Sentences with phrase «arctic research»

The visit successfully provided the Commission with a broad range of information on Finnish arctic research and, at the same time, provided Finnish colleagues with an opportunity to speak to U.S. leaders on Arctic research policy and to share strategies and goals.

At the request of John Calder, head of the Arctic Research Office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and through the Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research (CIFAR) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, ARCUS developed this short informational brochure to introduce the SEARCH program, a major new interagency arctic research effort, to a general audience.

Our thanks to the National Science Foundation for 13 years of support as well as to the many speakers who educated thousands of individuals across the U.S. and internationally about arctic research topics.

Speakers cover a wide range of arctic research topics and can address a variety of audiences including the general public, academics, students, community leaders, and organization members.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute is a leading expert in meteorology, air quality, climate change, earth observation, marine and arctic research areas.

On 27 June 2008 a request was issued to the arctic research community requesting input for the June 2008 Outlook Report on arctic sea ice conditions for September 2008, to update the May Outlook using June data.

Submissions about events of interest to the arctic research community are always welcome.

Twenty - eight scientists participated in the workshop, representing a wide spectrum of arctic research interests.

The report outlines current opportunities in arctic research and challenges in arctic research support needs.

The NSF invited the arctic research community to engage in this effort in order to aid the Foundation's planning process and ability to respond rapidly to the budget increases in the FY99 Congressional appropriation.

While it takes into account earlier planning exercises in arctic research, it also includes some ideas that have not been explicitly articulated previously, such as defining NSF's possible role in contaminant studies, the importance of long - term observations and monitoring as a foundation for basic research in the Arctic, and the significance of the Arctic in high atmosphere studies.

Taking place in an arctic research lab, Discovery shows what may be Call of Duty's first steps towards destructible environments.

This is the sum total of commonality the two films share: Scientists at an arctic research base discover an alien life - form that means them harm.

The Finnish Meteorological Institute is a leading expert in meteorology, air quality, climate change, earth observation, marine and arctic research areas.

Having only known me for a week, John invited me to Antarctica, suggested an arctic research program, and told me to «think big.»

My experience in arctic research was invaluable in my development as a science professional.

As a novice to arctic research, I spent hours absorbing literature on previous studies so that I'd be ready to design impromptu experiments and compose educated data interpretations without the convenience of a library.

The level of preparation I achieved for arctic research facilitated my future development of laboratory experiments down South.

In closing, my participation in arctic research affected every aspect of my professional and personal lives.

A huge component of arctic research is biology — not the geographically isolated communities of life found in Antarctica, but a whole ecology, including human cultures.»

But in summer the base population reaches 150, making it the biggest arctic research community.

Not exact matches

The team's research showed that Vikings initially caught cod in the arctic waters off Norway's Lofoten Islands, whose climate allows for preservation through air drying, rather than more expensive salting.

At the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where ice and life are her topics, Birgit Sattler's research looks at microbial diversity in alpine, arctic, and antarctic environments.

Dave Norton's research, which is funded by the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine commresearch, which is funded by the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine commResearch, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine communities.

The focus of my research is population structure and gene flow in North American arctic canids: grey wolves and arctic foxes.

Then there was an exciting decade of research in arctic marine waters anticipating petroleum development on the continental shelf adjoining Alaska.

A proposal we had co-authored with Chet Spicer (Battelle, Columbus, Ohio) to directly measure gaseous halogen concentrations by using atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) mass spectrometry in the early arctic spring was gratuitously funded at the eleventh hour, and Finlayson - Pitts asked me to participate in the field work despite the fact that I had no previous experience in field research.

Using published data from the circumpolar arctic, their own new field observations of Siberian permafrost and thermokarsts, radiocarbon dating, atmospheric modeling, and spatial analyses, the research team studied how thawing permafrost is affecting climate change and greenhouse gas emissions.

Rastetter stresses that more research is needed to confirm the study's findings and to better understand the importance of nitrate relative to other forms of nitrogen in arctic tundra ecosystems.

However, research at Umeå University's climate research centre in Abisko and University of Antwerp shows that alien plants are no longer rare above the arctic circle.

Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.

The Mars Society is an all - volunteer group, so your membership dues are used solely to promote the mission of the Mars Society, including coordinating public and political outreach, establishing educational programming, convening our annual international convention and organizing and managing Mars simulations and research studies at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the Canadianresearch studies at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the CanadianResearch Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the CanadianResearch Station (FMARS) in the Canadian arctic.

Russian scientists originally conducted research on this arctic root in secret, and it was only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1994 that their findings became available to the world at large.

Arriving at a remote research facility in the arctic tundra, Burt begins to suspect that Graboids are secretly being weaponized, but before he can prove his theory, he is sidelined by Graboid venom and given a mere 48 hours to live.

Arriving at a remote research facility in the arctic tundra, Burt begins to suspect that Graboids are secretly being weaponized, but before he can prove his theory, he is sidelined by Graboid venom.

James Turrell and Robert Irwin worked with Ed Wortz, a Garrett Corporation psychologist who did human - factors engineering for NASA missions, researching the «Ganzfeld» concept which describes the experience of snowblind arctic explorers or pilots navigating dense fog.

Her research suggests that the Putin administration welcomes climate change as beneficial for Russia, and foresees increased development in Siberia and along the shores of the arctic.

To all of you please note — If we can send a space craft to Mars that cost a billion dollars between research and hard ware then its about time we can invest in to America on our needs for energy and dig for oil in the United States and the arctic region.

I'd feel so much better about your continued calm in the face of multiple lines of evidence indicating rapidly increasing methane escaping in the arctic if you were actually researching methane, which you aren't, so far as I know.

both of these well - researched observations would seem to put a big chink in the anthropogenic global warming theory — certainly as it applies to melting of the arctic ice cap.

The ACIA is the first comprehensively researched, fully referenced, and independently reviewed evaluation of arctic climate change and its impacts for the region and for the world.

Hansen got the warming right in the 1980s, the hockey stick is validated by numerous oth alternative research methods and ocean heat content and arctic ice continue to rise and shrink as predicted from the understanding of the physical effect of CO2, as have air temperatures in the area.

BTW, do virtue travel (junkets to climate conferences, doing climate field research or viewing the disappearing arctic or antarctic via cruise ship) and / or virtue construction (wind and solar plant manufacturing and installation) get free passes?

As a result of ongoing research I was involved in several books about the Arctic and supervised several theses on arctic subjects, including Renee Fossett's doctoral thesis on the circumpolar history of the Eskimo people (In Canada they are officially called Inuit).

With the rapid changes in the arctic environment, the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) has become a focal point for atmospheric and ecological research.

His work on this topic has included over a decade of research in boreal and arctic Alaska and northeastern Siberia.

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As part of the Canadian contribution to the International Polar Year (IPY), several major international research programs have focused on offshore arctic marine ecosystems.

Describing new species and their ecological roles, quantifying carbon and energy fluxes in the ecosystem, documenting the annual cycle of ecological processes, identifying hotspots of biological production, and contrasting the ecology of the different arctic seas are the objectives shared by several international and multidisciplinary research efforts that contributed to the Canadian IPY program.

I first became interested in this when researching the massive arctic warming before the last one (the last one being 1920 - 1949 and the one before that 1819 to 1850.)