Sentences with phrase «of conservation scientist»

VaquitaCPR (Conservation, Protection and Recovery) is an emergency action plan of the Mexican government with the input of an expert group of conservation scientists and marine mammal veterinarians.

Not exact matches

Future initiatives for conservation mainly depend on the proper co-ordination of scientists, governments, conservation groups and the media, especially when corruption is close by.

The company actively promotes the responsible stewardship of global fisheries resources and is a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)-- a global partnership of scientists, tuna processors and WWF, the global conservation organization.

Founded in 1857 to give scientists and nature aficionados a place to study and share the specimens they collected, the Chicago Academy of Sciences developed a national and international reputation for its leadership in conservation, its collection and citizen science.

Originally founded so that scientists and nature aficionados alike could study and share the specimens they collected, we continue to build on our legacy of natural history education at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum through immersive exhibits, critical conservation and research initiatives, public engagement and education programming.

«Steve has worked extensively with a wide variety of species and has a well - established reputation as a conservation scientist.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

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.

«We are elated to have another accomplished and passionate scientist join Shedd's conservation research team to help expand our commitment to understanding and protecting marine ecosystems,» said Dr. Chuck Knapp, vice president of conservation research at Shedd Aquarium.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

Alan Jarrett, Chairman of BASC said: «I welcome the RSPB and scientists» endorsement of pest control as a key action that benefits species, many of which are already of conservation concern, and which could further suffer from climate change.

«Now that the EPA has confirmed what top scientists have said all along, that fracking is safe and has no widespread impact on drinking water, we are calling on Commissioner Martens and the state Department of Environmental Conservation to rescind the temporary ban on high - volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State.»

Bezur, the Yale conservation scientist, says she was envious of such a definitive test.

For Jeremy Yoder, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, his metascience research about LGBTQA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans *, queer, or asexual) scientists» experiences was «the intersection of personal interest and serendipity,» he says.

Eight AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellows delivered rapid - fire presentations on 29 September on topics ranging from species conservation to water management as part of an exercise intended to outline the role of effective communication between scientists and policymakers.

Department of Energy programs that employ one of the federal government's largest group of scientists and engineers would face a 17.9 % decrease in programs including those that seek to advance energy production and conservation.

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Some birds are especially adept: Scientists at the College of William & Mary Center for Conservation Biology tracked a migratory shorebird, a whimbrel, as it flew through Hurricane Irene in 2011.

As of May of this year, I have been working as a research scientist at the Botanische Staatssammlung München, and I remain co-director of the Taï Monkey Project, coordinating ecological and conservation - oriented research in the Taï National Park.

On a sweaty October day in a dense, vine - laden forest near the town of Noh - Bec, Mexico, in the Yucatán Peninsula, a dozen American and Mexican conservation scientists bounce in the back of a truck headed down a narrow, rutted track of red mud.

The groups supporting the agreement include American Electric Power, Conservation International, Duke Energy, El Paso Corp., Environmental Defense Fund, Disney Corp., Marriott International, Mercy Corps, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corp., Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Woods Hole Research Center.

William Baya, Director of the Sabah Wildlife Department adds, «We need more joint conservation efforts with the oil palm and forestry sector and better collaboration of scientists and conservationists with local authorities to protect the diversity of carnivores in the remaining rainforests of Borneo.»

David Macdonald is part of a team of scientists at the University of Oxford's Wildlife Research Conservation Unit in the United Kingdom that was studying Cecil.

«The goal of the BCS was to understand better the distribution and conservation needs of Bornean cats and small carnivores and subsequently, to enable targeted conservation efforts to those carnivores which are most threatened,» said Dr. Andreas Wilting, scientist at the IZW and lead editor of this supplement.

«In fact, they are already experiencing sharp declines in population and extinction on a global scale, and they have become the focus of several research and conservation programmes in recent decades,» the scientist explains.

Despite the challenges ahead, Michael Mascia, a senior social scientist at WWF and founder of the Social Science Working Group for the Society of Conservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenConservation Biology, finds the new links between conservation and human developmenconservation and human development promising.

In science news around the world, scientists march in India to call for more research funding, a South Korean researcher who was enmeshed in a stem cell scandal a decade ago resigns from a newly created government position, Canada establishes a vast marine conservation area in the High Arctic, a highly regarded advocate for science is convicted of financial misdemeanors in Egypt, and more.

This gorgeous book, which includes the natural history and conservation status of African elephants and recent surprising discoveries of field scientists, will convince you that the elephant is one of nature's greatest and most original works.

This is the first time that the raw materials of Picasso's sculptures have been scrutinized in detail, conservation scientist Francesca Casadio of the Art Institute of Chicago said...

An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.

«Science plays a big role in deepening our understanding of these iconic masterpieces,» said Francesca Casadio, A.W. Melon senior conservation scientist at the Art Institute of Chicago, which is hosting a new exhibition, Van Gogh's Bedrooms.

«Adopting an R - SEA planning process is a way of building consensus around where, when, and in what form development is appropriate as opposed to our current processes that ask communities — social and ecological — to bear the long - term impacts of new development,» said Cheryl Chetkiewicz, Associate Conservation Scientist with WCS Canada.

«The possibility of a disease affecting these fish has been on the table long before this paper came out and the usual suspect has been fish farms,» says John Reynolds, a salmon conservation scientist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

Lubchenco is waiting on Senate confirmation for assistant secretary of observations and monitoring, assistant secretary of conservation and management, and the newly elevated position of chief scientist, which Lubchenco sought to put on par with the assistant secretary jobs.

A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.

Led by scientists from Chile's Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB), NGO Ranita de Darwin, and international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London), working alongside the University of Zurich, this new revelation highlights a need for urgent conservation action.

In their paper, the team of scientists from the National Tropical Botanical Garden and Smithsonian Institution (both USA), and the University of Göttingen, Germany, also raise concerns on the conservation status of this unique tree which is severely limited to a 1.5 km2 area of occupancy on Kaua`i.

Among the first scientists to promote gastronomy as a tool to combat invasion was Joe Roman, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont.

CANTERBURY, U.K. — The mushrooming trade of «bushmeat» in tropical countries is the most pressing issue in conservation biology today, said scientists at last week's meeting of the Society for Conservatconservation biology today, said scientists at last week's meeting of the Society for ConservationConservation Biology.

Scientists, government officials and other interested parties debated the idea last week at the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Honolulu.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

John H. Schulz, a resource scientist at the Missouri Department of Conservation, has calculated that as many as 15 million mourning doves are killed in North America each year from lead poisoning, mostly from eating spent lead shot that looks like the weed seed they depend on for food.

Conservation scientist Julia Jones of Bangor University in the United Kingdom first became interested in the issue while working on wild game management in eastern Madagascar.

To mitigate the trend and support conservation efforts, scientists at the University of Toronto (U of T) are sharing a way to predict which plants or animals may be vulnerable to the arrival of a new species.

Chief scientist Elliott Norse of the Marine Conservation Institute in Seattle says the recent findings show decision makers that «they need to find ways to make fishing less harmful environmentally.»

In this episode, Cambridge conservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldconservation scientist Andrew Balmford discusses the state of the world's birds; the US Fish and Wildlife Service's Rex Johnson talks about a new, strategic approach to conservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldconservation (both men were presenters at the recent conference «Conserving Birds in Human - Dominated Landscapes» at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City); and the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the worldConservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz describes his efforts to save the world's big cats.

Miles Roberts, deputy head of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Conservation Biology, agrees, exhorting scientists to practice pitching proposals in 3 minutes or less.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.