Sentences with phrase «bear biologist karyn»

The lead author was Markus Dyck, a polar bear biologist for the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

USGS polar bear biologist Karyn Rode and colleagues (press release here) have tried to frame this issue as one about future survival of polar bears in the face of declining sea ice.

It's bad enough when it's a leading polar bear biologist making such a ridiculous claim but there is no reason at all to take the scientifically baseless word of Sebastian Copeland on this matter.

Andrew Derocher, a bear biologist at the University of Alberta who's also affiliated with the environmental group Polar Bears International:

The new polar bear paper is by a group of authors led by Steven Amstrup, the United States Geological Survey polar bear biologist who led the government analysis of the bear's prospects.

Colorado and Oregon voted against requiring labeling for GMO foods, and bear biologists in Maine were happy that the voters there rejected a measure that would have barred the use of food bait, which the scientists say is an important tool for population management and research.

For decades bear biologists have known that bears engage in a delightful ramble variously dubbed «sumo strutting,» «cowboy walking» or, simply, the «bear dance.»

Beginning in 1944, Iowa - born biologist Norman Borlaug spent nearly 30 years in Mexican fields, crossing different kinds of wheat strains by hand.

Prompted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young Kenyan - born biologist named Nick Georgiadis embarked on what he called «a long and wonderful hike» across 10 African countries, taking biopsy - dart samples from 600 elephants.

Bear biologists had come out against the measure, arguing that baiting was an important tool for managing problem bears and research.

Canadian born biologist Alaina Macri is our guest blogger and she explains her fascinating research to us.

Tori Robinson is a Norwegian born biologist (B.Sc) with a passion for plants and their impact on human health.

There is rising concern among polar bear biologists that the big recent summertime retreats of sea ice in the Arctic are already harming some populations of these seal - hunting predators.

But the long - term picture is bleak, according to the latest analysis by government bear biologists.

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

Just keep reminding yourself that all the hype has very little to do with the conservation status of polar bears and virtually everything to do with the survival of the IUCN PBSG as an organization and the economic future of polar bear biologists and their ever - growing crop of students.»

Almost a year after that paper's publication, a group of polar bear biologists including Stirling and Derocher published a response in Ecological Complexity.

A new paper by polar bear biologists (Rode et al. 2015) argues that terrestrial (land - based) foods are not important to polar bears now and will not be in the future — a conclusion I totally agree with — but they miss the point entirely regarding the importance of this issue.

Oddly, polar bear biologists chose to dispel the serious concerns over invasive research by presenting the outputs of computer models.

Not exact matches

Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.

One of the paradoxes attaching to the human species, a cause of some bitterness among biologists, is that every man comes into the world as defenseless, and as incapable of finding his way single - handed in our civilization, as the new - born Sinanthropus a hundred thousand years ago.

A socio - biologist can tell a young woman on the best scientific authority that nature designed her, body and mind, to conceive, bear and care for children, but it he can not tell her in the name of science that in so doing she will fulfill her human possibilities, and he can not answer her when she declares war on such natural necessities.

While the evolutionary biologist might agree that no purpose can be discerned in the physical universe prior to the state at which evolution in the biological sense commenced (that is to say, where entities which are born, reproduce and die and in so doing are subject to natural selection), yet he might argue that evolution by natural selection automatically provides the «purpose.»

anyway, the fresh and salt water doesn't work, nor does the grape and fig comparison, for we know that, biologically, it doesn't work (bear in mind I am no biologist).

«Once the bear has his claws on your food,» says Jeff Keay, the park's wildlife biologist, «it's too late.»

To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

Frustrated, she sought help from Satyabrata Nandi, an Indian - born cancer biologist at UC Berkeley.

Around 80 percent of the institute's scientists are either returning Singaporeans or foreign - born — mostly from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia — and include chemists, biologists, computer scientists, electrical and mechanical engineers, and medical doctors.

For example, biologists have looked for evidence of connectivity in the genetics of black bears.

The ambitious census was born 3 years ago, after marine biologists realized that new technologies — from sensors that can track individual fish and whales to genetic «bar code» readers that can speedily separate microscopic species — could revolutionize efforts to document the diversity, distribution, and abundance of ocean animals.

«It is possible that Svalbard may have provided one such important refuge during warming periods, in which small polar bear populations survived and from which founder populations expanded during cooler periods,» argues biologist Charlotte Lundqvist of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, who is a co-author of the new study.

If we really want more moose, we should be shooting bears instead, says a Vermont wildlife biologist

In order to track and observe the bears, we realized that we would have to put radio collars on them — a job that requires the skills of a hunter, a veterinarian, and a biologist.

To analyze the historical importance of salmon in the diets of grizzly bears, Grant Hilderbrand, a research biologist working for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, used nitrogen - sampling techniques.

Jelle Atema, a Boston University biologist who created a replica of the femur from a cave bear fossil, isn't convinced.

Somewhere along the upper Aragón River, between the jagged peaks of the Pyrenees and a hydropower dam, conservation biologist Madis Põdra and his colleagues will release 10 or 12 captive - born European minks (Mustela lutreola) next week into a mink's idea of heaven: a pristine patch of Spanish wilderness with 150 kilometers of waterways.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

In May biologists at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, reported that three of 16 babies born through cytoplasmic transfer at their center indeed carried mitochondrial DNA from the donor cytoplasm.

Russian - born plenary speaker Eugene Koonin, a biologist at the National Center for Biotechnology Information in Bethesda, Maryland, recently canceled his attendance, he says, for «various reasons... some of them personal.»

NEXT week, we shall explore the reasons for biologists dressing up to try to convince reindeer they are polar bears, the icky secrets of innovative sausages and the amazing curative powers of salt pork (under medical supervision).

Within several years of arrival, dozens of the Somali families whose children were born in the U.S. found themselves grappling with autism, says Huda Farah, a Somali - born molecular biologist who works on refugee resettlement issues with Minnesota health officials.

In this episode, Scientific American news editor Phil Yam discusses how veterinarians, physicians and multinational food companies need to work together in the global fight against animal - borne infectious diseases; and University of Wisconsin evolutionary biologist Sean Carroll talks about recent research tracking the evolution of yeast genes with specific functions descended from a single, duplicated gene with multiple functions.

Biologists previously assumed that female mammals are born with a limited supply of eggs, which gradually declines with age.

But David Garshelis, a conservation biologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Grand Rapids and co-chair of IUCN's Bear Specialist Group, disagrees.

A molecular biologist born in Hobart, Australia, Blackburn is best known for her 2009 Nobel Prize — winning discovery of telomeres, caps on the ends of chromosomes that protect genetic information from damage and are thought to play an important role in aging and cancer.

«There have been a lot of biologists saying there has to be a geological source of reduced phosphorus, and geologists say phosphorus is kind of boring,» he says.

And Nobelist Günter Blobel, a German - born cell biologist at Rockefeller University in New York City, also blasted the plan in an interview in Der Spiegel magazine, saying that the concept reminds him of inflexible Soviet - style planning.

«[It's] the most comprehensive genomic data set to date, as far as bears are concerned,» says Frank Hailer, an evolutionary biologist from Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany.

To understand the implications of these changes, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, and her colleagues wanted to know how past climate change had affected the genetic diversity and distribution of bears.

But scant evidence bears out that traditional optimism, according to molecular biologist Adil Shamoo of the University of Maryland Medical School in Baltimore, co-author of the textbook Responsible Conduct of Research and the founder and, for nearly 2 decades, the editor of the journal Accountability in Research.