Sentences with phrase «on local ecologies»

The exhibition features contemporary artworks that address various systems perpetuating global warming and those systems» impact on local ecologies.

Examining the effect of greenhouse gases on local ecology and global climate keeps Katey Walter, 32, chasing the methane that bubbles up from seeps in Arctic lakes.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, basing their position on developments in molecular, organismic, and population ecology, Cobb and Birch characterize life as an increasingly complex special form of the organization of molecules and atoms that also involves a temporary and local decrease in entropy; there is no absolute, dualistic distinction between the living and non-living, animate and inanimate.

Projects would be ranked on a scale of one to five according to their likely effects on biodiversity, ecology, hydrology and erosion as well as on broader issues regarding regional planning, cultural heritage and effect on local inhabitants.

«Our research shows that focusing surveillance on viruses in bats, rodents and non-human primates (a «SMART surveillance approach), and understanding what's disrupting these species» ecology is the best strategy to predict and prevent local outbreaks and pandemic disease,» Daszak continued.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

Several symposia have a local focus, including sessions on ecology and education in San Diego's Mission Bay Park and the causes and effects of aerosol particles in San Diego's atmosphere.

Their loss could have far - reaching consequences for the diversity and ecology of arid lands and for local communities dependent on wild - harvested fruit and stems.»

Tschinkel first encountered fairy circles in 2005 on a vacation to the NamibRand Nature Reserve, a private nature park dedicated to conserving the local ecology and wildlife in southwestern Namibia, where his local guide introduced him to the strange land forms.

The students presented their research on the ecologies of their local areas over LifeSize collaboration technology.

It will have little or no effect on more distant organizations, which belong to other local ecologies.

[FN46] A report on the ecology and management of the Florida scrub - jay warns that «a population of domestic cats supported by human food offerings could eliminate a small, local population of Florida scrub - jays.»

All dive personnel are experts in the marine ecology of Thailand and are on a daily mission to show divers the local attractions and introduce you to the best diving in Thailand and Burma.

The trip includes 2 hours on the water paddling around as you learn about marine ecology and local history.

Ballroom Marfa is collaborating with local, regional, and national research organizations on a slate of supplementary programs that respond to the exhibition and connect participants to the singular ecology of the Trans - Pecos.

Filling the entire booth, Greenfort's work looks at the degradation of the environment through the charismatic lens of the periphylla jellyfish, a species that occasionally appears en masse on the Norwegian coast with disastrous effects upon the local fishing industry and ecology generally.

With an emphasis on the local arts ecology, the Gallery highlights relationships and conversations that deepen artists» processes and commitments.

Here's a mitigative strategy: since anti-RE zealots love to slag solar farms as allegedly «devastating» to local ecologies due to land clearance, let's put solar farms on lands already «so battered and bruised by pollution as to be useless» for most purposes:

There's more on ecology in the age of man in a recent Washington Post article by Joel Achenbach and a 2010 piece from Ronald Bailey in Reason explaining how «local biodiversity is increasing because of man, not despite him.»

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.

In an article on Huffington Post, Gleick writes of three types of peak water: renewable, where water flows are constrained over time; nonrenewable, such as groundwater sources, where we pull more than can be naturally replenished; and ecological, which is the point beyond which the cost to the local ecology of using the water is higher than the value of using it for human consumption.

On - board film screenings, larger outdoor film events, ecology lectures and tours, link ups with a local museum and screenings on architectural backdrops along the canal route are all part of the fun planned for this summeOn - board film screenings, larger outdoor film events, ecology lectures and tours, link ups with a local museum and screenings on architectural backdrops along the canal route are all part of the fun planned for this summeon architectural backdrops along the canal route are all part of the fun planned for this summer.

Well - versed in educating trail users on backcountry techniques and local ecology systems.