Sentences with phrase «continental scale»

But NEON Inc., the Boulder - based nonprofit that manages the project, vowed in a statement that «the project will remain positioned to meet the goal of transforming continental scale ecology,» adding that large NSF - funded projects «commonly require adjustments of scope and in this regard NEON is not exceptional.»

Continental scale precipitation variations.

«Insofar as they were aware of some geoelectric hazards associated with Northern Minnesota, our analysis puts all of this into a broader continental scale,» Love said.

Focus of Study I'm currently studying seismology on a variety of scales, from volcanic media to continental scale crustal analyses.

The awards are first held on continental scales after which the winners are pitted against each other in a gala event which, incidentally, is to be held in New Delhi this year and is expected to be attended by a packed delegation of VIPs, senior tourism figures and international media from more than 100 nations.

With six such sites planned in Alaska, and 60 total in the United Sates, this network, best known under the acronym NEON, is the world's first continental scale ecological observatory.

Stenni et al (2017), Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years, was published pdf this week by Climate of the Past.

NEON is designed to enable the research community to ask and address their own questions on a regional to continental scale around the environmental challenges identified as relevant to understanding the effects of climate change, land - use change and invasive species patterns on the biosphere.

Integrating remotely sensed surface water extent into continental scale hydrology.

Continental scale increases between 1970 and 2010 were mostly offset by the decreases between 1930 and 1970.»

The history of these observations is quite long (volunteers started to collect this data in the 1950s as indicated in their Nature Scientific Data publication) and their uses are various: from supporting the planning and execution of various agronomical practices, to studying the magnitude and direction of climate change at continental scales.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS * Field Operations Management - continental scale ecology * Practical field experience researching, compiling and managing collected data * Professional wildlife surveys, investigations and observations * Biological compliance monitoring - Responsible for field surveying (pre / post construction bio-sweeps of T&E flora and fauna), contractor coordination, active construction monitoring and technical...

Another is that some people still believe the ECB will quit QE after inflation is discovered... sorry, it's just another version of a free lunch scheme only on a Continental scale.

This is a system that fatally engenders poverty, unemployment, and exclusion, often on a continental scale.

It is a system that fatally engenders poverty, unemployment, and exclusion, often on a continental scale.

The report has found that human activity is likely to have influenced temperature significantly down to the continental scale for all continents except Antarctica.

What that means, she says, is «these groups of hominid species were having impacts on a continental scale before the evolution of modern humans.»

A new network of observatories aims to take ecological science to the continental scale in the next 30 years.

No new technology is involved, but the system requires two things that the U.S. does not now have: a national commitment to integrating the electricity system on a continental scale and about $ 60 billion to pay for it.

Ambitious project to systematically monitor the environment on a continental scale is finally ready to break ground.

However, no study has yet managed to quantify the cost and benefit of such efforts at a continental scale.

In lieu of the traditional approach of having scientists monitor their own tiny slice of the world, using their own methods and instruments, NEON would standardize the process — and collect data on a massive, continental scale.

«When looking at a continental scale invasion in particular, we can't assume that the invasion is uniform across the region because of latitudinal differences in species interactions like herbivore pressure and resistance to herbivory,» said Meyerson, URI associate professor of habitat restoration ecology.

At the continental scale, there is a new assessment of the net mass balance of Antarctica and Greenland.

An NSF spokesperson said that Battelle was chosen over a handful of other bidders because of its experience with other scientific facilities and because of its willingness to work with the research community to achieve the project's goal of becoming a continental scale observatory to monitor changes in climate, biodiversity, and land use.

«On a continental scale, and we are talking about a line running right down the Rocky Mountains, we are seeing processes which are releasing the existing helium which has been built up deep underground over hundreds of millions of years.

«The transformation of plant communities on a continental scale within less than a decade can be considered a rapid ecosystem response to ongoing climate warming,» the researchers write.

The amount of CO2 emitted from fires in the US is equivalent to 4 — 6 % of anthropogenic emissions at the continental scale and, at the state - level, fire emissions of CO2 can, in some cases, exceed annual emissions of CO2 from fossil fuel usage...

NEON is particularly focused on detecting environmental changes at the continental scale.

Was I following in the footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, or was I in Patagonia to make a fashion statement on a continental scale?

Attributing temperature changes on smaller than continental scales and over time - scales of less than 20 years is difficult due to low signal - to - noise ratios at those scales.

However, models would need to underestimate variability by factors of over two in their standard deviation to nullify detection of greenhouse gases in near - surface temperature data (Tett et al., 2002), which appears unlikely given the quality of agreement between models and observations at global and continental scales (Figures 9.7 and 9.8) and agreement with inferences on temperature variability from NH temperature reconstructions of the last millennium.

On a continental scale (the scale relevant to climate), Australian temperature this summer was unremarkable — it was within the range of previous variability.

But their models are hopelessly broken, they can't predict a decadal average on a global or continental scale.

However, this study is the first to record such a large - scale expansion on a continental scale, researchers say.

Solar Forcing of the Stream Flow of a Continental Scale South American River (PDF), Pablo J. D. Mauas et.