Sentences with phrase «research ecologist in»

Wildfires have important implications for how much carbon dioxide the land surface can absorb and store, says lead author Dr Matt Jolly, research ecologist in the fire, fuel and smoke program of the US Forest Service.

is a Research Ecologist in the Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program at the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory.

Not exact matches

Around 97 million sharks died because of human activity in 2010, according to research by Boris Worm, a professor and marine ecologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

As an ecologist with a degree in biological research, she is fascinated to watch the adventure of human birth incarnated in her own body.

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«These practices represent the state of the art for conservation,» says Bryan Finegan, a forest ecologist at CATIE, the international research institute in Costa Rica that led the study.

Research ecologist Mourad Gabriel is one of the few scientists studying illegal grow sites in California's overrun national forests.

Adrian Barnett is a rainforest ecologist at Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research in Manaus

At the center, microbiologists collaborate with architects and evolutionary ecologists on research that may ultimately influence how buildings are designed and constructed in the coming decades.

A dearth of research According to Chris Harley, a marine ecologist at UBC who was not involved in the study, it has only been in the last five to 10 years that ecologists have begun to start studying the impact of carbon dioxide on species in earnest.

Australian microbial ecologist Jenny Skerrat writes about what it takes to do research in Antarctica — from personal traits to research project design — and the beneficial effect of the experience on her career.

The discovery «shows that bees are not only amazing organisms, but perhaps more plastic than we suppose,» says Carolina Laura Morales, pollination and bee ecologist at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) in Buenos Aires.

The team of ecologists, based at the Mpala Research Center in Kenya, found that trees close to the edges of glades grew faster and were generally larger than trees elsewhere in the savanna.

«Avoidance was strongly related to the potential risk of infection,» agrees Janet Koprivnikar, a parasite ecologist at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, who was not involved with the research.

The results may not seem surprising, but they shed light on how the avoidance of parasites can shape an entire ecosystem through what some call an «ecology of fear,» says Vanessa Ezenwa, a disease ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who was not involved in the research.

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

«We're in a period where the oceans are changing very quickly,» says marine ecologist Kim Juniper of Canada's University of Victoria, who oversees NEPTUNE's scientific research.

The study «paints a realistic picture of how complicated the management of Arctic species will be going forward,» adds Mike Runge, a research ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Mresearch ecologist and polar bear expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MResearch Center in Laurel, Maryland.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

Vanja Klepac - Ceraj, a microbial ecologist by training and an assistant research investigator at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has helped organize symposia with ecologists and biomedical researchers giving joint talks on the ecology of disease.

This orchid bee was one of 16 outfitted with a radio transmitter backpack as part of a study of the insects» flight habits by ecologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

Laborious research in the 1960s by the late pioneering U.S. ecologist Eugene Odum seemed to indicate that forests achieve a balance between the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by growing trees and plants and the amount of CO2 released back into the atmosphere by the decomposition of dead plant matter.

«They should change the textbooks,» says James Nifong, an ecologist with the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at Kansas State University in Manhattan, who has spent years documenting the estuarine gator diet.

But in the end, more research won't resolve the conflict over Białowieża, says Jaboury Ghazoul, a forest ecologist at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

Meghan Duffy is a disease ecologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, especially in aquatic ecosystems.

Ecologist John Orrock, who studies how animals balance the need to protect themselves from predation with other needs, such as eating and mating, hatched the idea for this research when he was studying snails in a California grassland.

Such research «is transformative in our struggle to visualize the dance between pathogen attack and host response in the initial attack,» says Drew Harvell, a disease ecologist at Cornell University.

«People suspected that one of the roles of the toxins is to immobilize prey,» says marine ecologist Diane Stoecker of the University of Maryland's Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, Maryland, who was not involved in the research.

Dissection indeed is a major pressure on frog populations, says N. A. Aravind, an ecologist who studies mollusks at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment here.

«There's a huge amount of skepticism about the result,» says ecologist David Schimel of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

A study led by ecologists at UC Berkeley has found significant flaws in the research used to challenge the U.S. Forest Service plan to restore Sierra Nevada forests to less dense, and less fire - prone, environments.

Behavioral ecologist Robert Gibson of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, witnessed this firsthand when golden eagles attacked lekking sage grouse he was researching in California.

«She's a scientist who knows better than anyone in Brazil what's going on with measuring deforestation in the Amazon,» says Paulo Moutinho, an ecologist at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasília.

And Michael Logan, an evolutionary ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, calls the work «the most comprehensive demonstration of natural selection to date» on how body temperature is regulated.

A few years ago an ecologist named Jeff Dukes was traveling in a Chevy Suburban loaded with equipment to a research site in southern Utah.

Research by Michigan State University, published in the current issue of Bioscience, explores the paradox that although ecologists share findings via scientific journals, they do not share the data on which the studies are built, said Patricia Soranno, MSU fisheries and wildlife professor and co-author of the paper.

The plan seems like a good one, says Elizabeth Hunter, an ecologist at the University of Georgia who has studied giant tortoise restoration on the Galapagos Islands but wasn't involved in Pedrono's research.

The findings suggest that «species are able to use different parts of these sites to gain a competitive edge,» says James Grace, an ecologist at the National Wetlands Research Center in Lafayette, Louisiana.

«This is a real wake - up call,» says tropical forest ecologist Dan Nepstad of Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts.

«This is a powerful study,» says Rachel Adams, a microbial ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who was not involved in the new research.

Dutch ecologist Maarten Loonen of the University of Groningen has conducted summer research studies on birds in and around Ny - Ålesund since 1990, with support from his wife, a trained scientist who has a coordinator position at the school.

The study provides concrete data for something scientists had theorized for a long time, says Michael Keller, a forest ecologist and research scientist for the U.S. Forest Service based in Pasadena, California, who was not involved with the work.

To find out, a team led by reproductive ecologist Mary Rieger, of the Cooperative Research Center for Australian Weed Management and the University of Adelaide in Australia, took advantage of a unique opportunity.

USGS research ecologist Clint Muhlfeld is part of National Park Service efforts to restore native bull trout in Glacier National Park.

For an ecologist, working in one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth is always thrilling, and Bruna hopes his research will contribute to the area's conservation.

Martin Williams, a University of Illinois crop scientist and ecologist with the USDA - Agricultural Research Service, said this question is fundamentally important in improving the sustainability of sweet corn production in the United States and maintaining dominance in sweet corn production globally.

«There's more flooding in late fall and winter,» said Eric Ward, an ecologist at NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center and lead author of the research.

«To say the effects were severe is putting it lightly,» says forest ecologist Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who led the research.

«There is not enough water to sustain a complete coverage with continuous grass vegetation, which leads to the gap pattern,» explains Stephan Getzin, an ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the new work.

«The wind can whip through this ecosystem, almost knock you down, and this crust is going to stay 100 percent solid,» says Sasha Reed, a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Southwest Biological Science Center in Moab, Utah.