Sentences with phrase «environmental sciences at»

«Toilet seats are one of the cleanest things you can find in a restroom, that's for sure,» says Charles Gerba, professor of microbiology and environmental sciences at the University of Arizona.

The report was edited by S. Fred Singer, a professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

Andrew Watson, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia in England, responded, «My answer to this question as posed is no.

However, existing aircraft may not be large enough to carry the equipment needed to perform the aerosol release, says Prof Alan Robock, a professor in the department of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

He served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)(1981 — 86); deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 — 71); deputy assistant secretary for water quality and research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967 — 70); founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964 — 67); first director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962 — 64); and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953 — 62).

«The fact that global warming's fingerprints don't yet jump out at us when we look at hurricanes isn't surprising — it's what current science tells us we should expect,» says lead author Adam Sobel, professor of Earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and School of Engineering.

Dr. Peter T. Doran, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, agreed.

Meanwhile, a climatologist and professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, told a packed auditorium at Dartmouth College last week that computer climate change models have regularly projected higher temperatures than have actually occurred, Fox News reported.

«The land might be owned by the state or government and used by the communities and has been like that for centuries,» said Paolo D'Odorico, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia who studies land and water grabbing.

Dr. Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville from 1971 to 1994.

Still another credible source against the consensus claim is Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, who has this to say:

Dr. Singer served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94)

And even if the current 18 - year trend were to end, it would still take nearly 25 years for average global temperature figures to reflect the change, said Michaels, who has a Ph.D. in ecological climatology and spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

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).

ICE's plan called for placing these three scientists, along with fellow greenhouse skeptic S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virgina, in broadcast appearances, op - ed pages, and newspaper interviews.

Best known for her Outlander series of books, Gabaldon was a professor of environmental sciences at Arizona State University for years before she turned her hand to steamy historical fantasy.

It's almost saturated with (these genes), which means that people using permethrin and pyrethrin based products will probably have a very hard time controlling the lice,» said Kyong Sup Yoon, associate professor of biological sciences and environmental sciences at Southern Illinois University, who led the research for the current study and the 2014 study.

Alycia Halladay, PhD, the director of research for environmental sciences at Autism Speaks, an advocacy group that raises money for biomedical research, says the study «adds to the growing literature that in utero exposure to [valproate] may be one possible risk factor for autism.»

According to new research by Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, small microenvironments in the deep ocean may hold key clues to the global cycling of nitrogen in seawater.

David Robb, a graduate student in plant and environmental sciences at Clemson University, has been conducting a two - year study on vegetable production at the Clemson Student Organic Farm.

Christof Bigler of the department of environmental sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich agrees that the growth spurt may be a warning sign.

«Bolstering a hidden population of an endangered species is better than starting a new population in the area,» said Ethan Kessler, a graduate student of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois and a co-author of the study.

«Going forward we will need much more precise constraints on the magnitude of oxygenation and the physiological requirements of early animals to continue testing the impact of oxygenation on Cambrian animal life,» said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, and first author on the paper.

«So here we are, back to weather modification's critical issue,» says Michael Garstang, distinguished research professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia.

Anthony Broccoli, professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers University, notes that the study's results may have implications for the public perception of climate change.

David Pollard is the Barney & Estelle Morris Professor of Geology in the department of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University, where he leads a large and active research group in structural geology and geomechanics.

«Most of the previous research of the past climate in this region is based on detailed studies of specific sites,» said the lead author Jessica Oster, assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University.

«Our previous research used field studies to understand the history of climate change in the Western US,» said study coauthor Kate Maher, assistant professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University.»

John C. Priscu, a professor of land resources and environmental sciences at Montana State University who discovered microorganisms thriving in permanently frozen surface lakes in Antarctica at temperatures as low as — 10 degrees Fahrenheit, wants to study microbes in Lake Vostok to learn if they are viable or unique, or both.

Stephen Harris is professor of environmental sciences at the University of Bristol, UK, and founded its Mammal Research Unit.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

Steve K. Lower, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Ohio State University in Columbus is a one of Hochella's protégés who has gone on to secure his own grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy.

That is because the assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University is a member of a small group of earth scientists who are pioneering in the use of mineral cave deposits, collectively known as speleothems, as proxies for the prehistoric climate.

This suggests those reefs are more vulnerable than we thought,» said Cole, who is now a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Michigan.

Carmala Garzione, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, and Junsheng Nie, a visiting research associate at the University, surveyed sediment samples from the northern Tibetan Plateau's Qaidam Basin and were able to construct paleoclimate cycle records from the late Miocene epoch of Earth's history, which lasted from approximately 11 to 5.3 million years ago.

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.

Co-author Steven Goodbred Jr., an associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, agreed.

According to Cindy Ebinger, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, scientists had previously known about the volcanic rock structure under the Appalachians.

Mike Hulme is a professor in the school of environmental sciences at the University of East Anglia.

He studied geology and environmental science at SUNY / Cortland before earning a graduate degree in biology and education at Long Island University's C.W. Post campus.

Panelist Brian Shmaefsky, a professor of environmental science at Lone Star College in Kingwood, Texas, described his work helping residents in Bangladesh get relief from water pollution created by tanneries without losing their jobs in those plants.

«This pattern might be a general mechanism for functional diversification of enzyme families, as it allows the acquisition of new functions without disrupting the native folding structure and primary enzyme function,» says Xiao - Ru Wang, Senior lecturer at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University.

I completed a Master in Environmental Science at Universidad del Turabo in Puerto Rico and now I am working toward my PhD in the same discipline.

«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

The research group lead by Prof. Dieter Ebert from the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Basel has now discovered the missing link that explains how this large group of extreme parasites, the microsporidia, has evolved.

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.

The study was led by Ana Benítez - López, who works at the department of Environmental Science at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

In addition, she sends some of the venom she purchases — which, due to the cost of the no - harm extraction method she uses, she says is «more expensive than gold» — to Eva Sapi, Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the University of New Haven, who studies Lyme disease.

This according to researchers at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science at Umeå University in a study published in the journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

«If you haven't had proximity to these glaciers, if you haven't thought about where water comes from, it would be easy to understate or underestimate the implications of glacial ice loss in a state that has predominantly a semi-desert climate and certainly by contemporary climate models is going to be pretty significantly impacted by climate change,» said Jacki Klancher, a professor of environmental science at Central Wyoming College.