Sentences with phrase «atmospheric science from»

William M. Briggs has a Ph.D. in statistics and a master's degree in atmospheric science from an Ivy League university, so you know whatever he says is true.

Kravitz, who got his PhD in atmospheric science from Rutgers University in 2011, has been a PNNL researcher since October 2012.

He received his B.A. from Rutgers College and both his M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences from New York University.

He received his B.A. from Rutgers College and both his M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences from New York University.

Not exact matches

Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

Originally from St. Louis, Timm graduated with a bachelor's degree in atmospheric science and an MBA in finance from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

If you prefer science and you ask what causes wind, you seek out the answer and find that it is air moving from a point of high atmospheric pressure to a point of lower atmospheric pressure.

Trained to do chemistry and atmospheric sciences research, Knighton weathered the 1999 recession by branching out from his lab to work part - time on a MSU program called «BOREALIS,» funded by NASA to promote science education.

Her interest in science persisted, leading her eventually to a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, in 2000, from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Durre's mother sowed the idea of studying atmospheric science by reading her weather reports from the newspaper.

Graduate students, faculty and professionals in the field of earth and atmospheric sciences and their applications form a cohort that tackles hands - on exercises, hears from dozens of prominent experts and forges strong professional networking connections.

A new study by Suzanne Baldwin, the Michael G. and Susan T. Thonis Professor of Earth Sciences, and Jayeshkumar Das, a research associate of Earth sciences, brings insight to how atmospheric noble gases, in particular argon and neon, cycle from the surface to the Earth's mantle, and back to the surface again.

The new study covers the entire U.S. West, from the High Plains states to the Pacific coast, and provides the first detailed look at how groundwater recharge may change as the climate changes, said senior author Thomas Meixner, UA professor and associate department head of hydrology and atmospheric sciences.

«Our study reports the first global, long - term trends of atmospheric ammonia from space,» said Juying Warner, as associate research scientist in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD.

The event commemorates the 5 November 1965 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, which warned that the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would «almost certainly cause significant changes» to the environment.

In fact, many of Princeton's graduate students in the field have little experience in oceanic and atmospheric sciences; most come from physics, mathematics, and engineering backgrounds, according to Philander.

He has been a pioneer in transitioning atmospheric / oceanic sciences from a descriptive study to one using more quantitative methods.

Beyond basic subjects such as climate and weather, this site from the U.K. Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs covers a wide range of pressing atmospheric science issues including acid rain, air quality, climate change, global warming and ozone depletion.

In the current issue of Science (vol 269, p 822) Asish Basu of the University of Rochester, Robert Poreda, and colleagues from the US and Russia report that the ratio of helium - 3 to helium - 4 in Siberian rocks is up to 12.7 times the atmospheric value.

Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»

«This relationship between Antarctica temperature and CO2 suggested that somehow the Southern Ocean was pivotal in controlling natural atmospheric CO2 concentrations,» said Dr Maxim Nikurashin from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

A study published in today's Science, though, tries to close the gap by combining an extensive land - based survey of the continental U.S. with findings obtained from 27 different atmospheric studies.

«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.

When it comes to climate change science, researchers typically use atmospheric carbon dioxide levels from the late 19th century as a guideline, because that's when instrumentation was developed to accurately measure temperatures.

The analysis, led by Scot Miller, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at Harvard University, points to underestimates in emissions from livestock and fossil fuel activities as the primary reason for the disparity.

Research published online today in Science shows that deciduous tree leaves, such as those from the maple, aspen, and poplar, suck up far more atmospheric pollutants than previously thought.

Last week's decision by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) has infuriated scientists in fields ranging from atmospheric and polar sciences to freshwater biology.

The science White Paper, released in May, announced that funding for Earth observation and atmospheric science would be transferred from the SERC to the Natural Environment Research Council.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

Dr Tina Van De Flierdt, co-author from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, says: «The Pliocene Epoch had temperatures that were two or three degrees higher than today and similar atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to today.

And because she is a geophysicist, her rise next year would mark a break for NAS, which by tradition would have selected a new leader from the biological sciences after the two - term presidency of atmospheric scientist Ralph J. Cicerone.

«Many insects have nests that are up to 3,000 feet away from their food source, which means that scents need to travel long distances before insects can detect them,» said Jose D. Fuentes, professor of meteorology and atmospheric science, Penn State.

The IBM system, operated by NCAR and supported by funding from the NSF and the University of Wyoming, is one of the world's most powerful computers specifically dedicated to research in the atmospheric and related sciences.

Research ranges from atmospheric sciences to microbiology, climate, oceanography, environmental chemistry, water management, and international environmental policy.

Washington, DC — Reservoirs of oxygen - rich iron between the Earth's core and mantle could have played a major role in Earth's history, including the breakup of supercontinents, drastic changes in Earth's atmospheric makeup, and the creation of life, according to recent work from an international research team published in National Science Review.

The Institute's collaboration brings together researchers from fields as far apart as astrophysics, engineering, earth and atmospheric science, geology and biology to tackle questions as diverse as those about the astronomical context of the emergence of life on Earth.

Many of the tough, but also very exciting questions go beyond astrophysics and connect to planetary sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and atmospheric sciences: fortunately, we could draw on multi-disciplinary expertise from the NASA NExSS group to explore these questions.

During the 2013 - 2014 BELARE season, the and and solar powered station will host scientists working in the fields of atmospheric science, glaciology, meteorology, geology, and, from several different countries, including large from Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Japan [4].

After graduating from UW - Madison with a BS in atmospheric science, DJ was a research fellow at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL).

The AMSG reports to the ARM Facility Technical Director and is made up of experts from across the ARM Facility and atmospheric science community.

Participants include leading researchers from academic, industrial, and federal laboratories in such disciplines as astronomy, astrophysics, atmospheric science, biology, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, genetics, material sciences, mathematical sciences, neurosciences, pharmacology, and physics.

In turns humorous, touching, and atmospheric, this collection of short stories by 12 prominent, popular, and up - and - coming young adult authors offers diverse tales of love and summertime in genres ranging from science fiction and fantasy to realistic fiction.

With simple material tools drawn from everyday life such as paper, neon, texts, flags and music Dekyndt immerses the viewers in atmospheric relationships between art, science and reality.

Now, if there's a single take - away from this summary, it would be that the science on the relationship between fossil fuel combustion, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, and global warming and climate change was really settled by 1979.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

And come to conclude that we really ought to listen to, and learn from, all the things that professionals of the natural sciences are telling the world about the negative atmospheric effects of our insistence on burning fossil fuels.

I've received a «Your Dot» contribution on gas leaks and global warming from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor in the earth and atmospheric sciences department at Cornell University.

YCEI will provide seed grants, support postgraduate study, sponsor conferences and workshops, and foster interdisciplinary research spanning from basic atmospheric science to public policy.

The atmospheric research center — facing chronic budget shortfalls as Congress and the White House have sparred over spending — has been shedding positions for years and now this modest effort to link climate science to human needs has been cut (saving $ 500,000 out of an $ 88 million annual science budget)[budget figure UPDATED from $ 120 million; $ 88 million is for science].

OT (sorry)-- I notice that with publication date approaching (Available 31 December from all fine purveyors of atmospheric sciences textbooks!)