Sentence examples for a field expedition from inspiring English sources

Aaron Putnam, a postdoctoral research scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, is leading a field expedition to the mountain kingdom of Bhutan to examine links among past climate, glaciers and water resources in the Himalaya.

Visit to the Bureau's East Side High School District; accompanying Joseph Hickey on a field expedition; cites a few typical cases; attending a hearing of parents and children at a Bureau of Attendance, conducted by Michael Flavin, supervisor of the district.

Now, a field expedition has discovered submerged remnants of the natural wonder.

A field expedition to a remote region of Myanmar in Southeast Asia ended in tragedy earlier this month, when a prominent snake expert succumbed to a poisonous snakebite.

A field expedition to the site in February 2009 recovered more than 5000 fragments of nickel-rich iron that together weighed more than 1.7 metric tons a sure sign that the meter-deep crater had been blasted by an iron meteorite.

So, a young researcher looking to get tenure might opt to write a seemingly more sophisticated, hypothesis-driven paper published in a higher tier journal and shelve largely descriptive findings from a field expedition so that they can be published later.

A quick field expedition to check family name signs on the front door of houses would enable the correct house to be identified.

The model builds upon the basic framework of a scientific field expedition by adding proven concepts from aviation and human space flight, including expeditionary behavior and cockpit resource management, cooperative crew tasking and adaptive leadership and followership, formal techniques for radio communication, and increased attention to operational considerations.

In addition to the nine captive individuals identified in the current study, a recent field expedition to Vólcan Wolf on northern Isabela in December 2008 sampled and tagged over 1600 individuals in an attempt to identify individuals of pure or mixed Floreana ancestry to further populate a breeding and repatriation program.

Re "That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer" (Essay, Jan . 29: As a tropical biologist, I jumped at the chance last fall to go to Papua New Guinea on an entomological field expedition.

The patient was a wildlife biologist who had participated in a 6-week field expedition to South Sudan and Uganda.