Sentences with phrase «other key scientists»

The memorandum, obtained by NRDC from the White House Council on Environmental Quality under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that ExxonMobil began a secret campaign for Dr. Watson's removal in the first weeks of the Bush administration, and reveals ExxonMobil's intention to replace Watson and other key scientists with contrarians known for disagreeing with the prevailing consensus that man - made pollution is causing global warming.

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Key staff members who help the company's operations run smoothly include General Manager Sherry Hibshman, who carries out company policies and supervises other managers; Food Scientist Brandy Kendig, who tests flour to make sure it conforms to government regulations; and Mike Gingrich, who is in charge of the milling operations.

While some still object to cells being taken from animals and used by scientists to grow clean meat in laboratories — and some just don't like the idea of eating a «cultured» steak created by men and women in white coats — others see the lab - grown meat revolution as key to solving the environmental crisis linked to meat eating.

Being able to collaborate, especially with scientists from other disciplines, is also key.

Orcas form tight - knit groups in the wild, each with its own dialect, so scientists think that their ability to learn new sounds may be key to how they communicate and interact with one other.

She and other US scientists, in a collaboration known as the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, have been churning out studies on how future missions might answer key science questions.

Scientists have identified genes that are active during puberty, but most also have key functions in other basic processes, such as regulating fat.

Working with human breast cancer cells and mouse models of breast cancer, scientists identified a new protein that plays a key role in reprogramming cancer cells to migrate and invade other organs.

Turner, a social scientist at City University of New York / Queens College, offered his cautionary story last month at a conference * called by a key federal watchdog agency to announce a $ 1 million grants program to investigate the prevalence of fraud, data fabrication, plagiarism, and other questionable practices in science.

They identified «the ages between 14 - 17 as critical to mobility decisions but others (e.g. EMBO) pointed to pre-school ages as key to women's careers since it is women who carry the biggest share of childcare responsibility... and men scientists with children are less obstructed in their mobility career choices and decisions (because they are less likely to be married to women scientists who are often the «trailing spouse»).»

A key step forward came last year when scientists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, using remote sensing equipment, found that snow and glacier melt is extremely important to the Indus and Brahmaputra basins, but less critical to others.

Professor Suthers said the 94 - metre Investigator has other capabilities that marine scientists in Australia have never had before, and the vessel will be key to unlocking the secrets of the oceans around our continent and beyond.

Harnessing fire for light, warmth, and cooking was a key event in hominin prehistory — but the smoke could have been disastrous for Neandertals and other ancient hominins in terms of survival and reproduction, New Scientist reports.

My experiences as a scientist have helped me relate to, and communicate with, other scientists (for example, asking the right questions and extracting the key information), as well as correctly interpret scientific findings in the appropriate context with full understanding of the caveats and the associated confidence / error levels.

Scientists have discovered key details of a brain - to - body signaling circuit that enables roundworms to lose weight independently of food intake, and there are reasons to suspect the circuit exists in a similar form in humans and other mammals.

Sucking carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from smokestacks and burying them underneath the ground is a key technology cited by politicians and scientists as a way to help combat climate change.

«[I] t's worth savoring the present moment, brought to all of us by a rare amalgam of political risk - taking and courage, willingness to seek common ground and compromise, dedication to one's key principles while acknowledging the legitimacy of others», and countless days, weeks and months of plain old hard work,» said Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, in a blog post.

Citizen scientists and natural spaces play key roles in preserving biodiversity, according to famed biologist E.O. Wilson and a panel of other experts at a 19 May event jointly hosted by the National Park Service and AAAS in celebration of America's national parks.

But for Tschauner and other scientists, those impurities, known as inclusions have infinite value, as they may hold the key to understanding the inner workings of our planet.

Scientists have argued that protecting the habitat of key species — such as large carnivores that need expanses of land, or organisms such as prairie dogs on which many others depend — would shelter additional species, thus offering a bigger bang for the conservation buck.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that two key cellular structures, called mitochondria and lysosomes, come into direct contact with each other in the cell to regulate their respective functions.

In a race with other scientists, Scottish researchers have bred mice with an altered gene which displays all the key features of cystic fibrosis, such as lung disease and digestive problems.

The key idea is that an octave - spanning spectrum enables scientists to compare the frequencies of two comb lines at opposite ends of the spectrum with each other.

But other scientists have pointed to natural causes, including volcanic eruptions, disease, and climate change at the end of last Ice Age, as the key reasons for these species» demise.

In addition to the H1 histamine receptor, some of the key structures that the Stevens group and its collaborators, including Kobilka and other scientists around the world, have solved using the family tree approach include the:

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

Fish are the key ingredients in a new recipe to diagnose and restore degraded coral reef ecosystems, according to scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the WCS, James Cook University, and other organizations in a new study in the journal Nature.

Fish are the key ingredients in a new recipe to diagnose and restore degraded coral reef ecosystems, according to scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, WCS, James Cook University, and other organizations in a new study in the journal Nature.

A near - atomic level map of Zika virus shows its structure to be largely similar to that of dengue virus and other flaviviruses, but with a notable difference in one key surface protein, report scientists funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Scientists at the Universities of York and Texas have found that a component of cancer cells, which acts like a «cellular post office», could be the key to preventing the spread of lung cancer to other parts of the body.

Key focus areas of the workshop will include: • Recognizing and understanding leadership in a science setting • Using negotiation as a tool in scientific discussions and problem solving • Identifying and resolving conflicts in the lab • Dealing with difficult people and situations in a scientific setting • Communicating your ideas and plans in a way that engages others • Leading productive scientific team and project meetings • Setting goals for and giving useful feedback to scientists • Creating a positive lab culture • Identifying, interviewing and hiring the best scientists for your team.

With key strengths in advanced medical imaging, cell biology, genomics, immunology and stem cell biology, our scientists and their skilled staff conduct research on some of the most debilitating diseases of our time: heart disease and stroke, Alzheimer's, cancer, organ failure, diabetes and many others.

In the early 1980s, a number of key papers from George and other scientists in Oregon brought the zebrafish to worldwide attention.

ViaCyte's scientists and other experts have published key findings in the field of stem cell engineering.

«Our findings could change the way other scientists study viruses, and might ultimately be key to targeting treatments.»

Scientists are claiming to have zeroed in on the culprit that makes losing weight difficult for obese people, identifying a protein that stops fat cells from burning energy which they say could become a key target in treating obesity and other metabolic conditions.

Universities, which will produce the next generation of astronomers and instrument builders, as well as other scientists and engineers, must be supported as a key part of the new system.

«The key finding of the study is that they get a larger amount of sulfur and a smaller amount of carbon dioxide ejected than in other studies,» said Georg Feulner, a climate scientist at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

A key feature of the team's grant proposal was that the researchers are making information about how to build and use the device available for free to other scientists.

Now scientists behind the initiative have published their first paper, which describes the project's early progress, including forging collaborations with more than 40 community organizations and other key stakeholders.

Other scientists have suggested that oxygen may be a key component of the Earth's interior.

The movie's story is mostly under wraps, but will see several of the lethal creatures hunting humans including Boyd Holbrook and Trevante Rhodes» military men, Olivia Munn's scientist and Keegan - Michael Key's character, who teams with the others to fight the alien hunters.

This partnership between FWI and HCDC illustrates how the challenge of science translation can be addressed within a mutually respectful, ongoing, collaborative process in which scientists, communications researchers, and other key stakeholders can become co-producers of a broadly understood yet sophisticated scientific message.

The reports are produced by committees of the nation's top scientists, engineers, and other experts who are convened to address key scientific and technical aspects of climate change and other topics.

Other key elements of this year's Petfood Forum general sessions include roundtable discussions on insect protein, the next big trends for pet food, a CEO panel on attracting and retaining talent precede, and a closing keynote by dog cognition scientist Brian Hare, PhD.

Climate scientists agree that rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap incoming heat near the surface of the Earth and are the key factors causing the rise in temperatures since 1880, but these gases are not the only factors that can impact global temperatures.

However, as climate scientists issue warnings about the severity of unseasonable bushfires, other key public voices actively undermine this message.

There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.

Our marketing folks discovered that the little «classified» style ads in Science News were an excellent, low - key place to advertise, because many scientists read this magazine to keep up with news from other disciplines.

Our scientists use laboratory studies, field campaigns, multi-scale models, and other tools to address key questions and uncertainties related to clouds, aerosol particles, and precipitation.