Sentences with phrase «scientists on the project based»

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Mass Audubon's Challenge was based on five years of project review, including three years of ornithological fieldwork; our assessment and comments on Cape Wind's first federal Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) and literature review; talks with ornithologists, scientists, and engineers; and a visit to Denmark's offshore wind farms during the 2005 spring bird migration.

«What they do is make sure that the work that human rights groups are doing is evidence - based,» said Theresa Harris, a project director in the SRHRL program who manages the newly - expanded On - call Scientists program, of the role participating scientists arScientists program, of the role participating scientists arscientists are playing.

I've never understood why scientists who handle such complicated and detailed projects at the bench suddenly switch gears and make decisions about a job based entirely on emotion.

Based on current trends, the amount of plastic trapped in Asia - Pacific reefs is projected to increase 40 percent by 2025, further endangering corals, scientists report in the Jan. 26 Science.

Two declassified U.S. government publications, based on the work of Manhattan Project scientists, offer detailed guidance.

First on the scene in November will be a team of scientists led by geophysicist Adam Booth of the University of Leeds in England and the U.K. - based Project MIDAS, which tracked the progress of the rifting from 2014 until the final break (SN: 7/25/15, p. 8).

For example, Phillips and Champness are working on a project with computer scientists, to design computer algorithms based on the way molecules come together to form random structures.

In a project funded by electronics giant Samsung, a team of Penn State materials scientists and electrical engineers has designed a mechanical energy transducer based on flexible organic ionic diodes that points toward a new direction in scalable energy harvesting of unused mechanical energy in the environment, including wind, ocean waves and human motion.

Trautwein is in the midst of a multi-year project sampling arthropods (and collecting mite samples) alongside citizen scientists in homes on all seven continents, exploring the overlooked life that shares our homes and bodies on a daily basis.

OutRunner The spiky - wheeled land cruiser, based on an unfunded Kickstarter project by former Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition scientists, can hit speeds of up to 20 miles per hour.

However, a new University of Minnesota study with more than 1,000 young trees has found that plants also adjust — or acclimate — to a warmer climate and may release only one - fifth as much additional carbon dioxide than scientists previously believed, The study, published today in the journal Nature, is based on a five - year project, known as «B4Warmed,» that simulated the effects of climate change on 10 boreal and temperate tree species growing in an open - air setting in 48 plots in two forests in northern Minnesota.

Kepler project scientist Nick Gautier of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory presented new data at the meeting on three of the larger planets in the Kepler - 20 system, now officially known as Kepler - 20b, -20 c and -20 d. From the star's wobbles, observed with ground - based telescopes, Gautier and his colleagues were able to deduce the masses of Kepler - 20b and -20 c: 8.7 and 16.1 Earth masses, respectively.

Claudia Tebaldi, a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that the researchers propose a much more robust method for evaluating the increasing volume of climate - change data coming out than experts coming up with «a ballpark estimate based on their own judgments.»

This year's ECETOC Young Scientist Award on human health related research has been awarded to Céline Brochot, INERIS, France, and to Taku Tanaka, University Piacenza, Italy, for their work on combining multimedia models with physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling as part of the European project 2 - FUN.

«Until Juno's arrival, our understanding of Jupiter's atmosphere was based on what we can see from the side, near the equator,» says Steven M. Levin, a Juno project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in an email.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

This project is based on the following 2008 California State Science fair project, a winner of the Science Buddies Clever Scientist Award: Yaeger, T.O. Jr. (2008).

Co-founded and directed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson, the Materials Project uses supercomputers to calculate the properties of materials based on first - principles quantum - mechanical frameworks.

Both projects are based on massively parallel sequencing using the National Genomics Infrastructure (NGI) at SciLifeLab, and will allow Swedish scientists to carry out internationally competitive research.

«They're inherently subjective because they're based on human judgment,» says David Peterson, a project scientist at Salk and the University of California, San Diego and first author of the new paper.

We need to retain the access of SciLifeLab infrastructures to all qualified scientists, but also balance the desire to have more stringent prioritization of projects based on scientific quality, in order to improve turnaround times and help to create excellent science.

A Research Scientist is a principal investigator, contributing to Disney Research projects, driving new technology applications for Disney business, based on areas of expertise available in the labs, and knowledge of the research frontier.

From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Princeton University researchers have found that the climate models scientists use to project future conditions on our planet underestimate the cooling effect that clouds have on a daily — and even hourly — basis, particularly over land.

As a national facility provided by the NSF, the VLBA is available free of charge to scientists, based on peer review of their proposed observing projects.

Similarly, instead of quoting a single cognitive scientist about the deficiencies of project - based learning, Pondiscio should examine the National Research Council's 2005 volume on «How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom» or the excellent research synthesis on project - based learning in the 2006 Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences.

Chen and Armstrong (2002) described a myriad of project - based learning activities in which teachers used technologies to engage students as scientists in collecting data on stars for NASA, as explorers in wide - ranging expeditions around the world, as writers publishing poems or even literary magazines, and in a range of other innovative roles engaging in relevant projects.

Continuing the tradition of excellence established by other award - winning titles in the Scientists in the Field series is Carson's latest on the Arizona - based research project Biosphere 2.

But rather than just lie awake at night, the young French artist collaborates with scientists and specialists on rigorous, research - based projects — not to solve these enigmas, but to revel in them.

The Anthropocene Project is based on the research of an international group of scientists making a case to formally change the name of the present geological epoch from Holocene to Anthropocene — the «Human Epoch».

To illustrate this, could you imagine if during the effort to convince the U.S. government to embark on the Manhattan Project, the word «physics» was hardly ever used by the advocates of atom bomb development (who were simply known in this alternate reality as «nuclear * scientists *»), to such an extent that many well - placed non-physicists didn't even realize that the claims of destructive power were based on it?

«Based on evidence raised across our many disciplines, we offer a unified voice calling for a moratorium on new oil sands projects,» the scientists write.

While cruise time will be granted to researchers based on merit, ARICE project coordinators hope the program will increase opportunities for early career researchers and scientists from countries who do not have easy access to an icebreaker.

I will tell you about another scientist from an earlier time, Her name was Leona Woods Libby, she was the only woman that worked on the manhattan project, she was accomplished in developing the first nuclear reactor; after the war she went into the science of climate change based on natural cycles.

Wasdell said that the draft submitted by scientists contained a metric projecting cumulative total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, on the basis of which a «carbon budget» was estimated — the quantity of carbon that could be safely emitted without breaching the 2 degrees Celsius limit to avoid dangerous global warming.

Also, as with the so - called scandal of the CRU emails and FOI requests, no allowance is made for the facts that (a) climate science isn't getting adequate funding, reducing the number of scientists who can afford to do it full time and not work on other projects and (b) involvement in the IPCC is on a volunteer basis, so it's extra, unpaid work that not even every working full - time climate scientist can afford.

bmp» src = «http://blogs.nature.com/climatefeedback/nat%2520geo%2520retr.bmp» width = «200» height = «196» align = «right» / / > Scientists have last week retracted a study which, based on simulations of the past 22,000 years, had projected a 21st century global sea level rise between 7 and 82 centimetres.

As detailed in a July 2016 study, scientists and engineering are also working on a project called GEO - CAPE that will result in the deployment of a new generation of methane - monitoring instruments on geostationary satellites that can monitor methane sources in North and South America on a more continuous basis.

One important source of guidance is Project Drawdown, a global coalition of researchers, scientists, economists and others, that, in recent years, has built a model to evaluate and rank the top active solutions to global warming, based on their actual impact on greenhouse gas emissions.

To pass the time during their voyage, players can access Project Discovery and help scientists sift through real - world astronomical data and identify possible exoplanets based on the criteria provided by scientists.