Sentences with phrase «ecologist who»

I consider myself to be a highly motivated, passionate and committed Ecologist who has a methodical approach to...

It honors an ecologist who has made significant, long - standing contributions to the field of ecology.

Pierre Dansereau, French Canadian plant ecologist who was a pioneer in the study of the dynamics of forests and who attempted to extend ecological concepts to the modern human environment.

I am a plant ecologist who studies carbon and nitrogen cycling and I have been yearning for a site / blog this.

If you dry out that vegetation, they're going to be so much more flammable,» said Nate Stephenson, a USGS ecologist who is studying the impact of climate change in the Sierra Nevada.

Travis Belote, a biologist and research ecologist who works in the Northern Rockies office of The Wilderness Society in Bozeman, Montana, led a team of scientists in a recent study to help understand how the nation's various ecosystems are coping with climate change.

Erik Meijaard, an ecologist who has worked in Indonesia since 1993 and is considered a world authority on orangutan populations, is cautiously optimistic, although he sees no «silver bullet» solutions.

Robert Howarth is his colleague at Cornell, an ecologist who produced one of the most controversial scientific studies of the year: a paper arguing that natural gas produced by fracking may actually have a bigger greenhouse gas footprint than coal.

Patrick Moore is an ecologist who denies that humans cause climate change, and a corporate consultant through his firm Greenspirit Strategies.

«'' This week, the Belfast ecologist who collected most of the data, Professor Mike Baillie, described the ruling as «a staggering injustice... we measured the ring patterns.

David Goodall was a botanist and ecologist who raised concerns about climate change and population growth long before they reached the political agenda.

«The American pika may be an early - warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change,» said Erik Beever, Ph.D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years.

The scientists were Peter C. Frumhoff, an ecologist who directs science and policy for the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Kerry Emanuel, a veteran climate and hurricane researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

In the latter category, at the moment, is the recent burst of assertions and press coverage over the extent of climate impacts from hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — centered on a new paper on this issue by Robert Howarth, a Cornell ecologist who makes no secret of his opposition to the gas - extraction method.

Robert F. Rockwell, a Museum of Natural History population biologist and ecologist who was one of Gormezano's mentors since she started at the museum as a grad student, made no secret of his frustration with what he felt was agenda - driven resistance to publishing some of her findings.

The world has lost one of its leading minds — an ecologist who helped us understand how nature works in the most fundamental ways.

Bailey is a soil scientist and microbial ecologist who has been actively involved with EMSL as part of its Science Theme Advisory Panel for Geochemistry / Biogeochemistry and Subsurface Science.

That's a big issue when you're an ecologist who uses satellite imagery to understand what's going on with Weddell Seals, the southernmost mammal on the planet.

And Dr Simon Ducatez is a French ecologist who has worked on all kinds of animals from butterflies through to elephant seals.

Past studies have also indicated that caterpillars don't have microbiomes, says Melissa Whitaker, an ecologist who studies the relationships between caterpillars and bacteria at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

«It's paradigm shifting; it challenges everything we used to think,» says Peter Szabo, a Czech Academy of Sciences ecologist who took on Vera's analysis of medieval records in a recent article.

«It sounds as if the government is beginning to create a loophole,» Andrew Dobson, a Princeton University ecologist who has opposed the road project in the past, wrote in an e-mail.

In other words, the sources of error are important but probably not significant enough to overwhelm the conclusions, says Lauren Buckley, a University of Washington, Seattle, climate change ecologist who wasn't involved in the study.

Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist who studies the Great Lakes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hopes Leprieur's study can serve as a cautionary tale as developing nations join the global market and undertake activities that threaten to introduce exotic species into their relatively pristine ecosystems.

The land is dry and brown,» said study author Nadia Al - Mudaffar Fawzi, an Iraqi marine ecologist who returned from New Zealand to the city of her birth in 2009 to teach and conduct research at the University of Basrah.

David Kline, a Scripps ecologist who wasn't involved with the coral surveys, said that he had «complete confidence» in the findings.

It is an excellent example of the value of long - term demographic studies for long - lived species such as albatrosses,» according to Oregon State University's Robert Suryan, a seabird ecologist who was not involved in the study.

Devra Kleiman, a behavioural ecologist who has worked with the pandas at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, DC, says «I firmly believe that pandas can distinguish individuals they know.»

Dissection indeed is a major pressure on frog populations, says N. A. Aravind, an ecologist who studies mollusks at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment here.

Lubchenco, a marine ecologist who gave up scientific research to helm NOAA, said a report released earlier this year by the Obama administration makes it clear that climate change is already affecting the United States.

She is an urban ecologist who uses a transdisciplinary systems approach to understand how landscape patterns affect ecosystem services in cities.

Guided by Karen Glennemeier, a Shedd conservation ecologist who specializes in amphibians, Ford volunteers helped clear sugar maple trees that were preventing important other native species from prospering.

Here agrarians join hands with the ecologists who have shown us that interdependence, even if its nature is not fully understood, is the law of life.

The Duke medical researchers and ecologists who have joined that project hope to identify which species flourish in early stages of the human microbiome, how they are influenced by the consumption of breast milk, and what role they play in critical diseases affecting infants as well as in chronic diseases that occur later in life.

Ecologists who study plant defenses have long predicted that while mature leaves can rely on physical toughness to thwart hungry insects and other animals, tender young leaves need something extra to protect themselves.

There are U.S. ecologists who disregard some local regulations in Latin America, Sanders says.

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics — unique combinations of colors, shapes, and orientations, for example — as a means of attracting specific pollinators.

Zavaleta and two ecologists who recently received Ph.D. s from UCSC illustrate the importance of landscape diversity in their article «Several scales of bioversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality» published this week in PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«The ecologists who have studied this have looked at trap - neuter - release and it is not a solution,» said Melnykovych.

The 54,539 hectares Corcovado National Park has astonishing biological diversity that attracts the attention of ecologists who study the intricate rainforest.

Of course, I am embarrassed at the arrogance today (especially because we had nothing but contempt for ecologists who we regarded as «stamp collectors») but it indicates the joy of doing science simply to learn about how nature works.

Ecologists who have not made the leap to Earth system thinking have been the worst offenders.

, etc.) I know several Social Ecologists who don't believe in AGW and think it's all a plot to institute population control.

Not exact matches

Ecologist David Schindler, who energetically led the ELA for more than two decades, convinced the group to fund ELA to study the issue.

In seeking to root out man's claim to a special status in the universe, deep ecologists are pagan pantheists who reject biblical religion, especially the injunction of Genesis 1:28 to «Fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the seas, the birds of the sky, and all the living beings that move on this earth.»

And while the analysis that addresses these issues can be indebted to Christian tradition, the theologian who thinks about such issues may well be so innovative in relation to historic Christian reflection that his or her work on these topics is indistinguishable from that of the ecologist, the secular ethicist, or the economic theorist (cf. CNT 253).

Rainforest Alliance President Nigel Sizer, a tropical forest ecologist, explains the complex relationship between rainforests and climate change — and why it is more important than ever that those who are concerned make their voices heard.

The aforementioned paper reports that «Rainforest Alliance inspection auditors rely heavily on data provided by farm managers» (who are not ecologists), and confirm data provided during visits by various estimates and extrapolations.

That's «a real exceptional feature of Homo sapiens,» notes Kim Hill, a human behavioral ecologist also at ASU who has studied small - scale tribal societies in South America.

«When narwhals detect humans, they often dive quickly and disappear from sight,» says Kristin Laidre, an ecologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who studies marine mammals in the Arctic.