Sentences with phrase «environmental understanding at»

He is also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University's Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.

He's also senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University.

He writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times, and he is a senior fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University.

We also have from the studios of NPR, New York, Andrew Revkin, who writes the Dot Earth blog for The New York Times and he's a senior fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University.

He's also a senior fellow for and environmental understanding at Pace University.

Andrew Revkin, the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University, has been writing about environmental and social sustainability for more than three decades, from the Amazon to the White House to the North Pole, mainly for The New York Times.

He's also senior fellow for Environmental Understanding at Pace University.

SEJ member, reporter and author Andrew Revkin is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University's Academy for Applied Environmental Studies and writes the award - winning Dot Earth blog for the Op - Ed side of The New York Times.

I'm taking a position as senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University, situated in the school's young Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.

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Denise Taschereau, manager of social and environmental responsibility at Mountain Equipment Co-op, was at the BALLE BC conference and said Wilson demonstrated a marked lack of understanding of the issues surrounding offshore manufacturing.

Having recently called out the federal government for failing to provide a justification for its decision to approve Shell's Jackpine mine oil sands expansion project (an approach that serves no interest other than the government's, as even industry would stand to benefit from knowing why one project is justified while another, e.g. Taseko's original Prosperity mine, is not), it was reassuring to see that at least this Joint Review Panel (JRP) shares my understanding of this obligation under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, SC 2012, c 19.

The Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS Discovery District, the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Ontario's advanced energy and water technologies in China.

It has also had significant environmental consequences — set aside climate change and, if nothing else, think of industrial toxicity at the scale of Lake Michigan's southwest shoreline, New Jersey's Chemical Coast, or the chemical plants and oil refineries immediately north of Louisiana's State Capitol grounds in Baton Rouge, the long - term effects of which remain unknown — and has prompted not only environmentalist discontent and backlash, but also a neo-pagan anthropology and cosmology in which nature itself is increasingly understood as sacred.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

At Cranswick, we understand that food waste is not only a financial cost to the business and significant environmental issue to tackle but also increasingly ethically unacceptable.

Committed to international understanding, diversity, environmental stewardship, adventure, leadership, and service, Hackley prepares students to think and act with care and effectiveness both at school and in their broader communities.

A few of us were at the forefront of the environmental movement 30 years ago, others came to understand the dangers of environmental degradation far more recently.

«Every animal we treat allows us to monitor the health of the species and most importantly, identify baseline indicators that can be used to better understand the wildlife population and environmental impacts,» said Tim Binder, executive vice president of animal care at Shedd Aquarium.

During his service as Mayor of the City of Syracuse and at the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation, he has displayed a keen understanding of the challenges facing local governments and the ability to implement innovative solutions.

Daniel Dromm showed a real understanding of transportation and urban environmental issues at T.A.'s candidate debate.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Understanding what happens at the places sand is mined, the places sand is used and the many points in between which experience loss, benefits or harm is within reach using research frameworks like telecoupling — which allows researchers to understand socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances.

«For a long time, processes like this were seen as a «black box» that can not be understood and that can only be effectively exploited with a lot of experience,» says Prof. Christoph Herwig, who leads the research group for bioprocess technology at TU Wien's Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering.

If anybody can understand what happened to Killingsworth, it is physician Claudia Miller, an environmental health expert at the University of Texas School of Medicine in San Antonio, who studies a phenomenon she calls toxicant - induced loss of tolerance (TILT).

Immunologist Nick Cohen at the University of Rochester in New York says the causes are complex and not understood but notes that environmental degradation has weakened the frogs» immune systems.

Dr Stewart Owen, Principal Environmental Scientist at AstraZeneca, added: «We are working to develop sustainable tools to help us better understand the impact of pollutants; and we must do this using the best science available.

«I think this is a step towards making sense out of a lot of data — genetic data, environmental data, epidemiological data — to help us understand factors that contribute to long and healthy life,» says Winifred Rossi, deputy director of the Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology at the National Institute on Aging, who wasn't involved in the study.

«This is an important step forward in our understanding of how we share our microbiomes when we interact with other people,» says Jack Gilbert, an environmental microbiologist at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, who was not involved in the work.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«In the past, to understand the impact of an environmental odour, you would capture the odour in a container, bring it to the laboratory, dilute it successively, present those dilutions to panellists, and have them tell at what point they could detect the odour,» says Pamela Dalton of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who uses the Nasal Ranger to monitor the smells emitted by hog farms.

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) have published guidance for employers aimed at helping them better understand the implications of marijuana use on the workforce as attitudes toward marijuana and laws restricting it continue to change.

Further, it demonstrates the potential to ultimately prevent conditions like ADHD by understanding how genes and environmental exposures combine,» says lead researcher Joel Nigg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the OHSU School of Medicine.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

Although researchers do not fully understand what causes SIDS, the leading hypothesis describes it as a combination of environmental stressors occurring at a critical development period of an infant who has some underlying vulnerability, such as genetic condition or brain dysfunction.

«There's been a lot of work to understand surface - groundwater exchange,» said Aaron Packman, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University.

«Low - income children are at increased risk for developing cognitive delays, but the specific environmental and biological factors that influence these outcomes are less understood,» explains Melissa L. Sturge - Apple, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, who was part of the research team.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

«This paper represents a significant contribution to our understanding of human environmental adaptation,» says Toomas Kivisild, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the study.

Spearheaded by researchers at Florida Atlantic University, findings from this study are published in the April 4 issue of Current Biology, which establishes that translin is an essential integrator of sleep and metabolic state, with important implications for understanding the neural mechanism underlying sleep deprivation in response to environmental challenges.

Professor Bill Keevil, Chair in Environmental Healthcare at the University of Southampton and the paper's co-author, explains the significance of these findings: «It's important to understand the mechanism of copper's antimicrobial efficacy because microorganisms have evolved various mechanisms to convey resistance to disinfectants and antibiotics.

«More detailed information may make it possible to better understand where the bacteria came from — from what sort of animal, or from what part of the world,» explains Robert Tauxe, deputy director of foodborne, waterborne and environmental diseases at the CDC.

«I don't believe that anyone else was able to bring such a diverse group of people together to discuss this extremely complex problem from their unique perspectives, with a common goal to jointly advance the understanding of this problem and rationally discuss possible ways forward,» noted Radisav Vidic, the William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh and a Shale Network member.

«We've been trying to figure out how to pull people together and look at numbers to understand impacts,» said Susan Brantley, distinguished professor of geosciences and director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State.

«Understanding the dynamic distribution of ABA in plants in response to environmental stimuli is of particular importance in elucidating the action of this important plant hormone,» says Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

The general public probably does not understand the nuance, acknowledged Stephanie Herring, an attribution scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

«Our previous research used field studies to understand the history of climate change in the Western US,» said study coauthor Kate Maher, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University.»

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«This is a well - done study that furnishes us with new understanding about the environmental effects of agricultural surfactants», says biologist Reinier Mann at the Universidade de Aveiro in Portugal.

For an understanding of how nuclear plant safety is assessed and will likely be evaluated moving forward, Scientific American spoke with Najmedin Meshkati, a professor of civil, environmental, industrial and systems engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering in Los Angeles.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.