Sentences with phrase «conservation science into»

But other artists are pushing conservation science into uncharted areas, with work fashioned from materials as diverse as soap and chocolate, blood and faeces (yes, some modern art really is crap).

Not exact matches

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

Better application of science and technology, empowerment of local communities in decision making, integrating biodiversity conservation into other key sectors, scenario planning that is sensitive to economic and cultural diversity, private sector partnerships in financing biodiversity protection, as well as better cross-border regional collaboration, are some of the many important approaches the report identifies.

She has helped transform a once sleepy rehabilitation facility into a vibrant, globally recognized science and conservation center and become a presidentially appointed adviser to policymakers, weighing in on thorny issues such as endangered species management.

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

We are the leading conservation organization promoting the incorporation of genetic tools into standard conservation practice, bringing together the academic or commercial labs advancing the science and the conservation practitioners working in the field.

If your date is an animal lover, then they're sure to be impressed while taking a stroll around the zoo's romantic Sunset Safari trails, while live animal feeding sessions and talks that provide an insight into ZSL's invaluable science and conservation work are sure to help spark lively conversations — there'll be no time for awkward silences on this animal adventure.

The Bakken features many sustainability and science - oriented displays, such as Electrifying Minnesota, an interactive exhibit that helps kids learn about electricity and conservation, and the Inventor's Club, where students reinvent machines such as record players and other old equipment into new tools as a way of harnessing creativity and enhancing interest in science through learning about adaptive reuse.

If these people are going to call for conservation, then they better make it a point to lead by example, otherwise they're easily dismissed as being trivial by someone who doesn't bother to read the full science when they get into the issue, thus creating a case where the people providing the arguement are, through their own actions, weakening it.

Joel Berger, a University of Montana researcher and biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society (who was just interviewed in Science Times), scoured records back into the 1800's and found that the jack rabbit was abundant 130 years ago, yet no one has seen one since 1991 in Yellowstone, with only three spotted in the adjacent Grand Teton National Park since 1978.

He also showed no understanding of how science assembles the collection of observations and analyses, drawing on fundamental conservation laws of energy, etc. (of course, medicine does not have such laws — so maybe that is his problem), into a coherent picture of how the Earth is functioning (and how this matches how the planets are functioning, etc.) and so develops a paradigm for Earth system behavior that incorporates theory, observations, results of field and laboratory studies, paleoclimatic records, and so on.

However, big conservation NGOs run into many problems in trying to use the available science.

Transforming the science and practice of conservation to ensure that wildlife and their habitats survive into an uncertain future.

Careers in marine biology are often research based and, while it's possible to study a marine biology undergraduate degree and go straight into volunteering or a semi-employed position on a conservation science project, postgraduate study is common.

Issues covered include archaeology, astronomy, botany, climate science, conservation, efficient transportation, geology, marine sciences, sustainability and zoology, with occasional forays into other areas, including traditional navigation and canoe voyaging.