Sentences with phrase «large scientific effort»

Nevertheless, Weiss's contributions to COBE show he excelled in a role for which he says he's badly suited: leader of a large scientific effort.

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Scientific research managers coordinate the efforts of other scientists to achieve larger goals, and handle things like human resources, budgeting, and the other managerial tasks necessary to keep a lab — or a bunch of labs — running smoothly.

SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating.

AAAS, the world's largest general scientific organization, is stepping up its efforts to attract visiting scholars to work with the association in its programs that engage topics as varied as science diplomacy, nuclear disarmament issues and science education.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

DOE has requested a 15 %, $ 80 million increase for its Advanced Scientific Computing Research program — the largest boost in the Office of Science — to help accelerate the effort, which Moniz said could bear fruit as early as 2022 or 2023.

With one of the largest nonprofit repositories of mouse models in the world, the MMRRC distributes and archives models to advance the biomedical research efforts of the scientific research community.

Their recommended balance of large, medium, and small - scale efforts highlights the need to maintain sufficient funds to support individual investigators, to continue a program of technical innovation, and to train the next generation of scientists, while also funding those facilities essential for addressing the decadal surveys» scientific priorities.

These are exciting times indeed, especially when one considers that this effort is among the largest privately - funded scientific initiatives to date.

KIPAC member Peter Michelson, a Stanford professor of physics, leads the GLAST Large - Area Telescope Collaboration, as the global scientific effort surrounding the GLAST mission is officially known.

SKA was first conceived in 90s at the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) which established the Large Telescope Working Group to begin a worldwide effort to develop the scientific goals and technical specifications for a next generation radio observatory.

In the shaping of legislation and public policies, there is a large place for efforts to «calculate» or predict, from the findings of all appropriate social - scientific research and analysis, the probable effects of alternative policies or measures upon the happiness or welfare of the people generally, and of different groups among them; and to choose the policies most likely to be conducive to something like (in the ambiguous Benthamite phrase) «the greatest happiness of the greatest number.»

After an unprecedented scientific / political effort, a large group of climate scientists have indeed come up with a plausible explanation for the observed warming of the last decades.

The large gap between perception and reality of scientific agreement reflects the heated nature of political debates over policy on the issue, as well as the impact of efforts to raise skepticism about scientific consensus.

These NOAA activities constitute a large part of the global scientific effort to understand stratospheric ozone depletion and recovery.

A large fraction of the relevant scientific community is thus involved in the effort.

Its availability here constitutes a «fair use» as provided for in section 29 of the Canadian Copyright Law as well as in similar «fair dealing» exceptions of the copyright laws of other nations, as part of Ontario Wind Resistance's noncommercial effort to present the environmental, social, scientific, and economic issues of large - scale wind power development to a provincial and global audience seeking such information.

The UMTRI / Toyota Teen Driver Distraction Study, the largest scientific survey of its kind, also found that texting while driving remains commonplace among teens, despite ongoing, nationwide efforts to educate drivers on the significant risks associated with these behaviors.

CAREER SUMMARY Director drawing on extensive scientific and technological education, experience and expertise to successfully conceive, implement and foster large - scale innovative research and development efforts on a global scale.

These efforts fly in the face of a large body of scientific evidence showing that preventing unintended pregnancies strengthens the family.