Sentences with phrase «long scientific effort»

«The Obama administration is planning a decade - long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.»

Not exact matches

In a field that's long struggled to prove scientific doubters wrong (and attracted more than a few charlatans selling snake oil), Laberge's efforts have been enough to attract serious investors like Cenovus Energy and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

As both an ecologist and long - time freelance science writer, I know how difficult it can be to interpret and summarize scientific analyses for public use, and the Rainforest Alliance impacts report is a fine effort.

This led to a years - long effort that Wyndham spearheaded in which AAAS established 17 multidisciplinary organizations seeking to outline ways scientific organizations, across disciplines, could consistently deliver quality education in the field of science, technology, engineering and medicine and boost the diversity of those participating in the field.

Efforts to develop a long - range diversity plan at AGU have been motivated both by a desire to recruit the best minds to the enterprise and by several glaring statistics * concerning the future health of the scientific workforce:

A longer - term goal behind OpenCL is to create a common programming interface that will even let software writers create applications that run both GPUs and CPUs with few modifications, cutting the time and effort required to harness supercomputing power for scientific endeavors.

Milloy, who has long pushed for EPA to stop issuing regulations unless the underlying scientific data are made public, said the science reform effort could be done through a directive, in the same way that Pruitt reshaped EPA's science advisory panels.

At the 3 - hour - long Senate hearing — which, in an unusual move, was jointly held by an appropriations subcommittee and the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions — topics ranged from financing the effort to the need for a greater sense of urgency, public health and scientific issues, and personal experiences.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

Attempts to link culture with climate and ecology have an old history (Herodotus did it long before Montesquieu), but with the rise of anthropology as a discipline, the effort became scientific.

Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.

What shapes the biodiversity and biogeochemical processes of these tiny organisms provides a scientific basis for habitat mapping, developing conservation strategies, guiding long - term monitoring efforts and predicting the possible responses of these organisms to future environmental changes in Antarctica.

Many of the centres operate collaborative multi-disciplinary ventures focusing on long - term challenges relevant to the nation's efforts to build its scientific capacity and enhance economic competitiveness.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

That's the kind of statistical gibberish that McIntyre is schooled in — and it can be used to cast doubt on any scientific issue whatsoever, as long as someone is willing to pay for the effort.

White has long been involved with efforts to study and protect dolphins, as well, and is on the scientific advisory board of the Wild Dolphin Project, a long - term research effort off the Bahamas that was written up (and videotaped) for The Times in 2011 by my friend Erik Olsen.

The report on impacts of climate change — one of three main sections of each of the panel's periodic assessments — has long been seen by some climate scientists, including some participants in the I.P.C.C. process, as a relatively weak element in the overall effort, in part because it has less scientific literature to draw on.

The fund will support efforts potentially including, but not limited to, the protection and restoration of vital wetlands and estuaries, the creation and enhancement of wildlife habitat, invasive species migration, and the conducting of scientific studies to ensure the long - term viability of the area's natural resources.

The authors found that more scientific effort and investigation was necessary before GE foods could be considered unlikely to cause long - term human health problems,» he wrote.

An ad hoc Task Force was convened in late 2009 to lead community activities to establish a long - term vision and provide the scientific framework of a modern effort for understanding the arctic system, with input and review from the broader community.

Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American President Jim Press, whose company has pushed fuel - efficient hybrid vehicles, noted that Toyota «has long been mindful of and accepts the broad scientific consensus that climate change is occurring and will continue unless there are significant and coordinated global efforts to slow the growth of man - made greenhouse gas emissions.»