Coastal Birds "Feel" Their Prey Under The Sand
...n locate their favourite food -shellfish-under wet sand by inserting their beak half a centimetre into the sand for afew seconds. Scientists at the NWO's Netherlands Institute for SeaResearch (NIOZ) and the unive...Duke Geologist Decries Using Engineering Models To Predict Natural Phenomena
... focused on expensive "nourishment" projects where sand fromanother location is pumped or trucked in to em...id. "Whereas, with a beach thatis less shelly, its sand will move with the waves from the beginning of a storm.So you have an entirely different response to...Virginia Tech Research Group Presents Improved Dental Materials
...nomer liquids plus an inorganicfiller such as fine sand or silica to produce white fillings for repairing frontteeth," Shultz explains. "One of the monomers is a thick, viscous liquid and theother is a thin liquid. The addition of the thin liquid monomer is necessary togive the paste the proper consistenc...Fossil Evidence Of Worms Over One Billion Years Old Reported In Science
...hind as ancient worm-like animals wriggled through sand beds underneath ashallow sea covering what is now ...beds that built up during storms. The tops of many sand beds were coveredwith a microbial mat that blanketed the floor periodically and protected thesand be...University Of Kentucky Researcher Awarded MERIT Extension For Study Of Third World Killer
...rd World countries. Theparasite is transmitted by sand flies and results in the disease calledleishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis, which often results in death, is a problem forresidents, travelers, and U.S. soldiers stationed in the Middle East. It was aparticular issue during Desert Storm, Turco said. Symp...Putting A Price Tag On Pollution
...ientist starts bystudying how individual grains of sand interact with fluids, then moves upthrough larger andlarger segments of earth. Ghanem's next goal is to develop computer software that will allowbuilders and publicofficials to begin using his methods to make reliable predictions about thesprea...Study 'Gone With The Wind' Provides Stellar Ecological Example
...und a starfish on top of one southwestisland, and sand deposits on many of the islands, which were bereft of spidersand lizards. This indicated that a tidal surge as high as 15 to 20 feet -- aresponse to the lower air pressure caused by the hurricane -- inundated theislands, which are about five feet a...USGS Measures Coral Reef Recovery In Culebra, Puerto Rico
...ricane Hugo. Coral reefs are sources of carbonate sand production, buffers to storm-waveinduced coastalerosion, sites of high biologic productivity (important to local fisheries), andtourist attractions. In 1991, direct observation by divers showed hurricanedamage to the coralreefs to be extensive on the...Purdue Golf Course Serves Double Duty As Research Lab
... hole with two fairways, separated by an enormous sand bunker that runs the length of the hole. The idea is that golfers will be allowed to play one fairway, while the other will be closed down so that researchers and students can go out on the course and inspect on- course turf experiments. "Thi...Destructive Algae Overtaking Mediterranean Waters
...ia, are equally adept at colonizing rock, mud, and sand in a virtually continuous swath that can extend from the beach out to a depth of about 150 feet. A single square yard of seafloor can be matted with 700 feet of runners from which emerge thousands of shaggy, thick leaves. This expansive growth su...Montana And Other Scientists Report On Life In The Ice
... Now he has kinder words for the pieces of sand and gravel entombed inthe ice of Lake Bonney and s... trenching into the icethat the bits of gravel and sand in the sediment layer absorb sunlight duringthe Antarctic summer and create little pockets of water....UF Researcher's Innovative Fence Helps Control Sand Flies
...Mark Catholic School hit theplayground, the biting sand flies in the mangrove marsh next door startsmackin...andAgricultural Sciences. But Day hopes to use the sand flies' thirst for blood against them. Betweenthe marsh and the playground he has built a fence that ...Waste Asphalt Doesn't Pollute Groundwater, UF Researchers Say
...ll roads to resurface them, the mixture ofasphalt, sand and rock they remove is known as reclaimed asphalt pavement.In Florida, resurfacing generates between 750,000 and 1 million tons ofthe material each year, with most of it recycled into hot asphalt mix andreapplied to roads or highways, said Gale Pag...Study Shows Zebra Mussels Can Colonize Sand And Mud
...“We found that zebra mussels clearly colonize sand and muddysubstrates in the lake,” he said, ad...ic larva and can attach itselfto a single grain of sand or mud. When the animal becomes a juvenile, itstarts secreting byssal threads, which serve as anchor...Environmental Technology Breakthroughs Forecast -- Year 2008
...red reactions withchlorine. Sponge-like grains of sand will attract and hold nitrates and heavymetals to further protect drinking water in large and small systems. Renewable energy storage--In 10 years, improved power storage will increase theuse of electricity from solar and wind power. For example, s...Water Quality In Indiana's White River Basin Affected By Urban And Agricultural Activities
...d or advisory." In cropland areas with a surficial sand and gravel aquifer that is particularly vulnerable...ter standard of 10 milligrams per liter. Surficial sand and gravel aquifers underlying cropland had high nitrate concentrations. Samples from 17 percent of ...Coastal Development Threatens Rare Atlantic Shorebird
...rtificial site, whether it's roof-tops or man-made sand hillscalled "spoils," dredged from ocean channels....hat'shappening," said Schweitzer. "The colonies on sand spoils need to be fenced offto protect the nests from humans as well as domestic pets, which are a r...STS-89 Will Carry Five Science Payloads From NASA/Marshall
...nded range of conditions.It compresses a column of sand contained in a latex sleeve within a water-filledp...ic mass ofsolidly packed-together materials - like sand or grain or agricultural productsin a process conveyor belt - will suddenly behave as if they were a......a poorly knownphenomenon in which otherwise stable sand dunes became drenched with water inheavy rains, tr...ance, a pick-up truckparked at the base of a large sand dune was half buried by sand flows generatedby a heavy July rainstorm. In another case a barn built...Environmental Engineers Demonstrate Effective Method For Trapping Highway Pollutants
...tems with an iron oxide coatedsand. That makes the sand signficantly more effective at trappingheavy metal...conomical and efficient. It took ten tonsof coated sand to treat 20 meters of highway during the fieldtest, so Sansalone must find a consistent and simple m...