Sentences with phrase «environmental earth works»

The sculptor, essayist, and filmmaker Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) is most known for his sitespecific environmental earth works.

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«Is there a line you can draw between understanding how the Earth works and the so - called politically incorrect environmental monitoring?»

As an environmental scientist, I'll tell you now, we can trace how the earth works and why things happe, but we can't figure out where the initial:: click:: of energy came from.

The Rio Summit sought to build upon the past with the goal of establishing a new and equitable global partnership through the creation of new levels of cooperation among states, key sectors of societies and people, working towards international agreements which respect the interests of all and protect the integrity of the global environmental and developmental system, recognizing the integral and interdependent nature of the Earth, our home, some excerpts will help.

Towne Park's environmental council, Towne Green, spent this year's Earth Day weekend working to ameliorate Annapolis in partnership with GreenScape 2013, a «City of Annapolis and community partnership invested in the beautification, clean - up and planting in public spaces throughout the city.»

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) rates Earth Mama Angel Baby a 1 (the lower the better) which is an excellent score.

Helpful to be studying toward or have earned a degree in early education, psychology, environmental education or life / earth sciences, or have equivalent work experience

[16] On environmental matters, Thornberry has worked with Friends of the Earth and World Wide Fund for Nature to campaign for a Climate Change Bill and a Marine Bill.

Martin Powell, head of campaigns at Transform Drug Policy Foundation, was an analytical chemist for the French nuclear industry before working for a range of charities in Latin America and the UK, including Friends of the Earth, the Environmental Investigation Agency, and the World Development Movement, including as co-chair of the Jubilee Debt Campaign.

Ashley Palumbo, a Ph.D. student at Brown, led the work with Jim Head, a professor in Brown's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science, and Robin Wordsworth, a professor in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Seth Stein, the William Deering Professor in Northwestern's department of Earth and planetary sciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Carol Stein, professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, are working with colleagues to share the amazing story behind the scenery.

Sessions at the conference covered cooperation during political strain, the roles of institutions and networks, working with shared resources, and issues in earth and environmental sciences, biology and health, and physics.

Teams of researchers led by Professor Urs Schaltegger from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Science of the UNIGE and by Hugo Bucher, from the University of Zürich, have been working on absolute dating for many years.

Prior to founding Earth Policy Institute, Brown was well known in environmental and policy circles for his work with the Worldwatch Institute, a pioneering environmental think tank he launched back in 1974.

Friends of the Earth Middle East, an environmental group, is teaching the farmers to sterilize the manure and work it into the soil to help keep the flies down.

Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.

All of this snake research and much more is possible because Bien, a professor in Drexel's Department of Biodiversity Earth and Environmental Science, and his students, have been welcomed to work in environmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove GEnvironmental Science, and his students, have been welcomed to work in environmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove Genvironmental protection on the U.S. Air Force's Warren Grove Gunnery Range.

To develop those additional datasets, Cohn and VanWey worked with Jack Mustard, professor of earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, and graduate student Stephanie Spera.

«This shift to earlier weaning age in the time leading up to woolly mammoth extinction provides compelling evidence of hunting pressure and adds to a growing body of life - history data that are inconsistent with the idea that climate changes drove the extinctions of many large ice - age mammals,» said Cherney, who is conducting the work for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Direct observations of the fault were scarce, so Eric Dunham, an assistant professor of geophysics in the School of Earth Sciences, and Jeremy Kozdon, a postdoctoral researcher working with Dunham, began using the cluster of supercomputers at Stanford's Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) to simulate how the tremors moved through the crust and ocean.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

The EC is «also discussing global monitoring for environmental security» and with the Commission recognising its importance for policy work, «what we're seeing is that earth observation is beginning to move from being an experimental science to being an operational one.»

Working with Reid Cooper, professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences at Brown, McCarthy loaded ice samples into a compression apparatus.

Job Description: We are looking for a Master's level candidate or Postdoc with background in marine ecosystems and excellent field, modeling, communication and team - work skills to work towards the improvement of harmful algal blooms detection for user - relevant coastal water monitoring and environmental reporting based on validated Earth Observation and in situ optical data.

The central goal of Joe's work is the transformation of the law so that it will promote preservation of the earth rather than accept environmental destruction as a byproduct of economic growth.

You will therefore work with diverse research teams including space physicists exploiting ground - based instruments and space missions to study the ionospheres and magnetospheres of Earth and the other planets, and statisticians developing statistical methodology to understand the behaviour of extreme events in real - life environmental applications.

Scientists worldwide use the agency's field data, together with satellite observations and computer models, to tackle environmental challenges and advance our knowledge of how the Earth works as a complex, integrated system.

«Working with Restore the Earth gives corporate volunteer teams a real, meaningful opportunity to take a high - profile issue, restoring a critical environmental site, and really give back,» says Patty Riddlebarger, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Entergy Corporation.

Grades: Professional This Earth Day site from How Stuff Works offers parents and teachers fun ideas and eco friendly projects and activities for children and simple ways to explain environmental issues to them.

The Park Hill Project was part of a national program called Earth Force, through which groups of students choose an environmental issue to study and then work on sustainable local solutions.

In this special Earth Day WebQuest from Education World, students work in teams to construct presentations that focus attention on some of Earth's most serious environmental threats.

The Civil Engineer occupation covers positions managing, supervising, leading, and / or performing professional engineering and scientific work involving: construction, renovation, inspection, decommissioning, and / or demolition of structures, infrastructures, and their environmental systems above or under the earth's surface; investigation and evaluation of the earth's physical, natural, and man - made features; and transportation, utilities, building and construction industries.

They researched endangered animals and read about the proactive environmental work of Wangari Maathai, learning about the connection between a healthy earth and humans» needs.

Tara's impressive history includes working as the CA Director and Legal Coordinator of a wildlife program for Earth Island Institute, clerking for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center and for In Defense of Animals, serving as a legislative extern for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and managing the Golden Gate Audubon Society.

About The Surge Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.

Stearns became the first artist in residence at the company, which is working to create a constellation of Earth - observing satellites that the company hopes will generate imagery that will enable innovative new approaches to agriculture and environmental monitoring.

These land art or «earth art» environmental scale sculpture works exemplified by artists such as Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer, James Turrell (Roden Crater).

Artists like Hicks and Stuart, the latter an American artist who began creating environmental earth - based and minimalist works in the 1970s — and a recent addition to Jacques's roster — are «getting up there in age, leaving less time to talk to them first hand about the scope of their practices,» Jacques said, which is key to putting them on par on the marketplace and in history with their male peers.

Pomodoro's environmental works include: Earth and Solar Motion, the long concrete mural for the Minoa Symposium near Marsala, the Armoury in the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, Entering the Labyrinth, dedicated to the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Carapace cellar in Bevagna for the Lunelli family, unveiled in June 2012.

Meanwhile, land art / earth works and other forms of environmental art have permitted artists to express their feelings for nature's grandeur and immensities.

The large works that have occupied him since 1969 are, in brief: Hubris, commissioned for the University of Hawaii at Manoa, one of Smith's most open and regular pieces to date, which consists of a two - section, 9 - by - 9 grid in black concrete, one half thin slabs at ground level, the other half the same grid raised to 3 feet 3 inches by a four - sided pyramidal module; Batcave, a complex environmental interior designed to «mold space and light» rather than material form, at the Osaka World's Fair, a new version of which will be shown soon at the Los Angeles County Museum; a gigantic triangular sculpture inserted into a Californian mountainside; a labyrinthine water garden for a delta; Smog, a huge new horizontal piece made from the dismantled components of Smoke (which was made for the Corcoran's «Scale as Content» show, 1967); Haole Center, a sunken square «pavement» within a square stone sculpture, with a metal ladder leading down below the earth's surface; two related monumental sculptures on platforms (Arch and Dial); and a flat 81 - block grid proposed for downtown Minneapolis.

I actually got started in the broader field of sustainability ethics and worked at the United Nations under the Clinton administration as the program manager for United Nations organizations at the Environmental Protection Agency Office of International Policy on all the Rio Earth Summit issues, namely Agenda 21, the Biodiversity Convention, the UNFCCC, the Forests agreements, and Toxic Substances.

Today, we continue to inspire people to take responsibility for Earth while also working to integrate environmental and social justice as an essential part of our sustainability vision.

As an environmental scientist myself, with more than 10 years experience working with hydrological computer models, I am very wary of policy formulated on the output of models, especially with respect to a system as complex and poorly understood as the Earth's climate system.

That paper is by Clive Hamilton, an Australian environmental ethicist who chastised me and others for proposing that a «good» path could be found in this era of human - dominated Earth systems, and Jacques Grinevald, a historian focused on the interface of environment and technology and member of the Anthropocene Working Group.

By using an interactive online format, Art Works for Change is looking to inspire activism and engagement about environmental issues in as many people as possible, by addressing «the urgent need to live sustainably within Earth's finite resources» through the lens of art.

Known as the «father of environmental ethics,» Rolston is celebrated for his advocacy to protect the Earth's biodiversity and for his critical work reconciling evolutionary biology and Christianity.

Beyond Pesticides works regularly with the Center for Food Safety; Environmental Working Group; Pesticide Action Network North America; Xerces Society; EarthShare; Combined Federal Campaign; American Bird Conservancy, Beyond Toxics, the Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, Institute for Fisheries Resources, the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Organic Farmers Marketing Association; Bio-Logical Pest Management; Roseland Farms; Kids for Saving Earth Worldwide; PEST Education Project; Pesticide Watch; Children's Health Environmental Coalition; Horizon Organic Dairy, Inc.; Donaldson - McMahon Family Farms; Lideres Campesinas en California; Kansas Chapter, Sierra Club; Farmworker Justice Fund; Maryland Pesticide Network and others.

Friends of the Earth worked to expose the environmental impacts the pipeline would have, as well as the conflicts of interest that were pushing it forward.

At Friends of the Earth, we work to strengthen and raise environmental and social standards at international financial institutions.