Sentences with phrase «global change science»

The use of applications, mobile devices, and social networking sites for this purpose will strengthen the national global change research enterprise and increase public literacy in global change science.

That fact is not in dispute among climate scientists,» said Anne Slinn, executive director for research of the Center for Global Change Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.»

The 4th PAGES OSM 2013 will be an international and multi-disciplinary platform for sharing latest research results and the venue for defining the role of past global change science for the next decade.

Welcome to the PAGES People Database, an online portal bringing the past global change science community together.

This insight, backed by the palaeo - climatic record (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4), is a new challenge for global change science because now thresholds have to be identified and their values need to be estimated using the entire hierarchy of climate models.

Simon Lewis, a researcher in global change science at University College London, said the study is the first to come up with an accurate, global estimate for the number of living trees, but he emphasised that this is not the only important part of an ecosystem.

Says Simon Lewis, a Royal Society research fellow and reader in global change science at the University of Leeds.

Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a principal research scientist in MIT's Center for Global Change Science, says that while scientists have suspected ocean acidification might affect marine populations, the group's results suggest a much larger upheaval of phytoplankton — and therefore probably the species that feed on them — than previously estimated.

Postdoctoral fellow in the group of M. J. Molina, Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory & Center for Global Change Science, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.

In 2012, the boundaries work helped produce a compelling alternative framework for navigating the Anthropocene — «Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Science to Contribute to a Sustainable Future.»

Planetary opportunities: A social contract for global change science to contribute to a sustainable future.

The above entry is posted under the following topic (s): Global Change Science • Ecosystems • Impacts, Adaptation, Vulnerability • Ecosystems •

Committee members include experts in physical and social sciences, communication, education, and other topics reflecting the full scope of issues relevant to global change science.

Global change science has focused on the emergence of industrial processes over the past three centuries as the critical period within which anthropogenic global change processes, including land use, became significant forces driving global changes in the Earth System (14 ⇓ ⇓ ⇓ — 18).

I also take advantage of many excellent guest lecture series, particularly those hosted by the Centre for Global Change Science in the Physics department, just across St. George St. from my office.

«There is still lots of uncertainty in what the climate sensitivity is,» says Andrei Sokolov, a research scientist in MIT's Center for Global Change Science, who has been doing research on climate sensitivity for many years.

He is now the director of the Centre for Global Change Science at the University of Toronto.

p 14: «The current plan should more effectively build upon a growing capability within the U.S. climate global change [sic] community to interact with potential users of climate and global change science, as was demonstrated in the U.S. National Assessment of the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change (NAST, 2001).