Sentences with phrase «conservation scientist at»

Dr. Wendy Kiso is the Research and Conservation Scientist at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation.

But «we wondered what was the net consequence of this big number of groupers inside the park,» says Daniel Brumbaugh, senior conservation scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

With global collaborations, we can identify strategic future investments in marine protected areas, and track progress towards better outcomes,» said Dr. Emily Darling, Associate Conservation Scientist at Wildlife Conservation Society, who leads a global coral reef monitoring program.

And without strong new protections, «there [are] a substantial number of mammals that are likely to disappear,» adds John Fa, a conservation scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom who also works with Indonesia's Center for International Forestry Research but was not involved with the study.

The proliferation of problem drugs puts a premium on finding safer alternatives, says Toby Galligan, a conservation scientist at the United Kingdom's Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Bedfordshire.

«This paper, by addressing the issue for all mammals, reminds us that we also need to think about the less charismatic species, and the less high - profile ones,» says E. J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation scientist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

But David Saunders, a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London, says they are worrying about nothing.

It «presents a very clear and easy to understand up - to - date summary of the population trends and status of the birds in the U.S.,» says Stuart Butchart, a conservation scientist at BirdLife International in Cambridge, U.K. «Everyone ought to pay attention to what this report tells us.»

«The gap between what we know and don't know about Earth's biodiversity is still tremendous, but technology is playing a major role in closing it and helping us conserve biodiversity more intelligently and efficiently,» said coauthor Lucas N. Joppa, a conservation scientist at Microsoft's Computational Science Laboratory in Cambridge, U.K.

Now she works as a conservation scientist at the National Gallery in London.

«The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms,» says John Reynolds, a salmon conservation scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

«Science plays a big role in deepening our understanding of these iconic masterpieces,» said Francesca Casadio, A.W. Melon senior conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago, which is hosting a new exhibition, Van Gogh's Bedrooms.

Emily Darling, a marine conservation scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society, an environmental group in New York, calls the study impressive.

«Taken on their own, these materials and techniques are not unique fingerprints to Velázquez,» says Anikó Bezur, a conservation scientist at Yale who worked with McClure.

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He worked two years as a soil scientist with the Soil Conservation Service and then attended graduate school at UW - Madison where he completed a master's degree in soil science.

Originally founded so that scientists and nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.

Led by Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium, the team of citizen scientists explored several cays on Andros Island in search of adult and juvenile iguanas for the aquarium's mark - recapture studies.

«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate scientist join Shedd's conservation research team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

For Jeremy Yoder, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, his metascience research about LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans *, queer, or asexual) scientists» experiences was «the intersection of personal interest and serendipity,» he says.

In these cases museum scientists are working at transboundaries that are beyond politics but that can generally facilitate policy, such as with climate change and conservation issues.

Some birds are especially adept: Scientists at the College of William & Mary Center for Conservation Biology tracked a migratory shorebird, a whimbrel, as it flew through Hurricane Irene in 2011.

As of May of this year, I have been working as a research scientist at the Botanische Staatssammlung München, and I remain co-director of the Taï Monkey Project, coordinating ecological and conservation - oriented research in the Taï National Park.

David Macdonald is part of a team of scientists at the University of Oxford's Wildlife Research Conservation Unit in the United Kingdom that was studying Cecil.

«The goal of the BCS was to understand better the distribution and conservation needs of Bornean cats and small carnivores and subsequently, to enable targeted conservation efforts to those carnivores which are most threatened,» said Dr. Andreas Wilting, scientist at the IZW and lead editor of this supplement.

Leading scientists from around the world convened this week at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Cartagena, Colombia, to discuss how to better leverage science to combat illegal wildlife trade — both within countries and across international borders.

Despite the challenges ahead, Michael Mascia, a senior social scientist at WWF and founder of the Social Science Working Group for the Society of Conservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenConservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenconservation and human development promising.

Among the first scientists to promote gastronomy as a tool to combat invasion was Joe Roman, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont.

CANTERBURY, U.K. — The mushrooming trade of «bushmeat» in tropical countries is the most pressing issue in conservation biology today, said scientists at last week's meeting of the Society for Conservatconservation biology today, said scientists at last week's meeting of the Society for ConservationConservation Biology.

Scientists, government officials and other interested parties debated the idea last week at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Honolulu.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

The scientists say that identifying the regions and species at greatest risk means conservation efforts can be better targeted.

John H. Schulz, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, has calculated that as many as 15 million mourning doves are killed in North America each year from lead poisoning, mostly from eating spent lead shot that looks like the weed seed they depend on for food.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldconservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldconservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldConservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the world's big cats.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

At an international conservation biology conference, male scientists asked on average 1.8 questions for every one question posed by a female scientist, the first study reports, even though the audiences of the 2015 meeting sessions that the researchers analyzed ranged from 40 % to 75 % female.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

«The work discussed at today's press conference is emblematic of the many ways in which satellite remote sensing supports our efforts at natural resource management and wildlife conservation,» said Woody Turner, program scientist for NASA's Biological Diversity Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.

In their study, the scientists also review the research and conservation undertaken at the mountain so far, including the work they have initiated themselves.

«Understanding the genome will help us make conservation plans that allow Joshua tree to adapt to changing climates and environments,» said project scientist Christopher Irwin Smith, a biologist at Willamette University.

The study, by scientists at WHOI, the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and NOAA Fisheries, was published online May 21 in the journal Marine Mammal Science.

«As conservation scientists, the existing paradigm is we should save everything,» says Leah Gerber, an ecologist at Arizona State University, Tempe.

«Human welfare and conservation have become increasingly intertwined — politically, philosophically and practically — and ignoring human displacement undermines the moral basis for conservation,» wrote political scientist Arun Agrawal of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and WCS's Kent Redford and Eva Fearn.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

As a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Muruganandam has been doing research on natural resource management and fisheries and aquatic system management, in particular, for more than 20 years.

«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.

Fulbright scholar Muthiah Muruganandam, left, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, and fisheries biologist Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, will examine how land - use changes affect water quality and fisheries resources in northeastern South Dakota lakes.

For an exhibit on display through May 10 at the Art Institute of Chicago, conservation scientist Francesca Casadio and colleagues conducted a number of tests to reveal the pigments van Gogh used.

The NOAA portion of the prize is meant to spur the development of specific technologies that can help detect «sources of pollution, enable rapid response to leaks and spills, identify hydrothermal vents and methane seeps, as well as track marine life for scientific research and conservation efforts,» Richard Spinrad, chief scientist at NOAA, said in a statement.