Sentences with phrase «earth scientists at»

The team, led by earth scientists at Ohio State University, pinpointed a period in 2010 when high temperatures caused the natural ice flow out to sea to suddenly accelerate, and 100 billion tons of ice melted away from the continent in only 6 months...

The statement asks for the world to put earth scientists at the centre of a political process involving «all aspects of society».

In 2008 Margaret Zimmerman asked two questions of 10,257 Earth Scientists at academic and government institutions.

It will probably happen in 20 to 40 million years, leaving a ring that will persist for anywhere from one million to 100 million years, according to two young earth scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.

Climate models suggest that widespread glaciations couldn't take place at that time unless CO2 levels dropped to about eight times what they are at present, says Tim Lenton, an earth scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

These vibration patterns are caused by alternating slow and fast ruptures occurring on the same patch of a fault,» said Asst Prof Sylvain Barbot, from NTU's Asian School of the Environment and an earth scientist at EOS.

In addition to Boschi, those facing trial are: Franco Barberi, committee vice president; Bernardo De Bernardinis, at the time vice president of Italy's Civil Protection Department and now president of the country's Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Giulio Selvaggi, director of the National Earthquake Centre; Gian Michele Calvi, director of the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering; Claudio Eva, an earth scientist at the University of Genoa; and Mauro Dolce, director of the office of seismic risk at the Civil Protection Department.

That pattern may be here to stay because of climate change, says co-author Edward Hanna, an earth scientist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.

Lonnie Thompson, an earth scientist at The Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center who also is not part of the project and has been drilling ice cores on the world's highest mountain ranges for 38 years.

Judging from geological traces of two even older tsunami deposits, Koji Minoura, an Earth scientist at Tohoku University in Sendai, and his colleagues proposed in 2001 that giant waves visit the region about every 800 - 1,100 years (K. Minoura et al..

Gretchen Früh - Green, an earth scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, was stunned to find a network of mineral chimneys rising 200 feet from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

«Classification is a tricky problem; there are short trees, tall trees, trees next to each other, next to buildings — all sorts of combinations,» says team member Ramakrishna Nemani, an earth scientist at NASA's Advanced Supercomputer Division in Mountain View, California.

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University whose home just north of the city up the Hudson River was flooded by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, has been calling the necessary urban design approach «managed retreat» (Reed Noss of the University of Central Florida has been making the same argument in the context of wildlife conservation).

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory who pretty precisely projected the flooding a big hurricane surge could cause in New York City long before Hurricane Sandy hit, reflects in this video on the impacts on the region — including on his own storm - flooded home in Piermont, N.Y., a tiny town along the Hudson River a few miles north of the George Washington Bridge.

Henk Brinkhuis, an earth scientist at the University of Utrecht whose Arctic work I've followed for a decade, summed up the feelings of many friends and colleagues on Facebook on May 1:

Brendan Rogers, an Earth scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center, is studying how deeply large fires burn the layers of peat on the forest floor.

David Lea, an Earth scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he found the approach promising.

«Although hurricane tracks have gradually moved northwards away from the western Caribbean, rising sea surface temperatures could promote the development of cyclonic storms within the western Caribbean,» says co-author of the report James Baldini, an Earth scientist at the University of Durham.

The last 10 years have, on average, been as warm as a normal one year in 500 warm spell,» said Bryan Shuman, an earth scientist at the University of Wyoming, and one of the authors.

«I think a lot of this threshold and tipping point talk is dangerous,» said Kenneth Caldeira, an earth scientist at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution and an advocate of swift action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The ancient Antarctic sediment could provide a vision of what is to come, said study leader Sarah Feakins, an earth scientist at the University of Southern California.

«The important point here is that smooth projections of sea level rise do not capture this variability, so adverse effects of sea level rise may occur before they are predicted to happen,» said Andrea Dutton, an earth scientist at the University of Florida.

Not exact matches

«We have taken our telescope, and we have counted up how many planets are similar to the Earth in this part of the sky,» Susan Thompson, a Kepler research scientist at the SETI Institute, said during a press conference at NASA Ames Research Center on Monday.

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

As the craft continues to transmit photos back to Earth, scientists are learning more about the fascinating dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.

Be it in the form of solar system supporting life on planet earth or in the works of a scientist who is researching, Creativity a force, a constance presence is eternally at work.

There was never a global flood and yet scientists say that at some time in earth's history it was entirely covered in water.

At first glance, Intelligent Design seems to offer hope: While eschewing the Young Earth theory of creationism, it acknowledges the need, deeply embedded in scientists and theologians alike, to recognize final cause, or telos, in the created universe.

«Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth... one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the whole corpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis... He must at once be a Thomist and an Atomist; until that reconciliation is attempted, the pulpit and the laboratory will be forever at cross-purposes.»

It is a longing never mentioned, I might add, by the generation of aspiring scientists and not at all the same as a desire simply for more time on earth.

Apr. 4, 2013 — A structural biologist at the Florida State University College of Medicine has made discoveries that could lead scientists a step closer to understanding how life first emerged on Earth billions of years ago.

Our age is in need of a great philosopher; one who can thread his way, step by step, through the intricate labyrinth of reasoning into which scientists have been led, eyes riveted to earth, by the desire to improve our human lot, the desire to destroy life, or mere common curiosity; one who can keep his mind, at the same time, open to the metaphysical implications of all he learns, and at last put the wholecorpus of our knowledge together in one grand synthesis.

The best scientists of their day at one time believed that the earth was flat, that bleeding people cured illness, that spontaneous generation was a fact (after all, they saw it with their own eyes) and other such nonsense.

Catholic teaching is that science and faith are not at odds with one another and it is possible to believe what scientists say about the Earth's age and in God.

Absolutely, it does make sense to at least 6 billion people on earth including but not limited to professionals and the elite such as Doctors, Scientists, Juries, Judges, Magistrates, Politicians, even by the person who holds the highest position of the most powerful country of the world.

Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age.

«Smartest Food Scientist on Earth» Researchers at the Not Company (NotCo), a food - tech startup based in Chile, have developed food products that are made completely of plants but tastes like animal food.

«The farther and longer humans go away from Earth, the greater the need to be able to grow plants for food, atmosphere recycling and psychological benefits,» said Gioia Massa, a scientist at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, in a press release.

Most scientists and climatologists agree that weird weather is at least in part the result of global warming — a steady increase in the average temperature of the surface of the Earth thought to be caused by increased concentrations of greenhouse gasses produced by human activity.

In space, metal is not subject to the corrosion that occurs on Earth, says Luz Marina Calle, the lead corrosion scientist at nasa.

19.00 John Bercow joins MPs from the Environmental Audit Committee, environmental scientists and activists at a debate ahead of the Rio Earth Summit in June at St Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square, London

To explain the shadow zone, scientists reasoned that Earth's presumed liquid core deflected P - waves from their expected trajectories, so they wouldn't be recorded at all seismographic stations.

Hutton lived at a time when even learned «natural philosophers» — the word scientist did not yet exist — believed Earth was a mere 6,000 years old.

A team of Soviet scientists began drilling at Kola in the spring of 1970, with the goal of penetrating as far into Earth's crust as their technology would allow.

Gifford Wong, an earth scientist and current fellow at the Department of State, shared how he had jumped at the chance to see Antarctica by working as a general assistant at the U.S. Antarctic Program's McMurdo Station.

Now scientists at MIT and NASA have identified a process in Earth's magnetosphere that reinforces its shielding effect, keeping incoming solar energy at bay.

The scientists focused on seeds that no one had tried to germinate, looking at a short section of genetic code that had been inserted into their genomes before they left Earth.

A model of the flows in Earth's mantle below North America, developed by the scientists, reveals that the mantle material below 200 kilometers flows westward at a velocity of about 4 millimeters per year.

Scientists use models of Earth's structure and measurements of Earth's magnetic field taken at USGS observatories (https://geomag.usgs.gov/monitoring/observatories/) to determine which sections of the electrical grid might lose power during a geomagnetic storm.

Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.