Sentences with phrase «academy panel»

National Academies panel recommends lowering acceptable levels of compound in drinking water
In addition to dozens of scientific papers, he has written chapters in several major Arctic Council reports, co-chaired the National Academy of Sciences committee that wrote The Arctic in the Anthropocene, and served on a Council of Canadian Academies panel on food security in the North.
Harvey Weingarten, President and CEO of the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, was a member of the Council of Canadian Academies panel on The State of Industrial R&D in Canada.
There is strong evidence that higher alcohol taxes reduce binge drinking and drunk driving deaths, the National Academies panel said.
► «[A] new National Academies panel examining how the government keeps tabs on its $ 40 - billion - a-year investment» held its first meeting from 12 - 13 February, Jeffrey Mervis reported last Friday at ScienceInsider.
The report's call for a broader definition of scientific literacy and for new research on society's role in shaping what individuals know about science and health issues is standard fare for academy panels.
U.S. National Academies panel tackles chronic complaints about the regulatory burden on universities
A National Academies panel wants NASA to reopen a research shop that it shut down for budgetary reasons 2 years ago.
National Academies panel asks Congress to create a new forum that would be funded by private sector
The members of Norman Augustine's 2005 National Academies panel continue to call for an immediate doubling of federal investment in basic science, arguing that basic science is a quintessential public good that only the federal government can properly fund.
He also led a separate science academy panel that issued a report in April on the weakness of America's most sophisticated computer climate models.
National Academy panel sees a «paradigm shift» in scientific recognition of the risk of abrupt climate change (decade - scale).
The chair of a new National Academies panel examining how the government keeps tabs on its $ 40 - billion - a-year investment wants that oversight «to be sensible enough so that investigators have more time to do research.»
The gloomy news contained in the panel's report is in sharp contrast to the cheerful scenario laid out in an earlier review by a U.S. National Academies panel.
Whether NASA's policy might change won't be clear until a new planetary protection chief is installed, and after the National Academies panel and special regions workshop have weighed in.
«We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.
Another academies panel is currently tackling the science of science communications, with a report proposing a research agenda expected later this year.
«That's awfully close to being a direct demonstration that the needle exchange reduces the incidence of a blood borne viral disease,» says Lincoln Moses, professor of statistics at Stanford University, who chaired the academy panel.
Without that leakage, the academy panel's own modeling predicted that the tops of the fuel assemblies would have been exposed by early April; as the water continued to evaporate, the odds of the assemblies» zirconium cladding catching fire would have skyrocketed.
Spent fuel can be shifted to concrete containers called dry casks as soon as it cools sufficiently, and the academy panel recommends that NRC «assess the risks and potential benefits of expedited transfer.»
It is seriously vulnerable there, as the Fukushima accident demonstrated, and so the academy panel recommends that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and nuclear plant operators beef up systems for monitoring the pools and topping up water levels in case a facility is damaged.
Larry Faulkner, the former president of the University of Texas, Austin, who chaired the Academies panel, says he's pleased that so many legislators have found the report useful.
Only good fortune and makeshift measures to pump or spray water into all the spent fuel pools averted that disaster, the academy panel notes.
The Academy panel is expected to deliver a report next spring on, among other questions, biological techniques to reduce the risk of unintended consequences of gene drives.
Americans May Know More than You Think about Science Science, 8/9/16» «We need to have a sense of science literacy that is much broader at the individual level and much deeper at the societal level than traditional measures reflect,» says Catherine Snow, a professor at the graduate school of education at Harvard University and chair of the academy panel that wrote Science Literacy: Concepts, Contexts, and Consequences.
While factors like the possible climate buffering influence of the oceans are imperfectly understood, the academy panel said, «if carbon dioxide continues to increase, the study group finds no reason to doubt that climate changes will result and no reason to believe that these changes will be negligible.»
[UPDATE, 11:45 a.m.] Andrew Freedman at the Capital Weather Gang blog has interviewed Gerald North, the climate scientist who headed the National Academies panel that examined the tree - ring data and «hockey stick» graphs.
The prediction remained the same as the Academy panel had found in 1979 (and as computer modelers continued to find into the 21st century): if the CO2 level doubled, mean global temperature would rise 3 °C, give or take a degree or two.
1999 Criticism that satellite measurements show no warming are dismissed by National Academy Panel.
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