Sentences with phrase «of conservation science»

The Director of Conservation Science will provide science - based review and comment on development proposals regarding natural resources, ecological restoration and biodiversity.

Jim Steele draws on 25 years of research and habitat restoration in California's Sierra Nevada to provide thought provoking analyses that contrast the success of conservation science with the deceptive claims of global warming advocates.

Andrew Balmford, professor of conservation science at the University of Cambridge, and one of the report's authors, says: «Land is a source of greenhouse gases if it is used to farm fertilizer - hungry crops or methane - producing cattle, or it can be a sink for greenhouse gases — through sequestration.

And Andrew Balmford, professor of conservation science at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and colleagues propose another solution in Science journal.

Issues has provided the backstory, introducing some of the key players and their roles in this battle for the soul of conservation science.

That has to be done by art handlers, whose skills are a mixture of conservation science and DIY ingenuity.

«Many aspects of this recovery effort — from its scientific rigor to the collaborative enterprise that drove it — can serve as model [sic] to advance conservation elsewhere,» Scott Morrison, the director of Conservation Science at the Nature Conservancy, said in a press release.

In fact, in a 2013 National Geographic article, Ken Rosenberg, director of conservation science at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, says that «the top three threats to birds overall are habitat loss, habitat loss, and habitat loss.»

Dr Andy Marshall, Senior Lecturer in York's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land, set up the Schools for Forests campaign with the University's CIRCLE research team after discovering a new species of tree in East Africa.

We recruited Tom Maloney as Director of Conservation Science, who brings to this role twenty years of conservation experience as environmental advocate, natural resource planner, and ecologist.

That left 25 types of plants with wide - ranging potential as biofuels, said Doria Gordon, the director of conservation science at the University of Florida.

Conservation partnerships between protected lands and their non-protected neighbors could significantly improve a region's ability to accommodate species migration in response to shifting climates, according to a study published February 28, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by William Monahan of the U.S. National Park Service and David Theobald of Conservation Science Partners, Inc., U.S.

«The implications for the global carbon sink are profound,» said Dr Andrew Marshall from the University's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land.

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

The authors claim that most of the conservation science is missing the point when it comes to climate change.

«Plants, animals, and people all depend on forests and may all face additional challenges as temperatures increase and precipitation patterns shift,» said John Shuey, a co-author of the study and Director of Conservation Science for the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Professor of Conservation Science and Director of the Centre for Ecology & Conservation at the University of Exeter's Penryn campus and the lead author warned that as plastic pollution increases more and more turtles are likely to become entangled.

To make yourself more marketable, it helps to have a particular skill, says David Gibbons, head of conservation science at the RSPB.

And fewer deer could mean more plants go uneaten, according to Chris Darimont, a professor of conservation science at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, who was not involved in the study.

«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.

Not exact matches

Jennifer Lavers, of Australia's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in the University of Tasmania, and Alexander Bond, of the United Kingdom's Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, walked two beaches, methodically counting, collecting, and categorizing the garbage.

Church's thesis is a metaphysical generalization like the law of conservation of energy in physics and has almost comparable authority to this law in computer science.

We have these things called Law of Conservation of Matter / Energy in science.

Descartes captures this inclination well when he argues the fundamental aim of science is «the conservation of health, which is without doubt the primary good and the foundation of all other goods in this life.»

Marcia Pires, polymer science researcher, Braskem, said intelligent packaging uses specific indicators such as pH changes to demonstrate the state of conservation of its contents, emitting an external alert.

The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems such as the need for clean water, clean energy generation and conservation, and increasing agricultural productivity.

So Sea Turtle Conservation is a passion of mine and it gives me great joy to join in with Storybook Science by Trisha over at Inspiration Laboratories this year with suggestions of activities, crafts, and -LSB-...]

-LSB-...] post goes along with the Storybook Science theme of Conservation this week.

Our conservation science experts work on our wildlife sanctuaries and beyond to ensure that the nature of Massachusetts continues to thrive.

Educating and engaging the public to learn more about wildlife through citizen science is also a hallmark of conservation at Mass Audubon.

Our scout programs cover a wide range of themes including, but not limited to, ocean science, birding, water conservation, and more.

The Resource Conservation Workshop is sponsored by the North Carolina Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts in conjunction with the North Carolina Division of Soil and Water Conservation, North Carolina State University Soil Science Department, and the Soil and Water Conservation Society Hugh Hammond Bennett Chapter.

Join an exclusive group of people who are passionate about the Nature Museum's education and conservation work, and our mission to grow our region's urban connection to the world of nature and science.

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.

Here are some ways you can keep advocating to support the role of science in guiding conservation action and environmental policy.

Shedd Aquarium's conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin - Madison Center for Limnology and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve aimed at documenting long - term shifts in the timing of fish migrations into Great Lakes streams.

We rely on the generosity of donors like you to support our innovative science education and conservation research.

«This document presents science - driven predictions, based on sophisticated climate - change models, regarding how we think bird distributions in Massachusetts might change during the next 30 years,» said Jon Atwood, Mass Audubon Director of Bird Conservation and a report author

'' (The) actions taken by the State of New York... are not based on science, technology or even conservation,» Morabito wrote in his Dec. 12 lawsuit.

The New York Academy of Sciences Environmental Sciences Section and Green Science and Sustainability Program, the Sallan Foundation and the New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund will host an address by a senior member of Governor Spitzer's team about his strategic approach to the environmental, energy and climate challenges facing New York.

Our aim is to advance construction management education, underpinned by science and a wealth of experience of the development, conservation and improvement of the built environment.

Today's news conference is scheduled to include speakers from Honeywell, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse University, Onondaga County and the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which oversees the lake cleanup.

Because of your relentless effort and fierce commitment to keep fracking from polluting our water, air and harming our health, last Wednesday on December 17, 2014, at a public, livestreamed meeting of Governor Cuomo's cabinet in Albany, Governor Cuomo acknowledged the overwhelming science that speaks to the inherent dangers of fracking to public health and the environment presented by Joseph Martens, Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation, and Dr. Howard Zucker, Commissioner of the Department of Health, Governor Cuomo banned high volume horizontal fracturing in New York State.

The Constitution Pipeline Company said it will challenge the state rejection and said the denial letter from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation includes «flagrant misstatements and inaccurate allegations» and is driven by politics rather than science.

Sacha is a senior editor at Science whose areas of expertise include animal behavior, ecology, evolution, and conservation.

The research seeks to understand when and where the works were cast, said Francesca Casadio, the Art Institute of Chicago's executive director of conservation and science and co-director of NU - ACCESS.

Sacha is an associate editor at Science whose areas of expertise include animal behavior, ecology, evolution, and conservation.

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.

Chapman also explores the obligations to respect, to protect, and to fulfill in relationship to the conservation, development, and diffusion of science.

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