Sentences with phrase «change research»

This was even before the administration had its new political team in place for directing and overseeing the climate change research program.
Given the significance of climate change research in public policy, the study's results also provide important response to critics of global warming.
One of the biggest debates in the climate change research community in recent years has been the projected impact of global warming on hurricanes.
We are working to transform this game - changing research into therapies that help doctors repair hearts damaged by heart attacks and disease.
During the duration of the award, Fellows have freedom to change their research focus and follow their own curiosity.
It should surprise no one that we have remained committed to pursuing climate change research since that initial discovery.
They said they can simultaneously continue to do objective climate change research while aggressively recruiting corporate sponsors in the energy and mining sectors.
The Service will build upon and complement capabilities existing at national level and being developed through a number of climate - change research initiatives.
If this sounds to you like an argument for more funding for climate change research instead of less, you're not alone.
When the right tools are placed in the hands of talented scientists around the world, life - changing research happens.
It is acceptable to modify or change your research questions as you learn more and more information on your subject.
An extraordinary investment has been made in climate change research producing a growing body of scientific and technological knowledge.
The use of applications, mobile devices, and social networking sites for this purpose will strengthen the national global change research enterprise and increase public literacy in global change science.
Such a system would be responsive to changing research demands, but also to changing social, economic, technological and knowledge landscapes.
It has marked a new direction for global change research.
Another shift within the climate change research community is that, until recently, most work has been looking at impacts at higher levels of warming.
Before 2009, the annual budget for climate change research was between $ 2 million and $ 3 million.
The U.S. Global Change Research Program conducts comprehensive assessments about the impacts of climate change in the U.S., including regional impacts, both observed and projected.
The work was initiated and designed by Kaiyu Guan and Bin Peng from the University of Illinois and Min Chen from the Joint Global Change Research Institute of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory at Maryland.
«The country is already dry and ecologically fragile, with relatively poor soils,» says Steven Sherwood, an atmospheric physicist and codirector of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
Under the U.S. Global Change Research Act of 1990, the federal government has been charged with producing large National Climate Assessments (NCA), and today the most recent iteration has arrived.
NASA GSFC Office of Education is currently seeking graduate students to participate in the year long NASA GISS Climate Change Research Initiative internship program located at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.
The NPCC's leaders are trying to create similar efforts across the globe through an organization called the Urban Climate Change Research Network.
«This is an important paper,» said Dr. Walter Oechel, director of the Global Change Research Group at San Diego State University.
Something to ponder is that the people who produced the NCA control the $ 2 billion a year US Global Change Research budget.
We've been delving into behavior change research for several years now — and just this week NWEI has published its newest white paper on Behavior Change for Sustainability: Northwest Earth Institute's Approach.
It was developed as a component of the U.S. Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Program and as a contribution to U.S. climate change research planning.
(See the definitions in Appendix A.) While the percentage of a program's budget that is classified as «R&D» usually remains fairly constant over time, the proportions of a program's R&D portfolio that are classified basic research, applied research and development fluctuate depending on changing program missions, changing research priorities, and the differing judgments of the agency officials who report the allocations each year.
(04/19/12) The California Air Resources Board (ARB) and the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) have unveiled a public database of climate change research projects and programs taking place in California, focusing on projects or programs receiving federal funding.
The USGCRP coordinates and integrates federal global change research across 13 participating agencies, including the five represented on the US CLIVAR Interagency Group.
In a rapidly changing research landscape, with forms of doing research and new fields and challenges emerging and with the European Research and Higher Education Area taking shape, the project «European Young Academy» (EYA) aims at giving a voice for the next generation of scientific leaders in Europe.
Jeff Kiehl is a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research where he heads the Climate Change Research Section.
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