Sentences with phrase «of ecological sciences»

Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.

ESM 260 - Applied Marine Ecology [4 units] Lenihan The application of ecological science to environmental problem - solving in marine ecosystems.

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«Sustainability» is a catch - all phrase that refers to the science, or practice, of acting so as not to harm the environment, protecting (rather than depleting) natural resources and supporting long - term ecological balance.

Such identification is the theme of a famously influential essay by Lynn White, Jr. in the March 1967 issue of Science magazine entitled «The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,» an essay which prompted a reply by Thomas Derr in the January 1975 issue of Worldview magazine — which Richard Neuhaus, then a political liberal, edited even before he edited This World, the immediate predecessor of First Things — entitled «Religion's Responsibility for the Ecological Crisis: An Argument Run Amok.»

The development of a new philosophy of science which radically questions the earlier mechanical - materialistic world - view within which classical modern science worked and also the search for a new philosophy of technological development and struggle for social justice which takes seriously the concern for ecological justice, are very much part of the contemporary situation.

A very helpful introduction is Birch, L. Charles, Nature and God (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1965); also by the same author, «A Biological Basis for Human Purpose,» Zygon, 8,1973, pp. 244 - 260); «Nature, Humanity and God in Ecological Perspective,» in Shinn, Roger L., ed., Faith and Science in an Unjust World: Report of the World Council of Churches Conference on Faith, Science and the Future, Vol.

In The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community, one of the most creative encounters between science and the relational vision, John B. Cobb, Jr., a process theologian, and Charles Birch, an Australian biologist and quite a lay theologian of the process persuasion in his own right, develop an ecological, relational view of reality and the sciences.

As contrasted with the modern worldview which is sustained more by habit than conviction and which has promoted ecological despoliation, militarism, anti-feminism and disciplinary fragmentation, the postmodern worldview is postmechanistic and ecological in its view of nature, postreductionist in its view of science, postanthropocentric in its view of ethics and economics, postdiscipline in relation to knowledge and postpatriarchal and postsexist in relation to society.

However, the traditional Western - Christian paradigm of nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof nature is being challenged by new ecological models and theoretical explanations of the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof the interconnectedness of humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof humanity with nature developing within the natural sciences.2 Recent Christian theological discussion, most notably process theology, also focuses on these same scientific models in recognition of the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof the inadequacies of traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof traditional Christian and secular views of nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof nature.3 Of course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieOf course, there are a number of Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof Western versions of this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof this emerging ecological paradigm; no two of them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categorieof them are exactly alike in their technical details or explanatory categories.

In reading The Liberation of Life by Charles Birch and John B. Cobb, Jr., I was impressed by the precision of concept of their ecological model and its adequacy to be a guide for science, ethics, and philosophy.

The author's thesis is this: dialogical encounter with Buddhist tradition — in this case illustrated by the esoteric teachings of Kukai — and Western ecological models of reality emerging in the natural sciences and Christian process theology, may energize an already evolving global vision.

In this ecological concept of creativity there is an inside story to evolution in addition to the outside story on which science concentrates its attention.

Jim Ball, «The Use of Ecology in the Evangelical Protestant Response to the Ecological Crisis,» Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith 50, no. 1 (1998).

(1991) Ecological Economics: The science and managment of Sustainability New York: Columbia University Press.

The Organic Center Bringing the Science Behind Organic Eco-Farm Association Facilitating Continued Development of Ecological and Just Foods Rodale Institute Improving Health and Wellbeing Through Organic Leadership Sustainable Trade Association Building the Capacity of Sustainable Food Trade

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iEcological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in CScience Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Cscience - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning iecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

«Gardens can improve the ecological complexity of the schoolyard in ways that promote effective experiential learning in many subject areas, particularly the areas of science, environmental education, and food education.»

RAY BROOK — Review of science including an extensive ecological inventory of the state's Boreas Ponds Tract lasted over 4.5 hours through two days of Adirondack Park Agency meetings last week.

This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.

Kenney and several other fellows, Jeff Dukes, Jessica Hellmann and Karen Lips, also organized activities at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting in August 2017: an «Ignite» session about public engagement and a workshop based on the AAAS Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology's Communicating Science workshops.

FSU Professor of Biological Science Nora Underwood, a co-author of the study, said this research will be vital in broadening scientists» approach to the study of major ecological disturbances.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

Scott McWilliams, URI professor of natural resources science, says that spare capacity — the extent to which animals can modify their physiology to deal with ecological changes — varies from species to species, with some having great capacity to change while others do not.

«Evolving the forms of play in early childhood toward realistic ecological play will be an important innovation in early childhood science education,» said Jennifer Woodring, co-author of the study and project coordinator at Northwestern.

He and his colleague Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.

He and Spencer Lucas at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque agree there was ecological upheaval.

A new network of observatories aims to take ecological science to the continental scale in the next 30 years.

Duffy's work has been recognized by a National Science Foundation CAREER award, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America, and by the Yentsch - Schindler Early Career Award from the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO).

From small transmitters used to study migration routes of butterflies to cameras in nest boxes recording breeding activities of great tits, state - of - the - art and expensive technical equipment is essential for today's ecological science.

«During my fellowship at the EPA in the Office of Research and Development, I had a great experience conducting policy relevant ecological research, but I found the most enjoyment in communicating about the science, meeting people from all over the world, and building collaborations.

► «Next week, the Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week'Ecological Society of America (ESA), the world's largest ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week'ecological society, celebrates its centennial in Baltimore, an opportunity to reflect on the field's past and future,» wrote ESA president David W. Inouye in an editorial in this week's Science.

Others, like me, are convinced that no theoretical or empirical evidence exists for such a claim, and that a widespread belief in the existence of such a point of no return threatens to push ecological science and its application in the wrong direction.

Understanding how individuals resolve conflicts over contributions to, or exploitation of, common resources remains a major challenge in ecological research as well as in social sciences.

The findings of the study conducted by a working group at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and funded by the National Science Foundation were published today in the Proceedings B, a journal of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences.

Foley has won numerous awards and honors, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (awarded by President Bill Clinton); the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award; the J.S. McDonnell Foundation's 21st Century Science Award; an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship; and the Sustainability Science Award from the Ecological Society of America.

Amy Waltz, program director of science delivery for the Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University, said linking these clumps could possibly re-create something that didn't exist historically.

Part of the answer can be found in a new study appearing this week in Science that shows how the sudden emergence of just one or two new genes can profoundly transform organisms» appearance, behavior and ecological niche.

Parchman, who specializes in evolutionary and ecological genetics in in the University's College of Science, is the lead author on a recently published scientific paper in the journal Molecular Ecology detailing the study, a culmination of several years of work with his colleagues Alex Buerkle and Craig Benkman of the University of Wyoming, and Victor Soria - Carrasco of University of Sheffield, UK.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) suffered the first political fallout yesterday from its oversight of the troubled National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) under construction.

To tackle complex problems like improving the compatibility of cattle and fish, the social and ecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coecological systems of mountains and their river basins must be approached holistically, say ecologists working with the Mountain Social Ecological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain coEcological Observatory Network (MntSEON), a National Science Foundation funded initiative designed to build knowledge networks and foster resiliency in vulnerable mountain communities.

So you tend to lose the sedges and the mosses and the lichens,» explained study co-author Ed Rastetter, a senior scientist at the MBL Ecosystems Center and principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, where part of the research was conducted.

Hamilton, an arachnologist and graduate student at Auburn University's Department of Biological Sciences, told Live Science that «not much behavioral or ecological work has been done to understand these species and the settings they live in,» he said.

So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore the ecological consequences of stimulant pollution in urban streams.

The study, «Ecological genomics meets community - level modeling of biodiversity: mapping the genomic landscape of current and future environmental adaptation,» was published by Matthew Fitzpatrick of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Steven Keller of the University of Vermont.

Matthew Godfrey, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Brendan Godley, Center for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Nicholas Mrosovsky, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Jeffrey Seminoff, Marine Turtle Research Program, US National Marine Fisheries Service, Kartik Shanker, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, and Grahame Webb, Wildlife Management International, Sanderson, Northern Territories

The future of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis is in question as it faces the end of its core funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.

One common tool is applicable to the vast array of ecological and social science interactions at the critical wildfire / urban interface: more effective land - use planning, along with the regulations that guide it.

As Whitfeld explains, «We wanted to highlight the relevance of herbarium collections for a wide variety of ecological questions, in order to highlight their importance across the biological and environmental sciences.»

«The methodologies that RTI pioneered in performing our assessments have broad relevance beyond the State of North Carolina and represent a significant advancement in the science of defining ecological flows,» Dykes said.

«This significant body of work represents a model example of science informing policy and lays the groundwork for future considerations of ecological flows within the state's long term efforts for protecting the health of its vital water resources.»