Sentences with phrase «field research effort»

On behalf of all the collaborators and partnering organizations that are a part of the amazing field research effort known as the Southern California Behavioral Response Study (SOCAL - BRS), I would like to make folks who follow our blog aware that we have just started another phase of field work in this continuing project.

Fisher decided to focus his field research efforts there in 1992.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers have participated in field research efforts, including the second leg of SOCAL - 10 which was conducted aboard the SIO R / V Robert Gordon Sproul.

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«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

Through great research, care and effort, we developed our Field to Fingers ™ Process, a first - of - its - kind inspired practice to ensure that every step in the journey of our food creation is nut - free.

As a leader in conservation, the work of San Diego Zoo Global includes onsite wildlife conservation efforts (representing both plants and animals) at the San Diego Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, as well as international field programs on six continents.

Mike Omeg, the 2017 Good Fruit Grower of the Year, will work under Ian Chandler, Orchard View's director of field operations, concentrating his efforts on research and development and representing Orchard View on tours and industry groups.

With neurological disorders affecting approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms largely abandoning their R&D efforts in neuroscience, the work of academic research institutions such as CSHL is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.»

As neurological disorders affect approximately one - third of the U.S. population, and pharmaceutical firms are largely abandoning their research and development efforts in neuroscience, the work of academic research institutions is crucial in the effort to drive innovation and discovery in this field.

He has been a lifelong volunteer for causes he believes in, including conducting climate change science field research with the Harvard Department of Forestry in Southern Africa, working on get - out - the - vote efforts for John Kerry, Barack Obama and Zephyr Teachout, building agricultural databases for USAID funded international projects all over the world, and providing technical assistance to schools in Senegal (for which he was awarded the President's Volunteer Service Award by the Obama administration).

► Among the nine 2015 runners - up are efforts to reproduce research studies in the field of psychology.

AAAS letter to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee to resist any effort to undercut the National Science Foundation's ability to support research across all fields and concern on language in a pending innovation bill that seems to require awarding 8 percent of research funding outside the usual peer - review.

The fact that AI is a young field also works in China's favor, argues Chen Yunji, by encouraging a burgeoning academic effort that has put China within striking distance of the United States, long the leader in AI research.

In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

Given developing efforts to mine deep - sea hydrothermal vent fields for precious metals, the scientists involved in this research suggest that conservationists and management agencies need to consider a broader range of factors in their efforts to predict the environmental impacts and the resiliency of affected communities.

During this difficult year, Science Careers documented the lousy academic job market and kept track of the issues affecting employment opportunities in research and related fields, from government efforts to stimulate the economy to immigration.

We launched a new effort on the diagnostic side, called the research domain criteria, or RDOC, which has awakened the field to the need to bring biology — and for that matter cognitive science and social science — into the process of diagnosis.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.

He started by looking at the status of the research effort and some of the big questions in the field.

The priority - setting effort comes as U.S. ocean scientists voice increasing concerns about the future of their field, which is struggling to sustain a robust research fleet and adapt to stagnating funding.

As a leader in conservation, the work of San Diego Zoo Global includes onsite wildlife conservation efforts (representing both plants and animals) at the San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, as well as international field programs on six continents.

Now, translational research has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applresearch has emerged as a field in its own right, aided in large part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical applResearch, a collection of initiatives that prioritize efforts to shepherd biomedical discoveries into clinical application.

The expert group was convened through the Alzheimer's Association Research Roundtable — an ongoing effort that brings together experts in the field from academia, industry, and government to address ways to overcome barriers to drug development.

«Instead of a series of rotations, lowering and raising arrows, adjusting the grip and guessing the correct depth of field, we've shortened the process to just two clicks,» said Sonia Chernova, the Georgia Tech assistant professor in robotics who advised the research effort.

To ensure that DOD is able to quickly scale up its research and development efforts in times of crisis, they encourage DOD to develop programs that can quickly train workers to a master's degree level in fields needed to meet DOD's needs.

A considerable part of the institute's efforts aim at the development of research technology in the fields of spectroscopy, robotic telescopes, and e-science.

To secure such enormous amount of money for construction of ALMA from the national budget, efforts were needed to reduce research budgets allocated to other science projects not limited to the field of astronomy.

The program offers research spanning the traditional fields of chemistry, and additionally benefit from collaborative efforts that impart a broad range of skills.

Click here for Part II, an accounting of Exxon's early climate research; Part III, a review of Exxon's climate modeling efforts; Part IV, a dive into Exxon's Natuna gas field project; Part V, a look at Exxon's push for synfuels; Part VI, an accounting of Exxon's emphasis on climate science uncertainty.

The focus of the Microbiome Ideas Challenge is the development of new tools and methods that will help transition the field of microbiome research from correlative studies — i.e., genomics - driven microbial censusing efforts — to causal understanding of microbial function.

«The key to this effort will be integrating diverse fields to create new experimental tools and new research partnerships.

P. J. Jackson was recognized for his creative, highly regarded research in the fields of molecular and cellular biology and his recent efforts in the area of biological threat reduction.

Overall, despite the dramatic therapeutic advances made elsewhere in the melanoma field, the poor prognosis of patients with mucosal melanoma mandates continued emphasis on laboratory and clinical research efforts in this rare subset of disease.

The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.

She recommended that this community work with these strengths in moving forward by including stakeholder and public dialogues as part of pre-release efforts and early field research and by continuing to address uncertainties through risk - related research.

It has been set up to address the problem of fragmentation in the rare disease research field, where individual efforts often have poor interoperability and do not systematically connect data across the levels of clinical phenotype, genetics and omics data, biomaterial availability and research / trial datasets.

Catalyst for a Cure (CFC) is a major collaborative scientific effort in the field of glaucoma that represents an entirely unique approach to research, both by its design and its intent.

«By bringing leading researchers in the field together at its headquarters, the Hepatitis B Foundation, through its research arm, the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, is able to concentrate their joint efforts to finding new treatments and, ultimately, a cure,» said Joel Rosen, Chairman of the Foundation's board.

To help further this effort, the Mars Society has created a Speakers Bureau with a list of representatives in the U.S. and Canada available to talk about the organization's mission, its work in Mars - related research, including the Mars Desert Research Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space explresearch, including the Mars Desert Research Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space explResearch Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space exploration.

NEA's «community outreach» efforts are particularly formidable, gaining the union allies in the fields of research, advocacy, and the media.

Another is through greater efforts to disseminate the amazing research being conducted here, so that it gets into the hands of those in the field and in a manner that is most useful to them.

There are multiple models for this type of public - private research and development effort in bio-medicine, defense and other fields.

She has successfully directed efforts and forged partnerships to professionalize the field of teaching, raise educator quality, and work with legislators to implement policies that advance research - driven innovations and equity for all students.

A growing body of research describes such efforts as student voice initiatives (Fielding, 2001; Mitra, 2008), projects that are categorically different from traditional student leadership roles in school, such as planning dances and holding pep rallies.

The source of the contribution can be in universities or in the field and the extent to which the quality and originality of the effort suggests the potential to create a lasting impact on research and / or practice in this domain.

The taxonomy of math skills, concepts and applications has been through field studies and other research efforts in order to determine these difficulty measures.

Research and evidence from the field show community schools help ensure students enter school fully prepared to learn; develop improved work habits, efforts, and attitudes toward learning; improve grades and test scores; bolster retention and graduation rates; and provide society with a strong return on investment.

He calls on his expansive knowledge of research and change efforts across fields to connect staff to critical research and reports on effective practices and systems.

Dale's research and evaluation efforts have been published in numerous journals one of which was selected as an honorable mention for outstanding article that contributed to the field of early childhood education.

(4) Conduct a program for end - stage and renal disease research, to include support of projects and demonstrations for providing special services (including transplantation and dialysis), artificial kidneys, and supplies * necessary for the REHABILITATION of individuals suffering from such disease and which will (A) insure dissemination of research findings, (B) provide encouragement and support for initiatives and new approaches by individual and institutional investigators, and (C) establish and maintain close working relationships, with other governmental and voluntary institutions and organizations engaged in similar efforts, in order to unify and coordinate scientific efforts, encourage joint planning, and promote the interchange of data and reports among investigators in the field of end - stage renal disease.