Sentences with phrase «where field scientist»

The latest project of the award - winning dynamic duo takes the reader to Brazil's Pantanal, the world's largest wetlands, where field scientist Patricia Medici leads a talented team in search of the unsung tapir.

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Up until now scientists had to wrestle with this law and the fact that the numbers did not add up but we had no where else to put this stored or missing energy that we can see and weigh based on observable gravitational fields.
We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.
«Many types of important research could potentially be affected by the bill, particularly in the field of neuroscience, where substances with psychoactive properties are important tools in helping scientists to understand a variety of phenomena, including consciousness, memory, addiction and mental illness,» the letter reads.
The fast - growing field where these scientists work provides not only these satisfactions, but also, reportedly, offers expanding career opportunities, good pay, and scientific challenges so plentiful and significant that one feels «you're literally on Darwin's ship, the Beagle,» Marcu says.
Still, more needs to be done to lower the barriers between science and other fields and, where necessary, to give scientists interested in making a switch a little boost.
Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.
The novice and seasoned geologists from the University of Rochester have gone out with the eye trackers about four times a day over their two - week field trip across California, which took them from San Francisco by the San Andreas Fault through the snowy Sierra Nevada near Yosemite National Park to the harshest area of the U.S. «Death Valley is a great place, where one can really see active geology firsthand — forces that are shaping the crust of the earth,» says geophysicist John A. Tarduno, another of the Rochester scientists.
Two online resources for video lab and field methodologies are BenchFly, a website where scientists can share such videos for free, and the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE), a peer - reviewed video journal.
I recently returned from a two - year research project in Alaska, where I led field research into this issue alongside fellow scientists from the University of Colorado; the University of Nevada's Desert Research Institute; the University of Toulouse and the Sorbonne University in France; and the Gas Technology Institute in Illinois.
The technique developed by Ashoori's team takes up where ARPES leaves off and enables scientists to observe electron energies and momenta beneath the surfaces of materials, including in insulators and under a magnetic field.
Where we get in trouble as a society is when people of one persuasion or one capability jump into another field — when theologians come into science and attempt to reinterpret scientific records through supernatural intervention, and alternatively, when scientists go into theology and say «There is no God.»
Solar plasma produces a distinctive magnetic field because it all comes from the same source; scientists expected that the field would shift in interstellar space, where particles flit around in all directions.
In a field where many scientists do field work, having no deadline makes it easier for collaborators to schedule time when they can work on a proposal.
Then there are other scientists I go back to for comments on other people's research or to get a view of what's going on in the field; they're people who have a sense of where the field is going and what I, as a science writer, can write about effectively in my articles.
Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.
Fisher led an international team of scientists that in the early 2000s discovered the first field site where this process could be tracked from fluid inflow to outflow, in the northeastern Pacific Ocean.
Step into a laboratory where scientists toss out their instruments after a single use, where a tissue will block magnetic fields, and where drinking a sulfur and champagne mixture called «sulphagne» lets you shoot deadly lasers from your eyes.
Many planetary scientists use magnetic - field radio emissions as a way to calculate the rotation period, because those emissions are assumed to originate from deep within the planet's interior, where the rotation period is more constant.
Enrollees, all of whom held graduate degrees and many of whom were either working scientists or recent doctoral recipients in STEM fields, did an intensive 1 - year program of summer classes, where they were drilled in pedagogical theory, then two semesters of supervised teaching in a classroom and night classes where they caught up on math or science areas in which they weren't totally proficient.
To simulate the uptake of lead particles by scavengers when feeding on shot wildlife, the scientists ran feeding experiments in the field where they provided mammalian carcasses prepared with metal particles of different size and shape.
Many tips are pragmatic: don't be lured by a field's «glamorous aura», prizewinning scientists and big grants, but «go where the least action is occurring».
In 1984 Gell - Mann pursued his dream of working in other fields by cofounding the Santa Fe Institute, a think tank where scientists are encouraged to cross disciplines.
Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.
Given the corona is not expected to change much before the eclipse, scientists at the NSO used current observations to create a coronal magnetic model that shows where they expect to see field lines concentrated during the eclipse.
I realized that scientists may know a lot about one specialized field, but they may not know anything about where you're coming from.
Consolmagno adds that other types of scientists really must grapple with serious ethical concerns, such as whether they should work in the field of atomic physics, where research can yield advances in weaponry.
First, it is helpful to focus clinical practice sharply; not only to a subspecialty, but on an even narrower niche where one is the expert in only certain diseases within that subspecialty; by narrowing the scope, clinician - scientists find it easier stay on top of the rapid advances in both clinical and research fields.
The Biomedical Center is one of very few places in Russia where scientists can gain experience in the field.
Scientists have identified genes that enable rainbow trout to use Earth's magnetic field to find their way back to the streams where they were born.
Astrobiology is a relatively new field of study, where scientists from a variety of disciplines (astronomy, biology, geology, physics, etc.) work together to understand the potential for life to exist beyond Earth.
Boslough was among the first western scientists to arrive in Chelyabinsk, where he did field research and accompanied a production crew filming Meteor Strike for NOVA.
Recognizing the reality that genomics analysis is a big data / HPC (High Performance Computing) problem in a field where life scientists are focused on the biology and not computer science, Intel has been reshaping genomics software tools and cluster configurations for life sciences in the many - core era with Intel Scalable System Framework (includes many - core processors, new 3D memory, high - performance networking fabric, and Lustre storage).
The NSF sponsored the January workshop and essentially asked plant scientists where the field ought to be in a decade.
Previously he was a Group Leader and Senior Scientist with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute where he worked in conjunction with the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, CA.
While he does not favor the current moratorium, Ding said, he believes scientists in this field must move slowly because «we don't know how to precisely control where and how [cells] might contribute» to different organs.
So much is different, I think, where we were as scientists but how the field was as a community was at a state of naiveté, that is, we did not understand hardly anything about this disease.
This, scientists say, is potentially very good news, as we could use the barrier to protect Earth from extreme space weather resulting from events like coronal mass ejections — huge explosions on the sun, where plasmas and magnetic field are ejected from its corona, the outermost part of its atmosphere.
This explains the presence of reservoirs of high - energy particles under these areas in the magnetopause but for some time scientists remained puzzled as to why these reservoirs are also found in areas where the two magnetic fields at the magnetopause are aligned and should therefore create an impenetrable barrier.
We were taken to the exact lavender fields where the lavender for their products gets sourced, we went inside the lab and chatted with the scientists, we experienced essential oil and skincare tutorials from a woman who has been working for the brand for 20 + years (pictured here), and finally, got to have dinner with the founder who talked about the heart + soul behind the company.
The interns also participate in special workshops and field trips, where they receive specialized instruction from professionals such as Academy scientists.
The Crissy Field Center will be transformed into the BioBlitz data center where BioBlitzers will work side by side with scientists to identify and catalog what is being discovered in the fField Center will be transformed into the BioBlitz data center where BioBlitzers will work side by side with scientists to identify and catalog what is being discovered in the fieldfield.
Field scientists set up camera traps throughout the wooded terrain where jaguars make their home in sites like the Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary.
A search through the peer - review scientific journals where all new claims are tested and confirmed by scientists specializing in the field shows no ground - breaking advances in understanding by Monte Hieb or Harrison Hieb.
He and I agreed that there is a ripe opportunity, and responsibility, for scientists and scientific institutions to pursue this model in other fields where science meets society — energy, environmental risk, and more — essentially real [any science].
as compared to being a real scientist getting a mediocre salary, having to write scientific books your wife wouldn't even read, having to gather data and samples in the too hot, or too cold, field, and doing experiments in a warm, smelly laboratory on unobtanium, where you could accidentally set your tie on fire with a bunsen burner, well, which one would you choose?.
The fact that when it comes to climate change — where the top pro-AGW scientists lead the citations rankings by an absolute mile — would tend to suggest that these guys are the ones who understand their field best, and are likely to be Nobel Prize winners in the near future.
There is a 15 year delay between the changes in the angular momentum of the Earth's inner core (where magnetic field is generated) and the LOD (length of the day) NASA and the Oxford University scientists in 1997/2000 published paper on the effect: Torsional oscillations of the Earth's core http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/13763/1/00-0133.pdf
Reached by telephone at UC Irvine, where he is completing his PhD in arctic climate variability, Labe stressed that he is «only a graduate student» and not at all a leading expert, tipping his hat to the scores of veteran scientists working in this field.
I have been trying to convince scientists that this site presents a level playing field where the true balance of science can emerge, and I've been rebuffed with the idea that this site is another example of «false balance», wherein the politically structured arguments will again take precedence.
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