Sentences with phrase «ecologist james»
Ahead of receiving the award â $ «which has previously been given to Sir David Attenborough, the ecologist James Lovelock, and the economist Amartya Sen â $ «Hansen told the Guardian that the latest climate models had shown the planet was on the brink of an emergency.
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The noted British ecologist James Lovelock recently proposed the idea of installing deepwater pipes on the ocean floor to pump cold water to the surface to enhance the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide.
Within the last two years, a number of leading scientists — including Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), British ecologist James Lovelock, and NASA scientist James Hansen — have all declared that humanity is about to pass or already has passed a «tipping point» in terms of global warming.
They interviewed U.S. Forest Service ecologist James Vose who stated, «It's very rare to have this many fires burning this amount of area in the Southeast.»
«That's an important result,» says evolutionary ecologist James Collins of Arizona State University in Tempe.
The sea otter (Enhydra lutris), sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus polyacanthus), and kelp (Laminaria spp. and Agarum cribrosum) cascade reported by marine ecologist James Estes in Alaska provides a classic example.
And several of the coral diseases have never before been seen by scientists, according to marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens, who spoke today at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
«This is important research to identify the causative agents of these environmental scourges,» says marine ecologist James Porter of the University of Georgia, Athens.
«You can't really talk about numbers of frogs that have died,» says population ecologist James Collins of Arizona State University.
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The son of the late billionaire financier Sir James Goldsmith, he was expelled from Eton for possessing cannabis and later edited the Ecologist magazine.
The son of Sir James Goldsmith (founder of the Referendum Party) and nephew of Edward Goldsmith (founder of the Ecologist magazine, which Zac edited), Goldsmith disproves the theory that all old Etonians are stereotypical Tories.
«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.
Ecologist Ross Alford of James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, says Shine's work to assess the complete biology of cane toads will be instrumental in controlling the pests.
«This finding may lay to rest a long - standing debate in tropical forest ecology,» says ecologist Steve Turton of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia.
About this Book: Serendipity: An Ecologist's Quest to Understand Nature James A. Estes University of California Press, 2016
«They should change the textbooks,» says James Nifong, an ecologist with the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Kansas State University in Manhattan, who has spent years documenting the estuarine gator diet.
«There are certain [microbes] we all have, and certain things that are unique to individuals, but we really have no idea where we acquire these in our lifetime,» says James Meadow, the study's lead author and a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
The findings suggest that «species are able to use different parts of these sites to gain a competitive edge,» says James Grace, an ecologist at the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Plants and animals will not dwindle away slowly, say mathematical ecologist Martin Hoyle and biologist Mike James, formerly of the University of Nottingham in England.
James Cook University ecologist Sandra Abell, who is leading the effort, rates the likelihood of success as «low» but «not impossible.»
It's not as if every species has an equal chance of colonizing,» adds Terry Hughes, a coral reef ecologist at James Cook University, Townsville, in Australia.
The key message is the need to improve biosecurity to prevent such invasions, says Lori Lach, a community ecologist at James Cook University, Cairns, in Australia.
James Meadow, a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon.
And I started exploring the statistics behind this, the modelling behind this, and I was lucky to interact with a very, very accomplished statistical ecologist called James Nichols in the U.S. Geographical Survey, who was a real pioneer in the developing of these methods.
James Traniello, a behavioral ecologist at Boston University in Massachusetts, describes the work as «wonderful» and a «greatly advanced» study in molecular immunology.
«This is a great, robust study that takes the study of animal temperament — which is kind of narrow — and puts it into a broad evolutionary framework,» says James Traniello, a behavioral ecologist at Boston University.
«Many different groups and the interested public will need to come together to ensure that gene drives are developed and used responsibly,» said James P. Collins, PhD, an evolutionary ecologist at Arizona State University and senior author of the Science paper.
James P. Collins is an evolutionary ecologist whose research group studies the role of host - pathogen interactions in species decline and extinction.
Every Blade of Grass by Thomas Wharton (2014) A compelling historical fiction, Every Blade of Grass is the story of the correspondence between Martha, a New York journalist, and James, an ecologist from Vancouver.
Past Speakers Oct 2 - Columbia Professor Todd Gitlin on Fossil Fuel Divestment Oct 3 - Massimo LoBuglio, Environmentalist and Social Entrepreneur Oct 4 - Dr. Radley Horton, Columbia University and co-author of the Obama Administration's Climate Assessment Report Oct 5 - Dr. Jennifer Francis, Rutgers, author of the cutting - edge theory of Arctic Ice Melt and Extreme Weather Oct 9 - Opening Night with climate prophet Dr. James Hansen, NASA scientist, who told Congress in 1988 that global warming had begun Oct 10 — Prof. Andrew Revkin, Pace, plays Climate Music post-show Oct 11 - David Levine - Co-founder and CEO of American Sustainable Business Council Oct 12 - Jaimie Cloud & Griffin Cloud Levine - Teaching Children and Youths Sustainability Oct 16 - Prof. Gerald Markowitz, John Jay College, on industry's relationship to science Oct 17 - Marielle Anzelone, Urban ecologist Oct 18 - Dr. Jannette Barth, Why Not To Frack Oct 19 - Ken Levenson, The Passive House Oct 23 - Prof. Ana Baptista, New School for Social Research, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Oct 24 - Charles Komanoff, Carbon Tax Center, on the need to tax carbon Oct 25 - Prof. Dale Jamieson, NYU, Reason in A Dark Time Oct 26 - Eve Silber and Closing Reception in honor of Father Paul Mayer
James Lovelock, famous scientist, ecologist, and father of the Gaia Hypothesis, lost faith in renewable energies.
Prominent AGW «defectors» include Dr. Judith Curry, professor of climatology and chair of the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; Dr. Patrick Moore, chemist / ecologist / activist co-founder of Greenpeace and former director of Greenpeace International; Dr. Fritz Vahrenholt, a leader in the European environmental movement and «green» energy; Dr. Richard S. J. Tol, IPCC author and professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Dr. James Lovelock, inventor / scientist / ecologist and formulator of the «Gaia hypothesis.»