Sentences with phrase «chief scientist»
A chief scientist is the most important or leading scientist in a particular organization or field. They are responsible for guiding and overseeing scientific research and development, making important decisions, and providing expertise and guidance to other scientists. Full definition
According to Panel Chairman and former Chief Scientist of Australia, Ian Chubb, the Reef 2050 Plan needs a significant overhaul to directly address the elephant in the room: warming oceans, the main contributor behind coral bleaching.
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An international team of scientists led by Dr Eric Dinerstein of chief scientist at WWF in the United States set out to discover whether this was even possible.
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle has served as chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Today (Friday) the Senate is expected to confirm another 2013 nominee, «physicist Ellen Williams, the former chief scientist at energy giant BP and a longtime professor at the University of Maryland, College Park,» as the second head of DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy.
From 1993 to 1996, Córdova was the youngest person and first woman to hold the position of NASA Chief Scientist, serving as the primary scientific advisor to the NASA administrator and the principal interface between NASA headquarters and the broader scientific community.
This past July Russ George served as chief scientist on a cruise to fertilize the northeastern Pacific Ocean with iron — the latest in a long string of similar, and usually controversial, efforts he has led.
They've already started uploading on Github and other such things,» the nChain chief scientist said.
Cialdini, a psychologist, is now chief scientist with Opower, a US firm making a business out of power consumption psychology.
The study is published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal and was funded by Chief Scientist Office, part of the Scottish Government Health Directorates.
A longform blog post from Chief Scientist Dr. Steve Carter provides a detailed response to general criticisms of eHarmony's approach.
, former NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan, and former NASA and industry executive Tom Young.
«The researchers now plan to team up with other world - leading experts in cancer signalling based in Manchester including Professor Nic Jones, Director of MCRC and Cancer Research UK Chief Scientist who heads the Cell Regulation Laboratory, which studies how cells respond to sudden adverse changes in their surroundings, known as environmental stress.
Chief scientist Alan Finkel says Australian companies are spurning science PhDs as potential employees because they don't get their problem - solving ability.
Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen would say 75 percent of miners is enough for a hard fork, while the developers behind Bitcoin Core would like to see «near - universal agreement» before implementing such a change.
«The scientific talent leading these studies, the partnership with industry and access to their facilities, and the diverse research methods used, gives us the confidence that when the project concludes in late 2014, we'll be able to greatly increase our understanding of the climate impacts of switching to natural gas from other fossil fuels, through this unprecedented collective research effort,» said EDF Chief Scientist Steve Hamburg.
Australia's Chief Health Officer Professor Chris Baggoley offered assurances that the risk of an Ebola epidemic would be low here, though UK Chief Scientist Sir Mark Walport said our interconnected world was increasing the likelihood that countries in the west would be affected by previously remote threats.
The collaborative voyage of US and Australian researchers was led by chief scientists Dr Jess Adkins from the California Institute of Technology and Dr Ron Thresher from CSIRO's Climate Adaptation and Wealth from Oceans Flagships.
And, better still, Bob May takes up his post as the new Chief Scientist next week.
However, Chief Scientist Ian Chubb has used its onset to advantage.
According to William Maisel, formerly of Harvard Medical School and now chief scientist at the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, many trivial and unrelated events are thrown in along with serious incidents, «making it hard to find the signal amid all the noise.»
On October 13, 2017, Bitcoin Unlimited Chief Scientist Peter Rizun announced that their Gigablock Testnet Initiative successfully mined and propagated the first ever 1 GB block.
In a 2011 post on Bitcoin Forum, Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen warned cryptocoin enthusiasts to thoroughly check out any new coin, just as he did when he first heard of bitcoin.
During a recent interview with Epicenter Bitcoin, RSK Labs Chief Scientist Sergio Lerner explained how the two - way peg, which allows users to transfer bitcoins between blockchains, will work with bitcoin and Rootstock.
The government chief scientist's pro-GM position certainly reflects the huge importance that England's leading agriculture research establishments place on the role of GM crops.
For one thing, the U.S. could benefit from stepping up research, said Craig McLean, acting chief scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
PNNL chief scientist Steven Wiley has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for «significant contributions in the newly emerging area of systems biology and for important achievements in the quantitative analysis of the EGF receptor system.»
This information could also be important for Curiosity chief scientist John Grotzinger, Caltech's Fletcher Jones Professor of Geology.
Sylvia Earle, the first woman to become chief scientist of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, didn't set out to be a trailblazer.
Kaplan also opposes the notion that businesses will need to have «chief AI officers» in charge of directing an AI strategy, as Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng has espoused.
CEO Jean - Paul Schmetz, who is also chief scientist for the publishing house Burda, told Business Insider in an interview that «the core of Google's and Facebook's business is to track people.
The Government's Nuclear Industry Strategy was announced at the same time as a report from an ad hoc Nuclear R&D Advisory Board, under the leadership of Chief Scientist Sir John Beddington, which looked at the implications for R&D of a wide range of nuclear futures.
The third star in this alignment is the naming of Alan Finkel as the next chief scientist.
After earning his doctorate in 1960, he became a lab director for Plasmodyne and then chief scientist for the Curtiss - Wright Corporation.
In 1978 Nancy Roman, the first chief scientist for what was then called the Space Telescope and NASA's first chief of astronomy, offered Weiler a job.
They include former Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb and Professor Leon Sterling — who participated in the Principal for a Day program.
Blockchain standards will be discussed during an upcoming workshop at Consensus 2016 involving Barclays chief blockchain strategist Simon Taylor and Ethereum chief scientist Vitalik Buterin.
Shown off on stage, the device was used to facilitate a conversation between English speaking senior editor Will Knight and Baidu chief scientist Hua Wu.
The lab was opened in 2015 and is directed by Prof. Michael Sundström, previously Chief Scientist for SGC Oxford (2003 — 2007).
«We can give countries an expedition to surface of the moon for two people,» Alan Stern, the co-founder of Golden Spike and NASA's former chief scientists told Wired.
First, they are estimates of current voting intentions, not a forecast of how people will vote on 8 June,» said YouGov chief scientist Doug Rivers this morning.
«That is exactly what we were hoping for,» says Stanley Whitcomb, LIGO chief scientist at Caltech.
Critics like Rocky Mountain Institute cofounder and chief scientist Amory Lovins dispute this apparent parity, arguing that the price of nuclear energy would increase if more plants were built.
«The most probable outcome is that silicon technology will find a way to keep scaling, some way continue to deliver more value with succeeding generations,» said Nvidia Chief Scientist Bill Dally.
Dr. Craig Wright, cryptocurrency pioneer and currently chief scientist of blockchain technology research and development firm nChain, is being sued for $ 10.2 b by a relative of one of Bitcoin's earliest advocates.
EDF chief scientist Steve Hamburg and chief counsel for its U.S. climate and energy program Mark Brownstein were present at the event to discuss the study's findings, which focused on completion operations at hydraulically fractured wells.