As a scientist grounded in a research identity, one may view pedagogical training with skepticism, considering it to be a waste of time and effort, in particular if the training tries to promote teaching methods that depart from the cultural teaching norm in science: lecturing.
Scientists measured ground ice between 10 and 20 cm thick in 200 test sites, and more than half of the ground area they monitored was still covered in the ice 5 months later.
Constructing scientific theory to provide explanations is a goal for scientists and grounding the explanation of a phenomenon with available evidence.
It's easy to understand why Hawking's and Turing's stories are attractive, which is why the films seem so superficially similar: young brilliant scientists make ground-shaking discoveries and establish inspiring romantic relationships while battling both older authoritative establishment and their own dark futures.
The mathematical techniques advanced by Volterra are now in common use by earth scientists in explaining ground displacement and deformation induced by tectonic faulting.
Phobos-Grunt, which was meant to spend 2 1/2 years traveling to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and returning a soil sample to Earth, was launched Nov. 9 from the Russian spaceport in Kazakhstan, but an engine that was supposed to boost it out of Earth orbit failed to ignite, and scientists on the ground were unable to correct the problem.
Scientists on the ground collected samples of dust from dozens of spots and analyzed them in laboratories, so the aerial and ground data could be compared to make maps of dust trails of various types.
The work proved helpful to other scientists by breaking ground in the understanding of sharks.
When the federal government conducted 828 underground nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site from 1956 to 1992, its scientists knew that ground water beneath the site would become contaminated.
Dr. Blom, a geologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., helped find the site through computer-enhanced satellite images and then joined the scientists on the ground.
