Sentences with phrase «scientist at environment»

«The cooling impact from increasing aerosols more than masked the warming impact from increasing greenhouse gases,» said John Fyfe, a senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada and a co-author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters.

«I think what it's telling us is that humans had an impact on the Arctic much earlier than had been thought,» said John Fyfe, a senior scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Victoria, British Columbia and one of the authors of the study, which appeared today in Geophysical Research Letters.

Human activities emit about two times as much sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, according to co-author Vitali Fioletov, an atmospheric scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto, Ontario.

Tar sands study co-author Shao - Meng Li, a senior research scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, said that in highly - polluted regions, some organic aerosols can prevent clouds from forming.

«It shows it's a complex picture,» Nathan Gillett, a research scientist at Environment Canada, said.

In an upcoming paper, Max Bothwell, a scientist at Environment Canada, proposed that climate change is one of four factors — along with atmospheric deposition of nitrogen from fossil fuel burning — boosting the blooms.

Most people probably didn't know that Tony was a federal public service worker — a scientist at Environment Canada, nearing retirement — but they sure do now.

Not exact matches

Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

When I began to look at the literature, virtually every reputable scientist sees it as interaction of heredity and environment.

«The environment around this quasar is very unique in that it's producing this huge mass of water,» said Matt Bradford, a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «It's another demonstration that water is pervasive throughout the universe, even at the very earliest times.»

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're talking to Marcia DeLonge, a senior scientist and agroecologist in the Food & Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) about working in environmental science.

Ecologist and environmental policy analyst Raphael «Rafe» Sagarin (2002 - 03 Congressional Fellow sponsored by the Geological Society of America) was associate research scientist and adjunct assistant professor for the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at University of Arizona.

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

Her work in the field of research ethics has ranged from consulting in Ghana, Taiwan, and Mexico on ethics curricula in research environments to serving as 2009 - 2011 Scientist in Residence for ethics and science education at the Montgomery Middle School in San Diego.

«I'm probably still more efficient than my peers because of the way I had to structure my working environment» early on as a scientist parent, says McKendrick, who is now the head of the optometry and vision sciences department at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

Chichung Lie, a cell biologist at the National Research Center for Environment and Health in Munich, Germany, and another of this year's winners, expects the boost in his profile to «encourage young scientists to pursue their Ph.D. studies or their postdoc with me.»

Numerous scientists I interviewed — from entomologist John Tooker at Penn State University, to Galen Dively and prominent entomologist Dennis vanEngelsdorp at the University of Maryland, to Pettis and others — said the number of chemicals in our environment is so vast that assessing all of their possible interactions is virtually impossible.

The scientists studied 24 men and women (11 of whom were in their 20s and 13 of whom were in their 60s) who lived for more than three weeks in an environment with no time cues other than a weak cycle of light and dark that was artificially set at 28 hours and that gave the subjects their signals for bedtime.

At last year's American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting held in Toronto, a panel of scientists from industry and academia discussed the pros and cons of pursuing a postdoc in either enScientists annual meeting held in Toronto, a panel of scientists from industry and academia discussed the pros and cons of pursuing a postdoc in either enscientists from industry and academia discussed the pros and cons of pursuing a postdoc in either environment.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

To feel at home, a scientist needs the right environment.

So, I took a job as a research scientist in the analytical lab of a smaller chemistry - driven, discovery - based pharmaceutical company located in Vancouver, B.C. With fewer than 100 employees and no products on the market, it couldn't have been further from the formal corporate work environment I was accustomed to at a multinational company.

The scientists have been looking at extremely small pieces of debris, known as micro-particles, which were released into the environment during the initial disaster in 2011.

«I know personally dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynscientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the LynScientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.

Using a new satellite - based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human - made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

During the new study the scientists replicated the conditions of a freezing environment in the Permafrost Laboratory at the University of Sussex and monitored the freeze - thaw of six hard and soft limestone blocks during an experiment that simulated 27 years of natural freezing and thawing.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

As society comes to terms with the scientific consensus on climate change, climate scientists are being called on to go beyond a mere understanding of the phenomenon, says climatologist Gregg Garfin, deputy director for science translation and outreach at the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

«Without the regulations, projects can't move forward into unconfined trials where crops are released into the environment and their performance is tested under different climatic and soil conditions,» says Simon Gichuki, crop scientist and head of the biotechnology centre at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Nairobi.

Paul Bunje, senior scientist in the Energy and Environment group at the XPrize Foundation, hopes that awarding a big prize for a solution will stimulate a diverse group of technologists.

Instead of the relatively stable environment that was expected at the brink of interstellar space, the Voyagers have encountered what some scientists have described as a «magnetic jacuzzi,» a region where the sun's magnetic field appears to be ripping apart and reconnecting, forming bubbles millions of miles across.

Essentially, drought years could become the norm for the Amazon by 2050 if deforestation rates rebound, said Dominick Spracklen, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment, United Kingdom, and lead author of the new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.

Heeding funding calls from national and pan-European funding bodies, Jørgen Olesen, a researcher in the Department of Agroecology and Environment at Aarhus University in Tjele, Denmark, has initiated a collaboration with social scientists and economists.

«One of the real recognitions of the past decade or two is that the answers to the challenges that we face are at the boundaries between the disciplines and that in fact much of the most exciting science is also taking place at the boundaries between the disciplines,» says David Blockstein, a senior scientist with the National Council for Science and the Environment, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington, D.C., that promotes science - based environmental decision - making.

Even in a supportive environment, the challenges of doing both at once — becoming a world - class researcher and commercializing a technology — are so formidable that many early - career scientists come to see them as insurmountable.

The setting gave scientists the rare opportunity to look at the impact of pollution on atmospheric processes in a largely pre-industrial environment and pinpoint the effects of the particles apart from other factors such as temperature and humidity.

In Europe, new centers such as the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and the Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom provide a multidisciplinary environment in which scientists, engineers, and clinicians can work together to apply scientific advances to health care.

«We hope that we are providing the opportunity and environment for the scientist to be successful and then be competitive for a faculty position, either at NIH or at another research institute,» Dearolf says.

The scientists who work — and, if they wish, live — at Janelia Farm will, according to director Gerald Rubin, enjoy a peerless intellectual and physical environment that HHMI hopes will spur extraordinary science.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

«This was a hostile, stressful environment for these organisms,» said Oleg Abramov, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with the work.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

At present, the association provides an excellent environment for the exchange of information, discussion, and collective action on specific issues related to Marie Curie Fellows and on broader issues, such as careers in science, which concern the community of young European scientists.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, ventures to some of Earth's most extreme environments to study the closest facsimiles he can find to Mars and other distant outposts, on a mission to learn how life might exist beyond our planet.

«I've been studying this specific invasive species for many years and it's clear the threat it poses to our reefs and marine environment is real,» said Matthew Johnston, Ph.D., a research scientist at NSU's Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography.

Moving «is a key career decision that can potentially play an important role in the generation of scientific knowledge by allowing scientists [to] find environments where they are more effective in doing their research,» writes Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a co-author on the paper, in an email to Science Careers.

The result is a kind of step - by - step choreography detailing how the auroras move, showing the complexity of these auroras and how scientists can connect an outburst from the sun and its effect on the magnetic environment at Saturn.