Sentences with phrase «environmental context at»

The wall - mounted, loosely slung steel and brass tubes of Untitled, secured by thin blue rope, frame the artist's ongoing engagement with environmental context at the more modest scale of a room.

However, Tara Oceans takes such investigations one step further by integrating the genetic, morphological, and functional diversity in its environmental context at global ocean scale and at multiple depths (Figure 1), from viruses to fish larvae.

Not exact matches

But considerable recent research aimed at broadening this empirical base has revealed that children's knowledge about living things and the relations among them is sculpted by the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are raised.

At the University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, primary author Ulrich Rabl measured the volume of the test subjects» hippocampi using computer - assisted techniques and analysed the results in the context of the genetic and environmental data.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

«Developing these types of studies that bring the results into a greater community context is extremely valuable to policymakers that need to make decisions for their areas,» Jeremy Mathis, director of ocean and environmental research at Pacific Marine Environmentenvironmental research at Pacific Marine EnvironmentalEnvironmental Lab, said.

But I think it's most meaningful considered in the context of Gallup findings showing global warming still at the bottom of environmental concerns.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

Throughout this blog, and in our last two posts in the context of Climategate, we have argued that environmental politics, not environmental science, underpins the war on climate change, and that at the centre of that politics sits the precautionary principle.

In the case of GGR, we have started to see a shift, e.g., with a major programme funded by the UK National Environment Research Council (NERC) that «will undertake research to improve our knowledge of the options for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at a climatically - relevant scale, giving interdisciplinary attention to the environmental, technical, economic, governance and wider societal aspects of such approaches on a national level and in an international context» (http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/funded/programmes/ggr/).

«The paper does not place the late»70s in its climatic context,» says Pat Michaels, a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.

Anderson, who teaches politics in the context of environmental policy making at the Bren School, and Harbridge, an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, based their conclusion on a quantitative analysis of U.S. budgetary spending reports from 1955 - 2002.

Developmental change occurs as a result of reciprocal interactions between the intrinsic characteristics of a child and his environmental context, making the child both the producer and product of the environment.50 Behavioural inhibition may initiate a child in one of a number of directions, and the targeted outcome can result from a host of predisposing pathways.10 Research must therefore account for a number of potential moderating factors that can come into play at various points throughout development.