Sentences with word «geobiologist»

Geobiologist at Harvard University and founder of The Mars Academy education and development program

And although the simplified simulation may not explain exactly what's happening in the real world, it does offer «a framework for quantifying the big - picture financial effects of institutionalized bias,» says geobiologist Hope Jahren of the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

That plants like bryophytes influenced the formation of mud deposits long before roots appeared is a surprise, says geobiologist Woodward Fischer of Caltech who wrote a commentary about the study for the same issue of Science.

In addition to being a memoir by a three - time, Fulbright - winning geobiologist, it is also a fascinating tutorial on botany, paleontology and soil studies.

In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.

As Kenneth Nealson, a University of Southern California geobiologist and Jet Propulsion Laboratory visiting scientist, recently told the journal Nature: «The field is haunted by thinking you've detected life on Mars and finding that it's Escherichia coli from Pasadena.»

But, «if we have other organisms out there that do things just slightly differently, we might miss the boat,» geobiologist Victoria Orphan of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena told attendees.

The odds of a single rootlet mooring itself to just the right spot of soil are more than a million to one, writes geobiologist Hope Jahren.

Geobiologist Joseph Kirschvink of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, is skeptical, however.

By applying a powerful method that was developed for detecting fecal matter in drinking water, geoarchaeologist Ainara Sistiaga of the University of La Laguna in Tenerife and geobiologist Roger Summons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge have detected the biological signature, or biomarkers, of meat and plants in the sediments containing fossilized feces from five different places at El Salt.

People who work in this field are known as geobiologists.

Snowball Earth hypothesis, in geology and climatology, an explanation first proposed by American geobiologist J.L. Kirschvink suggesting that Earth's oceans and land surfaces were covered by ice from the poles to the Equator during at least two extreme cooling events between 2.4 billion and 580 million years ago.

Donald Canfield, a geobiologist at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, doubts that oxygen was a limiting factor for early animals.

«The role of oxygen in the origins of animals has been heavily debated,» says Timothy Lyons, a geobiologist at the University of California, Riverside.

A few decades later, Jahren — now a geobiologist and three - time Fulbright scholar — has penned a memoir rich in both the study of things and the joy that study brings.

John Parkes, a geobiologist at the University of Cardiff, UK, hopes his team's discovery might one day help find life on other planets.

The best existing evidence for a heat limit beneath the ocean comes from the oil and gas industry, says Victoria Orphan, a geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

As Steve D'Hondt, a geobiologist at the University of Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay, puts it, «Whatever their temperature limit is, it sets a new boundary.»

Writing as a philosopher not an astrobiologist (nor geobiologist, for that matter), may I suggest that the one, universal criterion for life is evolution.

Joseph Kirschvink, a geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, agrees.

Moreover, finding a self - contained lake of carbon dioxide at a relatively shallow 4,600 feet below sea level «is highly suggestive that if you went down a further 4,900 feet you could actually inject liquid CO2 and it would be quite stable,» says Ken Nealson, a geobiologist at the University of Southern California.

«This is the last nail in the argument,» says Joseph Kirschvink, a geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena who first proposed the magnetite - based magnetoreception theory 20 years ago.

Jeffrey Marlow is geobiologist, writer, and post-doctoral fellow with Harvard University's Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

He's a geobiologist at the Free University of Berlin in Germany.

I am a climate scientist, geobiologist, and climate policy scholar.

Climate scientist, geobiologist, and climate policy scholar at Rutgers University's Dept. of Earth & Planetary Sciences and Institute of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences.

A geobiologist has built this complex of buildings out of eco-friendly materials around a wooden main house, with scope for tourist rentals

Award - winning geochemist and geobiologist Jahren presents an exceptionally compelling and enlightening memoir, gracefully meshing her struggles as a woman scientist with the marvels of plants.