Sentences with phrase «environmental studies professor at»

A paper by Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the University of Guelph, and Patrick Michaels, an environmental studies professor at the University of Virginia, concludes that half of the global warming trend from 1980 to 2002 is caused by Urban Heat Island.

Roger Pielke Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, has pointed out that the international community's definition of «modern energy access» tends to be pitiful — it means providing people with a mere 2.2 percent of the energy that the average American uses.

Roger Pielke, Jr., an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado, has charted data on the share of carbon - free energy as a fraction of the world's overall consumption.

Environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado - Boulder and a fellow of the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences; author of The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics

Roger Pielke, Jr., the environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado and a reviewer of the report, wrote in a blog post that debates about Nisbet's calculations of spending for or against the bill distracted from the important core finding:

An environmental studies professor at Dartmouth College, Jemison taught sustainable development and technology design and ran The Jemison Institute for Advancing Technologies in Developing Countries.

Domack, an environmental studies professor at Hamilton College, managed to reach the Larsen B area during earlier cruises.

I was an environmental studies professor at Dartmouth and I worked on a ton of issues around sustainable development.

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The Alberta government announced the formation of the group yesterday along with its three co-chairs: Dave Collyer, the former president and CEO of the the oil industry's top lobby group the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Tzeporah Berman, an environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree environmental advocate and Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree Environmental Studies at York University, and Melody Lepine, a member and Director of Government and Industry relations with the Mikisew Cree First Nation.

Stephanie Kaza is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405.

Baroness Helena Kennedy; Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kid's Company; Eve Ensler, founder of V - Day, a global movement to stop violence against women and girls; Lisa Jardine, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary College and chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Foundation; the barrister Rupert Grey, the environmental campaigner George Monbiot and; to stop things getting dull, the comedians Jeremy Hardy and Sue Perkins.

He has worked as an educator in the Southern Tier for more than twenty years, including more than a decade in higher education, serving on the faculty as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hartwick College and as a lecturer in Environmental Studies at Binghamton University.

Janet Stout, director of Special Pathogens Laboratory in Pittsburgh and an associate professor of research at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, has studied Legionnaires» disease for 30 years and called the idea of legislation from the state and the pending City Council legislation «unprecedented.»

Melissa Checker is associate professor of urban studies at Queens College, CUNY and of anthropology and environmental psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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.

Holloway is a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.

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.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

«Poor countries are suffering worst from climate change that they had almost no role in creating,» said Timmons Roberts, an environmental studies and sociology professor at Brown University.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

«Scientific partnerships, spearheaded by Norway, with Eastern Europe's Communist bloc in the 1970s served as a foundation for international cooperation on environmental pollution despite ongoing Cold War frictions,» says Rothschild, an assistant professor at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

«We have the unique opportunity now to plan for a coming explosion of urbanization in order to decrease pressure on ecosystems, improve the livelihoods of billions of people, and avoid the occurrence of major global environmental problems and disasters,» said Roberto Sanchez - Rodriguez, professor emeritus of environmental studies at the University of California, Riverside.

«The Rhine's microplastics concentrations are thus among the highest so far studied worldwide,» says biologist Professor Patricia Holm from the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel.

Edward Hanna, Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology at the University of Lincoln's School of Geography, carried out the study with Dr Richard Hall, also from the University of Lincoln, and Professor James E Overland from the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

On the contrary, measures to enhance social equity in a societal and macroeconomic sense may strengthen nature conservation,» stresses Stefan Baumgärtner, Professor of Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg and director of the study.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

«The Midcontinent Rift is a very strange beast,» said the study's lead author, Carol Stein, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UIC.

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

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'sEnvironmental 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'senvironmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the world's largest silver deposit, may put residents at risk of non-cancer health illnesses.

Ultimately, doctors might be able to reduce a person's risk for cancer by analyzing the levels and types of intestinal bacteria in the body, and then prescribing probiotics to replace or bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties, said Robert Schiestl, professor of pathology, environmental health sciences and radiation oncology at UCLA and the study's senior author.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

They also highlight the need for more studies of this nature to give us a better idea of the cities and landscapes that are most affected now and also under additional greenhouse warming,» said co-lead author Michael Oppenheimer, the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Where other studies have linked weather phenomena to HABs, this study goes a step further to look at how environmental drivers impact each other, and «ranks» them by their relative importance in promoting HABs, said Song Liang, formerly of Ohio State and now an associate professor of environmental and global health at the University of Florida.

Angela Strecker, an environmental science professor at Portland State University and the study's co-lead author, said that species distribution models can help predict all the places where a given species could live based on their environmental preferences, and using these models can help target conservation efforts to areas where they would have the most impact.

This is according to a new study published in The Journal of Mammalogy by behavioral ecologist John Hoogland, Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Appalachian Laboratory.

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

In many places these trends are consistent with increased nitrogen loads,» said study author Pat Glibert, professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Horn Point Laboratory.

«There are some who accuse the news media of being «doom and gloom» when it comes to the oceans, so we set out to test whether this was empirically true,» adds Jennifer Jacquet, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at NYU and co-author on the study.

These latecomers to the research scene, called anammox bacteria, are the subject of a new study led by Daniel Noguera and Katherine McMahon, professors of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

«For this study, GRACE served as a unique tool that provided information on water volume changes directly from space, and corroborated the water balance estimates,» said Hyongki Lee, a co-author of the study and a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Houston.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

«This completely novel approach has the potential to revolutionize the study of biodiversity,» says Florian Altermatt, a professor at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag).

«It seems to have worked for at least one of the congeners studied,» says Tim Mattes, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, published in the journal Ecological Engineering.

«We don't yet know where internal decay and damage rank as a cause of tree mortality,» says Greg Gilbert, lead author of the article and Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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.

«Our research is sufficiently suggestive of an environmental trigger for autism associated with precipitation, of which vitamin D deficiency is one possibility,» says study co-author Michael Waldman, a professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.