Sentences with phrase «other citizen scientists»

Given the strong split in the U.S. government about climate change, Ice911 is joining other citizen scientists, ecological entrepreneurs, and community organizers who are acting now because there is no time to lose.

It was soon also flagged by three other citizen scientists from Russia, Serbia, and the United States.

Not exact matches

In uBiome's case it was citizen scientists — regular people who dig science and like to learn about themselves and apply that knowledge to their own health and other people with similar interests.

Without scientists and engineers to create new technologies and ways of doing society's business, other economies in other countries will out - compete the United States and leave our citizens behind.

Of course I also spend time taking pictures of the beautiful world, spending time with my wife, reading books or magazines, playing video games, enjoying a great meal, engaging in citizen scientist projects, spending time in thought or contemplation about the universe or our planet, or in other words generally loving and enjoying life!

Planet Hunters, meanwhile, puts citizen scientists to work analyzing readings from NASA's Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth - like planets orbiting other stars.

While many researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise from other fields, she said.

At the time, the persecution and disappearance of numerous scientists, along with thousands of other citizens, in Argentina and the plight of dissidents in the Soviet Union brought urgency to the committee's mission.

The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid initiative industry and partner day at NASA Headquarters in Washington, is a large - scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partnerships with other government agencies, international partners, industry, academia, and citizen scientists.

The great lack in the American scientific labor market, he and other observers argue, is not top - flight technical talent but attractive career opportunities for the approximately 30,000 scientists and engineers — about 18,000 of them American citizens — who earn PhDs in the U.S. each year.

By identifying images with changing leaves, blooming flowers, and other easy - to - recognize features, citizen scientists can contribute to a better understanding of how plants are responding to climate change

By identifying the tag number of each condor and describing its behavior, citizen scientists will help researchers understand condor social networks and other factors that may be related to lead poisoning.

Not only will citizen scientists add valuable information on the extent of ground shaking and damage, but in the process USGS hopes citizen scientists will learn more about how other communities fared and gain a greater understanding of the effects of earthquakes.

BEIJING — Two top Chinese scientists, one a Nobel laureate and the other a winner of a top computer science prize, have renounced their U.S. citizenship to become citizens of China.

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

The paper also highlights how so - called citizen science projects provide scientists with invaluable information with which to track the spread of ladybirds and other species.

With the help of citizen scientists, researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Colorado Boulder analyzed arthropod DNA found in 732 dust samples collected from interior door frames throughout the U.S. Amid their data on many other species, the scientists found that the eastern U.S. and the West Coast are dust - mite utopias, whereas much of the western interior may be a comparative desert.

But these protections were judged burdensome because they prevented the provision of benefits to certain other classes of people: the benefits to scientists of being able to pursue favored research, and the benefits to citizens of potential medical treatments.

The Turkana Basin Institute, in collaboration with the University of Bradford, has set up a web site fossilfinder.org, recruiting an army of «citizen scientists» to help discover fossils and other ancient artefacts using the unique online platform «Zooniverse».

But we will reach an and involve much larger groups: Our results will find their way to the courses we teach and we will also build up a team of Other Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contriOther Earths Ambassadors — citizen scientists excited by the search for life on other planets and eager to contriother planets and eager to contribute.

Thanks to the data provided by citizen scientists, the researchers were able show that the diversity of bird beaks expanded early in the group's evolutionary history, around the time other dinosaurs died out.

«That so many of them are also devoting time to mentoring and other forms of community service speaks volumes about their potential for leadership, not only as scientists but as model citizens.»

REEF Environmental Education Foundation The Reef Environmental Education Foundation is a grass - roots organization that seeks to conserve marine ecosystems by educating, enlisting and enabling divers and other marine enthusiasts to become active ocean stewards and citizen scientists.

In this context, scientists, other experts, concerned citizens, and media entities face a difficult task in deciding how best to speak up: What words, pictures, phrases, testimonials, principles, examples, and so forth will prompt public understanding and responsible action?

We have been successful because we marshal allies, like scientists, teachers, parents, and other citizens, at the grassroots.

A strong ethical argument can be made that scientists who conclude that there is strong evidence that citizens in their country are harming people around the world and putting millions of others at risk have a duty to speak up.

In the action, more than 1,200 campaigners, scientists (including NASA's Jim Hansen), students and other concerned citizens — mainly brought there by the project's climate impacts — sat down and waited for handcuffs:

Scientists, writers, politicians and other citizens gathered on Boston Common to express concern about climate change.

Although a regular citizen can't «see» carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers and others know the sources of greatest emissions.

Here's why I see no social or political tipping point: Behind the ups and downs tracked by Gallup, Pew, The Times and others, there's been little evidence of a shift in what political and socials scientists call «issue salience» for global warming — making it the kind of problem citizens bring to the voting booth.

I did read Nic's submission and am always profoundly impressed by the amazing work done by Nic and the many other citizen - scientists who post here and on other blogs.

Climate Etc. provides a forum for climate researchers, academics and technical experts from other fields, citizen scientists, and the interested public to engage in a discussion on topics related to climate science and the science - policy interface.

The policy has bipartisan support and is endorsed by over 50 University of Washington climate scientists, Audubon Washington, Citizens» Climate Lobby, and numerous other groups and individuals who believe we must take action now on climate change.

What will come in the future in other areas of science is the blogasphere, and here too, the collective wisdom of interested citizens and scientists will shape, and I speculate, increase the speed of science sharing.

It includes his bit about fake letter - writers, his inconsistencies about whether he prompted a male or female Attorney General to question skeptic scientists attending a 1995 government hearing, the plausibility problem of that AG tipping him — a private citizen at that time — about the impending appearance of skeptic climate scientists there — plus more than a dozen other major problems.

Hats off to Steve McIntyre and all other sharp - eyed citizen scientists: this is the «price of liberty» indeed!

Should we not encourage our citizens, students, teachers, politicians, scientists, and other leaders to celebrate CO2 as the giver of life that it is?

The book, How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming (Dawn Publications, 2008), written with photojournalist Gary Braasch, was finished during Cherry's tenure as the 2006 artist - in - residence at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and features many examples of young people and others involved in citizen science projects at Cornell and elsewhere.

A highlight of the book (and a hallmark of this field) is that data are being collected not just by scientists but also by naturalists, children, and other concerned citizens.

«For this reason, we ask other scientists and experts to join us in engaging ordinary citizens.

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