Sentences with phrase «for conservation science»

We thank the California Landscape Conservation Cooperative, USGS Climate and Land Use Change Program, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for supporting a founding Pacific Coastal Fog Project workshop (Menlo Park, Calif., 2012); the Cary Institute for «Fog - as - a System» workshop facilitation (Pescadero, Calif., 2013); and Lisa Micheli (Dwight Center for Conservation Science at Pepperwood) for sentinel site support and for reviewing earlier drafts of this article.

«As databases coalesce and policymakers have access to greater information, we see real and improving successes for conservation science,» Gittleman said.

Portland State University professor Angela Strecker says understanding where species may live in the future given climate change impacts is an important consideration for conservation science.

Jennifer Lavers, of Australia's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in the University of Tasmania, and Alexander Bond, of the United Kingdom's Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, walked two beaches, methodically counting, collecting, and categorizing the garbage.

Not exact matches

The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity.

Mass Audubon's conservation and science teams are not only working to protect our natural resources for the present, they're also working to protect our natural resources as they respond to a changing climate in the future.

We're sharing conservation ideas this week for the Storybook Science series.

Founded in 1857 to give scientists and nature aficionados a place to study and share the specimens they collected, the Chicago Academy of Sciences developed a national and international reputation for its leadership in conservation, its collection and citizen science.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, New England's largest conservation organization and a leader in nature - based education for more than 60 years, this month debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for teachers, science coordinators, administrators, and others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

Atwood has been an ornithologist, conservation biologist, and science educator for more than 30 years.

2014 was a big year for iSeahorse, the citizen science program for seahorse conservation created by Project Seahorse with support from Shedd Aquarium.

«The important thing is that as many schools as possible do something to help their students appreciate the need for energy conservation and the science behind it,» DeBoer said.

Leading scientists from around the world convened this week at the International Congress for Conservation Biology in Cartagena, Colombia, to discuss how to better leverage science to combat illegal wildlife trade — both within countries and across international borders.

Despite the challenges ahead, Michael Mascia, a senior social scientist at WWF and founder of the Social Science Working Group for the Society of Conservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenConservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenconservation and human development promising.

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

AAAS organized the symposium in collaboration with the Carnegie Institution for Science, with support from the American Meteorological Society and the Linden Trust for Conservation.

«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.

That overlap helps hammerheads to perceive depth as they hunt, says Demian Chapman of the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University in New York.

Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, new opportunities for research cooperation have opened up quickly in such fields as biomedical sciences, public health, and agriculture as well as science related to ocean conservation and other environmental research.

«These new numbers showing the continuing decline of the African forest elephant are the exact reason why there is a sense of urgency at the United for Wildlife trafficking symposium in London this week,» said Dr. John Robinson, WCS Chief Conservation Officer and Executive Vice President of Conservation and Science.

Coping with climate change is a key priority for conservation in the United States, says new science adviser.

An international team of experts in horizon scanning, science communication and conservation recently asked that question as participants in the eighth annual Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and Biologicaconservation recently asked that question as participants in the eighth annual Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues for Global Conservation and BiologicaConservation and Biological Diversity.

Coauthor Nick Holmes, science director of Island Conservation, said the study provides valuable guidance for conservation interventions by his and oConservation, said the study provides valuable guidance for conservation interventions by his and oconservation interventions by his and other groups.

«It's an important accomplishment and a useful first step,» says Ellen Pikitch, who directs the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science at Stony Brook University.

The project makes the case for the prioritisation of conservation actions in Peninsular Malaysia guided by science, in consultation with a wide range of key stakeholders.

«This surprised us,» said Obradivch, who in addition to pursuing his doctorate in political science at UC San Diego is also a fellow of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the university's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Michelle Lee, managing editor of the on - line journal Conservation Ecology, finds the role allows her to bring her passions for art and science together through the technology of the Web.

For example, the science of surfing demonstrates hydrodynamics in a fun and interesting way, and the science of skateboarding does the same for Newton's Law's of Motion and Einstein's Principle of the Conservation of EnerFor example, the science of surfing demonstrates hydrodynamics in a fun and interesting way, and the science of skateboarding does the same for Newton's Law's of Motion and Einstein's Principle of the Conservation of Enerfor Newton's Law's of Motion and Einstein's Principle of the Conservation of Energy.

As that is almost never the case, having studies such as the one presented here is essential to inform sound, science - based decisions,» according to Pat Deibert, National Sage - Grouse Conservation Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Its report, Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgScience, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values, stresses that although gene drive offers great promise for agriculture, conservation, and public health, neither the science nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered orgscience nor the current regulatory system is adequate to address the risks and requirements of gene drive — altered organisms.

Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Centre for Ecology & Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn campus and the lead author warned that as plastic pollution increases more and more turtles are likely to become entangled.

«Plants, animals, and people all depend on forests and may all face additional challenges as temperatures increase and precipitation patterns shift,» said John Shuey, a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

«Conserving nature is a long and complicated process and establishing a national park or nature preserve is a first step,» said Dr. Mike Mascia, senior director of social science for Conservation International.

«This basic belief behind conservation is no longer the case,» said Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancementconservation is no longer the case,» said Emily Pidgeon of Conservation International, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the AdvancementConservation International, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Howard Rosenbaum, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ocean Giants Program, told Live Science that, for many marine mammal species, a thick layer of fat called blubber is «first and foremost» in their list of defenses against the cold.

«Knowing, scientifically, that people who have been trained to identify individual bears can do so with a reasonable expectation of accuracy helps us to know that the work we are doing to learn about these bears is based on good science, not just personal opinion» said Russ Van Horn, Ph.D., a lead researcher on the study and a research scientist for the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

«Although it's too early to declare victory, there's a good chance now that science will not be sidelined as would have been the case had the chair's proposal been adopted,» says Justin Cooke, a mathematical modeler in Freiburg, Germany, who represents the International Union for Conservation of Nature at the IWC meeting.

First author of the study, William Symes, a graduate student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science said, «Protected areas are not static but instead dynamic, shifting institutions that change over time, and it is crucial for conservation planners to recognise this.

Organized by AAAS and the Carnegie Institution for Science, with support from the American Meteorological Society and the Linden Trust for Conservation

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.

Now, leading conservationists writing in the journal Science are calling on policymakers to harness the potential of higher - yield farming to spare land for conservation, instead of solely producing more food and profit.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

One of the most sophisticated networks of acoustic detectors ever developed for wildlife science has documented a devastating 34 percent per year decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoise, according to a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Biology.

Gerard Baumgart and four colleagues from the French conservation charity Patrons of Science and Art followed two bugged toads with a hand - held radio antenna day and night for the whole week.

Froehlich emphasized that it will be crucial for science, conservation, policy and industry to work together to proactively ensure fish farms are not just well placed but also well managed, such as balancing nutrient inputs and outputs to avoid pollution and monitoring for diseases.

«The implications for the global carbon sink are profound,» said Dr Andrew Marshall from the University's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

«They're constantly following the rain patterns,» explains Scott Wilbor, conservation science director for the Sky Islands Alliance, a Tucson - based group.

«We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,» said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation — UBC Nereus Program.