Sentences with phrase «about polar sciences»

Partnerships are built around various drivers: for example supporting the Polar regions in a period of rapid change; educating the public about polar sciences and climate; contributing to climate change awareness; mitigation and adaptation; defining and implementing CSR action plan; implementing technology solutions for low carbon emissions.

By: Lauren Culler, Research Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and JSEP co-Principal Investigator, and Lee McDavid, Program Manager of the Institute of Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College Twenty high school students from Greenland, Denmark, and the U.S. learned about polar science this past summer as they gained first - hand experience of how international research teams work together and some of the challenges they face, especially when speaking different languages.

«When I talk to people who don't really know about polar science, they look at that picture of Greenland covered in red, and they think the whole ice sheet is melting», says Brandon.

Not exact matches

So it's some measure of how stoked I am about reporting on polar science that I would happily sign up for such a daunting excursion to cover field research.

«These chemicals are just about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead author.

Although scientists have analysed gases from tiny bubbles trapped in ice cores drilled in polar ice caps, there are doubts about how closely the composition of the bubbles matches that of the atmosphere at the time they were trapped (see New Scientist, Science, 22 August).

In «A Phoenix Flies to Mars», Andrew Fazekas, the Canadian Editor for Science's Next Wave, writes about the NASA Phoenix polar lander, and Canada's contribution to the project: a sophisticated meteorological station developed by a team of Canadian scientists and engineers that will analyze Mars» arctic climate.

And there were meetings on the Mediterranean, science fiction and European science history; TV programmes about polar ecology, science and society, the Baltic Sea, materials, AIDS, communications and the ozone layer; and workshops on plant molecular biology, development in the tropics and synchrotrons.

Earlier this year, Frank Hailer of the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, and colleagues estimated that polar bears diverged from brown bears 600,000 years ago — a result that itself pushed back the evolutionary record of polar bears by about 450,000 years (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.12Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.12science.1216424).

The U.S. SCAR Office maintains the ANtarctic Science WEb Resource (ANSWER), a list server intended to disseminate information about Antarctica, communicate opportunities, solicit input on important issues, and to promote Antarctic polar sScience WEb Resource (ANSWER), a list server intended to disseminate information about Antarctica, communicate opportunities, solicit input on important issues, and to promote Antarctic polar sciencescience.

Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson released a statement about the decision, saying: «The public provided some truly inspirational and creative names, and while it was a difficult decision I'm delighted that our state - of - the - art polar research ship will be named after one of the nation's most cherished broadcasters and natural scientists.»

But it's hard to find anyone focused on national security, maritime and environmental safety, and polar science who isn't worried about the status quo.

All of us involved in polar bear science have received many e-mails with well - intentioned input from the public about what we should be doing.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

I heard Oreskes on NPR not long ago, and her smug certainty and disdain for those who disagree is the polar opposite of what I learned science is supposed to be all about.

One of the most glaring differences between legitimate science - based blogs and those that deny the science on anthropogenic climate change is how they write about polar bears and Arctic sea ice.

When I suggest we have a polar opposite situation here, enviro - activists appearing to be doing all the racketeering to keep their cause alive in the face of withering science - based criticism, this sort of thing is what I'm talking about — Newsweek «s Sharon Begley practically yelling about the need to stop skeptic climate scientists in their tracks, and less than three years later, Dr Schneider telling policy analysts and media experts at a major symposium exactly how such critics can be marginalized.

In late 2016, Crockford self - published two books, one for children and one that she called a «rational science reference book about polar bears readers around the world have been requesting.»

The BioScience study also analyzed the arguments made by 45 science - based blogs about the impacts of global warming on polar bear populations.

Did I simply come in late and actually miss the robust debate about the basic science of the whole shebang or has there never actually been one other than some anecdotal discussions around glaciers, polar bears and ex vice presidents with a carbon footprint and bank account I'd love to ascribe to?

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We'll skip the humans and talk about polar bears in a bit, but let's first talk about the underlying issue: what science means — and how it's actually quite easy to harness your own intelligence to interests that may want to try to confuse you.

It uses diverging reporting about the faith of the polar bear as an example to describe the difference in methodology between science communicators and those trying to spread misinformation, illustrating a split between «climate denier blogs» and science - accurate websites, when such internet media talk about the same topic.

Inside Science was unable to find any peer - reviewed papers about polar bears authored by Crockford.

APL - UW has produced a video about Polar Science Weekend, an annual public outreach event centering around polar research.

For 2017, she presents the two non-fiction volumes readers around the world have been requesting: straightforward science books about polar bears for adults and children that offer the same no nonsense, big - picture perspective on polar bear conservation that has made her blog and public lectures so popular.

She has a Ph.D. and writes about the science of polar bears and related topics at www.polarbearscience.com.

Both TIME mag and NYT are poised to report news of new literary and movie genre dubbed «cli fi» — coined by yours truly from my earlier «polar cities» work, one things leads to another — and the NYT story will be about «climate science education» issues and «climate change education» issues in higher education in USA and overseas...... so it's a story that interview academics and professors of science education etc...... and TIME mag will be about new NOAH movie by Darren A set 5000 years ago and TIME is calling it a «cli fi movie» on its cover March 24 issue, get ready.

So, to justify why he thought the # 4.4 billion spent on the LHC would have been better spent on climate change, Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, current president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and author of books about climate change that have pictures of polar bears on the cover, has little choice but to resort to hyperbole and extravagation: