Sentences with phrase «on polar science»

So it's some measure of how stoked I am about reporting on polar science that I would happily sign up for such a daunting excursion to cover field research.

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«These chemicals are just about everywhere, from the blood in polar bears to eagles to humans on every continent,» said Joseph Allen, assistant professor of exposure assessment science at Harvard Chan School and the study's lead author.

There are no press releases on the website of Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, the government agency that oversees the country's polar science expeditions.

Indications are that heavy reliance on indigenous knowledge — also known as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)-- is likely to continue in northern polar science.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

Starting next week, NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne survey of polar ice, will be carrying science flights over sea ice in the Arctic, to help validate satellite readings and provide insight into the impact of the summer melt season on land and sea ice.

Drawing on odd, icy - looking landforms in earlier images, he and colleagues proposed in 2003 that in the geologic past, snow - fed glaciers and ice fields had covered much of the lower latitudes of Mars at the expense of the polar ice caps (Science, 11 April 2003, p. 234).

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin told a crowd recently that efforts to include the polar bear on the endangered species list are based on «these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science.»

Take Ray Arnaudo, a retired civil servant who has over thirty years» experience with the State Department in science policy affairs where he focused on ocean and polar policy.

And there were meetings on the Mediterranean, science fiction and European science history; TV programmes about polar ecology, science and society, the Baltic Sea, materials, AIDS, communications and the ozone layer; and workshops on plant molecular biology, development in the tropics and synchrotrons.

Science on Ice Andrew Fazekas, 21 January 2005 The Canadian polar science community is currently gearing up for International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 Science on Ice Andrew Fazekas, 21 January 2005 The Canadian polar science community is currently gearing up for International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 science community is currently gearing up for International Polar Year (IPY) 2007 - 2008.

To achieve its aims, the Foundation has initiated several high - profile projects; this includes supporting polar science through the creation and operation of the wind - and - solar - powered zero emission Princess Elisabeth Antarctica station, logistical support of scientists working in Antarctica, fellowship awards for Antarctic researchers, an annual symposium on Arctic issues, and several science and education websites and classroom activities and resources.

The U.S. SCAR Office maintains the ANtarctic Science WEb Resource (ANSWER), a list server intended to disseminate information about Antarctica, communicate opportunities, solicit input on important issues, and to promote Antarctic polar sScience WEb Resource (ANSWER), a list server intended to disseminate information about Antarctica, communicate opportunities, solicit input on important issues, and to promote Antarctic polar sciencescience.

However, until engineers could deem such a monstrosity feasible, the National Science Foundation funded the design and installation of a 140 - ft radio telescope on a polar - aligned mounting — a telescope that would be unique in its own right.

The International Polar Foundation focuses on polar regions and polar sciences as a means to communicating on climate change and to promote a more sustainable society.

SciencePoles also keep up to date with news on latest developments in Arctic and Antarctic research from both the natural and social sciences, and upcoming events and links to polar resources.

In an article published in Science on May 11, 2012, scientists working with NASA's DAWN Mission revealed that Vesta's south polar basin was created by impacts roughly a billion years apart.

From the comfort of their classrooms, students can interact live with polar educators and the British science expedition team working on ocean plastics and ocean acidification in the Arctic.

But it's hard to find anyone focused on national security, maritime and environmental safety, and polar science who isn't worried about the status quo.

Sir or Mam, if you are absolutely convinced, after seeing people who don't think polar bears are as important as the people you are elected to serve, that argue out the science, then commit the American people on a path that will basically spend their hard - earned money on a problem our chief rivals are probably simply paying lip service too, then I will support you.

She's co-authored a recent paper — «The early bear gets the goose: climate change, polar bears and lesser snow geese in western Hudson Bay» — showing that bears in that region are foraging increasingly on shore, eating grasses and particularly relishing (apparently) snow geese and their eggs [UPDATE: Ms. Gormezano described grass (and kelp) foraging in my Science Times story but that's not in the paper; her co-author properly rejected the use of the word «relished»].

The White House is sitting on EPA's proposed public welfare «endangerment» finding on greenhouse emissions, the Interior Secretary sits on a science - based listing of the polar bear as threatened with extinction, the White House censors testimony by the CDC director on health effects, the Transportation Dept. tries to bury a major study on climate change impacts on Gulf Coast transportation infrastructure, and so forth.

(I'm here by coincidence and actually focused on Arctic and Antarctic science, not cities, as emcee for «Polar - Palooza,» something of a traveling polar - science festival that celebrates research at both chilly ends of the Earth.)

In a recent e-mail conversation on polar bears and climate policy, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University, who for decades has been an important voice on climate science and policy, echoed the idea that this widening push is what matters.

The need for «sweating the details in climate discourse» came up here in 2010, after the journal Science picked a faked image of a polar bear on an ice floe to accompany a letter on the seriousness of global warming from 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

«We did not have the GPS technology on collars to document this type of swimming behavior in polar bears in prior decades,» explains Karen Oakley, of the USGS Alaska Science Center.

Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.

Kassie Siegel, the lawyer for the Center for Biological Diversity, a group based in Arizona that took the lead in the lawsuit calling on the department to list the polar bear, added, «I don't see how even this administration can write this proposal without acknowledging that the primary threat to polar bears is global warming and without acknowledging the science of global warming.»

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

• Polar Bear Junk Science — In a 2007 published «junk science» article on polar bears and Arctic climate impacts, the author acknowledged receiving research funding from ExxonMobil, American Petroleum Institute and the Charles G. Koch founScience — In a 2007 published «junk science» article on polar bears and Arctic climate impacts, the author acknowledged receiving research funding from ExxonMobil, American Petroleum Institute and the Charles G. Koch founscience» article on polar bears and Arctic climate impacts, the author acknowledged receiving research funding from ExxonMobil, American Petroleum Institute and the Charles G. Koch foundation.

Crockford has published «briefings» on conservative think tanks and has been described as a polar bear expert, but uses a «scientific uncertainty» and «public accountability of science» framework to criticize scientists» findings.

In a posting on his website entitled, «How «Science» Counts Bears or Why it Takes a Village,» Steele explains why the polar bear counts of Canada's native Inuits are more accurate and scientific than the politicized computer modeling of the IUCN's Polar Bear Specialist Group.

I heard Oreskes on NPR not long ago, and her smug certainty and disdain for those who disagree is the polar opposite of what I learned science is supposed to be all about.

In contrast, the actual science shows something quite different: though summer sea ice since 2007 has declined to levels not predicted until 2040 - 2070, there has been virtually no negative impact on polar bear health or survival, a result no one predicted back in 2005.

-- Dr. John Holdren, Chief Science Officer of the United States, commenting on the «polar vortex,» Jan. 8, 2014

Organizations like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the International Arctic Science Committee play a critical role in advancing the science related to polarScience Committee play a critical role in advancing the science related to polarscience related to polar areas.

In a remarkable bit of irony, the art chosen by editors (not by the authors of the letter) at Science to accompany the letter was a picture of a polar bear on an ice floe.

With one alleged victim of climate change after another — from pikas, penguins and polar bears to whales — he thoroughly dismantles the so - called science that blames each and every worrisome observation on man - made climate change, and he explains the true causes, natural and man - made, of their travails.

One of the most glaring differences between legitimate science - based blogs and those that deny the science on anthropogenic climate change is how they write about polar bears and Arctic sea ice.

Now that the polar bears are off the imminent - extinction list, maybe we should put scientists willing to defend Mann's science on there.

The recent listing of polar bears as «endangered» was based on junk science and GIGO computer models that claim manmade global warming will send the bears» record population numbers into oblivion.

This summer school is aimed at postgraduate students and early career scientists who would like to obtain a solid grounding in polar climate system science, with a particular focus on the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice and their interactions.

Frank Lansnser goes on to show data from Goddard Institute of Space Science (GISS) July polar views and compares this with graphics of Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) data for July 2010 to cast doubt on the validity of the GISS gridded values in the Arctic region.

Tagged activist organizations, Donna Laframboise, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IUCN Polar Bear Specialist Group, Pachauri, polar bears, Polar Bears International, politics, Rajendra Pachauri, science and religion

The BioScience study also analyzed the arguments made by 45 science - based blogs about the impacts of global warming on polar bear populations.

Based on what he's seen in the Arctic, and on the latest science, Zukunft said he's planning for six feet of sea level rise by the end of the century, as polar ice sheets and glaciers melt.

The survey, published in Polar Geography, shows that Tea Partiers — who call for minimal government intervention and are known for their climate scepticism — exhibit a high level of self - assessed understanding of climate science, combined with a low level of knowledge on polar facts.

And right on cue, science PR is working overtime to bring the polar - ice soap opera back from the dead.

Both the Guardian and the Independent have much longer reports by their science correspondents on a new report from the University of East Anglia: «Climate change at the poles IS man - made» (Independent) and «Manmade global warming evident on every continent, polar report finds» (Guardian).

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