Sentences with phrase «for ecosystem science»

BA, Ecosystem Science and Policy and Geography — in progress University of Miami, Coral Gables • FL • Intensive field research in the Everglades — Work featured in the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy Undergraduate Website --(ECS in the Field).

Ted Schuur is a Professor in the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at Northern Arizona University.

In 2013, The Schuur lab moved to Northern Arizona University to become part of NAU's newly established Center for Ecosystem Science and Society.

Scot M. Miller (email: [email protected]-RRB-, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Meghan A. Taylor, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff; and Jennifer D. Watts, W. A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula; also at Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, Mass..

Shifts in student motivation during usage of a Multi-User Virtual Environment for ecosystem science.

«Too early to tell,» said Bruce Hungate, director of NAU's Center for Ecosystem Science and Society.

These geographic shifts will keep the wine flowing, but may bring new pressures on wildlife and other natural resources such as water, says climatologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International's Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics.

«By grouping waterbirds, such as plant - eating birds and fish - eating birds, we showed that the degradation affected a wide range of different plants and animals in the wetlands; declines in these waterbirds means their food levels are also falling,» says Professor Kingsford, who is Director of the UNSW Centre for Ecosystem Science.

«We've long thought soils to be a stable, safe place to store carbon, but our results show soil carbon is not as stable as we previously thought,» said Bruce Hungate, director of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and study author.

«Our findings mean that nature is not as efficient in slowing global warming as we previously thought,» said Kees Jan van Groenigen, research fellow at the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU and lead author of the study.

«Too early to tell,» said Bruce Hungate, Director of the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society at NAU.

Not exact matches

Glocer said, «Windward is a game changer because it is bringing a data sciences perspective to today's maritime data and making it accessible and relevant for the entire ecosystem.

This area of science clearly demonstrates the need for enabling technologies and ecosystem actions to be considered together in order to unlock the benefits for Australian businesses and consumers.

Bettez is a science professor at Bard College and a visiting scientist at the Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook.

This move would allow the agency to continue funding for several Earth Science missions slated for elimination in the request, including Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 (OCO - 3), Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), and Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder.

In a separate meeting, Holt and Pastrana developed future plans for their memorandum of understanding to extend beyond the biomedical sciences into areas including natural disaster resilience, protecting marine ecosystems and biodiversity management — all areas of importance to the societies of Cuba and the United States.

Posed as an important site for the maintenance of national security, this nearly 2000 - mile expanse is also one that bears biodiversity and ecosystem significance on both sides of the border.This panel seeks to better understand the intersection of science and technology with national security, human rights, environmental and cultural resources along U.S. - Mexico border.

«These findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,» says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab's Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study.

The analytic reports by AAAS are the next step in achieving «a high level of credibility and reliability of the national R&D ecosystem,» said Ahmed M. Alabdulkader, Secretary General for NSTIP at the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the national science Science and Technology (KACST), the national science science agency.

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

TM, in «Building a Life Sciences Innovation Ecosystem,» scientists from the University of California Berkeley's California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences have the audacity to suggest that funding for academic science in the United States is «generous», and that «what the government gets in return may not be proportional to its investment.»

«People have thought about how forest loss matters for an ecosystem, and maybe for local temperatures, but they haven't thought about how that interacts with the global climate,» said co-author Abigail Swann, a UW assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and of biology.

The Wiki ecosystem — including Wikipedia, Wikinews, Wikiquote, Wikimedia, Wikidata, Wikisource, among others — is one often misunderstood by academics and scholars, particularly in science, despite the fact such ecosystems are the home page of scientific exploration for the public.

«If we can understand how the landscape has changed over decades and what that does to water quality, human health, and ecosystem health, we can begin to make predictions for the future,» said senior author Kathleen Alexander, professor of wildlife conservation in the College of Natural Resources and Environment and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

But, as scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology, «fracking» operations could have impacts on water quantity because they are withdrawing these large amounts of water from nearby streams, which house aquatic ecosystems and are used by people for drinking and recreation.

«The increasing frequency and intensity of these harmful algae blooms will impact our ability to achieve the ultimate goal of restoring a healthy ecosystem in the Bay and put a premium on effective methods to reduce nutrient pollution,» said Don Boesch, President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

For 20 years, scientists at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve in Minnesota have grown both C3 and C4 grasses in 88 plots, pumping extra CO2 into half of them to increase concentrations by 180 parts per million.

In a column in The New York Times last October science writer George Johnson likened Hawaiian's opposition to the telescope to the Catholic Church's oppression of Galileo, and suggested that the indigenous protesters were pawns of environmentalists who «have learned that a few traditionally dressed natives calling for the return of sacred lands can draw more attention than arguments over endangered species and fragile ecosystems.»

«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead author of the research paper.

DENVER — Ecosystems kilometers underground seem to thrive on food made via nuclear reactions, according to research presented here 14 February at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes ScienceNOW.

Understanding the need for invention, the knowledge that invention helps to create and the dual and complementary roles of invention and innovation for 21st century public problem solving is critical — every aspect of our problem solving requirements must be considered and acted upon including talent creation; the skill - set, aspirations and inspiration from our inventors; science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) basic research; and the innovation ecosystem.

Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park is a close nonprofit partner to the NPS that is dedicated to advancing ecosystem science and learning for all ages.

«The lack of baseline data for deep - sea ecosystems identified by the report has a direct bearing on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process... without continued efforts to produce basic underpinning science, regulation and governance of the deep sea will remain an exercise on paper rather than knowledge - driven decision making.

So you tend to lose the sedges and the mosses and the lichens,» explained study co-author Ed Rastetter, a senior scientist at the MBL Ecosystems Center and principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, where part of the research was conducted.

So the environment — the ecosystem as my colleague Bora Zivkovic calls it — the ecosystem for science news is very dynamic, is changing; the number of outlets is growing exponentially.

Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

My science training provided the core understanding of the research ecosystem, and the need for a portable identifier.

«Whether providing rapid pathways for bringing scientific advances to bear on societal needs, spurring new collaborations that promote exciting interdisciplinary investigations, or simply providing cost - effective venues for scientific program management and oversight, scientific conferences are crucial to the efficient functioning of our innovation ecosystem and maximizing the return on federal investments in science.»

As the centerpiece of the medical innovation ecosystem, NIH not only supports the research that leads to treatments and cures for our most devastating diseases, but drives the life sciences economic engine, annually sustaining over 400,000 jobs and nearly $ 60 billion in economic activity nationwide.

For more on the emerging field of soundscape ecology, see «Eavesdropping on Ecosystems» in this week's issue of Science, and listen to the Science podcast interview.

Richard Munang and Jessica Andrews, authors of «Harnessing Ecosystem - Based Adaptation: To Address the Social Dimensions of Climate Change,» published in Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, think that we can.

«The goal of our research was to explore the opportunities for marine fisheries reform in China that arise from their 13th Five - Year Plan and show how the best available science can be used in the design and implementation of fisheries management in China's coastal and ocean ecosystems,» said Cao, a Research Scholar with Stanford's Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lead author Matthias Schmidt Thomsen, of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «We have known for some time that a reduction in biodiversity has negative ecological consequences, but predictions of what happens to an ecosystem have not accounted for the occurrence of compensatory responses.»

«Forecasting how a major coastal ecosystem, the Chesapeake Bay, responds to decreasing nutrient pollution is a challenge due to year - to - year variations and natural lags,» said Donald Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Science at EPA provides the foundation for credible decision - making to safeguard human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.

To achieve better conservation policies and practices for our surviving mammals, science must first provide a better platform for decision - making in identifying changes in wildlife populations and ecosystems.

The creation of a «data science for all» ecosystem is the goal of a new initiative at Purdue University that will make data science education part of every student's learning experience on campus while also boosting research and partnerships to help grow the data - driven economy.

«Gene drives, which are being contemplated to engineer natural ecosystems, should be scrutinized openly and systematically for both their risks and benefits,» said Todd Kuiken, PhD, author of the Science paper and senior program associate with the Synthetic Biology Project.