Sentences with phrase «on global change»
Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.
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It focused on global changes and future scenarios highlighting political, social, technological, and environmental drivers for change and their effect on tourism flows and investment.
A Report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research [Nancy Beller - Simms, Helen Ingram, David Feldman, Nathan Mantua, Katharine L. Jacobs, and Anne M. Waple (eds.)-RSB-.
Recently the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research issued a report with projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories.
The German Advisory Council on Global Change [15] argued for a cumulative limit between 2010 and 2050, while Matthews et al. [12] argued that warming by a given date is proportional to cumulative emissions to that date.
National Research Council, Board on Global Change (1994).
«Using coal to make natural gas may be good for China's energy security, but it's an environmental disaster in the making,» said Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Environmental Sciences and director of the Duke Center on Global Change.
Lindner, B. L., G. D. Clow, C. P. McKay, and R. A. Wharton, Global Change Implications for Antarctic Lakes, in Fourth Symposium on Global Change Studies, pp. 276 - 279, American Meteorological Society, Boston, Mass., 1993b.
Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium on Global Change Studies, AMS Annual Meeting, p. 284 - 291.
National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Global Change Research (2001).
The 2012 map was compiled from observations by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR - 2) sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st — Water («Shizuku») satellite, which is operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using data from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 AMSR - 2 sensor on the Global Change Observation Mission 1st - Water (GCOM - W1) satellite.
«the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) established a precise link between climate records from Greenland and Antarctica using data on global changes in methane concentrations derived from trapped air bubbles in the ice.»
«A frequent speaker and moderator, Jenn excels leading discussions on global change.
Byrne, a member of the Berkeley Initiative on Global Change Biology (BiGCB) and curator of fossil pollen in the Museum of Paleontology, has studied sediment cores from many lakes in Mexico and California, and is particularly interested in possible links between climate change and human activities.
we had a brief conversation on global change and he said he didn't believe it was all human - induced.
Yet she has already filled numerous IPCC roles, is a senior lecturer at an institution of higher learning, is chairperson of her school's Centre on Global Change and Health, and is a member of the steering committee of a health and climate change project funded by the United Nations.
Last year, the German Government's Advisory Council on Global Change released a report titled Climate Change as a Security Risk which identifies six threats to international stability and security from global warming.
«Speaking as a natural scientist,» he said, «I think 90 % of research [on global change] will have to be done by the social scientists.»
This report reviews a draft update to the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2012 Strategic Plan, finding that overall the Program is moving forward well and that the draft Update identifies a number of critical research questions and strategies to address needs for science - based information on global change.
In addition, theCommittee on Global Change Research of the National Research Council, the operating arm of the NAS and the NAE, will issue a major report later this spring on the research issues that can help to reduce the scientific uncertainties associated with global change phenomena, including climate change.»
Thomas Karl, LHD — Director of the National Centers for Environmental Information and the National Climatic Data Center (1998 — 2016); Chair of the White House Subcommittee on Global Change Research (2010 - 2016).
In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change.
«At a minimum, Chinese policymakers should delay implementing their synthetic natural gas plan to avoid a potentially costly and environmentally damaging outcome,» said Chi - Jen Yang, a research scientist at Duke's Center on Global Change.
Proceedings of a Joint Symposium, edited by National Research Council, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee on Global Change, pp. 98 - 102.
We reported on Friday, October 20th, that the charter of the interagency Subcommittee on Global Change Research (SGCR) was set to expire the next day on Saturday, October 21, 2017.
EPA would no longer contribute to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a multiagency task force that coordinates federal research on global change.
In its Special Report «The Future Oceans — Warming up, Rising High, Turning Sour», the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU, Berlin 2006) recommends a guard rail for future ocean pH decrease of 0.2 units as a margin of safety according to the precautionary principle.
Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
Schellnhuber, Hans Joachim Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is Professor for Theoretical Physics and Director of the Potsdam - Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany, Chair of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) and a longstanding member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Rahmstorf, Stefan Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans and department head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, a Lead Author of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a member of the German government's Advisory Council on Global Change.
It includes 11 themes, presented by the members of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
This is a body of experts appointed by the German government and advising it on global change issues.
In Trends: A Compendium of Data on Global Change.
A Report by the Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Washington, DC.