Sentences with phrase «on atmospheric science»

By the way I, for one, am very interested in your expert views on atmospheric science: I'm aways keen to learn from people who know far more than me on this fascinating subject.

On atmospheric science issues, its the sceptics who look far worse.

Marshalling data spanning centuries and continents, the book affirms the headlines with cutting - edge research and visual records, including contributions from experts on atmospheric science, oceanography, paleoclimatology, technology, politics, and the polar regions.

Not exact matches

Trained to do chemistry and atmospheric sciences research, Knighton weathered the 1999 recession by branching out from his lab to work part - time on a MSU program called «BOREALIS,» funded by NASA to promote science education.

On Sunday, February 18 at 5:15 p.m., atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, will discuss «When Facts Are Not Enough.»

When Douglas MacMartin of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena approached the National Science Foundation for support on a modeling effort on [albedo modification], officials told him the work was too theoretical for the engineering division and too applied for the atmospheric science pScience Foundation for support on a modeling effort on [albedo modification], officials told him the work was too theoretical for the engineering division and too applied for the atmospheric science pscience program.

Aaron Kennedy, an assistant atmospheric sciences professor, recently encountered an atmosphere unlike anything he normally finds in his field work on the prevalence of extreme weather patterns around the world: the halls of Congress.

Graduate students, faculty and professionals in the field of earth and atmospheric sciences and their applications form a cohort that tackles hands - on exercises, hears from dozens of prominent experts and forges strong professional networking connections.

These findings illustrate one way geoengineering could be «potentially hazardous,» said Jim Haywood, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Exeter and a lead author on the study.

Jonathan Foley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, likes to think that he's on a hot streak.

The event commemorates the 5 November 1965 President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report to President Lyndon B. Johnson, which warned that the accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels would «almost certainly cause significant changes» to the environment.

But Giacconi and his team at American Science and Engineering in Cambridge, Massachusetts, already had a contract with the Air Force to monitor atmospheric nuclear tests, and he knew the Air Force was hoping to get in on President Kennedy's lunar program.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.

The former head of geosciences at the National Science Foundation, she says the 1 - gigaton - a-year figure for atmospheric CO2 was based on paleoclimate records.

«We expect the outcome of this study to support scientifically sound national policy decisions on bioenergy crops development especially with regards to cellulosic grasses,» wrote Atul Jain, professor of atmospheric sciences at U of I, regarding a paper published by the journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Research on earthquakes, materials and mechanics has led to shake - resistant buildings; atmospheric science helps us predict the weather and prepare for storms.

Dr. Phillip Bitzer, an assistant professor of atmospheric science, has installed a lightning sensor on the roof of UAH's National Space Science Technology science, has installed a lightning sensor on the roof of UAH's National Space Science Technology Science Technology Center.

«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.

Another video of the fireball streaking through the sky was captured by a camera on the roof of the University of Wisconsin - Madison's atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences building.

«Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,» said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted similar research on the global dimming effects of aerosols.

But our paper is unique, in that we use these trends to infer changes in the desert expanse on the century timescale,» said Natalie Thomas, a graduate student in atmospheric and oceanic science at UMD and lead author of the research paper.

Atmospheric science professors Nate Brunsell and David Mechem in KU's Department of Geography are co-authors of a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international research group that evaluated the effects of large wind farms on atmospheric flow and its implications for how much renewable energy the turbines can generate.

Meredith Hastings, an atmospheric chemist at Brown University and co-principal investigator on a $ 1.1 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at curbing sexual harassment in the geosciences, says she is «excited that [Boston] University is stepping forward and taking some type of action — that they were able to come to the conclusion that he has harassed her.»

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

«This would be electrostatic charging on steroids,» says co-author Joe Dufek, a professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Georgia Tech.

Doherty previously worked with co-author Stephen Warren, a UW emeritus professor of atmospheric sciences, on a 2006 - 2010 survey he led of snow in the Arctic.

-- The Under Secretary shall submit to Congress a biennial report on the activities conducted under this subsection, including the number of participants and the new curricula developed in atmospheric and climate sciences.

The Institute's collaboration brings together researchers from fields as far apart as astrophysics, engineering, earth and atmospheric science, geology and biology to tackle questions as diverse as those about the astronomical context of the emergence of life on Earth.

Many of the tough, but also very exciting questions go beyond astrophysics and connect to planetary sciences, geophysics, geochemistry, and atmospheric sciences: fortunately, we could draw on multi-disciplinary expertise from the NASA NExSS group to explore these questions.

The models aimed to simulate how the planet's climate system would react to rising CO2 levels, relying on a combination of mathematics, physics, and atmospheric science.

How can the atmospheric sciences community facilitate access to ozone metrics necessary for quantifying the impact of tropospheric ozone on human health, crop and ecosystem productivity and climate?

Sally, who was nominated by Dr. Beat Schmid, Associate Director, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, was honored for her exceptional contribution in the field of atmospheric science, particularly in her efforts to improve understanding of the radiative effect of clouds and aerosols on the Earth's atmosphere and their representation in climate models.

«People had considered whether you could get a subsurface layer of water somewhere on Pluto» states New Horizons co-investigator Richard Binzel, professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at MIT.

This is an excellent annual book of short stories by prominent scientists and journalist on cutting edge science in the last year, this issue has a great story on the life and research of Jennifer Francis, and her atmospheric jet - stream weirding papers.

It is also collaborating with the University of Hawaii on studies of volcano, ocean, and atmospheric sciences, and with the University of Florence to observe active volcanoes.

Meteorology is primarily concerned with the concepts of atmospheric sciences which is a combination of the subjects of atmospheric chemistry and atmospheric physics with an equal focus on the aspects of weather forecasting.

He has attended residencies at Skowhegan, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, the Kavli Center for Theoretical Physics and the National Center for atmospheric Research, and recently finished a three - year stint at the National Science Foundation in D.C. Aaron has curated several shows for MASS, including Wally, Methods of Entanglement, Ping Pong, Systems of Growth and Decay, and 20 MB — several of which touched on issues of technology and sScience Foundation in D.C. Aaron has curated several shows for MASS, including Wally, Methods of Entanglement, Ping Pong, Systems of Growth and Decay, and 20 MB — several of which touched on issues of technology and sciencescience.

Depends on the time period and the timescale, and it's rather standard reading material in paleoclimate or atmospheric science texts.

Now, if there's a single take - away from this summary, it would be that the science on the relationship between fossil fuel combustion, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, and global warming and climate change was really settled by 1979.

And come to conclude that we really ought to listen to, and learn from, all the things that professionals of the natural sciences are telling the world about the negative atmospheric effects of our insistence on burning fossil fuels.

I've received a «Your Dot» contribution on gas leaks and global warming from Louis A. Derry, an associate professor in the earth and atmospheric sciences department at Cornell University.

(In a related development, Lawrence Cathles, an earth and atmospheric sciences professor at Cornell University, sent me a fresh rebuttal to the Op - Ed article on the contribution of natural gas leaks to global warming by his colleague, Anthony Ingraffea (earlier critiques are here).

The new evidence linking past tropical ocean temperatures to levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases is published in this week's Science Express, the on - line publication of the journal Science.

Here's Shepherd, who's the director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia (and wrote a great Forbes post on why the media were late to this emergency):

But the newly obtained documents show that Dr. Carlin's highly skeptical views on global warming, which have been known for more than a decade within the small unit where he works, have been repeatedly challenged by scientists inside and outside the E.P.A.; that he holds a doctorate in economics, not in atmospheric science or climatology; that he has never been assigned to work on climate change; and that his comments on the endangerment finding were a product of rushed and at times shoddy scholarship, as he acknowledged Thursday in an interview.

One group had to defend Susan Solomon, the much lauded atmospheric scientist who, while a co-leader of the 2007 science assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, staunchly refused to provide her personal view of the implications of global warming research despite the prodding of reporters.

But, surely the fact that there is still life on earth despite previous huge changes in our atmospheric composition suggests that the Venus effect is a bad science fiction scenario rather than a serious possibility.

For more on Alaska's variable, but warming climate, scan «Climate of Alaska: Past, Present and Future,» a recent presentation by Uma S. Bhatt, an associate professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

For specific applications of non-centered PCA to climate data, consider this presentation provided by statistical climatologist Ian Jolliffe who specializes in applications of PCA in the atmospheric sciences, having written a widely used text book on PCA.