Sentences with phrase «in ecological science»
Sellers obtained a bachelor's degree in ecological science from the University of Edinburgh, and a doctorate in biometeorology from the University of Leeds.
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Dr Sellers gained an Ecological Science degree from Edinburgh University in 1976 before eventually gaining his Ph.D. from Leeds University in 1981.
Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»
«Paradigmatic change in social science: from human exemptions to an ecological paradigm», p. 5.
A very helpful introduction is Birch, L. Charles, Nature and God (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1965); also by the same author, «A Biological Basis for Human Purpose,» Zygon, 8,1973, pp. 244 - 260); «Nature, Humanity and God in Ecological Perspective,» in Shinn, Roger L., ed., Faith and Science in an Unjust World: Report of the World Council of Churches Conference on Faith, Science and the Future, Vol.
In The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, one of the most creative encounters between science and the relational vision, John B. Cobb, Jr., a process theologian, and Charles Birch, an Australian biologist and quite a lay theologian of the process persuasion in his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the scienceIn The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, one of the most creative encounters between science and the relational vision, John B. Cobb, Jr., a process theologian, and Charles Birch, an Australian biologist and quite a lay theologian of the process persuasion in his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the sciencein his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the sciences.
As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.
However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.
In reading The Liberation of Life by Charles Birch and John B. Cobb, Jr., I was impressed by the precision of concept of their ecological model and its adequacy to be a guide for science, ethics, and philosophy.
The author's thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition — in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai — and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.
In this ecological concept of creativity there is an inside story to evolution in addition to the outside story on which science concentrates its attentioIn this ecological concept of creativity there is an inside story to evolution in addition to the outside story on which science concentrates its attentioin addition to the outside story on which science concentrates its attention.
Jim Ball, «The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis,» Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50, no. 1 (1998).
A collegiate background in Food Science, Ecological Agriculture and Botany has also greatly influenced her work with DRAM Apothecary.
* Beginning in 2015 the Bird Conservation Team included the following: Gerald A Bertrand Chair, Ecological Management, Bird Conservation, Salt Marsh Science and Important Bird Areas.
«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iEcological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Cscience - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.
«Gardens can improve the ecological complexity of the schoolyard in ways that promote effective experiential learning in many subject areas, particularly the areas of science, environmental education, and food education.»
Kenney and several other fellows, Jeff Dukes, Jessica Hellmann and Karen Lips, also organized activities at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in August 2017: an «Ignite» session about public engagement and a workshop based on the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology's Communicating Science workshops.
Seamlessly intertwining lyrical travelogue with ecological science, journalist Emma Marris explores conservation efforts worldwide, venturing from fragile island ecosystems in Hawaii to a seemingly primeval forest in Poland and Belarus.
FSU Professor of Biological Science Nora Underwood, a co-author of the study, said this research will be vital in broadening scientists» approach to the study of major ecological disturbances.
Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.
«Evolving the forms of play in early childhood toward realistic ecological play will be an important innovation in early childhood science education,» said Jennifer Woodring, co-author of the study and project coordinator at Northwestern.
He and his colleague Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.
He and Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.
A new network of observatories aims to take ecological science to the continental scale in the next 30 years.
From small transmitters used to study migration routes of butterflies to cameras in nest boxes recording breeding activities of great tits, state - of - the - art and expensive technical equipment is essential for today's ecological science.
«During my fellowship at the EPA in the Office of Research and Development, I had a great experience conducting policy relevant ecological research, but I found the most enjoyment in communicating about the science, meeting people from all over the world, and building collaborations.
► «Next week, the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week'Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week'ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week's Science.
Others, like me, are convinced that no theoretical or empirical evidence exists for such a claim, and that a widespread belief in the existence of such a point of no return threatens to push ecological science and its application in the wrong direction.
Understanding how individuals resolve conflicts over contributions to, or exploitation of, common resources remains a major challenge in ecological research as well as in social sciences.
Indications are that heavy reliance on indigenous knowledge — also known as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)-- is likely to continue in northern polar science.
The findings of the study conducted by a working group at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and funded by the National Science Foundation were published today in the Proceedings B, a journal of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences.
The Rutgers courses, he says, set him up for a life in ecological and environmental activism: «There were no environmental science majors at that time.
Part of the answer can be found in a new study appearing this week in Science that shows how the sudden emergence of just one or two new genes can profoundly transform organisms» appearance, behavior and ecological niche.
Parchman, who specializes in evolutionary and ecological genetics in in the University's College of Science, is the lead author on a recently published scientific paper in the journal Molecular Ecology detailing the study, a culmination of several years of work with his colleagues Alex Buerkle and Craig Benkman of the University of Wyoming, and Victor Soria - Carrasco of University of Sheffield, UK.
To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.
Hamilton, an arachnologist and graduate student at Auburn University's Department of Biological Sciences, told Live Science that «not much behavioral or ecological work has been done to understand these species and the settings they live in,» he said.
These ecological problems are a new frontier for supercomputing, says John Cobb, a principal investigator for TeraGrid at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and a co-investigator for DataONE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to gather and harmonize ecological and environmental data sets.
Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.
So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore the ecological consequences of stimulant pollution in urban streams.
The future of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis is in question as it faces the end of its core funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
As Whitfeld explains, «We wanted to highlight the relevance of herbarium collections for a wide variety of ecological questions, in order to highlight their importance across the biological and environmental sciences.»
«The methodologies that RTI pioneered in performing our assessments have broad relevance beyond the State of North Carolina and represent a significant advancement in the science of defining ecological flows,» Dykes said.
Lead author Matthias Schmidt Thomsen, of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «We have known for some time that a reduction in biodiversity has negative ecological consequences, but predictions of what happens to an ecosystem have not accounted for the occurrence of compensatory responses.»
The research was conducted in collaboration with the Ecological Flows Science Advisory Board that was formed in response to 2010 North Carolina state legislation (NC Session Law 2010 - 143) directing the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to identify the river flows necessary to maintain the ecological integrity of each of the 17 major river basins in Ecological Flows Science Advisory Board that was formed in response to 2010 North Carolina state legislation (NC Session Law 2010 - 143) directing the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality to identify the river flows necessary to maintain the ecological integrity of each of the 17 major river basins in ecological integrity of each of the 17 major river basins in the State.
«This is a fantastic example of STEM - based science bringing together the ecological and climate modeling communities; two sectors which rarely work hand - in - hand,» said Prof Pitman.
This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation's Chemical and Biological Oceanography, Integrated Carbon Cycle Research, Arctic Natural Sciences, Long - Term Ecological Research, and Ecosystem Ecology programs; NASA's Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science program; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Georgia Sea Grant; the European Union's Seventh Framework Program project GEOCARBON; and the government of the Brussels - Capital Region.
In 1980, the National Science Foundation (NSF) launched the Long - Term Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range Ecological Research (LTER) program to study ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range ecological phenomena over long periods of time at sites representing a diverse range of biomes.
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