Sentences with phrase «leading scientists marked»

A group of leading scientists marked the launch by submitting their own favourite jokes, but my advice to the participants would be: Don't give up the day job.

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Led by Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium, the team of citizen scientists explored several cays on Andros Island in search of adult and juvenile iguanas for the aquarium's mark - recapture studies.

Aaron Baughman - Senior Technical Staff Member and Lead Data Scientist, IBM Sports and Entertainment Division Bertrand Cambou - Professor of Practice, Northern Arizona University Eric Fossum - Professor at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth and Director of the School's PhD Innovation Program Rick Hamilton - Client Innovation Leader, IBM Watson IoT Division Ayanna Howard - Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair in Bioengineering in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Zyrobotics Benjamin Hsiao - Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, Stony Brook University Anthony Mulligan - Founder and CEO, Hydronalix, Inc..

The study was led by Mark Welland, Professor of Nanotechnology and a Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge, and Dr Colin Watts, a clinician scientist and honorary consultant neurosurgeon at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Young scientists must start making a mark in their field, and many attempt to do so by joining a laboratory that is led by a famous researcher or frequently publishes in high - impact journals.

In France, in particular, postdocs and freshly recruited scientists are members of large research units led by a single director, and it is often difficult for them to make their mark as independent group leaders.

The paper's lead authors are Mark Stevens, a visiting scientist at the Koch Institute and research scientist at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, and Arif Cetin, a former MIT postdoc.

But a 2001 study led by atmospheric scientist Mark Jacobson of Stanford University in California suggested that if soot is coated with other pollutants, such as sulfuric acid, its effect could be drastically greater.

Galen Barbose, a research scientist with LBNL's Electricity Markets and Policy Group and the report's lead author, said in a statement that the findings mark the fifth consecutive year of significant price reductions for distributed PV systems in the United States.

Genentech scientists led by Mark Dennis designed an antibody with two arms — one that binds to BACE1 and inhibits its activity and one that binds to the transferrin receptor and tricks endothelial cells into transporting the antibody across the blood - brain barrier.

Recently Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)- led materials scientists assembled networks of highly ordered synthetic protein - like polymers (peptoids) on a flat surface, marking a major breakthrough in biomimetic coatings.

At the Janelia Research Campus, postdoctoral research scientist Mark Cembrowski, who is part of Group Leader Nelson Spruston's lab, has been leading an effort to parse the cellular, molecular, and behavioral components of this process, called spatial recognition.

And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG emissions — business as usual) of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a greater / lesser / same chance of this?

To mark Women's History Month, Southern Research is remembering some of the female scientists who helped the Birmingham - based organization make discoveries that led to safer space flight, effective cancer treatments and many other advances over its 75 years.

That gang is led by Max (Mark Strong), a high - ranking police official, and includes history professor Iorgu (Christian McKay), journalist Razvan (Joe Armstrong), and scientist Dumi (Tim Plester).

Audiences follow a team of scientists lead by Dr Frank Walton (Mark Duplass) and Dr Zoe McConnell (Olivia Wilde) and a documentary film maker named Eva (Sarah Bolger) as they work on a serum, aptly named «Lazarus», that is designed and destined to keep coma patients alive.

According to Patricia Jennings and Mark Greenberg, leading scientists in the field of social - emotional learning, teachers who possess social - emotional competencies (SEC) are less likely to experience burnout because they're able to work more effectively with challenging students — one of the main causes of burnout.

New research, led by cognitive scientist Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, could shed light onto the dubious effects of advertising on the human psyche.

All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

And finally, what about Mark's questions (# 3) and other factors not discussed here — do all these effects re Arctic ice lead scientists to believe there is a greater and / or earlier chance (assuming we continue increasing our GHG emissions — business as usual) of melting hydrates and permafrost releasing vast stores of methane into the atmosphere than scientists believed before the study, or is the assessment of this about the same, or scientists are not sure if this study indicates a greater / lesser / same chance of this?

These are particularly problematic in the context of climate change, where speaking up, from whatever perspective and position, can lead to being shouted down, but where speaking up is increasingly demanded of scientists in particular by people in high office, such as the UK's Chief Scientific Advisor Sir Mark Walport.

«This marks the fact that humans burning fossil fuels have caused global carbon dioxide concentrations to rise more than 120ppm since pre-industrial times,» Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA's greenhouse gas network, said in an interview to The Guardian Wednesday.

Today Anthony Watts is promoting Mark Steyn's last ditch attempt to discredit one of the world's leading climate scientists.

Why forecasts and expectations fell so wide of the mark has led to a fair amount of soul searching among scientists, says McPhaden.

However, the lead author of the IPCC chapter, Indian glaciologist Murari Lal, told New Scientist he «outright rejected» the notion that the IPCC was off the mark on Himalayan glaciers.

And over at the online outlet Mashable (11 April 2018: «Climate scientists fight false polar bear narrative pushed by bloggers»), reporter Mark Kaufman quoted Jeff Harvey, lead author of the BioScience paper on the issue, although Harvey is hardly an authority:

But we show that it is the glaciers and ice caps, not the two large ice sheets, that will be the big players in the sea rise for at least the next few generations,» said Mark Meier, the study's lead scientist.

«Unfortunately, we found that great swathes of the world's coastal waters are unprotected, meaning coastal livelihoods, incomes and food supplies are all at risk as fish stocks fall and coastlines erode,» says Mark Spalding, a senior marine scientist at The Nature Conservancy and lead author of the study.

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The man that Brin put his money behind — Dutch scientist Mark Post, who produced the burger in his laboratory at the University of Maastricht — is now leading the charge.