Sentences with phrase «scientists look to past»

When seeking clues to how well conservation efforts are working in the present, sometimes scientists look to the past — and there may be no better historical record than the forest surveys conducted in Missouri by the Bureau of Land Management in the 1800s.

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«When scientists set out to look for the causes of the Allee effect in the past, they have tended to focus on intrinsic parameters, such as the difficulty finding a mate, inbreeding or social dysfunction in small populations,» explains Elliott.

NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scientist, Dr Ken Williford.

An optical scientist at the University of Arizona, he and a colleague have come up with a new approach to bifocal spectacles that may one day revolutionize the way people past a certain age look at menus in restaurants.

Scientists are also looking to past GBS studies to devise plans about how to sidestep this potential threat.

Oxygen is one of the key elements scientists look at to track past climate change.

Scientists are looking to strange sea life for records of climate's past — and forecasts of future warming

To examine historical changes in growth and mortality rates of the vegetation there, the scientists looked at forest biomass, the cumulative result of past growth.

Scientists remove some of the guesswork about how individuals will use energy in 2050 by looking at past campaigns to induce personal change and their effectiveness

To tally the number of citations for each scientist, we over the past month looked up their Google Scholar profiles or, for those without a profile, used estimates produced by the Publish or Perish software, developed by business professor Anne - Wil Harzing of ESCP Europe.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

They're looking at the same types of pharmacological targets that maybe only used to be pursued at a drug company in the past,» says Philip Mayer, president of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in Arlington, Virginia.

Scientists, though, can look for clues as to what the future might bring in the major climate swings that have happened in the past.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

These scientists are on the verge of developing protocols that will look nothing like what was done in the past to address a serious global health problem.

A second study, led by scientists at the University of Manchester in England and published online this past May, looked at vitamin D levels and cognitive performance in more than 3,100 men aged 40 to 79 in eight different countries across Europe.

The scientists had received a National Science Foundation grant to study the possible future impacts of climate change on Mongolian wildfires, and were looking for tree core samples to read what they could of the past record.

Scientists are trying to predict this new, warmer state by looking into the record of past eras of climate change.

Calvert Island, in particular, is among the few places worldwide with a sea level that has remained relatively stable since the last ice age, a boon for scientists looking to study how people have lived for the past 15,000 years.

Certain types of rocks and fossils give scientists clues as to what the environment looked like in an area at a particular time in the past.

Looking more than 12 billion years into the past, the scientists found that the young galaxy experiencing a burst of star formation was surrounded by enough cold molecular gas to make 100 billion suns.

Scientists usually say Mars must have had a thicker atmosphere in the past that was lost to space; NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft is at the Red Planet looking at atmospheric loss.

With climate change already impacting various parts of the world, scientists have started looking into Earth's past in order to better predict how it will affect our future.

In the video, he explains how scientists look to various forcings and responses in past changes in climate.

Looking to times long past, scientists recognized that massive ice sheets had once covered a good part of the Northern Hemisphere.

Hopefully the mainstream media will look past the thin veneer of credibility of Matt Ridley and the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and instead speak to actual climate scientists instead of an expert on animals.

In «World Scientists» Warning to Humanity: A Second Notice,» Bill Ripple, director of the Trophic Cascades Program at Oregon State University, and his colleagues looked at how humanity has progressed toward the targets put forth over the past 25 years.

A slew of emails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit highlight definite character flaws among some climate scientists — including an embarrassing attempt to delete emails that discussed the most recent report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change — while also exposing what looks like a failure of scientists to acknowledge a halt to global warming in the past decade.

We can also look to the past, which is what a group of scientists including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego geoscientist Jeff Severinghaus have done, by drilling a 2.5 - kilometer (1.6 - mile) ice core from some of the oldest ice in Greenland.

Looking at water data for the past 60 years, scientists have determined that «the size of the dead zone in mid to late summer has decreased steadily since the late 1980s and that the duration... is closely linked each year to the amount of nutrients entering the bay.»