Sentences with phrase «leading academic climate»

He was previously director of the Tyndall Centre, the UK's leading academic climate change research organisation, during which time he held a joint post with the University of East Anglia.

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Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

This is one of the first, if not the first, academic papers to confirm the low concern farmers place on climate risks over regulatory ones, said lead author Meredith Niles, a doctoral student in UC Davis» ecology graduate group.

More than 30 scientists and forest managers contributed to the report, which is part of the Central Hardwoods Climate Change Response Framework, a collaboration of federal, state, academic and private partners led by the Forest Service's Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS).

Astor and his colleagues have visited a few of the schools where academic gains led to improvements in school climate, and what they have noticed are principals who prioritize academics without neglecting emotional and behavioral issues.

The priorities, which will be core to a new accountability system, include school climate, student engagement, access to courses leading to college and careers and the implementation of new academic standards, such as the Common Core State Standards, as well as measures of student achievement.

Through evidence - based approaches piloted and now implemented in 30 major districts throughout the country, TDS has played a lead role in helping schools and districts mobilize existing staff and support organizations in ways that are proven to make considerable differences in attendance, climate and overall academic achievement.

Research confirms how important this lead indicator is to overall climate and academic achievement.

As Senior Director of the Initiative on Contemplative Teaching and Learning at the Garrison Institute, Dr. Jennings led the faculty team that developed Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE for Teachers), a mindfulness - based program for teachers designed to reduce stress and promote improvements in classroom climate and student academic and behavioral outcomes.

More than 30 organizations — leading cultural and academic institutions, arts initiatives and advocacy groups — will present a spectrum of programs that engage climate - related issues over the project's two - month calendar.

According to Climate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Progress, the report, Climate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto PrClimate Policy and Industrial Competitiveness (pdf), completed by the economists, climate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Prclimate scientists, and academics of the German Marshall Fund, reveals that Europe's cap and trade has lead many countries in the EU to meet their carbon targets as agreed to in the Kyoto Protocol.

With this next mini-disaster he didn't set out to find patterns in Hadcrut3 that would lead to greater understanding of the climate he set out to prove that Hansen and the other usual west - coast liberal academic suspects were on the right track.

Carbon Tracker has been a significant force in mainstreaming the concept of a carbon budget, applying the science developed by the world's leading academics and climate experts.

Leading up to the Copenhagen Conference he caused CSIRO to force a leading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change poLeading up to the Copenhagen Conference he caused CSIRO to force a leading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change poleading academic to resign from CSIRO because he had written a paper which implicitly criticized the economic analyses behind the Labor («Progressive») government's climate change policies.

The APG works closely with EOS scientists, other leading academics, and geo - risk experts, customising projects for organisations to assess and mitigate risks around climate change, sea - level rise, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, and floods.

CAGW is now an assumed reality which leads into what must be done in all academic areas; such as writing poems about the demise of the earth due to climate change, Developing political platforms based upon climate change and anything to the contrary is quite vilified

Ball, a long - retired geographer who is more famous for overstating his own credentials than for anything accomplished during his academic career, had accused Weaver (then a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) of bias and scientific incompetence — casting him as part of a politicized campaign to fleece Canadian taxpayers of grant money while overselling the dangers of climate Climate Change) of bias and scientific incompetence — casting him as part of a politicized campaign to fleece Canadian taxpayers of grant money while overselling the dangers of climate climate change.

Here in England our leading climate scientists Proff Grubb at University College London and Prof Myers at Oxford have published that they now accept as Dr Curry has been saying for a long time that the ipcc and other mainstream academic climate models were not actually very good and were definitely projecting too hot predictions for global temperature increases.

Nowadays, academics are at the periphery of the climate - change debate, whereas the folks who are leading the climate - change debate — folks like James Francis, Wendell Berry, and even Pope Francis — are not themselves academics!

On September 1, 2015, Jagadish Shukla, president of the tax - exempt Institute of Global Environment and Society (IGES), who is also a climate professor at George Mason University, led a group of 20 academics calling for RICO action against all climate skeptics, their organizations and fossil fuel companies.

The 32 hand - picked signatories comprise a virtual «who's who» of leading climate economists and other «wise men» (and women) including four Nobel laureates, three former U.S. cabinet secretaries, and prominent academics from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Chicago.

The editor - in - chief of a climate science journal has resigned in response to an academic controversy triggered by his publication of a paper co-authored by a leading climate sceptic.

We are beginning this work by bringing our working group into conversation with some of the chief architects of prior SRM governance - focused processes, along with some of the leading academics working on climate engineering science, ethics, policy, and law.

A leading climate scientist has resigned from the advisory board of a think - tank after being subjected to what he described as «McCarthy» - style pressure from fellow academics...

«THE scientific consensus that mankind has caused climate change was rocked yesterday as a leading academic called it a «load of hot air underpinned by fraud».

Both TIME mag and NYT are poised to report news of new literary and movie genre dubbed «cli fi» — coined by yours truly from my earlier «polar cities» work, one things leads to another — and the NYT story will be about «climate science education» issues and «climate change education» issues in higher education in USA and overseas...... so it's a story that interview academics and professors of science education etc...... and TIME mag will be about new NOAH movie by Darren A set 5000 years ago and TIME is calling it a «cli fi movie» on its cover March 24 issue, get ready.

Katharine Hayhoe, a lead author of the report and director of Texas Tech University's Climate Science Center, said the motivation of its 50 - plus authors — a mix of government and academic researchers — was to convey to the public and government officials the scope of a building crisis.