if - the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing is approved in New York.

After his father's death from cancer, Hickey took his own water samples from sources around town and sent them to a lab out of state that confirmed elevated levels of PFOA.

The Suffolk County fire academy in Yaphank, used for training volunteer firefighters, is now on the state's Superfund list after water samples from monitoring wells detected contaminants that exceed federal health advisories.

This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a community member for a school project, or collecting real data, such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.

In 2007, Melanie Mormile of Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla and colleagues cultured a bacterium from water sampled from one of several salty, acidic lakes in Western Australia.

The team developed a genetic marker that signals the presence of those DNA segments in a concentrated water sample from the animals» environment.

[Music plays and an image appears of Dr Dong Han Seo walking towards the sea and taking a water sample from the sea with the Sydney Harbour bridge in the background and text appears: Sydney Harbour's secret to life - saving water filtration]

It also would be far easier to get a water sample from Enceladus, which has plumes of water vapor, ice and particles shooting more than 300 miles off its surface, than from other moons, such as Jupiter's Europa, where a massive ocean is believed to be buried beneath a thick icy crust.

Of the three tap water samples analyzed, estradiol and androsterone were detected in tap water in laboratories in France and Spain, while corticosterone was detected in the water sample from the Chinese laboratory.

«There was a case in Sofia, Bulgaria, where the father of one of the students brought a water sample from Antarctica to be compared with the water they were drinking at school,» Sendova said.

Not exact matches

Product groups containing less than five reformulated products were considered to constitute too small a sample and consequently omitted from the analyses (e.g. beverages, ready - to - eat meals, water - based sauces, oils and fats).

This test is one of dilution and involved a brave panel of five people tasting increasingly diluted samples of solutions made from exact weights of Chile peppers dissolved in alcohol and diluted with sugar water.

You'll also be able to have a little bottle of the Mount Lofty spring water that we use, a little sample of the grain that we use for that particular bottling and some shavings of the actual wood from the barrel as well as the bottle of single malt.»

In 250 water deliveries we performed bacterial cultures of water samples obtained from the bath after filling and after delivery.

Before using produce from the school garden, the USDA recommends visiting the garden and asking the lead gardener about growing practices, including the history of the land use, water sources, soil sampling and results, use of fertilizers and pesticides, and animal control measures.