Sentences with phrase «panel at an assessment»

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Commonwealth gold medallist Foster, who retired from BBC athletics commentating duties at the IAAF World Championships last month, recently joined the team that presented Birmingham's bid to the assessment panel and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

AAAS Assesses New Catalysis Joint Research Center At the request of the University of Puerto Rico — Mayagüez (UPRM), AAAS mobilized an expert panel this past February for an on - site assessment of UPRM's new Center for Sustainable Water, Energy, and Food Nexus (SusWEF), created jointly with the University of South Carolina.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

As a lead author of a chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report released this month, Kansas State University Distinguished Professor and soil microbiologist Chuck Rice gave a presentation at the World Bank on April 16.

Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Carnegie's Katharine Mach and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers.

Although the procedures weren't life - threatening, the panel says, the assessment caused severe discomfort in some patients and put them at risk of complications.

Not only is it inappropriate for reviewers to be asked to «step outside of their areas of expertise» and to «make guesses» as to whether proposals are meeting national goals, Yamamoto told the panel, but it is impossible to make such assessments at the level of individual projects.

Aerosols in the tropopause also complicate climate projections; they are not taken into account in the latest assessment released in 2013 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says Yu Gu, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles.

As co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group on mitigation, he is presenting results from the group's 2007 assessment at several side events and briefings for policy - makers.

This is a Best Poster Award for toxicological research into mechanisms and risk assessment, selected by a panel in which ECETOC participates at the EUROTOX Annual Meeting.

In late 2009, I volunteered at Sierra Club Canada in Ottawa to read the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 4th assessment report that had been released in 2007, from cover to cover.

Few researchers would quibble with their methodological preference: «When it comes to pupil achievement, assessment of gains over time (panel studies), rather than absolute levels at a specific point in time, is superior.»

The National Academy of Sciences has named Audrey B. Champagne, a professor of education and chemistry at the State University of New York at Albany, to head a panel that will develop national assessment standards for precollegiate science.

Jeannie Herres, elementary science teacher; Jeanne Carlson, elementary English language arts teacher; Jeff Manikowski, elementary math teacher; and Jesse Maine, director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, will represent the district as part of the panel discussion at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College.

To Bruce's point, the panel has the added challenge of writing rules at a time when the state's academic standards and next assessment are also under review.

Stephanie Wood - Garnett, EdD, vice president of policy and advocacy for standards, assessment, and deeper learning at the Alliance, moderated the panel.

The SXSWedu conference featured dozens of panels with variations on the theme of how to find accurate assessments of the quality of different course and curriculum options (at the college level as well as in K - 12, and not just OER).

But a panel of three teachers and a school district administrator told the Assembly Education Committee at a hearing in Sacramento earlier this month that they couldn't get a clear picture of students» progress because the reports they received on how students did on the interim assessments lacked enough detail to be useful.

John Christy, director of the Earth Systems Science Center at the University of Alabama, Huntsville, and an author on the climate panel's second, third and fourth assessments.

You can read the query below, followed by responses from an official at the United Nations Environment Program and one of the lead scientists for the climate panel's next assessment:

[3:37 p.m. Updated At the bottom of this post I've linked to a three - page «media backgrounder» that the climate panel sent to assessment authors on Saturday.

Simulations conducted in advance of the 2013 — 14 assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the warming should have continued at an average rate of 0.21 °C per decade from 1998 to 2012.

At the same time, it's clear that senior authors of the panel's most visible products, its summaries for policymakers, had little confidence in this finding because projections of glacier impacts in Asia are far more nuanced in those infuential distillations of the full voluminous assessment.

In June, at a summit in Manila on Asia's energy future, I met Harish Hande, an award - winning Indian engineer and entrepreneur based in Bangalore who, since 1995, has built a company that provides energy assessments and solar panels or other sources of locally generated power to (mainly) rural Indian communities.

It was written by Laurens M. Bouwer, a researcher at Vrije University in Amsterdam focused on climate and water resources (and a lead author of a chapter in the 2001 assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Australian climate scientist David Karoly, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Melbourne and a review editor of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's fifth assessment report, said he did not believe uncertainty was underplayed in the IPCC assessments.

The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted these concerns: «Despite the known causal links between climate and malaria transmission dynamics, there is still much uncertainty about the potential impact of climate change on malaria at local and global scales.»

However, some «pass» desktop assessments seen by this magazine or other news organisations (such as the BBC) included foam insulation with ACM FR (aluminium composite material with a modified fire - retardant polyethylene filler) rain - screen panels, a combination which recently failed a BS 8414 fire test at BRE.

To have a 50 percent shot at not surpassing the 2 - degree warming limit, the fifth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change noted that emissions should not exceed about 1,000 GtC by 2100.

Guest Essay by: Ken Gregory The Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia submitted five runs of its climate model CanESM2 for use in the fifth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

In making informed decisions to keep risks at an acceptable level, it's important that policy makers take heed of the scientific evidence presented in the recent assessment report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — released in September — along with the most up - to - date estimates of the current and future risks.

Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), famously claimed in the IPPC's fourth assessment report in 2007 that the probability of the Himalayan glaciers «disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high,» a claim rejected at the time by India's leading glaciologist, Dr. Vijay Raina.

Luckily, every couple of years an integrated assessment is made by the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, primarily aimed at governments, but also quite valuable for the business community.

At NSIDC, Barry contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments in 1990, 1995, and 2001.

The Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis located at the University of Victoria in British Columbia submitted five runs of its climate model CanESM2 for use in the fifth assessment report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Ben Kirtman, a climate scientist at the University of Miami and a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment, said he and other scientists have tried talking to politicians in Florida about these risks, including both Scott and Rubio, who is a possible presidential contender in 2016.

THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment reportedly admits its computer drastically overestimated rising temperatures, and over the past 60 years the world has in fact been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC report in 2007.

Jeff Price of WWF, US, says the panel must take a closer look at how it selects its authors and must produce an annual assessment of the literature for policymakers.

Beth promotes the Australian's claim: «The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest assessment reportedly admits its computer drastically over estimated rising temperatures, and over the past 60 years the world has in fact been warming at half the rate claimed in the previous IPCC Report in 2007»

The following is from a letter given at the Montreal Conference: Our organizations accept that a strong response is required to the strengthening evidence in the scientific assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

According to the WWF, top climate scientists have looked at the information and found that the effects of the melting ice on climate is going to more severely impact temperatures worldwide than other projections put forward so far, including even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 assessment.

Unfortunately, the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment did not sufficiently acknowledge the importance of these other human climate forcings in altering regional and global climate and their effects on predictability at the regional scale.»

In one of its occasional assessments, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — the cowinner with Al Gore of the Nobel Peace Prize — posited a scenario in which the global economy would grow at about 2 percent a year for the next 100 years (it's growing at more than twice that pace currently) with «fragmented» and «slow» per capita economic growth and technological change.

Robert N. Stavins is a professor of business and government at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and contributed to assessment reports to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The panel of speakers, which ranged from academics such as Paul Paton, Dean of Law at the University of Alberta to inhouse lawyers, such as Krishna Sood, from Microsoft, generally agreed with this assessment.

A total of more than 20 speakers at Friday's panels offered what were often harsh assessments on the ways in which law schools are falling short — and what they could do to turn out better, more prepared students.

Administrative law — Judicial review — Municipal law — Taxation — Real property tax — Payments made by Federal Crown in lieu of real property tax — Assessed value of Halifax Citadel — Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Minister is unconstrained by the assessed value of the property determined by the assessment authority in determining the property value of a federal property for purposes of the PILT Act — Whether the Federal Court of Appeal erred in holding that the Minister acted reasonably in determining the property value of the Halifax Citadel lands (adopting the determination of the Dispute Advisory Panel appointed under the Act), and in particular in valuing the portion of the lands upon which are located improvements which are exempt from payments in lieu of taxes, representing 47 of 49 acres of the site, at $ 10 — Whether the Court should consider the present case as it raises similar issues as Montréal (City) v. Montréal Port Authority 2010 SCC 14, [2010] 1 S.C.R. 427, but from the perspective of assessed value — Payments in Lieu of Taxes Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. M - 13.

We are doing this by looking at data relating to thousands of matters to see how client and firm practices (such as the existence of a law firm panel) impact client assessments of quality, responsiveness, expertise, trust, and innovation.

Defense Threat Reduction Agency (Ft. Belvoir, VA) 01/2010 — 07/2011 Insert Title • Provide daily management of assigned projects for medical countermeasure development (antibacterial) • Responsible for project costs, schedule, performance, risk assessment, and contract deliverables • Brief antibacterial projects at multiple program management reviews • Contribute to RFIs / RFPs to address gaps in medical countermeasure development • Chair review panels for broad agency announcements and evaluate project proposals • Assist in the development of a cost model for small molecule S&T development for medical countermeasures • Conduct site visits, in - process reviews, Post-Award Conferences, and Kick - Off Meetings with performers • Participant in source selection board activities for TMT

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