Sentences with phrase «global ecology at»

Chris Field, the new co-chairman of Working Group II and director of the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science, held a teleconference with two of the newly appointed members.

Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy.

Not exact matches

So are the miracle wheat and rice of the Green Revolution, the technology of behavior modification proposed by B. F. Skinner, 1 and the computerized model of the global ecology produced by the authors of The Limits to Growth.2 This kind of reasoning operates within the limits of what is possible as defined by (1) the available material and human resources, (2) the laws of nature, and (3) the state of knowledge at the time.

Emily's background is in ecology and environmental policy, and prior to joining AAAS, she led engagement and outreach efforts at the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998 - 99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship.

Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.

«Through this study, the pandas at the San Diego Zoo have made a significant contribution to our understanding of what may be affecting panda reproduction in habitats in China,» said Ron Swaisgood, director of applied animal ecology, San Diego Zoo Global.

«We're interested in how urban warming affects the ecology of insects and what implications that might have for understanding how global warming might impact insects outside of the city, «said Elsa Youngsteadt, an entomology research associate at NCSU and co-lead author of the study.

The findings indicate that coral bleaching is a «modern phenomenon» driven by global warming, says study co-author Prof Nick Graham, a Royal Society university research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster University.

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As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

«Considering these... major and still growing impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

«Unless we reverse our actions very quickly, by the end of the century, reefs could be a thing of the past,» said Ken Caldeira, an author of the paper and scientist from the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology (he's based at Stanford University).

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

as their guiding philosophy, but deep ecology may have reached its greatest popular prominence when Senator Al Gore wrote in his 1989 book «Earth in the Balance» that, «We must change the fundamental values at the heart of our civilization» in order to solve global environmental problems.

«Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's department of global ecology and professor for interdisciplinary environmental studies at Stanford University.

Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric science at Texas A&M University, estimates that the U.S. has as many as 2,000 scientists who study global warming and its effects on the atmosphere, oceans, ecology, and other scientific fields.

Our group explores the ecology of populated landscapes at local, regional and global scales towards the goal of making ecosystem management more sustainable.

Perhaps at last we can really start to get back to science - based ecology ie: forget about meaningless global temperature trends which are both completely beyond our scope to quantify whist at the same time being utterly useless to us in terms of our local micro-environments....

Employing a political ecology framework, I endeavor to articulate the multiple levels at which this issue unfolds, describing the correlation between the circulation of climate change discourse and the resurgence of hydroelectric power at the global level; how this situation has been engaged at the national level within contemporary Costa Rica; and how all of this plays out in contestation concerning dam construction within specific sites in the country, particularly the controversial Río Pacuare in the eastern highlands, where the merits of a major dam proposal have been questioned for more than two decades.

Looking at environmental threats, we have: 1) potential catastrophic failure of aquifers 2) potential catastrophic of sensitive ecologies ranging from oceans to mountain tops 3) potential catastrophic failure of crops on a global scale

Considering... [the] major and still growing impacts of human activities on earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.

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USA About Blog The Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability at Michigan State University integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national to global scales.