Sentences with phrase «land system scientist»

Van Butsic, a land system scientist at U.C. Berkeley, is the author of a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortality.

Not exact matches

But scientists had faced problems in marrying the European - led rover to the Russian landing system, which will use aerobraking, parachutes, and reverse thrusters.

Although scientists have drilled into the buried crater before on land, this is the first offshore effort, and also the first to go after the crater's «peak ring» — a circular ridge inside the crater rim that's characteristic of the solar system's largest impact craters.

Scientists are now exploring the influence of different land management methods such as overgrazing, labour and alternative farming systems like agroforestry on carbon sequestration in Brazilian Amazon soils.

We know this because scientists have found meteorites on Earth that clearly originated on Mars; these pieces evidently drifted around the solar system before landing here.

Pictures released on Wednesday show what ESA senior scientist Mark McCaughrean called «the most crazy bonkers comet in the solar system» — a bulbous, bilobed object that will surely be difficult to land on.

Watch Video David L. Chandler MIT News Office Scientists agree that changes in land use such as deforestation, and not just greenhouse gas emissions, can play a significant role altering the world's climate systems.

Dr. Alex B. Guenther, a renowned scientist in land ecosystem and atmospheric research, has joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to lead research in the interactions between terrestrial systems and climate.

He said the length of the study conjured images of the Vikings landing in Labrador, and he wondered how lead scientist Michael Mann, head of Penn State's Earth System Science Centre, reconstructed the temperatures to produce such a detailed graph.

Scientists said the $ 952 million program, planned to last six years, should also help in understanding biological systems dependent upon water, like plankton in oceans and vegetation on land.

To derive this conclusion, scientists used a system that indexed urban land cover on a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being least urban and 4 being most urban.

«If farming were to switch to organic agriculture on the current amount of land that is being used for farming and livestock production, then that system could produce enough calories to feed the world without requiring people to change their dietary habits,» said study team member Catherine Badgley, a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan.

Scientists found ways to improve the capabilities of a land model within global and regional Earth system models to estimate water runoff.