Sentences with phrase «aquatic ecologist breck»

Jane Qiu has an interesting interview on Nature News with aquatic ecologist Breck Bowden of the University of Vermont, who is heading up new research looking at what happens when thawing ground in the Arctic begins to fall apart.

What makes this weekend so special is the guest speaker, Aquatic Ecologist, Zeb Hogan.

Naturally, our keynote speaker for the pet industry's first - ever aquatic super-show is the biggest fish out there: aquatic ecologist Zeb Hogan, host of National Geographic's hit show Monster Fish, who will share his experiences tracking down some of the biggest fish in the world.

Chelsea Rochman is an aquatic ecologist at University of Toronto in Canada.

Kevin Wilson, an aquatic ecologist with the National Park Service, descends toward the water of Devils Hole for a biannual count of the Devils Hole pupfish in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

Kevin Wilson, an aquatic ecologist with the National Park Service, right, and Brandon Senger, supervisory fisheries biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, center, prepare their scuba diving gear while Ambre Chaudoin, a biological science technician of fisheries at Death Valley National Park, helps Senger in preparation for a biannual count of the Devils Hole pupfish at Devils Hole in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, April 7, 2018.

A previous version of this article misidentified park service aquatic ecologist Kevin Wilson.

Aquatic ecologist says dams are boxing in fish — indicators of environmental health — causing them to disappear from Kansas

Beaver ponds can indeed be large sources of potent planet - warming greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide, says Jennifer Edmonds, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Susan Adams, an aquatic ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service's Southern Research Station in Oxford, Mississippi, agrees.

«I am stunned by the extent of the annual mass wildebeest drownings and their large contribution of [carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus] to the energy budget of the Mara River,» says Gary Lamberti, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Norte Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

Those sturgeon still plying the Yangtze today might end up being the last of their kind: «the living dead,» says aquatic ecologist David Dudgeon of the University of Hong Kong.

«The lakes in the Boulder Junction area have had long - term monitoring from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Notre Dame, so we had an existing gradient of lakes where this invasive crayfish had never been observed to lakes where we know rusty crayfish are abundant,» says U of I aquatic ecologist Eric Larson.

In a separate study, Katey Walter, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, showed that much of this buried carbon may emerge as methane, a greenhouse gas some 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

However, there's more to the park than the «big and hairy,» according to aquatic ecologist Prof Renzo Perissinotto at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) in Port Elizabeth, whose research is published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

Last year, for instance, a team led by aquatic ecologist Gregory Ruiz of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that ballast water from ships entering the Chesapeake Bay contained Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera.

Research by Robert Bilby, an aquatic ecologist at the Weyerhaeuser Company, shows that up to 78 percent of the stomach contents of young coho salmon and steelhead are salmon carcasses and eggs.

An increase in the synchrony of the climate could expose marine and terrestrial organisms to higher risks of extinction, said study co-author Ivan Arismendi, an aquatic ecologist and assistant professor at Oregon State University.

In a Master's thesis written at Eawag, aquatic ecologist Nora Weissert shows that, on average, 60 per cent of boats that are kept in the water all year round are infested with zebra mussels; boats with dry berths are scarcely affected.

«The dams are blocking the fish,» says Michael Goulding, a Wildlife Conservation Society aquatic ecologist in Gainesville, Florida, who has been studying the dorado since the 1970s.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne spoke with Emma Rosi, an aquatic ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

Not exact matches

The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

Meghan Duffy is a disease ecologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, especially in aquatic ecosystems.

«It has fantastic utility because so many aquatic cave habitats are unavailable to us,» says Rick Olson, an ecologist at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky who was not involved with the work.

«And that's where we drew the line,» says Muhlfeld, an aquatic research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Montana.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

Co-author Emma J. Rosi - Marshall, a freshwater ecologist at the Cary Institute, comments, «We have every reason to suspect that the release of stimulants to aquatic environments is on the rise across the globe, yet little is known about the ecological consequences of this pollution.

«It's terrible news,» says ecologist Walter Dodds of Kansas State University in Manhattan, who championed STREON, NEON's now - canceled aquatic experimentation component.

A series of studies were conducted by a team of researchers, led by Jennifer Phelan, Ph.D., a senior ecologist at RTI International, to understand the relationships between changes in streamflow and the diversity of fish and richness of aquatic insects.

A research breakthrough at Queen's University Belfast has sparked interest among aquatic biologists, zoologists and ecologists.

The ecologists are entrusted with duties according to their specialization in fields such as the aquatic or terrestrial environment.