Sentences with phrase «ecosystems research program»

This policy brief (2018) reports on a recent study, implemented by RUAF Foundation and supported by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program (WLE / IWMI), on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.

Although the panel released few details, the statement said that those lower priorities include climate change and ecosystem research programs at USGS, which would see its budget drop by $ 101 million to $ 967 million; the Obama administration's request was $ 1.2 billion.

Scientists from these agencies will undertake programs in climate modelling, atmosphere radiation measurement, atmospheric science, the terrestrial carbon cycle, the ocean carbon cycle, and ecosystem research program, and finally will produce an integrated assessment, according to Dr. Raymond Orbach, the Energy Department's director of the Office of Science.

The ship is part of the Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research program, a collaborative effort headed by the International Whaling Commission.

Not exact matches

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

During 2015 Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project (SMS) and Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER) began involvement via our Schoolyard K - 12 education program with the Michigan State University NSF sponsored Data Nuggets activity.

Within the Ecosystems mission area, the FY 2018 budget proposes a $ 10.7 million cut in wildlife research and related programs as well as a combined $ 8 million reduction to Greater Everglades and Chesapeake Bay research and monitoring.

While such a program would contribute to basic community and ecosystem research, it also has significant implications for ecological conservation and restoration.

In addition, NASA and the Sloan Foundation recently partnered on a program to support research on the microbiome of the built environment, or the microbial ecosystem of human - made environments — in this case, the space station.

Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»

The Second Century Stewardship Science Research Fellowship program will seek to advance conservation and ecosystem science and provide information to support stewardship of park resources.

This study shows that it can be a promising option to protect European forests from the impacts of climate change,» says IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program Research Scholar Nikolay Khabarov, who led the study.

She is a member of CIFAR's Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, which uses interdisciplinary research to study how a diversity of microbial life shapes all ecosystems.

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.

This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation's Chemical and Biological Oceanography, Integrated Carbon Cycle Research, Arctic Natural Sciences, Long - Term Ecological Research, and Ecosystem Ecology programs; NASA's Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science program; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Georgia Sea Grant; the European Union's Seventh Framework Program project GEOCARBON; and the government of the Brussels - Capital program; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Georgia Sea Grant; the European Union's Seventh Framework Program project GEOCARBON; and the government of the Brussels - Capital Program project GEOCARBON; and the government of the Brussels - Capital Region.

In November, the first seven projects in the EU research program BONUS for viable ecosystems in the Baltic Sea were selected.

Together they lead the Restoring Degraded Landscapes research theme of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystemresearch theme of the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and EcosystemResearch Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE).

Initials of members of this research program are placed at their respective major research focus, those with major expertise in environmental microbiology and / or functional genomics in green, ecosystems researchers in blue.

The graduate student program offers a unique multidisciplinary PhD training on Microbial Nitrogen Cycling approached from the three complementary areas of Microbial Ecology, Functional Genomics and Ecosystem Research at the University of Vienna.

Research focused on estuarine and coastal dynamics and the impact that the resulting physical, chemical and biological processes have on the marine ecosystem; field programs to quantify physical transport and mixing to elucidate biogeochemical processes.

The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO - DMO) staff members work with investigators to serve data online from research projects funded by the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections, the Division of Polar Programs Arctic Sciences and Antarctic Organisms & Ecosystems Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

He leads a broad program of teaching and research that investigates how climate variability and climate change influence society and ecosystems like coral reefs.

The program goals include: understanding the region and how its ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate; and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline.

The Montana Institute on Ecosystems (IoE) Statewide Undergraduate Summer Research Experience Program is accepting proposals for student research projects in ecosystem science from undergraduates throughout the Montana University System (MUS) and the Montana tribal cResearch Experience Program is accepting proposals for student research projects in ecosystem science from undergraduates throughout the Montana University System (MUS) and the Montana tribal cresearch projects in ecosystem science from undergraduates throughout the Montana University System (MUS) and the Montana tribal colleges.

The mission of the Marine Sciences Program at Savannah State University is to provide research, education, and outreach programs which contribute to a vital, technically qualified, intellectually thoughtful, and ethnically diverse community of individuals capable of creatively solving problems and answering questions related to coastal and ocean ecosystem health, environmental quality, and fisheries sustainability.

UCLA - led research shows more than 550 payments for ecosystem services programs are active worldwide with more than $ 36 billion in annual transactions.

Ref: The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program developed this website as a clearinghouse of ocean fertilization news and informational resources to: 1) increase public knowledge and awareness on this topic, and 2) advance scientific research to improve our understanding of the implications of ocean fertilization for marine ecosystems.

On May 11, 2016, SATREPS (Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development), a program funded by JICA — JST (Japan International Cooperation Agency and Japan Science and Technology Agency) announced the acceptance of a 5 - yr Philippine - Indonesia - Japan project entitled, «Comprehensive Assessment and Conservation of Blue Carbon Ecosystems and Their Services in the Coral Triangle (BlueCARES)».

Bailey currently leads a PNNL research project for DOE's Terrestrial Ecosystems Sciences program that focuses on understanding and modeling the mechanisms of carbon stabilization in soil, and associated greenhouse gas fluxes.

The IoE is leading and coordinating Montana's 2011 - 2016 EPSCoR Track 1 research program to understand climate and ecosystem linkages from microbes to landscapes.

In October, lead author Brian Walsh of the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna, Austria, visited the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center and spoke with John Milewski about his research on Wilson Center Now.

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Specifically, this program will train candidates to integrate expertise in aquatic animal medicine into the broader fields of animal, human, and ecosystem health, through experiences from aquaculture, fisheries, public aquaria, companion animal medicine, academia, and research.

The Smithsonian Global Health Program works to combat threats to wildlife, human and ecosystem health through disease investigation, research, and both national and international capacity building.

His AP Environmental Studies class — and his involvement with invertebrate research in Lobos Creek through Project WISE (a Crissy Field Center program in partnership with Urban Watershed Project and Galileo)-- opened his eyes to the challenges facing natural ecosystems.

She also led monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment for the Water, Land, and Ecosystems program, a multi-institutional research program that works with more than 450 partners in 26 countries.

He was formerly research program leader in the Bureau of Rural Sciences and Head of the Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Hyatt heads the Salmon in Regional Ecosystems Program at DFO's Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo where his research focus includes: (1) the status of salmon populations in the Pacific Region, (2) climate effects on the life history and population dynamics of salmon, and (3) the development of new «tools» to support fisheries management.

The scientists at Palmer Station see changes like these up close every year, and they have collected data through the Long - Term Ecological Research program for the past two decades to track ecological and environmental changes and how those shifts cascade through the ecosystem.

As part of the Canadian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY), major international research programs have focused on offshore marine ecosystems.

was authored by Charles H. Greene, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and director of Cornell's Ocean Resources and Ecosystems program; Jennifer A. Francis of Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences; and Bruce C. Monger, Cornell senior research associate, earth and atmospheric sciences.

As part of the Canadian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY), several major international research programs have focused on offshore arctic marine ecosystems.

Describing new species and their ecological roles, quantifying carbon and energy fluxes in the ecosystem, documenting the annual cycle of ecological processes, identifying hotspots of biological production, and contrasting the ecology of the different arctic seas are the objectives shared by several international and multidisciplinary research efforts that contributed to the Canadian IPY program.

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate - Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources - A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, S.H. Julius and J.M. West, Eds., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, A-25 - A-31.

James Hansen, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies John Abraham, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of St. Thomas Jason Box, Associate Professor, Department of Geography Atmospheric Sciences Program, Researcher at Byrd Polar Research CenterThe Ohio State University Ken Caldeira, Senior Scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution Peter Gleick, President and Co-founder Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security Richard A. Houghton, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center Ralph Keeling, Director, Scripps CO2 Program Scripps Institution of Oceanography Michael MacCracken, Chief Scientist for Climate Change Programs Climate Institute Michael E. Mann, Professor of Meteorology Director, Earth System Science Center, The Pennsylvania State University James McCarthy, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography, Harvard University Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, Louis Block Professor in the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago Steve Running, Professor of Ecology, Director of Numerical Terradynamics Simulation Group, Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography George M. Woodwell, Founder, Director Emeritus, and Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification (BEC) and Ecology Research program of the British Columbia

The EPA Global Change Research Progam has a $ 20 million annual budget to contribute to the overall U.S. Climate Change Science Program with a «primary emphasis on evaluating the potential consequences of global change (particularly climate variability and change) on air quality, water quality, ecosystems, and human health in the United States.»

We must also implement targeted research programs to study the stabilizing impact of natural ecosystems, to stimulate public discussion, and to raise people's awareness of the real value of forests.

Our island Nature Center staff members conduct environmental research and provide programs to help people explore and understand the ecosystems around them.