Sentences with phrase «environmental biology professor»

Robert Howarth, an environmental biology professor at Cornell University, used research from the United Nations to calculate that if methane's potency were considered over 20 years rather than 100 years, it would be 72 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in terms of its warming potential.

Robert Howarth, greenhouse gas expert and ecology and environmental biology professor, fears that we may not be many years away from an environmental tipping point — and disaster.

Many emission factors used to estimate releases of methane — a potent greenhouse gas associated with oil and natural gas development — are «far too low,» says Robert Howarth, an ecology and environmental biology professor at Cornell University.

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Johanna Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University, where she teaches courses for both biology majors and non-majors and studies the response of small rabbit - relatives, called pikas, to environmental change.

Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University, where she teaches courses for both biology majors and non-majors and studies the response of small rabbit - relatives, called pikas, to environmental change.

The study suggests that dwindling global environmental biodiversity and worldwide spikes in infectious diseases may be linked, said Jason Rohr, associate professor of integrative biology, University of Southern Florida.

Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmental biology and global change professor and member of the Bulletin's Science and Security Board, called climate change a «threat multiplier» at Thursday's press conference.

Tyler Volk is science director of environmental studies and associate professor of biology at New York University.

A mechanical engineer by training who is now a biology professor at Stanford University, Schneider, 55, says his advocacy began with the heightened environmental awareness that bloomed around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970.

said Jonathon Stillman, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, who along with Ed Carpenter, professor of biology, and Tomoko Komada, associate professor of chemistry, led a team of researchers at the University's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.

Brian Shmaefsky, professor of biology and environmental science at Lone Star College and a member of the AAAS On - call Scientists initiative, described a case study to illustrate how scientists can participate in advocacy and human rights work.

«We don't really know the future of forests in a changing climate,» said lead author William Anderegg, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and an incoming assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah.

David Bowman, a professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania in Australia and lead author of the study, said he was motivated to map and analyze wildfires because his city, Hobart, Australia, was devastated by a megafire 50 years ago this month.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

«Understanding the dynamic distribution of ABA in plants in response to environmental stimuli is of particular importance in elucidating the action of this important plant hormone,» says Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

Karin Limburg, a professor of environmental and forest biology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who was also not involved in the environmental and forest biology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who was also not involved in the Environmental Science and Forestry who was also not involved in the work, agrees.

Faye Gary, a professor of nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and former chair of NIMHD's advisory council, praised Ruffin for promoting the idea that health disparities involve social and environmental factors in addition to genetics and biology.

Levels of neonicotinoids that we found in this study fall into ranges that could lead to detrimental health effects in bees, including CCD,» said Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

Other researchers were not as ambivalent: Robert Howarth, the David R. Atkinson professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, published a paper in April in Climatic Change Letters that he described as «pessimistic» about the switch from coal to gas.

«If confirmed in humans, our study could greatly impact how people view exposure to environmental tobacco toxins,» said Manuela Martins - Green, a professor of cell biology and neuroscience at UC Riverside and the lead author of the study.

Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University, challenged the findings.

«This study shows how our teams are leveraging synthetic biology not only to reprogram microbes to create living cellular devices that can carry out useful functions for medicine and environmental remediation, but to do this in a way that is safe for all,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Synthetic biology may have negative environmental impacts that need to be monitored closely, said Allison Snow, a professor in the department of evolution, ecology and organizational biology at Ohio State University.

Farrior, who earned her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University in 2012, completed most of the work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Princeton Environmental Institute with co-author Stephen Pacala, Princeton's Frederick D. Petrie Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

Paul Wassmann is professor in environmental biology at the Institute of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø — Norways Arctic University.

In this translation from the French, Professor Lambin, a geographer at the University of Louvain, Belgium, dissects the arguments of environmental pessimists and technological optimists and offers (no surprise here) a «middle path» to limiting disruption of climate and biology in a crowding world.

I invited one comment contributor, John Lemons, an emeritus professor of biology and environmental sciences at the University of New England, to weigh in with more depth (given the constraints of our comment system).

This «Your Dot» contribution comes from Ruth DeFries, a professor at Columbia University in the department of ecology, evolution, and environmental biology, who's on sabbatical in Madhya Pradesh, India.

«The procedure for banning DDT reflected the method described by Stanford biology professor Stephen Schneider, who appeared on the scene during fraudulent anti-pesticide debates, predicting grave environmental harm.

Alan R. Townsend -LRB-[email protected]-RRB- is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Howarth, the David R. Atkinson Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Tony Ingraffea, the Dwight C. Baum Professor of Engineering, and Renee Santoro, a research technician in ecology and evolutionary biology, analyzed data from published sources, industry reports and even Powerpoint presentations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

«We must be ambitious if we want to promote energy independence and curb global warming,» said study co-author Robert Howarth, a Cornell University professor of ecology and environmental biology.

Alan Darlington, a professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph estimates that they can save 0.3 to 3.5 kilowatts per person in heating and air conditioning in the height of summer and winter.

[Robert Howarth, professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornell University] is basing his conclusion on a preliminary analysis that includes not only the amount of carbon dioxide that comes out of a tailpipe when you burn diesel and natural gas, but also the impact of natural gas leaks.

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