Sentences with phrase «lab earth scientist»

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab earth scientist Alex Gardner's talk in the video above provides another overview of ice sheets, climate change and sea level rise.

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While Miller and Orgel followed their clues in the lab, other scientists pursued their obsession with life's chilly origins to the ends of the earth.

Lab - grown comets and hydrothermal vents are helping scientists unravel life's strange origins on a young, sterile Earth.

«The westerly winds are picking up, so they're just playing it safe,» said NCAR scientist Greg Holland, who directs the lab's Earth System Laboratory.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

For the Global Consciousness Project, scientists set up 36 computer programs running separately, in different labs scattered around the earth, whose job is to generate random numbers.

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.

The two featured keynote speakers, astronomer Steve Squyres of Cornell and earth scientist Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Lab, represented an unusual corner of the ASCB / IFCB galaxy.

Those two spacecraft are American and Japanese missions to visit and study asteroids, then carry samples back to scientists here on Earth to examine in the lab a couple of years from now.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

And finally, right here on Earth, scientists are trying to coax life from primordial soups created in chemistry labs.

«We look for a change in the spectral signature from before and after the storm,» said Chambers, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth and Environmental Sciences Area as well as an associate professor of geography at UC Berkeley.

The extra layers of clothing are vital lab accoutrements: the freezer is lined with stacks of ice cores that Hmiel, a PhD candidate in earth and environmental sciences; Petrenko; and other scientists in the lab have collected from yearly expeditions to Antarctica and Greenland.

Harold Barnard, a scientist at Berkeley Lab's ALS, has developed a specialized test chamber for X-ray studies of meteorite samples that simulates the extreme compressive forces asteroids experience when traveling through Earth's atmosphere.

So little of what I find for middle school science teachers incorporates labs, experiences, or link - ups with scientists for those of us who teach earth science.

«We look for a change in the spectral signature from before and after the storm,» said Chambers, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth and Environmental Sciences Area as well as an associate professor of geography at UC Berkeley.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

«We see, for the first time in the field, the amplification of the greenhouse effect because there's more CO2 in the atmosphere to absorb what the Earth emits in response to incoming solar radiation,» Daniel Feldman, a scientist in the Berkeley Lab and the study's lead author, said in a news release.

At best, climate scientists can look at how the Earth changes over time and build simplified computer models to be tested in the lab.

In 1988, NASA scientist Jim Hansen published one of the first major papers modeling how hot the Earth might get, testifying on Capitol Hill and stirring debate in labs and lecture halls.

«We will use a high - resolution and physically based numerical modeling approach for simulating how water moves from the atmosphere to surface waters and into groundwaters,» said scientist Erica Woodburn of Berkeley Lab's Earth and Environmental Sciences Area.

says Jinyun Tang, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division who conducted the research with fellow Berkeley Lab scientist William Riley.

Based on their results, the Berkeley Lab scientists recommend that future Earth system models include a more nuanced and dynamic depiction of how soil microbes go about the business of degrading organic matter and freeing up carbon.

In some places, that will be forest, but in other places it will be grassland,» says Charles Koven, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division who conducted the research.

Other Berkeley Lab scientists who contributed to this report were William Riley of the Earth Sciences Division and Prabhat of the Computational Research Division.

More than a dozen other scientists in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences and Computational Research divisions are involved in NGEE - Tropics, including Lara Kueppers, the Deputy Project Director.

The researchers, led by Berkeley Lab scientists, measured atmospheric carbon dioxide's increasing capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface over an eleven - year period at two locations in North America.

Building on methods they used to assess the impact of hurricanes such as Katrina, Gustav, and Rita on forests and tree mortality, scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have produced a rapid mapping of the disturbance intensity across Puerto Rico's forests with the help of Google Earth Engine.

The researchers, led by scientists from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), measured atmospheric carbon dioxide's increasing capacity to absorb thermal radiation emitted from the Earth's surface over an eleven - year period at two locations in North America.

Rosanne D'Arrigo, senior research scientist at the Tree Ring Lab at Columbia University «s Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, hypothesises that «beyond a certain threshold level of temperature the trees may become more stressed physiologically, especially if moisture availability does not increase at the same time.»

«We need a new paradigm for how to develop and apply climate models to answer critical questions regarding the implications of our past and future energy choices for society and the environment,» says Bill Collins, ACME's Chief Scientist and head of the Earth Sciences Division's Climate Sciences Department at Berkeley lab.

Highlights Maintained a GPA of 3.8 over six years of undergraduate and graduate study Completed upwards of 50 hours of lab work Familiar with several methods of sample analysis including liquid chromatography and gas chromatography Took field samples and maintained a sterile environment Friendly and respectful to teachers, supervisors and fellow students Punctual Skilled at note taking and independent research Organized Willing to learn, with an abiding interest in all aspects of the field of chemistry Experience Intern 8/1/2015 — 5/1/2016 Scientific Laboratories Incorporated — Syracuse, NY Took inventory of lab equipment Followed safety and security procedures accurately when handling hazardous material Worked closely with experienced chemists and earth scientists Cleaned and sanitized lab equipment Assisted with experiments Measured and mixed compounds for experienced chemists Established a mentor relationship with laboratory manager Assisted in the writing of technical reports