Sentences with phrase «future earth research»

He is a member of the Interim Engagement Committee of the international Future Earth research initiative and the Working Group on the Anthropocene of the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.

Also at the conference Tuesday, a major alliance of science, research and United Nations bodies launched a 10 - year initiative — Future Earth Research for Global Sustainability — to commence next year to coordinate scientific research into the major social and environmental challenges from climate change as they emerge over coming years.

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The research is expected to offer insight on what will be necessary to create beer on the Red Planet as well as provide information on the future production of barley here on Earth.

If someone believes in the creation story to the extent that they reject scientific inquiry, they're not well - equipped to conduct the research and do the work needed in the future to benefit and improve the condition of and ensure the survival of the earth and its human and animal populations.

Since this is a central issue for the forecasting of future climatic conditions on Earth, for about a year now the physicist in Potsdam has been heading an interdisciplinary research group that focuses specifically on this topic.

Or do research on fundamental problems like the origin of life on Earth, the existence of life in other parts of the universe, or the future of life in space?

According to Collins, «Beyond its importance for astronauts and future space explorers, this research also could lead to novel methods for preventing and treating human disease on Earth.

«We are concerned that the administration's proposed cuts to research into the Earth system sciences will undermine the continued scientific progress that is so vitally needed to better protect the nation in the future from costly natural disasters,» Antonio J. Busalacchi, the president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a stresearch into the Earth system sciences will undermine the continued scientific progress that is so vitally needed to better protect the nation in the future from costly natural disasters,» Antonio J. Busalacchi, the president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a stResearch (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.

And Roger Anderson, director of the energy research center at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, expects the future will hold more of the same.

«We're trying to understand how what we're doing to the Earth's atmosphere and oceans will play out in the future,» says Bette Otto - Bliesner, who runs a full - complexity climate model — and its 1.5 million lines of code — through a supercomputer named Yellowstone at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

For example, Future Earth, launched in 2012 by ICSU and other international organizations, is a global platform for coordinating new, inter - and transdisciplinary approaches to research on global environmental change.

«The record of the Earth's climate since the invention of the thermometer is much better understood now,» says physicist Tim Killeen, AGU president and director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. «This detailed understanding of the climate of the 20th century gives confidence in the ability to project into the future.

The Institute is part of NASA's astrobiology program, which supports research into the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life on Earth and the potential for life elsewhere.

«To predict how climate change will impact the future, it's important to know what has happened in the past,» said Joshua Feinberg, a University of Minnesota associate professor of Earth Sciences and associate director of the Institute for Rock Magnetism, who supervised the research.

In this research, the authors present extensive evidence of the need for a new paradigm of modeling that incorporates the feedbacks that the Earth System has on humans, and propose a framework for future modeling that would serve as a more realistic guide for policymaking and sustainable development.

For more information about the International Space Station, research in low - Earth orbit, NASA's commercial space programs and the future of American spaceflight, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration

Some prior research has suggested that carbon dioxide emissions from all lakes on Earth are less than what was found in the Arctic, and future factors could shift the importance of sunlight, noted Lars Tranvik, a Swedish scientist, in an accompanying Science article.

«Unless we take different protection measures, 5 million people will be exposed to coastal flooding on an annual basis,» said Michalis Vousdoukas, a coastal oceanographer at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and the lead author of the new study published in Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The findings, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, were obtained with a model similar to the type used to predict future climate change on Earth.

Wet tropical forests, like this one on the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica, are among the most productive ecosystems on earth, and new research points to the importance of both temperature and rainfall on future plant growth as the climate changes.

Following a brief «tour» through the years leading up to the first Earth Day, he then discusses lessons learned and Brookhaven Lab scientists» research that may be applied, today and in the future, to determine what Earth will be like 50 years from now.

In the 487th Brookhaven Lecture, Stephen Schwartz speaks about his research on why Earth's temperature has not increased as much as expected from the observed increase in greenhouse gases, and what this might mean for the future.

He currently serves as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future, and is chair of the Panel on Earth Science Applications and Societal Needs.

The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) has commissioned a report entitled «From Cosmic Birth to Living Earths: The Future of UVOIR Space Astronomy.»

The mission of the Comet Research Group is to accurately assess the effects of comet impacts on human history, to educate the international public about these effects, and, ultimately, to provide governments and the scientific community with the information they need to stop comets from hitting Earth in the future.

Gordon McBean is President of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and Co-Chair of the Governing Council for Future Earth: Research for Global Sustainability and Professor Emeritus of Geography at Western University, London, Canada.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Under CSIRO's Deep Earth imaging Future Science Platform, the research organisation is bringing together the skills and capabilities to peer through the earth and determine with greater certainty where usable sources of water are likely tEarth imaging Future Science Platform, the research organisation is bringing together the skills and capabilities to peer through the earth and determine with greater certainty where usable sources of water are likely tearth and determine with greater certainty where usable sources of water are likely to be.

The findings provide an important starting point for future research on the origins of life on Earth.

His most recent research has been on Earth's deep past climates and what they can tell us about future climate change.

Most importantly, as Feng explained via an email exchange shared with Gizmodo, the research pushes the limits of the sorts of planets we can detect with the radial velocity method, boosting our prospects of discovering truly Earth - sized, rocky worlds in the future.

He serves on the committee for science, programme and review of the International Council for Science (ICSU) He is the chair of the German Research Foundation's (DFG) German Committee Future Earth that promotes integrated environmental and sustainability science.

My research group focuses on past and future Earth system uncertainty, and upon the incorporation of uncertain Earth system knowledge into policy decisions.

Its staff conducts basic research on the interactions among Earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans to understand how these interactions shape the behavior of the Earth system, including its response to future change.

The future focus for field research will be to explore connections to populations of whale sharks found in more remote places on Earth.

Taking the wheel of futuristic, ultra-rugged JCB vehicles, players must explore the alien landscape, mine precious materials, construct large - scale buildings and research new technologies to ensure humanity's future lies beyond planet Earth.

It continues to the present with her newest projects, among which is the Infinity Engine, a functioning genetics laboratory that proposes possible scenarios for the future of life on Earth, not «sci - fi,» as Hershman Leeson puts it, but «sci - tru,» based on biogenetic research, artificial intelligence, cloning, mutations, transgenic experiments and regenerative medicine.

Disclosure Note I'm on the Interim Engagement Committee of Future Earth (a voluntary position), which is a new international hub for coordinating interdisciplinary research aimed at fostering sustainable human progress on this finite planet.

All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.

I spent time a couple of years ago on the engagement committee of Future Earth, an international enterprise aiming to shift research investments in science toward goals that serve societal needs.

As part of this new collaboration, at this conference the global - environmental - change programmes support a major research initiative, Future Earth: research for global sustainability.

Research programme will send aerosol injections into the earth's upper atmosphere to study the risks and benefits of a future solar tech - fix for climate change

ARC Future Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences; Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, Australian National University

This work was undertaken as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), which is a strategic partnership of CGIAR and Future Earth.

The workshop was convened to build on the momentum of the successful Future Earth Past Global Changes (PAGES 2k) initiative and foster a more coordinated approach to coral paleoclimate research.

Robert Walker, former chairman of the House Science Committee, used a speech at the 11th Annual Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law here to discuss the space policy he developed for the Trump campaign and to emphasize some issues, like the future of Earth science research, that have been sharply criticized by scientists and others.

HELIX will be present at Marrakesh COP22 represented by Asher Minns of Future Earth Europe at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia.

«The research highlights the urgent need to design and adapt our cities to cope with these future conditions,» said Richard Dawson, a co-author, and professor of earth systems engineering at Newcastle University.

A workshop held at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (Universität Hamburg, Germany) reviewed recent progress on salinity and freshwater research and included discussions of problems that must be solved to improve our understanding of future changes in the wateResearch and Sustainability (Universität Hamburg, Germany) reviewed recent progress on salinity and freshwater research and included discussions of problems that must be solved to improve our understanding of future changes in the wateresearch and included discussions of problems that must be solved to improve our understanding of future changes in the water cycle.

PAGES (Past Global Changes) is a scientific network which supports research aimed at understanding the Earth's past environment in order to make predictions for the future.