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field study

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noun

  1. (often plural) a research project carried out in the field See field

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To answer these questions, Zhao and his colleagues carried out a two year field study in 2022 and 2023 at NIBIO's Svanhovd research station in the Pasvik Valley of Northern Norway.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2026

Bonell and her team recently conducted the first field study probing the physiological impacts of heat stress on mother and fetus, published in December 2022.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 27, 2023

In what investigators say is the first field study to examine how this phenomenon works and its ecological impacts, they found that the stealthy flames draw nourishment from a surprising subterranean source.

From Scientific American • Jul. 31, 2023

This year’s field study detected an 11-member pack on the main island’s eastern side and a five-member pack on the western side.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2023

On the other hand, we need a more careful and extended field study of these variations.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis