South American forests offer glimpse of U.S. ecosystems before industrial revolution
...earchers spent five years preparing experiments in remote Chilean temperate forests and another five years c...hey also conducted one-time tests in a dozen other remote areas in Chile and Argentina to prove that the preponderance of organic nitrogen they observed was n...White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds
...As the Nature study showed, electronic tagging and remote sensingtechnologies herald a new era for biological oceanography," Blockexplained. "Acquiring data on the behavior of large marine predators isdifficult. Knowing where they go and what they do has been challenging." New electronic tags are making it ...December media highlights - GSA BULLETIN
...nford, California 94305, USA. Pages 1560-1579. The remote Gobi Desert region of southeastern Mongolia contains a geologic record of widespread structural extension during late Mesozoic time, as well as a significant portion of Mongolia's petroleum reserves. Understanding this record is important for reconst...World's smallest lizard discovered in Caribbean
... and a cave in a partially destroyed forest on the remote island of Beata, which is part of the Jaragua Nati...riety of reasons." Hedges and Thomas went to the remote Isla Beata specifically with the goal of discovering previously unknown species that might be living...World's smallest lizard discovered in the Caribbean
...e and a cave in a partially destroyedforest on the remote island of Beata, which is part of theDominican Rep...ft vacant byother organisms that never reached the remote locations. If aspecies of spider is missing from an island, for example, thelizards there might evo...Studying plant adaptation to arctic helps understand the 'steps of wisdom of life'
...x inches deep at its warmest. Because the area is remote and desolate, no one can go alone, and the scientists must contact base twice a day or search parties will start looking for them. They live near a source of water, in tents, and store perishables in the thawed permafrost, hoping the foxes, wolves, ...Healy researchers make a series of striking discoveries about Arctic Ocean
...rctic ice cap. The ridge is the deepest and most remote portion of the global mid-ocean ridge system, where new ocean crust is continuously created as seafloor spreading takes place through volcanic activity. Many theories about seafloor spreading can be tested only on a slow-spreading ridge like the Gak...University of Cincinnati researchers track climate changes in Arctic thaw lakes
...ing, pollen analysis, ground-penetrating radar and remote sensing to devise models for the monitoring. She and co-investigator Ken Hinkel, UC professor of geography, will report on their preliminary findings Nov. 16 at the Land-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions conference in Salt Lake City. LAII is a component of...Wealth of new species discovered from the abyssal plains of the Atlantic Ocean
...hop reveal a large number of new species from this remote and inaccessible habitat. For example, of 38 Cumacea (small crustaceans, 1 10 mm in size) 22 are new species, and up to 90% of the copepods (an extremely diverse group of small crustaceans) are new. A number of new Loricifera species have also b...NSF-funded researchers track Alaska seal migration for the first time
...t think of any community in the United States more remote and isolated, but the support of the local community has eased a lot of our research difficulties. We couldn't have made any significant progress up there without the community's help."...Anthrax - How to protect ourselves
...y working on "smoke detectors" for bioweapons, and remote detection from several kilometres away might be possible, too. At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, Page Stoutland and his team have built an antibody-based machine the size of a mailbox that sucks in air, checks for anthrax ...UC Berkeley expert on insect flight receives prestigious MacArthur 'genius' award
... cell phone voice mail while backpacking along the remote Na Pali coast of Hawaii. He had to scratch the fou...in search and rescue, environmental monitoring and remote sensing. "Flies are the most accomplished fliers on the planet in terms of aerodynamics," Dickinson...Research season will feature use of sophisticated technologies to map Antarctica
...TASE is amultidisciplinary program that integrates remote sensing, meteorology, ice coring, surface glaciolo...among researchers; the new observatory at its more remote site, however, will improve the usefulness of the data by reducing the amount of background noise fr......t a small portion of this energy to power up small remote instruments. ONRs oceanic fuel cell is called OSCAR (Ocean Sediment Carbon Aerobic Reactor). Organic matter in the sediment serves as the fuel which is connected to dissolved oxygen in the sea water by electrodes, allowing electrons to flow in the sa...Wind-borne pollutants may travel thousands of miles
... rapidly to prevent them from being transported to remote locations by the atmosphere. "We may alter our environment as long as we keep it sustainable," Wade says. "If we can put something in the environment that degrades at a rate that prevents it from building up, then there should be no harm caused to th...Purple potato boost for organic food industry
...across Europe to admire a humble potato patch at a remote agricultural research station near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland where the variety is being grown. While plots of most common potato varieties are wilting and disfigured from the effects of being impregnated with seven deadly strains of the fungus...Harbor Branch scientists to study predation habits of jellyfish-like animals in Gulf Of Maine
...RANCH @ Sea website http://www.at-sea.org , where remote multimedia dispatches from Dr. Youngbluth and his science team are being posted regularly during the mission. Extensive mission background information can also be found on the website....Botanists collect, study rare Hawaiian plants
...pe of breathtaking flora, but this summer the most remote island ecosystem in the world is serving as a living laboratory for a pair of botanists examining the origins and evolution of plant life on Earth. The Ohio University botanists, accompanied by four students, are conducting studies on three Hawaiian...Scientists call for development of ecological forecasting
...nd effective use of technologies such as satellite remote sensing. Unfortunately, they wrote, ecological data are often inadequate. "Due to abandonment of precipitation, stream-height and discharge gauges, the capacity to forecast droughts and floods was greater 30 years ago than it is today," the authors ...... tiny population was discovered along California`s remote central coast in the 1930s and has been given complete protection ever since. Today, the state`s sea otter population has risen above 2,000. As the voracious critters made their comeback, the urchin population rapidly declined. As a result, native k...