Sentences with phrase «environmental research center»

Re: david watt (Feb 2 03:56), also by Study: trees are growing faster because of climate change USA Today — citing Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Forests are growing faster, climate change appears to driving accelerated growth based on a PNAS paper by Parker and McMahon Feb. 1 to be posted.

«This is the first paper that demonstrates that the changes we are seeing in Alaskan lakes in response to a warming climate is also occurring in Siberia,» said Larry Hinzman with the Water and Environmental Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

July 15, 2013 — Under elevated carbon dioxide levels, wetland plants can absorb up to 32 percent more carbon than they do at current levels, according to a 19 - year study published in Global Change Biology from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md..

Denise Breitburg, at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the US and who led the analysis, said: «Under the current trajectory that is where we would be headed.

«Everyone needs to readjust their expectation on China's national carbon market,» said Junjie Zhang, director of the Environmental Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, a joint venture of Duke University and China's Wuhan University.

It would enable us to see how the changes in the environment affect the number of birds and their nestlings,» Karen Aghababyan, senior avian researcher at American University of Armenia's Acopian Environmental Research Center, the group behind the project, told ArmeniaNow.

1) «The Department of Defense funded the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) to create the world's first renewable jet fuel, and the mission had been accomplished.»

With my husband, I also am working to develop an environmental research center on our private reserve in the Nicaraguan rain forest near the border with Costa Rica.

Myriam Lafreniere - Roula, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Gay Lemons, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University Mindy Levine, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT Wendy Murdock Reid, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Commonwealth University Ariana Sutton - Grier, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Lin Yan, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, University of Washington Uzma Zakai, Ph.D., Postdoc Research Associate, University of Wisconsin - Madison

The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is working with FuelCell Energy, Inc., an integrated stationary fuel cell manufacturer, to develop a durable, low - cost, and high - performance electrochemical cell to convert natural gas and other methane - rich gas into methanol, a major chemical commodity with worldwide applications in... Read more →

In a paper published Monday in Scientific Reports, Chuck Bangley, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and his colleagues analyzed data from the North Carolina fisheries» department, which compared the temperature, oxygen and salinity of the water to the number of sharks near Pamlico Sound, part of the stretch of water between the islands of the Outer Banks and the rest of the state.

In San Francisco Bay, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center biologists discovered a hidden side effect: All that freshwater rain can turn the tables on some of the bay's invasive species.

Chang, a marine biologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's branch in Tiburon, Calif., has been watching San Francisco's invaders since 2000.

«Instead of digging up contaminated sediments or soil, we hoped to add something to the sediments that will keep the mercury from getting into the food web,» says Cynthia Gilmour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

The Experimental Lakes Area (ELA), Canada's flagship environmental research center that has been under threat of closure for 2 years, has found a savior.

Edwin D. Grosholz, Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California at Davis James T. Carlton, Williams College — Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland

At the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center's (UNDERC) field station in Michigan's remote Upper Peninsula, more than a dozen doctoral students went beyond the bounds of academia to combat invasive plants and animals.

They teamed up with the University of North Dakota's (UND's) Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) in Grand Forks.

If the findings are correct, we might be able to tip the balance back again by manipulating the nitrogen in soil, says Patrick Megonigal of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.

So researchers from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, planted seeds from three endangered orchid species in plots on six sites in Maryland: three in younger forests aged 50 to 70 years old and three in more mature forests aged 120 to150 years old.

Scientists at the affected institutes — the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute — would be free to compete for funding under NSF's regular programs.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

The federally operated Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland, for example, «will be closed to the public and all employees except for a few staff needed for security, animal care and emergency responses,» Anson Hines, SERC's director, wrote in an email.

«Everyone needs to readjust their expectation on China's national carbon market,» said Junjie Zhang, director of the Environmental Research Center at Duke Kunshan University, a joint venture of Duke University and China's Wuhan University.

«The concept of «blue carbon» has focused scientists and stakeholders on the tremendous potential of managing marine ecosystems for climate mitigation,» said Patrick Megonigal, associate director for research at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, who reviewed an early draft of the manuscript but was not directly involved in the work.

The USGS's Columbia Environmental Research Center (CERC), where Chapman works, is in Columbia, Missouri, near the eponymous river, some 350 miles from Chicago and the front of the invasion.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Nearly 300 species have appeared on the shores of Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast attached to tsunami debris, marine biologists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Williams College and other institutions reported in the journal Science on Thursday.

«I didn't think that most of these coastal organisms could survive at sea for long periods of time,» said Greg Ruiz, a co-author and marine biologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

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.»

«Some claims do not sound true,» said environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, a senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaics Environmental Research Center, in 2008.

Citizen involvement improves science, said Alison Cawood, citizen science coordinator at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

The tour leaves the Ramapo Saltbox Environmental Research Center (ERC) at 10 a.m..

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Pollack is a research associate at the Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Environmental Physiology at Duke University Medical Center, and the research director for the Divers Alert Network, a nonprofit organization that helps divers in medical emergencies and promotes dive safety.

A newly released study from the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research did detailed surveys with more than 1,100 drivers.

Andre Niemann, from the University of Duisburg - Essen's Center for Water and Environmental Research, works on the scheme in North - Rhine Westphalia.

Susan Shaheen, co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, has begun a study with the Natural Resources Defense Council to determine the environmental impact of Uber and Lyft's car - pooling systems.

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The state - of - the - art distillery and brand visitor center in England was awarded the prestigious 2014 Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) Industrial Award, the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, foEnvironmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) Industrial Award, the world's foremost environmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, foenvironmental assessment method and rating system for buildings, for its design.

Prior to that, Polly provided comprehensive research and grants administration for a portfolio of externally funded projects, including a $ 3 million Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Center for Risk Science and Public Health at The George Washington University.

«We advise families with private wells to have their tap water tested for arsenic,» Dr. Margaret Karagas, senior author and professor at Dartmouth's Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center, said in a press release.

Morgan asked the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a global collaboration of marine research, for more than $ 100 million to collect six 2 - mile - deep cores from around the crater's center to better understand peak ring formation and the impact's environmental effects.

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«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

«Decreased adiponectin, if it happens in vivo, appears to be a bad thing and could result in increased heart disease,» says environmental health scientist Richard Stahlhut of the University of Rochester Medical Center, who was not involved in the research.

For some time now, the impact of environmental stressors during pregnancy on allergy risk among new - born children is a main research topic at Leipzig Helmholtz Center for Environmental Reenvironmental stressors during pregnancy on allergy risk among new - born children is a main research topic at Leipzig Helmholtz Center for Environmental Researcresearch topic at Leipzig Helmholtz Center for Environmental ReEnvironmental ResearchResearch (UFZ).

The research was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shiver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) 2R01 HD27592, and the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center grant ES03819.

To fill in the maps, in 2009 representatives of the Lima - based Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin, or COICA, asked researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to help them estimate the carbon in the indigenous forests of the Amazon region.

Sulfate particles, on the other hand, reflect solar radiation and act as seeds for cloud droplet formation, cooling the climate as a result,» says Juan Acosta Navarro, PhD student at the Department of Environmental Science and Analytical Chemistry (ACES) and the Bolin Center for Climate Research, Stockholm University, and co-author of the study.