Sentences with phrase «earth system sciences»

CHEYENNE, Wyoming — The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is launching operations this month of one of the world's most powerful and energy - efficient supercomputers, providing the nation with a major new tool to advance understanding of the atmospheric and related Earth system sciences.

Always new, thrilling and interdisciplinary challenges arise from the close collaboration with the climate and earth system sciences.

The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community unifies early career researchers in an influential network and communication platform to promote local and global exchange across multiple disciplines related to Earth system sciences.

He has half - baked ideas that defy the laws of physics, aka pseudo-science, and a folksy surface charm that appeals to some (but not all from what I've read) people who for some weird reason have an aversion to accepting or learning about basic physics, chemistry, biology, geology, oceanography and any and all earth system sciences.

Navin Ramankutty, an assistant professor of geography and Earth system sciences at McGill University in Montreal, says this study is the first to take a comprehensive look at the consequences of deforestation on the entire world.

«We are concerned that the administration's proposed cuts to research into the Earth system sciences will undermine the continued scientific progress that is so vitally needed to better protect the nation in the future from costly natural disasters,» Antonio J. Busalacchi, the president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, said in a statement.

He is the author of more than 200 peer - reviewed and edited publications and serves as director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University.

In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Millan, a UCI graduate student researcher in Earth system science, and his colleagues analyzed 20 major outlet glaciers in southeast Greenland using high - resolution airborne gravity measurements and ice thickness data from NASA's Operation IceBridge mission; bathymetry information from NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland project; and results from the BedMachine version 3 computer model, developed at UCI.

Co-author Eric Rignot, UCI professor of Earth system science, added, «Now that the picture is clear, the role of the ocean in glacier evolution is overwhelming.»

Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center, on Monday sued the National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, along with two of their authors, Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn.

A paper about the work was published in the journal Earth System Science Data.

We look forward to working with Congress in the months ahead to maintain the level of funding needed in the fiscal year 2018 budget to support essential Earth system science research.»

Katherine Mackey, PhD University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science Website

A new study led by the University of Maryland's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) suggests that a warmer Atlantic Ocean could substantially boost the destructive power of a future superstorm like Sandy.

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

«The amazing increase in Chinese manufacturing over the past 15 years has driven the world economy to new heights and supplied consumers in developed countries with tremendous quantities of lower - cost goods,» said co-author Steven J. Davis, an assistant professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.

«The way manufacturing and commerce are structured in the world today means that air pollution mortality is being felt disproportionately by people living in or near producing regions, often far from where goods are consumed,» said paper co-author Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine.

Inspiring Minorities in the Earth Sciences by A. Sasso, 29 April 2005 Ashanti Pyrtle, director of Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success (MSPHDS) in Earth System Science Initiative, encourages minority students to enter the geosciences.

... When it is finished, it will be reviewed by the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP), the session chairs, and a group of experts identified by the IARU universities.

Michael Mann is director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University

Deepti Singh, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Earth System Science program at Stanford, said changes in the monsoon are important, because farmers there are very dependent on rain - fed agriculture for food production both nationally and for export.

«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead author of the research paper.

«These conditions will cause changes in phytoplankton growth and ocean circulation around Antarctica, with the net effect of transferring nutrients from the upper ocean to the deep ocean,» said lead author J. Keith Moore, UCI professor of Earth system science.

Dust will affect climate and, at the same time, climate change will affect dust,» said lead author Hongbin Yu, an associate research scientist at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC), a joint center of the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, called the analysis solid.

Nigam also has a joint appointment in UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC).

Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, who was not a co-author of the paper, commented: «We can not separate the issues of population growth, resource consumption, the burning of fossil fuels, and climate risk.

Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Keck CCAMS Group, B321 Croul Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA.

Institute for Environmental Decisions, Department of Earth Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland.

On Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco, Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences, will discuss approaches to this challenge in a talk titled «Quantifying the Influence of Observed Global Warming on the Probability of Unprecedented Extreme Climate Events.»

Furthermore, his knowledge of Earth system science and his ability to align that science with budget and programs will be essential to moving NOAA forward in the next few years.»

Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center, said there is no doubt the sharp increase in weather disasters is an effect of human - caused climate change.

Michael Mann is the director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth System Science Center.

A new study co-authored by Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science, shows that the U.S. can meet 80 percent of its electricity demand with renewable solar and wind resources.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

«China will follow its own cultural norms in governing its fisheries resources,» observed Roz Naylor, FSE Director and William Wrigley Professor in Earth System Science at Stanford University.

The findings, which have just been published in three separate scientific journals — Earth System Science Data, Environmental Research Letters and Nature Climate Change — will also be presented today at the U.N. climate conference in Bonn, Germany.

For Mann, a professor of meteorology and director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center, the six - month ordeal was simply a «distraction.»

Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, was the lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released last week detailing a four - step framework for testing whether global warming contributes to record - setting weather events.

The reviewer is at the Department of Geosciences and Earth System Science Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

«We came as close as one can to demonstrating a direct link between climate change and a large family of extreme recent weather events,» said Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State.

He finds Earth systems science «an emerging field, crossing boundaries, integrating experts from specialties that have had little involvement.

«There's only one way to put together a very large - area study like this, and that is with satellites,» said senior author Jay Famiglietti, senior water cycle scientist at JPL on leave from UC Irvine, where he is an Earth system science professor.

Scheuchl's co-authors on the Geophysical Research Letters study are JPL's Khazendar and Jeremie Mouginot, Mathieu Morlighem and Eric Rignot from UCI's Department of Earth System Science.

«The results clearly showed that modest amounts of climate change can have a big impact on yields of several crops in Europe,» said Stanford doctoral student Frances Moore, who conducted the research with David Lobell, an associate professor of environmental Earth system science.

UAH's Earth System Science Center (ESSC) was created to encourage interdisciplinary study of the Earth as an integrated system across traditional boundaries.

UAH Earth Systems Science Center research associate Dr. Lihua «Lucy» Wang in UAH's Rocket - city Ozone (O3) Quality Evaluation in the Troposphere (RO3QET) Lidar Laboratory.

Emeritus Professor of Earth System Science, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, UK.

The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the ocean and its physics, chemistry, and biology, which may result in breakthrough in earth system science.