The scientists
in environmental research laboratories, since they are not normally linked to any particular private industry, were forced to seek funds from other government departments.
For once, there is good news for the environment: a flurry of international conservation initiatives and
environmental research projects were given the green light last week.
And only 0.2 percent of that R&D funding went to green building; all of energy, general science, natural resources, and
environmental research totaled 8 percent.
The government found itself short of local environmental specialists who could oversee the large -
scale environmental research, so «research manager» became my title.
Our team of citizen science volunteers at Skeptical Science has published a new survey in the journal
Environmental Research Letters of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers, as the Guardian reports today.
In any case, if 5 to 30 percent of the current decline is considered «a considerable fraction,» then it is consistent with the findings
of Environmental Research Letters paper discussed above.
For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian
Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»
«She's a scientist who knows better than anyone in Brazil what's going on with measuring deforestation in the Amazon,» says Paulo Moutinho, an ecologist at the Amazon
Environmental Research Institute in Brasília.
But it includes a $ 17 million overhaul of the
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, as well as $ 500,000 for the care of collections at the National Museum of Natural History and animals at the National Zoo.
It was supported by a National
Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub Project grant and an Australian Research Council Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant.
Thomas Whitham is a regents» professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the executive director of the Merriam - Powell Center for
Environmental Research at Northern Arizona University.
The research was supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Natural
Environmental Research Council of the UK, the Royal Society, the European Research Council, the Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation of the United States of America.
This research is party supported by
Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) National Capability funding, and forms part of the NOC's ongoing use of satellite data to investigate the ocean on a global scale.
Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the
Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is «too late» to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.
This New York State —
based environmental research organization since 2004 has studied wildlife in and on the banks of the Hudson River as well as the toll development has taken on the 315 - mile (500 - Kilometer) waterway, which runs south from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Ocean.
Apart from continuous measurements over years at different daytimes and locations, the scientists also studied vertical distribution of dust pollution in cooperation with colleagues of the Atmospheric
Environmental Research Division of KIT's Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research and the Institute of Regional Science of KIT.
Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, an analyst
with Environmental Research Consulting in Cortlandt Manor, New York, compares the use of dispersants to chemotherapy.
The government also announced that the
National Environmental Research Program and the Australian Climate Change Science Programme will be folded into the new National Environmental Science Programme; the combined budgets, however, will AU$ 21.7 million less than existing funding.
Note: The subject matter of talks associated with the UCSB Reads selection for 2014, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Mariner Books, 2010), by Timothy Egan, is closely related to the first Bren School
Strategic Environmental Research Initiative (SERI).
Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish
Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.
Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and
Environmental Research as part of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, and Atmospheric Systems Research program.
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is one of the world's
leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.
Our island Nature Center staff members
conduct environmental research and provide programs to help people explore and understand the ecosystems around them.
This is what happened to Colin Strine from Sakaerat
Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, during a field trip with his team to a biodiversity hotspot in the north - east of the country where at least 176 snake species are found.
A tip on the hat to Grist for pointing out an article
from Environmental Research Letters from Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold, on, essentially, how quickly transitioning to clean energy can combat climate change, the inertia inherent in the climate system, and whether anything short of a wholesale rapid transition away from fossil fuels will do the trick.
Sponsor: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, Biological and
Environmental Research supported this project as part of the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program.
Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based
environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.
According to George Leskevich, a physical research scientist with the Great Lakes
Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., there is also a long - term downward trend in Great Lakes wintertime ice cover, although there is considerable year - to - year variability.
Thus, the planet is really more like an «Earth cousin,» says Thomas Barclay of the Bay
Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, a co-author of the paper announcing the discovery in April 2014.
The paper, published in the September 2013 issue of the journal Environmental Management, dovetails with the inaugural Bren School Strategic
Environmental Research Initiative (SERI) project, which is intended to foster interdisciplinary collaborations as a way of developing innovation solutions to major environmental problems of our time.
The delegation was organized by the South
Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) and UK Science and Innovation Network at the invitation of the Falkland Islands government.
The laboratory's international reputation is recognised even by the government, which recently appointed Warren Spring as its sole representative in the European Network of
Environmental Research Organisations.