Sentences with phrase «for environmental research»

In a cross-cutting initiative of the Earth Institute and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, two member organizations of the Earth Institute, the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and the Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC) and three GSAS departments (DEES, E3B and Chemistry) have been awarded a National Science Foundation GK - 12 grant of $ 3.2 million.

Climate change intensifies droughts in Europe, Researchers model the effects of the global temperature rise Date: April 23, 2018 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ Summary: Global warming will exacerbate soil droughts in Europe — droughts will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people.

International and National Advisory Roles: I have served as a member of the Nature Conservancy (Georgia) Board of Trustees, Board of Climate Central, Mothers and Others for Clean Air Partnership Council, NOAA Science Advisory Board, NOAA Climate Working Group, Department of Energy ARM Science Board, NSF Advisory Committee for Environmental Research and Education, NSF Committee of Visitors, Biocomplexity Program, Earth Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council, Mothers and Others for Clean Air Partnership Council, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Director Search Committee, University Space Research Association (USRA) Earth Science Advisory Board, Department of Energy expert panel on Cool Roof Initiative and Climate Change, NASA / NOAA / Howard University Programmatic Advisory Committees and 2 National Academy of Science Studies (i. Implications of Climate Change on National Security and U.S. Naval Operations and ii.

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Affiliation Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia

Jacob Nabe ‐ Nielsen, Floris M. van Beest, Jonas Teilmann, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark Volker Grimm, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany Richard M Sibly, School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom Paul M. Thompson, Lighthouse Field Station, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

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As discussed in last week's post, Laurens M. Bouwer of the Institute for Environmental Research in the Netherlands analyzed 22 previous studies attempting to find an anthropogenic warming «signal» in normalized weather - related loss data.

Carsten Dormann By June 2006, a scholar at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany had also submitted a paper to a scientific journal disputing the Thomas findings.

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CERT) at the Bourns College of Engineering have received two grants to further explore a steam hydrogasification process... Read more →

Konrad Steffen Professor Cooperative Institute for Environmental Research University of Colorado Boulder

«It's more robust when applied to larger regions», Ingolf Kühn coordinator of the EU - project MACIS and senior scientist at the department of Community Ecology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Halle, Germany, tells youris.com.

The research — conducted by scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the Weihenstephan - Triesdorf University of Applied Science — brings to light the importance of better management of upstream systems to reduce the significant proportion of plastic transferred via rivers, notes Tim Wallace at Cosmos Magazine.

And he does that only to keep her from heading to Europe for two years for her environmental research; her company won't send overseas employees who are married; she apparently fails to appreciate that this is what Eddie has done.

The team is composed of Gurinder Nagra (Connected Water Initiative Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia [CWI - UNSW]-RRB-, Pauline C. Treble (Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technological Organisation, Lucas Heights, Australia & CWI - UNSW), Martin S. Andersen (CWI - UNSW), Ian J. Fairchild (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK), Katie Coleborn (CWI - UNSW) and Andy Baker (CWI - UNSW).

PULLMAN, Wash. — Stephanie Hampton, director of WSU's Center for Environmental Research Education and Outreach, was recently named chair of the National Science Foundation biological sciences advisory committee.

For the environmental research program, SciLifeLab's advanced technology platforms will be utilised to create nationally and internationally prominent environmental research programmes.

This research was funded by the Washington State University Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach (CEREO) and a Washington Sea Grant.

Elisabeth Kruegar, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ): «The World Water Scenarios Initiative can help raise awareness about where our behavior is leading to, and can also help to compare trends and different aspects of global change, like the drivers that they identified have an effect on water, and also how water has an effect on the drivers, the feedback between both the drivers and impacts are important.

The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) has scheduled «Postdoc Café» taking place on Tuesday, September 19, 2017, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (CET).

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

Steffi Böhme of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Department of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology) won this year's award for her presentation «Visualisation of silver nanoparticle uptake by Laser Ablation — Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry».

SETAC Europe 26th Annual Meeting, Nantes 2016 Riccardo Massei, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Germany

«Rivers carry trash over long distances and connect nearly all land surfaces with the oceans,» making them a major battleground in the fight against sea pollution, explains Christian Schmidt, a hydrogeologist at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

Prof. Dr. Josef Settele is Head of Animal Ecology and Social - Ecological Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ, Germany.

«The water is crystal - clear, the salt and nutrient content is low and it's extremely oxygen - rich — even at the very bottom of the lake,» says Dr Till Luckenbach, an ecotoxicologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ).

To demonstrate the danger and the possible solution, scientists of the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining, the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU, Bilbao) and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) constructed a pilot plant for degassing.

Britain's armed forces announced this week that they are to make their ships, submarines, aeroplanes and land available for environmental research.

A team of international scientists, including microbiologists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), scientists from Aarhus University and process engineers from the Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ), have been studying the feasibility of this kind of flexible biogas production.

Scientists at the NCAR and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory are collaborating on an experiment that will take place aboard the NSF / NCAR Gulfstream - V High - performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (GV HIAPER) aircraft.

«It will be a race,» says Dirk Schmeller, a conservation biologist with the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.

The $ 3 - million cruise is part of a post-Cold War trend of using the Pentagon's assets such as spy satellites and submarines for environmental research.

«Ecosystems don't collapse; they shift from one steady state to another, and that's simply what happened here on Rapa Nui,» says Jut Wynne, an ecologist at Northern Arizona University's Merriam - Powell Center for Environmental Research.

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The analysis of the drivers responsible for observed status and declines in pollinators was coordinated by Dr. Oliver Schweiger from the Helmholtz - Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ in Halle.

But New Scientist has learned that plans drawn up by the Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research, a coordinating group for government agencies, to commission research into treating dip waste to make it more environmentally friendly have recently been dropped because no funds could be found.

To determine just how well satellites capture the big picture of forest damage, Nepstad and colleagues at Brazil's Amazon Institute for Environmental Research in Belém convinced more than 1300 sawmill owners in the Amazon to estimate how much wood they harvested in 1996 and 1997.

«There is not enough water to sustain a complete coverage with continuous grass vegetation, which leads to the gap pattern,» explains Stephan Getzin, an ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the new work.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig have come across another effect, which has thus far been unknown: in species - rich habitats, pests don't become resistant to chemical control measures so quickly, according to their publication in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) have now revealed, on the basis of historical data, how plant diversity in the region of Halle an der Saale has changed in over 300 years of urbanization, and have also made predictions about the future.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

Currently, I am working at the Umweltforschungszentrum Halle - Leipzig (UFZ, Centre for Environmental Research).

«Society depends on surface water for the vast majority of human uses,» said co-author Stephanie Hampton, director of Washington State University's Center for Environmental Research, Education and Outreach in Pullman.

Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Windsor, 401 Sunset Avenue, Windsor, Ontario N9B 3P4, Canada.

This is what scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) write in a position paper on the 2013 flooding, published in June.

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That is not all, however, reveals a new study by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the University of Maryland.