Sentences with phrase «environmental temperatures at»

Many small mammals and so - called pocket pets are comfortable living at environmental temperatures at which we feel comfortable.

Studies show that estrogen effectively lowers both body temperature and the environmental temperature at which your body begins to release heat.

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Listening to how projected sound reverberates through kelp beds allows scientists to eavesdrop on environmental factors such as water temperature and photosynthetic activity, bioacoustician Jean - Pierre Hermand reported June 28 at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of...

Listening to how projected sound reverberates through kelp beds allows scientists to eavesdrop on environmental factors such as water temperature and photosynthetic activity, bioacoustician Jean - Pierre Hermand reported June 28 at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Jared Rennie and Ronald Leeper at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, N.C., reported that daily maximum temperatures were 0.86 F warmer for the traditional screened stations compared with USCRN stations.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

View a slide show of the world's first carbon capture and storage facility in operation The small stream of flue gas travels to the carbon - capture unit through plastic pipes reinforced with fiberglass and is cooled to between — 1 and 21 degrees Celsius from the 55 - degree C temperature at which it emerges from the other environmental technology add - ons that strip out the fly ash, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.

At times, researchers had to invent new modeling capabilities to get the simulations to work, such as mapping of fire - generated environmental temperatures onto the structural components of the buildings.

In areas like the mid-elevations of the northern Rocky Mountains, where spring temperatures are just under freezing in an average year, «it doesn't take a large increase in temperature to start melting snow earlier in spring,» said Anthony Westerling, a professor of environmental engineering and geography at the University of California, Merced.

We show that rapid light — induced free - radical polymerization at ambient temperature produces multifunctional fluorinated photopolymer coatings that confer luminescent and easy - cleaning features on the front side of the devices, while concurrently forming a strongly hydrophobic barrier toward environmental moisture on the back contact side.

Rising global temperatures portend shifts in all these ocean currents, potentially with drastic consequences, says Albert Gabric, an environmental scientist at Griffith University in Brisbane.

They can't regulate their temperature,» says Jaime Coon, lead author of the paper and graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I.

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.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

Since 1957, environmental parameters such as oxygen concentrations, temperature, salinity and nutrients have been measured monthly at the Boknis Eck time series station.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

«In 2017, every state in the Lower 48 had an average temperature that was above average, and this is the third consecutive year that has been the case,» said Jake Crouch, a climate scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

Analyzing zebras at 16 locations in Africa and considering more two dozen environmental factors, the researchers found that temperature was the strongest predictor of zebras» striping.

In a paper published Monday in Scientific Reports, Chuck Bangley, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and his colleagues analyzed data from the North Carolina fisheries» department, which compared the temperature, oxygen and salinity of the water to the number of sharks near Pamlico Sound, part of the stretch of water between the islands of the Outer Banks and the rest of the state.

NOAA's global temperature data for February, to be released on Thursday, is expected to be roughly in line with NASA's, Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with ERT, Inc., at NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information, said in an email.

Researchers reconstructing ancient climates delve into the mineral for a record of temperature and atmospheric composition, environmental conditions and the state of the ocean at the time those minerals formed.

As a hydrogen - specific capability in the INL Environmental Effects Laboratory, the suite of capabilities includes controlled exposure to flowing pure hydrogen at varying temperatures and mechanical testing in a vacuum environment.

The team used temperature - controlled photoelectron spectroscopy in EMSL, the DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory on the PNNL campus, to determine how tightly one cyanide ion and one to three water molecules interact at the very low temperature of -438 °F (12 Kelvin) and again at ambient temperature of 80 °F (equivalent to 300 Kelvin).

The facility has an 18,000 gal recirculating seawater system which supplies tanks in both indoor and semi-enclosed outdoor spaces with a constant supply of clean water at local environmental temperatures.

The Science paper was part of a large effort by Karl and others at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, as well as climate analytics specialist James McMahon of LMI Consulting, to develop the most accurate possible record of the Earth's surface temperature, based on thermometers.

Monitoring global and U.S. temperatures at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information

«Sauna suits can cause a rapid increase in body temperature, but because the skin is covered, sweating won't help evaporate heat,» Lisa R. Leon, PhD, chief of thermal and mountain medicine at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, told Health.

With an eye to the future — in terms of both energy costs and environmental considerations — the education authority opted for a system utilising the heat always present at a more or less constant temperature in the «near - surface geothermal layer» underground.

Unfortunately, when the environmental temperatures soar, we put our pets at risk.

This is the total amount of calories needed by your pit bull to stay healthy at rest and within a normal environmental temperature.

Disinfectants containing quaternary ammonium compounds have been found to kill Giardia cysts at the manufacturers» recommended dilutions (dilutions of one disinfectant upto 1:704 were found to be effective at both low and high environmental temperatures).

In the first week environmental temperature is most optimum at 84.2 - 90 degrees Fahrenheit.

The environmental temperature should be kept at 80 - 95 F for sick birds.

ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE Note: Undersized, premature or poorly furred kittens need slightly higher temperatures at each stage.

These three climate phenomena have produced the uniquely long - lasting surge in water temperature that is attracting tuna and other fish much closer to shore — and much farther north than they would normally swim, said Toby Garfield, director of the environmental research division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla.

A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and published in Yale 360 shows that the ocean isn't the only body of water with a temperature on the hike.

In temperate climates the strong interdependence between influenza infections and environmental temperatures can't be explained by the primary biotic transmission by saliva droplets from human to human at temperatures of 37.5 °C.

When the reseachers at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) applied their computer «model and statistics to analyse temperature readings from the air and ocean for the period ending in 2000, they found that climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will most likely be 3.7 °C, which is somewhat higher than the IPCC prognosis.»

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.

As such; there is always an extra cost of containing such gases as a part of the requirements of environmental policy makers to help control the rise in global temperature, so that the environment is kept at a reasonable composition of the fresh air and dangerous natural gases.

The economic constraint on environmental action can easily be seen by looking at what is widely regarded as the most far - reaching establishment attempt to date to deal with The Economics of Climate Change in the form of a massive study issued in 2007 under that title, commissioned by the UK Treasury Office.7 Subtitled the Stern Review after the report's principal author Nicholas Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, it is widely viewed as the most important, and most progressive mainstream treatment of the economics of global warming.8 The Stern Review focuses on the target level of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) concentration in the atmosphere necessary to stabilize global average temperature at no more than 3 °C (5.4 °F) over pre-industrial levels.

«The increased risk of ozone damage to vegetation is mainly due to rising ozone concentrations and higher temperatures in the future,» says Jenny Klingberg at the University of Gothenburg's Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences.

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.

NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) thermal stress products used in this study were based on nighttime - only Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data from sensors aboard operational NOAA Polar - Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), produced in near - real - time at 0.5 - degree (50 - km) spatial resolution.

«Not only is it extreme in any number of measures — air temperature, loss of sea ice and on and on — but there are so many things we haven't seen, particularly this extremely warm fall,» said study co-author Brendan Kelly, executive director of the Study of Environmental Arctic Change at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

«We're seeing increasing temperatures and relatively little change in average precipitation, but an increase in the variability and the occurrence of both wet and dry extremes,» said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the lead author of a new paper published in Science Advances.

At his 2009 keynote address at the International Conference of Climate Change (a.k.a. Denial - a-Palooza), he maintained that environmental activists don't necessarily care about temperature, or carbon dioxide, rather they care about rent seeking and political profiAt his 2009 keynote address at the International Conference of Climate Change (a.k.a. Denial - a-Palooza), he maintained that environmental activists don't necessarily care about temperature, or carbon dioxide, rather they care about rent seeking and political profiat the International Conference of Climate Change (a.k.a. Denial - a-Palooza), he maintained that environmental activists don't necessarily care about temperature, or carbon dioxide, rather they care about rent seeking and political profit.

In the troposphere, temperatures decrease with height at the environmental lapse rate we mentioned above, i.e., -6.5 °C per kilometre -LRB--3.5 °F per 1,000 feet).

There is evidence that the temperature threshold at which bleaching occurs varies with local environmental conditions and background climate conditions.

Environmental influences such as the Urban Heat Island in cities and regional towns may be contributing to the increase in temperatures since 2002, as may instrument influences such as the advent of Automatic Weather Stations at many ACORN locations since the early 1990s.