Sentences with phrase «in local ecology»

Help clean up litter along the shoreline and cut back plants growing along the wetland's edge, while learning about the important role the wetland plays in the local ecology.

The Chicago Academy of Sciences has been a leader in local ecology and scientific education for 159 years.

Given that I only wanted to talk about how things were going in the local ecologies, the discussion was pretty much cut short.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, basing their position on developments in molecular, organismic, and population ecology, Cobb and Birch characterize life as an increasingly complex special form of the organization of molecules and atoms that also involves a temporary and local decrease in entropy; there is no absolute, dualistic distinction between the living and non-living, animate and inanimate.

The other obstacle is that department of health, in the name of maximizing damage to the local ecology, frequently mandates embalming, and other things that prevent the normal decay, and return of the body to eartth.

With the future of the Murray - Darling Basin Plan in doubt, southern communities call for full delivery of the agreement to support local ecology still rebounding from the Millennium Drought.

«Our research shows that focusing surveillance on viruses in bats, rodents and non-human primates (a «SMART surveillance approach), and understanding what's disrupting these species» ecology is the best strategy to predict and prevent local outbreaks and pandemic disease,» Daszak continued.

Examining the effect of greenhouse gases on local ecology and global climate keeps Katey Walter, 32, chasing the methane that bubbles up from seeps in Arctic lakes.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

Even if it did uniformly heat Earth's ecosystems, this would not produce a coherent global shift in ecology because local ecosystems respond so differently, often in opposing ways.

Several symposia have a local focus, including sessions on ecology and education in San Diego's Mission Bay Park and the causes and effects of aerosol particles in San Diego's atmosphere.

GBBC is great for getting nonexperts interested in birds and the role they play in local and global ecology, MacFarland says.

BLOOMS of algae in lakes and seas, sometimes called red tides, can release neurotoxins into the food chain or suffocate the local ecology by sucking up too much oxygen.

«Ethnological data collection such as ours, including the collection of terms in the local vernacular, can open new avenues of research about variations in ecology, fauna and flora,» they conclude.

European editor Anne Forde discovered, in an interview with Hannah Kokko, an evolutionary ecologist in Helsinki, Finland, that one of the keys to Kokko's professional success is her ability to balance opposing approaches and points of view: life with work, the organismal approach of evolution with the population approach of ecology, and an appreciation for the local environment with the mind - broadening value of more exotic and distant locales.

Tschinkel first encountered fairy circles in 2005 on a vacation to the NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature park dedicated to conserving the local ecology and wildlife in southwestern Namibia, where his local guide introduced him to the strange land forms.

University of Delaware oceanographers recently reported a connection between local weather conditions and the weight of Adélie penguin chicks in an article in Marine Ecology Progress Series, a top marine ecology journal.

So the two joined forces and the resulting Posada Amazonas lodge to this day offers visitors an exotic way to learn about rainforest ecology directly from English - speaking Esé - eja staff, who in - turn earn a living sharing their local knowledge and traditions.

However, the role of local, regional, and global swine - flows in the ecology and evolution of swine influenza viruses remains unclear.

We had three different purposes: to learn about local cultures, to explore nature and the ecology of the area, and to participate in service projects that restore the natural habitat.

In this type of program — promoted nationwide by the Farm to School organization, connecting schools with local farmers — kids get their hands dirty by gardening organic crops while learning about seasonal cooking, food production, ecology, and nutrition.

What are real problems that people in my field — ecology, biology, local history — grapple with that are related to the content I need to teach?

Our guides are well versed in local knowledge, from marine ecology and edible plants to Chumash culture and our Spanish Colonial heritage.

Back in Costa Rica, Chelsea explored local ecology at Manuel Antonio National Park, where she had up - close encounters with capuchin monkeys.

All dive personnel are specially trained in the marine ecology of the Maldives and are more than happy to show divers the local attractions as well as impart their knowledge of the local marine environment.

All dive personnel are experts in the marine ecology of Thailand and are on a daily mission to show divers the local attractions and introduce you to the best diving in Thailand and Burma.

All dive personnel are specially trained in the marine ecology of the Maldives and are more than happy to show dive the local attraction as well as impart their knowledge of the local marine environment.

All dive personnel are specially trained in the marine ecology Micronesia and are more than happy to show divers the local attractions as well as impart their knowledge of the local marine environment.

All dive personnel are specially trained in the marine ecology of Palau and are more than happy to show divers the local attractions as well as impart their knowledge of the local marine environment.

Offers a range of all inclusive guided walks providing a valuable insight in to the history of Maori, early settlers and the local ecology.

Protected and unspoiled, students of all ages will quickly become immersed in and fascinated by the local geology and ecology.

She is talented in natural science, and after years of scouting, she has a strong grasp of the local ecology.

In this way Aspen creates sustainable connections to the local arts ecology — and reflects the unique character of place within the office environment.

Interweaving elements of local history and ecology with reference to Michael Faraday, baroque music and the Camberwell Beauty butterfly, Lincoln proposed a complex system of music, botany and a mechanical pansy cutter, triggered each day by a JS Bach score, its blades creating a labyrinth in a bed of genetically modified pansies.

In this workshop, we will help you learn to identify local trees and incorporate them into your curriculum to teach about seasons, local ecology, and more.

Such modes of investigation may appear local in context, but are part of the contemporary global discourse surrounding broader notions of identity, gender, place, ecology, and technology, among others.

Southeast Texas has a unique connection to marine life because of its close proximity to various bodies of water which are a driving force in the local economy, outdoor entertainment and ecology.

NYC - based naturalists Gabriel Willow and David Burglead lead a revealing exploration through the Raoul Wallenberg Forest in Riverdale Park and Wave Hill's Abrons Woodland to see firsthand how human activity, invasive plants, and other factors have shaped the local ecology.

Offered first in 2014 - 15, LandLab residents create art - based installations that prevent or remediate environmental damage while raising public awareness about our local ecology.

Experts in a lot of fields want the regular public to understand elements of their field that people just don't think about... I had an ecology professor a while ago who was angry that I didn't really know about mercury contamination issues in a local water source.

The Institute will help to set up a long - term scientific monitoring program, train local staff in marine ecology and field research techniques, design enforcement approaches, provide needed equipment, and work with the schools to develop an ocean education curriculum.

There's more on ecology in the age of man in a recent Washington Post article by Joel Achenbach and a 2010 piece from Ronald Bailey in Reason explaining how «local biodiversity is increasing because of man, not despite him.»

Using a feminist political ecology framework, Zanotti maps out spatial inequalities and injustices experienced by resource - dependent communities and highlights local creativity in the context of acute change.

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

In the process of organizing his community against a waste dump that would have polluted local water supplies, he taught himself about water ecology and became an environmental leader in his regioIn the process of organizing his community against a waste dump that would have polluted local water supplies, he taught himself about water ecology and became an environmental leader in his regioin his region.

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....

When ecology teacher Paul Ritter at the Pontiac Township High School in Pontiac, Illinois realized the U.S. is beginning to experience increasing amounts of unused or pharmaceuticals in the water supply he swung into action by working with his students to organize a local program to keep drugs out of the environment that may well serve as a model for others across the country.

Covering all the walls and ceilings, this soil - based artwork presents an immersive visual experience to the students, plus an aesthetics lesson grounded in ecology and the local customs of using cow dung for fuel and fertilizer.