Sentences with phrase «do conservation science»

But, according to evolutionary biologist John Gittleman of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the research raises the point that «it's not effective to do conservation science one species at a time.

Not exact matches

«The important thing is that as many schools as possible do something to help their students appreciate the need for energy conservation and the science behind it,» DeBoer said.

While the SSC doesn't manage the conservation of endangered species per se, its job is to provide governments with assessments and recommendations based on the best available science on which they can make sound policy decisions.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

«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.

For example, the science of surfing demonstrates hydrodynamics in a fun and interesting way, and the science of skateboarding does the same for Newton's Law's of Motion and Einstein's Principle of the Conservation of Energy.

«We did not anticipate going out on that survey and not seeing a single baiji, and not hearing a single whistle,» says Barbara Taylor, a conservation biologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and a member of CIRVA.

«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the work we are doing to learn about these bears is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

Roberts - Manganelli concurs: «You can't do science, art history or conservation in isolation.

«It will be highly ironic if that happens, but I don't think it's going to get him an award from the Sierra Club or the League of Conservation Voters,» said Myron Ebell, a vocal skeptic of mainstream climate science.

Sharks are not a resource limited to just one nation and this short film attempts to communicate that fact by showcasing the work being done by the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

What they are doing is brilliant, breakthrough science, and therefore exactly the kind of high - visibility, proof - of - concept example that will show conservation biologists and the general public what a potent new toolkit biotech is bringing to wildlife conservation.

S. Fish and Wildlife Service's «killer cat study» was published, the paper actually has very little to do with science or conservation.

The Caring Together Club is a group of individuals who support science - based animal advocacy, and wish to learn more about the research and conservation efforts being done by Georgia Aquarium and its partners.

That has to be done by art handlers, whose skills are a mixture of conservation science and DIY ingenuity.

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.

John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-creator of the «Sea Monster» blog, said the piece does not reflect the science on reef conditions and threats and fundamentally disagreed with the author's views on conservation options.

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

Shaye Wolf, climate science director for the Center for Biological Diversity, the conservation group that launched legal action to get Pacific walruses listed in 2008, told Earther that the agency's claim that walruses will adapt to climate change «is baseless, and simply doesn't match the science showing that walruses are being harmed by the devastating loss of their sea ice habitat.»

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.

«The problem is that we don't have specificity of which science is suitable for deforestation and which science is suitable for degradation and which science is suitable for other areas like conservation and sustainable management of forests.»

At many of the places we visited, we were reminded that conservation does not happen without solid science to back up the need for protection.