Sentences with phrase «science research missions»

Five hundred registered guests will hear from a panel of space biosciences researchers as they discuss the four life science research missions Ames is sending to the space station, as well as other NASA missions via exhibits and view the night sky using telescopes.

``... NASA and NSF had to cancel their Antarctic - launched long - duration space science research missions for the year because NSF can not reopen facilities in time to get research balloons off on schedule.

Columbia (Flight STS - 107) was on a 16 - day science research mission in Earth orbit which performed experiments in space.

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Founded on its mission to advance learning and knowledge through teaching and research particularly in science, technology, engineering, management, and business studies.

Her work relies on data from NASA's spaceward missions, and a shift from earth science toward even more space data might offer new opportunities for her research.

Just days before the Guardian piece with Walker's statement was published, NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt, who declined to be interviewed again for this story, told Business Insider that he thought NASA climate research was safe from political tampering because it was too intimately connected to the agency's other critical earth science missions.

Our maiden Mission Approval establishes an important precedent for the private sector to engage in peaceful space exploration, bringing with it monumental implications for the advancement of technology, science, research, and development, as well as commercial ventures that expand Earth's economic sphere.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension research and extension systems.

Our mission is to create a positive relationship between people and nature through collaborations, education, research and collections, exhibitions and public forums to grow our region's urban connection to the world of nature and science.

«We are delighted that Jon has accepted this position, which ensures that management of one of Mass Audubon's most mission - critical and identifiable programs will be overseen by a scientist of both impressive ability in the field and substantial research experience,» Director of Conservation Science Jeff Collins said.

EPA's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, which funds competitive research grants and graduate fellowships, would be terminated across all four S&T research missions.

The mission of CFS is to provide excellent laboratory services in support of the administration of justice and public safety for the citizens of Ontario by: 1) providing scientific examinations and interpretations in cases involving injury or death in unusual circumstances, and in crimes against persons or property; 2) presenting independent objective expert testimony to courts in Ontario; 3) conducting research; and 4) presenting educational programs on forensic science for agencies using forensic science services.

Other science outlays included $ 46 million over 4 years to create 1500 industrial internships for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within Canadian business, $ 49 million toward the transformation of the National Research Council into what officials call a «toolbox» for industry, and a commitment to extend Canadian participation in the International Space Station mission to 2024.

«Swift's rapid response time enabled us to use it to rapidly search for and detect the electromagnetic counterpart of this gamma - ray burst after its detection by LIGO,» said Jamie Kennea, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics, the leader of the Swift Science Operations Team at Swift's Mission Operations Center, located at Penn State's University Park campus.

The current EOS orbiters are the result of the NASA's Decadal Survey for Earth Science, which prioritizes its research missions.

The research is driven by several mission goals of Los Alamos's Nuclear and Particle Futures research pillar in basic and applied nuclear science.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

It is shocking that Science would take the time and effort to highlight and chronicle the sentiments of someone whose sole mission is to derail biomedical research that is dependent on animal models.»

In the newly reconstituted Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights, and Law Program, the missions of the CSFR and NCLS continue to complement one another as staff pursue projects such as continuing seminars for judges on neuroscience and the law, personalized medicine, the state and future of clinical trials, advocacy in science, understanding responsible research practices in changing research environments, and joint AAAS - China Association of Science and Technology workshops on science and science, understanding responsible research practices in changing research environments, and joint AAAS - China Association of Science and Technology workshops on science and Science and Technology workshops on science and science and ethics.

Los Alamos National Laboratory conducts a wide range of biological research efforts as part of its national security science mission, with such research as phylogenetic analysis helping to determine safe pathogens and disease transmission pathways.?

As a non-profit organization with its mission to advance science and serve society, peer - reviewed research content becomes freely available with registration on our website after a 12 - month embargo period from the date of publication.

Although Milgram's tests upset some volunteers, most participants identified with his scientific mission to understand human behavior and wanted to prove themselves as worthy of the project, Haslam and psychologist Stephen Reicher of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, conclude in a research review scheduled to appear in the 2017 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.

The Foundation's mission is implemented through an international program of research institutes in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience, neuroscience, and theoretical physics, and through the support of conferences, symposia, endowed professorships, and other activities, including the Kavli Science Journalism Workshops at the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT.

«You will be interacting with these people in your careers,» says Beckman, so it is important to know why people and private foundations donate money to science and how to partner with them to advance your own research mission.

But a number of federal research programs and projects remain in Trump's cross hairs, including five of NASA's Earth science missions and various research, including on climate or environmental science, at the EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.

This collaboration with the computer science course serves as an example of the Media Innovation Center's mission to support initiatives, projects, research and curriculum innovations that intersect its work in technology, media and information networks.

The fledging Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, whose mission is to quickly translate the best ideas from basic science into budding technologies, avoided falling victim to any partisan battles this year as well.

«The loss of Contour would be a basic setback for the near future of cometary science,» says Gerhard Schwehm of the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, who is the project scientist for the European Rosetta mission to comet Wirtanen, due to be launched on 13 January 2003.

Ricker's winning team also includes NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., which is managing the mission; MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Mass.; Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC), Dulles, Va.; NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.; the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.; The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.; and the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md..

Indeed, including the necessary neutral particles was very computationally expensive, and the final model took roughly a year to run on the Pleiades supercomputer located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, and which supports hundreds of science and engineering projects for NASA missions.

The ANDRILL mission was funded by the National Science Foundation and the New Zealand Foundation for Research.

For its current missions the U.S. National Science Foundation charters private research ships such as the Nathaniel B. Palmer, which can crunch through three feet of ice at three nautical miles per hour.

The Science and Technology Facilities Council, which sets research priorities and disburses government monies, said that cost overruns have forced it to withdraw support from experiments, including the International Linear Collider (a proposed follow - up to the Large Hadron Collider) and a number of ground - based telescopes, as well as trim its investments in planned space missions such as the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft (set to study the early universe).

Reprinted with permission fromQuanta Magazine, an editorially independent publication of theSimons Foundationwhose mission is to enhance public understanding of science by covering research developments and trends in mathematics and the physical and life sciences.

Dr. Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute, and her mentor Dr. Alan Stern, SwRI associate vice president and the science lead for the New Horizons mission, outlined likely sources in a paper titled, «On the Provenance of Pluto's Nitrogen.»

Dean Kamen, founder of DEKA Research and Development Corporation in Manchester, New Hampshire, and inventor of the Segway Human Transporter, has made it a personal mission to shore up the sagging interest of American teens in science and engineering.

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has a Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate that carries out research in materials science to support the U.S. Navy's Research Laboratory (NRL) has a Materials Science and Component Technology Directorate that carries out research in materials science to support the U.S. Navy's mScience and Component Technology Directorate that carries out research in materials science to support the U.S. Navy's research in materials science to support the U.S. Navy's mscience to support the U.S. Navy's mission.

As future missions look to travel back to the moon or even to Mars, new research from the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center cautions that the exposure to radiation is much higher than previously thought and could have serious implications on both astronauts and satellite technology.

Research suffers from bad press nowadays, and some of it is justified (data doctoring, nonreproducible published data), so our mission is to remind people that science is still as relevant, fascinating, and useful an endeavor as it has always been and that our society needs science to help tackle the big problems that we are facing, ranging from the transition toward nonfossil - based energies to food security.

«This plan will allow important research to continue while accommodating the agency's budgetary constraints and its core mission to support cutting - edge science and education,» the statement says.

«We have to hit our arrival time window within 450 seconds,» says principal investigator Alan Stern, a former chief of NASA's science mission directorate who currently hangs his hat at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, manages the Kepler and K2 missions for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

«Together with other results that suggest the Moon may have had more volatiles than previously thought, this research is revolutionizing our thinking about the early history of the planets and satellites,» said Jim Head, professor of geological sciences and a MESSENGER mission co-investigator.

Earth science would face a cut of $ 102 million, to $ 1.8 billion, with three missions under preparation — and one currently in operation — canceled, along with an unspecified reduction in earth science research grants.

, welcoming the continued inclusion of the successful Excellent Science pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable DevelopmentScience pillar in FP9, and setting out our position for research priorities and mechanisms to engender a mission - based approach to close the research and innovation cycle through increasing support for collaborative basic research, encouraging increased levels of trans - disciplinarity and emphasising the importance of plant science in meeting the UN Sustainable Developmentscience in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This plan will allow important research to continue while accommodating the agency's budgetary constraints and its core mission to support cutting - edge science and education.

«Future Boaty missions and the new RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel will ensure the UK continues to punch above its weight and lead the way in polar science, engineering and technology as part of our Industrial Strategy.»

The mission of the Department of Population Sciences is to advance the science and application of cancer etiology, prevention and outcomes, and reduce the burden of cancer and its sequelae across all populations, through collaborative multidisciplinary programs in clinical service, research and education.

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They and the rest of the crew also researched botany and biomedical science to support future crews on longer missions further into space.