Sentences with phrase «conservation scientists say»

Conservation scientists say there needs to be a new approach to protecting offshore marine reserves.

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«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate scientist join Shedd's conservation research team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

«Now that the EPA has confirmed what top scientists have said all along, that fracking is safe and has no widespread impact on drinking water, we are calling on Commissioner Martens and the state Department of Environmental Conservation to rescind the temporary ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State.»

Bezur, the Yale conservation scientist, says she was envious of such a definitive test.

For Jeremy Yoder, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, his metascience research about LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans *, queer, or asexual) scientists» experiences was «the intersection of personal interest and serendipity,» he says.

«Taken on their own, these materials and techniques are not unique fingerprints to Velázquez,» says Anikó Bezur, a conservation scientist at Yale who worked with McClure.

«The goal of the BCS was to understand better the distribution and conservation needs of Bornean cats and small carnivores and subsequently, to enable targeted conservation efforts to those carnivores which are most threatened,» said Dr. Andreas Wilting, scientist at the IZW and lead editor of this supplement.

This is the first time that the raw materials of Picasso's sculptures have been scrutinized in detail, conservation scientist Francesca Casadio of the Art Institute of Chicago said...

«Science plays a big role in deepening our understanding of these iconic masterpieces,» said Francesca Casadio, A.W. Melon senior conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago, which is hosting a new exhibition, Van Gogh's Bedrooms.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

«The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms,» says John Reynolds, a salmon conservation scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

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«We found out during that process how hard it is to paint like Rothko,» says Bronwyn Ormsby, senior conservation scientist for the UK's Tate galleries.

The scientists say that identifying the regions and species at greatest risk means conservation efforts can be better targeted.

Chief scientist Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation Institute in Seattle says the recent findings show decision makers that «they need to find ways to make fishing less harmful environmentally.»

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

«It's a complex process that scientists are still trying to understand,» says James Martin, a chemist from the Williamstown Art Conservation Center.

«We wanted to make this one - stop shopping for scientists and policymakers,» says IUCN and Conservation International mammalogist Jan Schipper, who coordinated the project.

«Well - being is a universally applicable concept, yet because it can mean so many different things to different people, pinning down an exact definition is difficult,» said lead author Eleanor Sterling, who is the Jaffe Chief Conservation Scientist in the American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity and Conservation.

«The gap between what we know and don't know about Earth's biodiversity is still tremendous, but technology is playing a major role in closing it and helping us conserve biodiversity more intelligently and efficiently,» said coauthor Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Scientists have long debated the distinctions among African elephants, which were divided into as many as 18 types in colonial times, says conservation geneticist Lori Eggert of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..

«The work discussed at today's press conference is emblematic of the many ways in which satellite remote sensing supports our efforts at natural resource management and wildlife conservation,» said Woody Turner, program scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.

In all, scientists captured 14 new pythons during 33 tracking periods, said Smith, who conducts research under the supervision of assistant professor Christina Romagosa, a faculty member in wildlife ecology and conservation.

«Understanding the genome will help us make conservation plans that allow Joshua tree to adapt to changing climates and environments,» said project scientist Christopher Irwin Smith, a biologist at Willamette University.

This study also increased the number of genetic markers scientist can use to study the population biology of great white and related sharks, Stanhope said, by a thousandfold, from which they hope to further expand knowledge of these fascinating animals, many of which are in urgent need of conservation.

It «presents a very clear and easy to understand up - to - date summary of the population trends and status of the birds in the U.S.,» says Stuart Butchart, a conservation scientist at BirdLife International in Cambridge, U.K. «Everyone ought to pay attention to what this report tells us.»

Smart radio tags attached to rhinos allowed the drones to home in on each herd's current location, says Pierre du Preez, MET's chief conservation scientist.

It uses some of the same long - term data as the climate change report and as a «collective statement of both governmental and non-governmental organizations... [it] presents a more accurate picture» of where birds stand, says Mark Eaton, a conservation scientist for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Sandy, U.K.

Still, the process is «a laudable start in employing a scientifically rigorous methodology to identify those special ocean areas that deserve greater protection,» says conservation scientist Richard Steiner, a consulting researcher in Anchorage, Alaska.

«As conservation scientists, the existing paradigm is we should save everything,» says Leah Gerber, an ecologist at Arizona State University, Tempe.

«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the work we are doing to learn about these bears is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

But David Saunders, a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London, says they are worrying about nothing.

«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.

Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered species, University of Florida scientists say.

«This paper, by addressing the issue for all mammals, reminds us that we also need to think about the less charismatic species, and the less high - profile ones,» says E. J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

The proliferation of problem drugs puts a premium on finding safer alternatives, says Toby Galligan, a conservation scientist at the United Kingdom's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Bedfordshire.

With global collaborations, we can identify strategic future investments in marine protected areas, and track progress towards better outcomes,» said Dr. Emily Darling, Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society, who leads a global coral reef monitoring program.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.

But «we wondered what was the net consequence of this big number of groupers inside the park,» says Daniel Brumbaugh, senior conservation scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in Neconservation scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in NeConservation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

In a new report, the scientists say that even if strict conservation measures are taken now, the bears will disappear within 15 to 20 years.

«It's a bitter irony that western conservation scientists who are working on providing the information needed to protect tropical forests have a much greater personal carbon footprint than almost anyone they will meet abroad,» says Ben Phalan, a postdoc at the University of Cambridge.

By linking flight information to meteorological data, scientists are learning precisely how condors move across the landscape and what places are most important to protect, says Mike Wallace of the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

Ed Arnett, senior scientist with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, a group devoted to preserving hunting and fishing habitat, said his group and others that support the sage grouse decision believe its success will depend on how it is implemented.

Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature does not consider the spotted, spinner, and bottlenose dolphins endangered, the scientists say the organization's classifications don't reflect what is happening to these insular populations — which, they say, urgently need monitoring and management.

«Proposed projects lacking this approach should be rejected,» says Margot Bass, a conservation biologist and founding member of Scientists Concerned for Yasuni.