Sentences with phrase «carbon cycle group»

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«We expected an answer close to that, more or less, but Ralph Keeling was the first to provide the measurements,» says Pieter Tans, who heads NOAA's carbon - cycle and greenhouse - gas group in Boulder, Colorado.

Lyons and coauthors, along with research groups from around world over, are focusing current efforts on the timing and drivers of oxygenation in the late Proterozoic, favoring a combination of global - scale mountain building, evolutionary controls on the way carbon is cycled in the biosphere, and concomitant climate events.

A mathematician by training, and now a Linus Pauling postdoctoral fellow in the Microbiology Group, Todd - Brown designs computer models of soil carbon cycling - or «how dirt breathes,» she explained in a #WomenInSTEM YouTube feature.

Methylation, a fundamental epigenetic process whereby carbon groups are attached to DNA to either silence it or promote its expression, is quintessential to cellular processes including detoxification, metabolism, neurotransmitter synthesis, mitochondrial energy production, central nervous system function, cell cycle regulation, cellular integrity, and immune homeostasis — and derangements in methylation have been implicated in many diseases (Robertson, 2005).

One of this year's Heinz awards — a $ 100,000 prize for achievement in environmental science and leadership — is going to Chris Field, the Stanford ecologist and leading carbon - cycle expert who became co-chair of IPCC Working Group 2 in 2008.

The CCS&T Group aims to increase understanding of the effects of global change on the carbon cycle and is part of the Environmental Research & Technology Division of the Environmental Sciences Department.

1 When designing the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM), instead of starting from scratch, the modeling groups took the atmosphere model (called CAM) from the climate model called CESM, an ocean model originating from the MICOM model and the carbon cycle model HAMOCC from Germany.

Kadyszewski presented ACR's Climate Leadership award to Dr. Sandra Brown, Winrock senior scientist and former director of Winrock's Ecosystem Services Group, for four decades of work advancing the understanding of the role forests play in the global carbon cycle.

But the precise effect of pine bark beetle plagues on the nitrogen cycle and carbon cycle is highly variable, says a research group led by the University of Idaho, who have used an ecosystem model to simulate outbreaks.

Identification of abundant groups in bacterial communities is important in assessing roles in carbon cycling and ocean biogeochemical processes, and as a component of some marine food webs.

I also think individuals and groups are going to engage in geoengineering experiments (sulfates, solar radiation management, ocean seeding etc.) and these may «work» in some sense, but I think these experiements are likely to have unintended consequences and be difficult to scale up and deploy as an effective means to address the pulse of CO2 we have injected into the global carbon cycle.