Sentences with phrase «earth system history»

The pre-Phanerozoic is a poorly understood phase of Earth system history.

Shell material was analyzed for stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and oxygen (δ18O) in the Earth Systems History Laboratory at Brown University (Providence, RI).

, NSF - Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $ 270,000

Distributed Climate Proxy Records and Long - term Model Integrations, NSF - Earth Systems History [Principal Investigator: R.S. Bradley (U. Mass); Co-Investigators: M.E. Mann, M.K. Hughes] $ 270,000

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The pre-eminent American science journalist, Gleick herein explores the history and effects of knowledge communication between humans, drawing a link from African talking drums and the earliest alphabets through the telegraph — once «a nervous system for the Earth» — to Wikipedia and Twitter, and the current state of information overload from which so many claim to suffer.

«This continually unfolding emergence of new and intricately organised systems and organisms strongly suggests a directionality in the history of the universe, and in the history of the Earth and of life on it... many recent interdisciplinary pundits postulate an overarching finality or teleology - a purposefulness - to the unfolding universe, and to nature itself as it evolves on Earth...

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

The belief systems that gave us Ishtar, Habakuk, Isis, Osiris, Zeus, Hera, Frigga, Thor, Jupiter, Mars, Vishnu, Shiva, Elohim, Yaweh, Allah, AND God (just to name a SCANT few over the course of Human history - but, then again, if you're the kind of Xtian that believes the Earth is only 6000 years old, then you won't have much of a favorable view of what the remainder of us refer to AS «history»).

Instead of a weather system, the title refers to the rain of space debris that Earth has endured throughout much of its history — including the powerful collision that formed the moon (SN: 4/15/17, p. 18).

The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun's chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to Earth's place in the solar system.

Such craters provide a record of the solar system's early history; a similar record on Earth has long since been obscured by plate tectonics, erosion and other processes.

↵ † Present address: Earth and Planetary System Science, Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University, N10 W8, Sapporo 060 - 0810, Japan.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, via both remote and in - situ observations, the Rosetta mission should be a key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

«To find any parallel in the earth's history you would have to look to a sudden violent shock to the system far in the geologic past.»

Nonetheless, his conception of the sun (rather than the Earth) at the center of the solar system is considered among the most important landmarks in the history of science.

Korenaga is a co-investigator of the NASA «Alternative Earths» team, which is organized around the principle of understanding how Earth has maintained a persistent biosphere through most of its history, how the biosphere manifests in «biosignatures» on a planetary scale, and how reconstructing this history can inform the search for life within and beyond the solar system.

The «late heavy bombardment» of asteroids that clobbered Earth and the rest of the inner solar system for 20 million to 100 million years, ending 3.85 billion years ago, is generally regarded as one of the most hostile eras in our planet's history.

«The space elevator could be a catalytic step in our history,» Edwards wrote in his 2002 book (coauthored with Eric Westling), The Space Elevator: A Revolutionary Earth - to - Space Transportation System.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

Studying the craters on the moon offers a window into that violent history of the young solar system that is not nearly as accessible on Earth.

These models accurately predict how much water was locked up in the form of ice early in the history of our solar system, billions of years ago, before making its way to Earth.

By studying the gas, dust and structure of the nucleus and organic materials associated with the comet, the Rosetta mission should become key to unlocking the history and evolution of our solar system, as well as answering questions regarding the origin of Earth's water and perhaps even life.

Potential guides to the development of carbon - based life on other planets in the Solar System or around other stars include the past history and continuously changing nature and types of life and environmental conditions on Earth that reflect life's presence.

Hiramatsu: Actually, there were collisions of meteorites in the history, but an extreme example would be that if a massive star close to our solar system had a supernova explosion at the end of its life, the Earth's atmospheres could have been blown off completely.

Asteroids and other space debris left over from the solar system's creation regularly slammed into Earth early in its history.

Together, these ice sheets offer researchers a comprehensive record of Earth's climate history and play an important role in the future of the global climate system.

What could be a more fascinating — or complex — natural system than the whole history of life's diversity on Earth?

The leading theory for Charon's formation is that it formed similar to the way that the Earth and Moon have formed: from the accumulated orbital debris that surrounded Pluto after a giant impactor hit the latter during the early history of the Solar System.

The Space Transportation System (STS), as the Shuttle was officially known, flew 130 missions over 30 years, covering 542 million miles and making 21,000 earth orbits, according to a NASA history.

Wallace S. Broecker: Preface 1: Jean - Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson: Ocean Acidification: Background and History 2: Richard E. Zeebe and Andy Ridgwell: Past Changes of Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 3: James C. Orr: Recent and Future Changes in Ocean Carbonate Chemistry 4: Andrew H. Knoll and Woodward W. Fischer: Skeletons and Ocean Chemistry: The Long View 5: Markus G. Weinbauer, Xavier Mari, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effect of Ocean Acidification on the Diversity and Activity of Heterotrophic Marine Microorganisms 6: Ulf Riebesell and Philippe D. Tortell: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pelagic Organisms and Ecosystems 7: Andreas J. Andersson, Fred T. Mackenzie, and Jean - Pierre Gattuso: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Benthic Processes, Organisms, and Ecosystems 8: Hans - Otto Pörtner, Magda Gutowska, Atsushi Ishimatsu, Magnus Lucassen, Frank Melzner, and Brad Seibel: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Nektonic Organisms 9: Stephen Widdicombe, John I. Spicer, and Vassilis Kitidis: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Sediment Fauna 10: James P. Barry, Stephen Widdicombe, and Jason M. Hall - Spencer: Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function 11: Frances Hopkins, Philip Nightingale, and Peter Liss: Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Marine Source of Atmospherically - Active Trace Gases 12: Marion Gehlen, Nicolas Gruber, Reidun Gangstø, Laurent Bopp, and Andreas Oschlies: Biogeochemical Consequences of Ocean Acidification and Feedback to the Earth System 13: Carol Turley and Kelvin Boot: The Ocean Acidification Challenges Facing Science and Society 14: Fortunat Joos, Thomas L. Frölicher, Marco Steinacher, and Gian - Kasper Plattner: Impact of Climate Change Mitigation on Ocean Acidification Projections 15: Jean - Pierre Gattuso, Jelle Bijma, Marion Gehlen, Ulf Riebesell, and Carol Turley: Ocean Acidification: Knowns, Unknowns, and Perspectives Index

While water molecules were part of the cloud of gas and dust that coalesced into our solar system 4.6 billion years ago, Earth's early history included scorching temperatures and little - to - no atmosphere, so it was thought that any water on the planet's surface would likely have evaporated.

Enceladus, perhaps more than any other place in our Solar System aside from Earth, has the potential to sustain life at this particular stage in our Solar System's history.

Exploration of deep space, including NASA's proposed return to the moon and visits to Mars, could provide clues to a host of scientific questions, from the origins of Earth to the history of life in our solar system.

Aside from the origin of life itself, the transition from the anoxic Archean to the oxic Proterozoic is the most radical change to occur in the history of the Earth system.

Unlocking its history may hold clues to understanding how Earth and the rest of the solar system developed.

According to the publisher, the series is «returning to its roots» for a classic battle of two armies that, for the first time in franchise history, extends beyond Earth into the solar system.

This lesson is an introduction to Earth's history, its layers and how it was formed, and is part of a five - lesson series on Earth Systems.

versión castellano From the transdisciplinary perspective of the Big History, the Earth is a self - eco-organized system structured through sophisticated processes of co-evolution between living and non-living organisms.

This Learning Journey, which takes place at the Milwaukee Public Museum, extends students» knowledge of the solar system and history of the planet Earth.

This Learning Journey extends students» knowledge of the solar system and history of the planet Earth by taking students back in time 4.6 billion years to when the Earth was beginning to be formed.

Susan Sexton - Cooley Sara Hightower Regional Library System Rome, GA 340 — 349 Law 390 — 399 Customs and Folklore 550 — 599 Earth and Life Science, Plants, Animals 640 — 649 Home Economics 800 — 811 American Literature (Literary Criticism / Rhetoric / Poetry) 974 — 979 U.S. History (Regional)

Interactive Entertainment and Monolith Productions decided to open a panel at the SD Comic - Con entitled, «Middle - earth: Shadow of Mordor — How the Nemesis System evolves new - generation storytelling in games, and explores the history of the Rings of Power».

The game returns to the roots of the series for a classic war story, says Activision and for the first time in franchise history, extends beyond the reaches of Earth into the vast expanse of our solar system.

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Anthropocene, as you likely know, is the term applied increasingly by a range of scientists and others to this period in Earth and human history in which our species is influencing a host of planetary systems in big ways with long - lasting consequences.

That the carbon exists within Earth systems to do so is clearly evidenced by geological history.

With a different overall climatic state or geography, the system might be considerably less sensitive to orbital forcing (obviously it has been less sensitive; orbital forcing has been going on throughout Earth's history (modulated by tidally - induced changes in Earth's rotation and the moon's orbit)-RRB-.

On reading that article, I can't help but notice the intriguing similarity between the Ptolemeic solar system and the obsession with finding «natural cycles» to explain the recent temperature history of the Earth such as those referenced 2 articles ago on this very site.

Researchers believe such dramatic changes in the carbon dioxide system in surface waters have not been observed for more than 20 million years of Earth history.

Based on evidence from Earth's history, we suggest here that the relevant form of climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene (e.g. from which to base future greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization targets) is the Earth system sensitivity including fast feedbacks from changes in water vapour, natural aerosols, clouds and sea ice, slower surface albedo feedbacks from changes in continental ice sheets and vegetation, and climate — GHG feedbacks from changes in natural (land and ocean) carbon sinks.