Sentences with phrase «leading environmental research»

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is one of the world's leading environmental research centres and is responsible for the UK's national scientific activities in Antarctica.

One of the UK's leading environmental research bodies, the University of Manchester's Sustainable Consumption Institute (SCI), no longer serves meat or fish meals in its catered halls on a Monday, and offers a majority of meat - free meals during the rest of the week.

One of the UK's leading environmental research bodies is working with colleagues across campus to offer a majority of meat - free meals on Mondays across catered halls, and is promoting it further with a forthcoming online recipe book written by staff and students.

On March 20 and 21, this topic — along with other student - led environmental research projects — will be presented during the WISE Science Symposium at Crissy Field Center.

I am looking for a lead environmental research and design role leveraging geospatial technologies in the insurance, agriculture, environmental or energy industries.

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Liboiron uses her position as the head of the Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research to advocate for open science hardware and lead «a small but growing movement for people who make technology and instruments open source,» something she describes as «very much against the model that runs many universities around the world.»

Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute is a leading funder of environmental, social, and corporate governance research on corporate responsibility and inResearch Center (IRRC) Institute is a leading funder of environmental, social, and corporate governance research on corporate responsibility and inresearch on corporate responsibility and investing.

SAN FRANCISCO (September 13, 2007)-- Glass Lewis & Co., LLC, a leading independent research and proxy advisory firm, today announced the launch of the ESG Watch List Service, a tool that enables Glass Lewis» proxy voting clients to track companies with environmental, social, or governance (ESG) policies and / or practices that may create operational, performance, financial, legal, accounting or reputational risks.

LLC, a leading independent proxy advisory and investment research firm, is incorporating environmental and social data from IW Financial into its Proxy Paper research service, it was announced today.

Kern McPherson joined Glass Lewis in 2009 and leads the North American research teams covering corporate governance, executive compensation and environmental & social issues at over 6,500 companies traded in the U.S. and Canada.

He leads the Organic Valley sustainability department's efforts in natural resource conservation, renewable energy production, environmental research and employee engagement.

Under this Project, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office has engaged consortium teams, lead by Australia's leading research institutions, and involving locally based land and water managers, to develop and implement detailed 5 - year monitoring and evaluation plans for selected areas within the Basin.

The Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed, and is being implemented, by a consortium monitoring team led by the University of Melbourne in partnership with the: Goulburn - Broken Catchment Management Authority; Monash University; SKM Pty Ltd; Victorian Environmental Water Holder; and the Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research and.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Unfortunately, although many families rely on baby food to feed their baby and see it as a healthy option, research from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has revealed that many baby foods on the market contain levels of lead that are unsafe for babies.

To reduce environmental impact, all products have been thoroughly researched and are all PVC - free and lead - free (a surprising fact is that many zippers have been painted using paint that contains lead).

BPA, found in products such as baby bottles and the linings of canned food and infant formula, is an environmental estrogen that can, according to a growing body of research, lead to a host of health problems.

My daughter's and my diagnosis with a Mast Cell Disorder has lead me to do some research into mast cell disorders and how they relate to these other diseases, especially since my daughter also has tree allergies, celiac disease and ADHD; I have EoE, environmental and other severe food allergies; and my son has a diagnosis of multiple life threatening food allergies, eczema, environmental allergies and asthma.

Focusing on the latest research dealing with environmental factors and non-cognitive skills (perseverance, attachment, relationships, etc.), this quick read provides insights on possible strategies and interventions which lead to greater academic and personal success.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

Efforts are being made to monitor the water quality of the Fonteyn Kill, led by Vassar College's Environmental Research Institute and the Cornell University Cooperative Extension Dutchess County Environment Program.

Speaking as the epigenetic symposium commenced Professor John Hobcraft of the University of York, the lead scientific organiser of the Symposium, said: «Research is beginning to indicate how environmental and social factors are linked to a series of epigenetic changes, sometimes across quite broad areas of the genome.

New research shows that # 700 million is paid each year to fund the UK's failing farming system, which continuously strains the environment, a leading environmental group has claimed.

Dr. Holloway is a Professor in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where she leads a research program that employs computer models and satellite data to understand links between regional air quality, energy, and climate.

Kopp is also a co-author of another study, led by Tufts University researcher Klaus Bittermann and published today in Environmental Research Letters, assessing the sea - level rise benefits of achieving the Paris Agreement's more ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) temperature target rather than its headline 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) target.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

In Germany, a chance encounter with someone who spoke a shared language led to displaced Syrian microbiologist Nedal Said finding a position in his field at Leipzig's Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.

«Our findings suggest that teens and young adults who seek indoor tanning may be especially vulnerable to developing BCC, the most common form of skin cancer, at a young age,» said lead author Professor Margaret Karagas, co-director of the Cancer Epidemiology and Chemopreventon Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center at Dartmouth.

A chain of personal connections led him to a professor at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig who was looking for a microbiologist for his department.

However, the research, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, has led to concerns from the authors that the streams, and their fish populations, are not sufficiently protected by current environmental laws.

The research paper in the leading American Chemical Society journal, Environmental Science & Technology has been named as the journal's most read paper of 2014.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Irfan Rahman, Ph.D., professor of Environmental Medicine at the UR School of Medicine and Dentistry, led the research, which adds to a growing body of scientific data that points to dangers of e-cigarettes and vaping.

«For a long time, processes like this were seen as a «black box» that can not be understood and that can only be effectively exploited with a lot of experience,» says Prof. Christoph Herwig, who leads the research group for bioprocess technology at TU Wien's Institute of Chemical, Environmental and Bioscience Engineering.

To conduct the research, lead author Jenna Jambeck, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, coordinated contributions from experts in oceanography, waste management and plastics materials science.

To put that into perspective, the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the threshold for safe air at 25 micrograms per cubic meter, and India's Central Pollution Control Board limits exposure to 60 micrograms per cubic meter, said Cusworth, a member of the Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group led by Daniel J. Jacob, the Vasco McCoy Family Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, and Loretta J. Mickley, Senior Research Fellow at SEAS.

The research is led by Regents Professor Brian Lamb in WSU's Laboratory for Atmospheric Research with assistance from Conestoga - Rovers and Associates, an engineering and environmental consultiresearch is led by Regents Professor Brian Lamb in WSU's Laboratory for Atmospheric Research with assistance from Conestoga - Rovers and Associates, an engineering and environmental consultiResearch with assistance from Conestoga - Rovers and Associates, an engineering and environmental consulting firm.

Professor Frank Chambers, Head of the University of Gloucestershire's Centre for Environmental Change and Quaternary Research, who led the writing of the Fast - Track Research Report, said: «Both sceptics and adherents of Global Warming might draw succour from this work.

The study, which was led by Akua Asa - Awuku, a researcher at the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE - CERT) at UC Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering, was published online recently (March 2) in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainresearch associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in GainResearch at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in GainResearch Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

For their study, published Nov. 8, 2016, in Environmental Research Letters, the researchers first analyzed vegetation cover data for the months leading up to the storm to see if the Syrian conflict had really changed the land cover that much.

The study began with a collaboration among the two lead authors — Harrison Brand, PhD, a research fellow in Talkowski's lab, who sequenced and analyzed the genomes of patients with arhinia, and Natalie Shaw, MD, then with the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and now at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, who was investigating the lack of reproductive development in a few patients with arhinia.

«What we see are waves or rings,» said lead investigator Cornelius Fischer, who conducted this research at MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen in the group of Prof. Andreas Lüttge.

A research team led by SDSU environmental health scientist and lead author Neil Klepeis, behavioral health researcher and principal investigator Melbourne Hovell, and co-investigator Suzanne Hughes recruited into the study nearly 300 families living in San Diego with at least one child aged 14 and younger and one smoker.

Lead author Anthony Carpi, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Dean of Research at John Jay College, City University of New York, said, «We were delighted to see the impact that undergraduate research experiences have on our students» careeResearch at John Jay College, City University of New York, said, «We were delighted to see the impact that undergraduate research experiences have on our students» careeresearch experiences have on our students» career plans.

Emily's background is in ecology and environmental policy, and prior to joining AAAS, she led engagement and outreach efforts at the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

A Danish - led study, published today in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined how microbes from the ice sheet have the potential to resist and degrade globally - emitted contaminants such as mercury, lead, PAH and PCB.