Sentences with phrase «national laboratory who»

Michael Wehner is a climate scientist in the Computational Research Division (CRD) of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who focuses on just such extreme weather events.

He first saw it happen to the late Stephen Schneider of Stanford University, and then to Benjamin Santer, a climate researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who wrote pioneering studies that identified the human fingerprint on the climate system.

This, after discovering nearly 5,000 supernovae in the last two decades,» said Peter Nugent, Senior Scientist and Division Deputy for Science Engagement in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who co-authored the study.

«I believe this result will have several impacts,» said Giulia Galli, a professor at the University of Chicago's Institute for Molecular Engineering and senior scientist at the DOE's Argonne National Laboratory who was not involved in the study.

«There is no certainty at all in any of this, and whoever tells you the opposite is not telling you the truth,» said Stefan Finsterle, a leading hydrogeologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who specializes in understanding the properties of rock layers and modeling how fluid flows through them.

«Entangled states tend not to remain pure, due to interactions with the environment,» says Paul Kwiat, a former researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory who is now a professor at the University of Illinois.

«It's very challenging to go from something that works on the bench to something that works on a large - scale,» comments David E. Chavez, a chemist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who was not involved in the research.

says Niranjan Govind, a computational chemist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who collaborated with the Berkeley Lab team on the development of the method in the NWChem computational chemistry program.

It's for this reason that it's important to understand the differences in responses between geoengineering experiments, said Ben Kravitz, a climate modeler at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory who helps run the international Geoengineering Model Intercomparison Project.

«A trained scientist understands the broader context, but many segments of the general public may not,» said Seth Darling, a nanoscientist at Argonne National Laboratory who has written a book on communicating climate science to the general public.

Not exact matches

To kick - start its research on microgravity beer, Budweiser is partnering with experts in the field, including CASIS * who manages the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory, and Space Tango, a payload development company that operates two commercial research facilities within the National Lab.

«As a parent that frequents the BPD with my kids, I have great concern about this proposal,» said John Arnish who works as an environmental engineer at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago.

The prospective candidates are Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, who worked as a Brookhaven National Laboratory physicist; Perry Gershon, a businessman who has worked in commercial real estate finance and lives in East Hampton; Brendon Henry, a bartender, Westhampton native and Center Moriches resident; David Pechefsky a New York City Council staffer, who hails from Patchogue, but lives in Brooklyn, and Vivian Viloria - Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

The prospective candidates include former Suffolk County Legislator Kate Browning of Shirley; Elaine DiMasi of Ronkonkoma, a former physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory; businessman Perry Gershon of East Hampton, who has worked in commercial real estate finance; Westhampton native Brendon Henry of Center Moriches, a bartender who also works in ordering and pricing for a plumbing contractor; David Pechefsky, a former New York City Council staffer from Port Jefferson; and Vivian Viloria Fisher of Setauket, who served as a county legislator until she reached her term limit in 2011.

Put simply, the funding model «did not work out as planned,» Rush Holt, who is the CEO of AAAS (which publishes Science Careers), a former member of Congress, and a physicist who served as assistant director of a national laboratory, told the gathering.

The designation of UChicago as a National Historic Chemical Landmark joins the University's 2006 designation by the American Physical Society as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave.

So says physicist John Hunter of Quicklaunch, who has designed a 1.1 - kilometre - long compressed - gas gun, based on a smaller gun he helped to build while at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

«Where this model really shines is explaining the late emission,» says Chris Fryer of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico — one of the physicists who first proposed the burrowing black hole theory in the 1990s.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

The candidates — mostly first - timers running for House of Representatives seats — include a physicist who spent 2 decades at a prominent national laboratory, a clinical oncologist at a top - rated cancer center, a former chemistry professor at a 4 - year state college, a geologist trying to document every aspect of a tiny piece of the Mojave Desert, and a postdoctoral bioengineering fellow.

Dr Joseph Hodges, from the National Institute of Science and Technology in Gaithersberg, USA who led the team measuring the spectrum of CO2 in the laboratory, said: «These measurements are very challenging so we could only make precise lab measurements at a few wavelengths.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

The common name for this problem is a «combinatorial explosion,» and the solution to it, called «rule - based modeling,» was developed 12 years ago by VCell team member Michael Blinov and colleagues James Faeder and William Hlavacek, who all worked during that time at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

«Of these ideas, the least controversial is that the anomaly has something to do with dark matter bound to the Earth,» says Michael Nieto of Los Alamos National Laboratory, who has been working with Anderson on the anomaly.

«It's an experimental tour de force; it's amazing work,» says theoretical physicist Helen Quinn of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif., who was not involved with the research.

It all comes down to balancing supply and demand, says mechanical engineer Rob Pratt, who runs the smart grid program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

Some laboratories remain open because they are run by contractors who are using money that was not spent during the 2013 fiscal year, but that could soon all change,» [a] nd at the 10 national laboratories supported by the Department of Energy's Office of Science, managers warned that academia and industry could soon lose access to synchrotrons and other popular tools.»

Schultz co-wrote the paper with his former graduate student, Megan Bruck Syal, who is now a researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Singapore has shown to be a powerhouse of nanotech research as «it is pouring lots of money into recruiting high - level scientists in nanomedicine and nanotechnology,» says Scott McNeil, who heads the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL).

And, like Chu, who directed the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California before he came to the capital, Suresh has maintained an active research lab after becoming an administrator.

SACNAS President Gabriel Montaño, who is also a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, hopes the exposure will encourage some SACNISTAS to consider working for the federal government.

«In summer when people are thinking about 4th of July fireworks and barbeques, long before the first snow has fallen, our experimental prediction system tells us what the following March will be like,» said Sarah Kapnick, a physical scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory who led the research that appears online today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This could lead to new HIV vaccine strategies that are able to stimulate the rare precursors of these protective antibodies,» says Professor Lynn Morris, from the National Health Laboratory Service in the Wits School of Pathology who leads the research team at the NICD.

Physicists had to design computer simulations, tested against those mid-century analyses, to «predict what would happen if a weapon went off,» says Greg Spriggs, a nuclear weapon physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is leading the project to scan and declassify the films.

«The Argo data is really critical,» said Paul Durack, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher who led the new study, which was published in Climate Nature Change.

Members of the Fermilab Lattice and MILC Collaborations who contributed to this work in addition to those named above include Alexei Bazavov and Yannick Meurice of University of Iowa; Claude Bernard of Washington University, Chris Bouchard of College of William and Mary; Carleton DeTar, Ludmila Levkova, and Si - Wei Qiu of the University of Utah; Elizabeth D. Freeland of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Maria Elvira Gámiz of Universidad de Granada; Urs M. Heller of American Physical Society; Paul B. Mackenzie, James N. Simone of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Yuzhi Liu and Ethan Neil of University of Colorado, Boulder; Robert Sugar of University of California, Santa Barbara; Doug Toussaint of University of Arizona, Tucson; and Jon A. Bailey of Seoul National University.

According to John Turner, a research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., who was not involved in the research, the discovery could reduce the need for platinum in a conventional electrolyzer.

«This looks like an important step in the right direction,» says George Crabtree, who directs the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory in Lemont, Illinois.

«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.

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

Neuroscientist Loren Frank, who will serve as co-director at the new institute at the University of California, San Francisco, says the funds will allow his lab to explore fundamental questions such as how the brain can maintain its function despite constant change, and to form interdisciplinary partnerships with labs such as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Still, the research offers potential military and security applications, including identifying explosives and roadside bombs, says Ali Passian, a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, who was not involved with the study.

The researchers were assisted by Kenneth Bruno, a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, who developed a method essential for the genetic manipulation of A. carbonarius.

Employees funded entirely from non-state sources would be exempt, as would employees at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who are under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy.

«Traditionally, the way that people have managed their information was that they had a lab notebook and they had their minds, and they would remember things,» says University of California, San Diego, neuroscientist Maryann Martone, who is the principal investigator of the Neuroscience Information Framework, a National Institutes of Health - funded collection of laboratory informatics resources for neuroscientists.

«On first sight, zirconium pentatelluride did not even look like a 3D material,» said Brookhaven physicist Tonica Valla, who performed the measurements with collaborators at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS, https://www.bnl.gov/ps/nsls/about-NSLS.asp)-- two additional DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

Louis Miller, who is head of the malaria laboratory at the US National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, argues that some overlap is essential to allow different approaches to a complex problem.

The team collaborated with Oleg Gang and Yugang Zhang of Brookhaven National Laboratory, who carried out the supporting experiments.

«Using cerium allows us to gain a fundamental understanding of a wide range of phenomena related to the multiphase properties of materials, including how strength evolves following phase transitions,» said Brian Jensen, who is a physicist and team leader in the Shock and Detonation Physics Group at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

«If we went all out to slow the warming trend, we might stall sea level rise at three to six feet,» says Robert Buddemeier of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who is studying the impact of sea - level rise on coral reefs, «But that's the very best you could hope for.»