Sentences with phrase «ecosystem engineer of»

His research, completed in summer 2016, determined that the Passenger Pigeon was the ecosystem engineer of eastern North American forests.

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Almost every vendor in the space has invested engineering resources in making it easy (or at least easier) to integrate with the rest of the marketing technology ecosystem.

By: Ilan Solomons 10th November 2017 The recently released Natural Capital Protocol promises to give business a new appreciation of the ecosystem services on which they rely, states independent engineering and scientific consultancy SRK Consulting.

As part of the ecosystem, we have worked hard to build a service that can support enterprise - grade businesses such as Microsoft by forming top - notch engineering, client operations, business development, legal, and executive teams.

BitX attended the BitHub inauguration event in Cape Town on 11 June 2015 with two of our engineers presenting on what Bitcoin is and how BitX fits into the international Bitcoin ecosystem.

With nearly 90 % of all the seafood consumed by Americans coming from imports and nearly 50 % of these imports coming from often unregulated aquaculture sources *, Dock to Dish Key West is dedicated to engineering a fundamental change in the seafood marketplace through a revival of traditional values and principles, while focusing on freshness and transparency under an ecosystem - based management approach to sustainability.

Doherty et al. (2000) described sustainable agriculture as «ecological engineering solutions aiming to minimally manipulate and manage ecosystems for the benefit of both nature and humanity».

The site is also the subject of an anticipated $ 7.7 million Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration project, focusing on the shoreline and spearheaded by the Army Corps of Engineers, which expects to fund $ 5 million of the work along with nearly $ 2.7 million from the Park District, officials said.

Our efforts are supported by the USEPA's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI), the US Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes Fishery and Ecosystem Restoration (GLFER) program and the IDNR's Illinois Coastal Management Program (ICMP).

The Army Corps of Engineers warned before the work started that it would «destroy and disturb the natural terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem, have long - lasting effects upon the environment and encourage further floodplain development» according to a Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper 2002 report.

Convening from universities around the country, they gathered to form their own sort of ecosystem, with members contributing expertise from the science, technology, mathematics and engineering fields and beyond.

«There is absolutely no doubt that fairy circles are a product of ecosystem engineering achieved by soil - living termites,» says Norbert Jürgens, an ecologist at the University of Hamburg in Germany, who first proposed in 2013 termites were responsible and thinks this paper fully supports that idea.

Understanding the need for invention, the knowledge that invention helps to create and the dual and complementary roles of invention and innovation for 21st century public problem solving is critical — every aspect of our problem solving requirements must be considered and acted upon including talent creation; the skill - set, aspirations and inspiration from our inventors; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) basic research; and the innovation ecosystem.

We are not entirely sure what the potential loss of these «ecosystem engineers» could lead to.

The path of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cut through Lake Cocibolca (aka Lake Nicaragua), Central America's main freshwater reservoir and the largest tropical freshwater lake of the Americas; this plan will force the relocation of indigenous populations and impact a fragile ecosystem, including species at risk of extinction, according to Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and other members of the consortium.

«Earthworms are the kind of organisms we call ecosystem engineers.

«Gene drives, which are being contemplated to engineer natural ecosystems, should be scrutinized openly and systematically for both their risks and benefits,» said Todd Kuiken, PhD, author of the Science paper and senior program associate with the Synthetic Biology Project.

During Maine Startup and Create 2017, Lori Valigra spoke with Kevin Strange, Ph.D., president of the MDI Biological Laboratory, and Isaiah Mansour, a summer fellow in the Strange laboratory, on fostering an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Maine that creates quality jobs for Maine STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) students.

«Understanding how populations and ecosystems will respond to different alterations and addressing potential security concerns will require sustained multidisciplinary work by teams of biological engineers, ecologists, instrumentation specialists, social scientists and the public,» Collins said.

The U.S. Department of Energy established in 2016 the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)-- a joint project of the DOE Office of Science (DOE - SC) and the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)-- that will result in a capable exascale ecosystem and prepare mission critical scientific and engineering applications to take advantage of that ecosystem.

Areas of expertise: Ecosystems, coastal resilience, climate adaptation, natural infrastructure, rivers and deltas, water engineering

In sum, collaboration between the marine operations group, engineers, and scientists at MBARI has advanced methods to explore the ocean and understand the consequences of ocean change for marine organisms and ecosystems.

The characterization of viral consortia in healthy, diseased, and different life stages of corals will provide scientists clues about the roles that viruses play in the establishment, health, and resilience of these critical ecosystem engineers.

Her thesis project is the genome sequencing of the Golden Mussel, Limnoperna fortunei, an Asian bivalve widespread in South America and an efficient ecosystem engineer.

Kevin Esvelt, Wyss Technology Development Fellow, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard Medical School (gene drives, CRISPR / Cas9, phage - assisted continuous evolution, molecular evolutionary engineering) An inventor of technologies that harness evolution, Kevin studies ways of using molecular tools to alter populations and ecosystems.

Because these beetles are the largest and most impactful engineers of forest ecosystems, understanding their symbiosis with fungi is key to understanding forest health.

Other seminars and lectures have been held by World Academy of Art & Science President Ivo Šlaus [12], New South Wales Chief Scientist and Engineer M [12] ary O'Kane [13] and AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy director Vaughan Turekian [14], the director of the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

This book explores important changes that have occurred in postdoctoral practices and the research ecosystem and assesses how well current practices meet the needs of these fledgling scientists and engineers and of the research enterprise.

Creating SMART classrooms, building a backyard ecosystem and transforming engineering minds are just some of the projects that students will be a part of thanks to grants from the Syracuse City School District Educational Foundation.

Every seven days the Engineers will attack something of value to the American ecosystem unless America pulls all its troops out from abroad.

Newly added creatures include giant genetically engineered super soldiers and vicious killer fungi, and many towns have been completely rebuilt to take advantage of new building models and ecosystem options such as volumetric fog.

She is symbolizing the sagging American dream, in the loss of ideals that could encompass everything from the Californian housing crisis and education degradation, to the destruction of the American ecosystem by giants like genetic engineering giant Monsanto, whose poison coated seeds are killing off the American bee population.

Working with in partnership with the Catlin Seaview Survey, Google Map engineers applied the same technology behind their revolutionary land based street - view maps to capture detailed, digitally - swimmable scenes of several gorgeous aquatic ecosystem.

This newsletter discusses the publishing of rivers climate change indicators for the British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, engineering design values for Island Health, progress on the development of the Climate Tool for Engineers, new partnerships with the Blueberry Council of BC and the Comox Valley Regional District, a paper on projected changes to summer mean wet bulb globe temperatures led by Chao Li, a Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society article on extreme wildfire risk in the Fort McMurray area by Megan Kirchmeier - Young, a staff profile on Dr. Gildas Dayon, the PCIC Climate Seminar Series, a welcome to doctoral student Yaheng Tan, the release of PCIC's 2016 - 2017 Corporate Report, the release of a Science Brief on snowmelt and drought, the publishing of Climate Change Projections for the Cowichan Valley Regional District and State of the Physical, Biological and Selected Fishery Resources of Pacific Canadian Marine Ecosystems in 2016, as well as peer - reviewed publications since the last newsletter.

According to an article from Agence France Presse (AFP) who have seen a leaked draft of that report, the panel gives the «thumbs down» and «pours scorn» on a clutch of wacky plans to intentionally re-engineer large scale ecosystems, referred to collectively as geo - engineering: «Geo - engineering options... remain largely speculative and with the risk of unknown side - effects» claims the IPCC draft according to AFP (1).

He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health.

A precautionary approach to developing genetically engineered algae, which weighs the costs and benefits of GE algae to society and ecosystems as a whole.

Unlike pelagic ecosystems, coastal ecosystems are often dominated by benthic ecosystems, including engineering species (e.g. corals, seagrass, macroalgae, salt marshes, mangroves, sponges, oyster reefs) with the capacity to modulate the chemical and physical conditions of their environment (Gutiérrez et al. 2011).

When implemented thoughtfully, an ELM ecosystem of technology, processes, and engineered workflows enables legal teams to lower spend and drive efficient legal service delivery while ensuring good value.

«The Google Assistant will be our next thriving open ecosystem,» said Scott Huffman, lead engineer of Google Assistant.

During Apple's WWDC keynote, however, the company's senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, revealed ARKit and boasted that it will be available across the company's iOS ecosystem, creating «the largest AR platform in the world.»

A team of engineers, each with deep knowledge in blockchain as well as the communications industry, remains actively engaged in research to advance the SonoCoin ecosystem and secure the necessary intellectual property to sustain SonoCoin's long - term competitive advantage.

Oversaw a group of 3 engineers in the support of 3rd party commercial USB device to integrate ATSC transport stream into XIP ecosystem

A 2006 report by the U.s. Army Corps of engineers pointed out that all four dams are damaging the ecosystem of the area and reducing trout populations.

The Army Corps of Engineers has proposed spending $ 307 million over the next 15 years to restore ecosystems along the Ohio River's 981 - mile span.