Sentences with phrase «environmental research»

The scientists in environmental research laboratories, since they are not normally linked to any particular private industry, were forced to seek funds from other government departments.

The group also participates in the development of methods for environmental research and monitoring.

For once, there is good news for the environment: a flurry of international conservation initiatives and environmental research projects were given the green light last week.

He covers environmental research and policy with a focus on natural resources and sustainability.

And only 0.2 percent of that R&D funding went to green building; all of energy, general science, natural resources, and environmental research totaled 8 percent.

The government found itself short of local environmental specialists who could oversee the large - scale environmental research, so «research manager» became my title.

I work at the interface of problem - solving environmental research, conservation practice, and science writing.

The Limits to Growth, released in 1972, has profoundly influenced environmental research and discourse over the past four decades.

Some of the earliest recipients have graduated and are pursuing careers in environmental research, nursing and other areas.

Our team of citizen science volunteers at Skeptical Science has published a new survey in the journal Environmental Research Letters of over 12,000 peer - reviewed climate science papers, as the Guardian reports today.

In any case, if 5 to 30 percent of the current decline is considered «a considerable fraction,» then it is consistent with the findings of Environmental Research Letters paper discussed above.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

«She's a scientist who knows better than anyone in Brazil what's going on with measuring deforestation in the Amazon,» says Paulo Moutinho, an ecologist at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasília.

But it includes a $ 17 million overhaul of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, as well as $ 500,000 for the care of collections at the National Museum of Natural History and animals at the National Zoo.

It was supported by a National Environmental Research Program Tropical Ecosystems Hub Project grant and an Australian Research Council Linkage, Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities grant.

Thomas Whitham is a regents» professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the executive director of the Merriam - Powell Center for Environmental Research at Northern Arizona University.

An Ithaca based environmental research group analyzed data on dozens of alleged toxic spills for just one company - Exxon Mobil.

The research was supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust, the Natural Environmental Research Council of the UK, the Royal Society, the European Research Council, the Australian Research Council and the National Science Foundation of the United States of America.

This research is party supported by Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) National Capability funding, and forms part of the NOC's ongoing use of satellite data to investigate the ocean on a global scale.

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is «too late» to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.

The Department of Defense (DoD) funded the study through their SERDP - ESTCP program, which funds environmental research on military bases.

This New York State — based environmental research organization since 2004 has studied wildlife in and on the banks of the Hudson River as well as the toll development has taken on the 315 - mile (500 - Kilometer) waterway, which runs south from the Adirondacks to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is one of the world's leading independent environmental research organizations.

Their findings are published by Environmental Research Letters.

Apart from continuous measurements over years at different daytimes and locations, the scientists also studied vertical distribution of dust pollution in cooperation with colleagues of the Atmospheric Environmental Research Division of KIT's Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research and the Institute of Regional Science of KIT.

Dagmar Schmidt Etkin, an analyst with Environmental Research Consulting in Cortlandt Manor, New York, compares the use of dispersants to chemotherapy.

The government also announced that the National Environmental Research Program and the Australian Climate Change Science Programme will be folded into the new National Environmental Science Programme; the combined budgets, however, will AU$ 21.7 million less than existing funding.

Gronewold and Stow are at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor.

Note: The subject matter of talks associated with the UCSB Reads selection for 2014, The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (Mariner Books, 2010), by Timothy Egan, is closely related to the first Bren School Strategic Environmental Research Initiative (SERI).

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research as part of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, and Atmospheric Systems Research program.

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is one of the world's leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.

Our island Nature Center staff members conduct environmental research and provide programs to help people explore and understand the ecosystems around them.

Milieu Centraal, a Dutch environmental research institute, talks about the impact of diapers, but not about the footprint of powdered milk.

His group described the evidence of disease in these fish in the May 2015 issue of Marine Environmental Research.

This is what happened to Colin Strine from Sakaerat Environmental Research Station in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, during a field trip with his team to a biodiversity hotspot in the north - east of the country where at least 176 snake species are found.

Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.

Mercury measurements have been conducted since 1996 in co-operation with Swedish Environmental Research Institute IVL.

A tip on the hat to Grist for pointing out an article from Environmental Research Letters from Ken Caldeira and Nathan Myhrvold, on, essentially, how quickly transitioning to clean energy can combat climate change, the inertia inherent in the climate system, and whether anything short of a wholesale rapid transition away from fossil fuels will do the trick.

Sponsor: The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research supported this project as part of the Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

According to George Leskevich, a physical research scientist with the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor, Mich., there is also a long - term downward trend in Great Lakes wintertime ice cover, although there is considerable year - to - year variability.

Thus, the planet is really more like an «Earth cousin,» says Thomas Barclay of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, a co-author of the paper announcing the discovery in April 2014.

The paper, published in the September 2013 issue of the journal Environmental Management, dovetails with the inaugural Bren School Strategic Environmental Research Initiative (SERI) project, which is intended to foster interdisciplinary collaborations as a way of developing innovation solutions to major environmental problems of our time.

Sponsors: This work is supported by the U.S. DOE's Office of Biological and Environmental Research Atmospheric System Research program.

The delegation was organized by the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) and UK Science and Innovation Network at the invitation of the Falkland Islands government.

The laboratory's international reputation is recognised even by the government, which recently appointed Warren Spring as its sole representative in the European Network of Environmental Research Organisations.