Sentences with phrase «system scientists»

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

«Limiting total CO2 emissions from the start of 2015 to beneath 240 billion tonnes of carbon − 880 billion tonnes of CO2 — or about 20 years of current emissions would likely achieve the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,» says study leader Richard Millar, a climate system scientist at the University of Oxford.

An early major contribution of social systems scientists occurred in the late 1970s, when Qian's protégé, missile scientist Song Jian, led a team whose computer - generated projections showed China's population rising to 4 billion by 2080.

«It's a really cool piece of work,» said system scientist Charles «Chick» Macal, who was, however, not involved with the study.

In January 2000, Carreras, Dobson and Newman reported the overabundance of big blackouts at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), one of the biggest and longest - running annual gatherings for systems scientists.

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As more and more of the Earth's surface sees these traditional biological zones transformed into «anthropogenic biomes» dominated by humans, Earth - system scientists expect the planet's functioning to become steadily more unstable.

«It took more than half a year to finish the data collection,» says Cenyu Shen of the Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, who conducted the survey with fellow information systems scientist Bo - Christer Björk.

«This paper is a big step forward beyond that initial effort,» said lead author and PSU systems scientist Erin Kenzie.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography, including one by UCI Earth system scientist Mathieu Morlighem, use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenland's west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and sea level rise.

«Assessing the readability of campaign speeches is a little tricky because most measures are geared to the written word, yet text is very different from the spoken word,» said Maxine Eskenazi, LTI principal systems scientist who performed the analysis with Elliot Schumacher, a graduate student in language technologies.

The type provides context, enabling Wyvern to identify a sublanguage associated with that type in the same way that a person would realize that a conversation about gourmet dining might include some French words and phrases, explained Joshua Sunshine, ISR systems scientist.

Soon after, systems scientists began assessing the feasibility of building the titanic Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

According to published papers, China's hard systems scientists also use approaches derived from Qian's work to monitor public opinion and gauge crowd behavior.

In a building flanked by military guards, systems scientists from CALSSE sit around a large conference table, explaining to Science the complex diagrams behind their studies on controlling systems.

They play off one another and it's like a tug of rope almost,» says Evan Mills, an environmental and energy systems scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

«The formation of living structures such as the bridges is one of the most fascinating examples of the collective capabilities of ant colonies,» says Simon Garnier, a complex systems scientist with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who was not involved with this study.

October 26, 2016 Restoring the sense of touch in amputees using natural signals of the nervous system Scientists at the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University have found a way to produce realistic sensations of touch in two human amputees by directly stimulating the nervous system.

JPL Sampling System Scientist Luther Beegle provides an update.

Systems scientists there produced a study consisting almost entirely of charts, tables, and graphs, plus brief analyses of what the numbers signified, which amounted to a major «Oops!»

Van Butsic, a land system scientist at U.C. Berkeley, is the author of a new report by the Public Policy Institute of California that recommends some changes in state law and a shift in public attitude when it comes to how California handles its drought - induced tree mortality.

The problem is that those who want to colonise and redefine the Anthropocene completely miss the central point being made by Earth system scientists like Paul Crutzen, Will Steffen and Jan Zalasiewicz.

A way to try and split the difference has been propounded by a group of Earth - system scientists inspired by (and including) Dr Crutzen under the banner of «planetary boundaries».

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She is an award - winning agricultural social systems scientist, and has been Professor of Value Chains at the University of Southern Queensland since February 2015.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

These predictions are part of a system scientists call relative timing, which helps the brain process repetitive sounds, like a musical rhythm.

Geoengineering may still not look that attractive, but «we should be undertaking research on these technologies so they could be available if and when we need them,» says Shepherd, an Earth systems scientist.

The following are edited excerpts from extensive e-mails that I received from Robert Socolow, an energy expert at Princeton University who co-authored the original wedges paper, and Steven Davis, an earth systems scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who is the lead author of the new update.

The findings provide a better understanding of where and when in a system scientists can interfere with bacterial communication to help prevent infections and blockages.

«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.

Zhu says he has no doubt that systems scientists can make projects such as the social credit system more effective.

«When the policymakers came in and started asking questions, [they] were talking about variables that weren't in the models,» says Gerald Midgley, a systems scientist at the University of Hull in the United Kingdom.

Popular discourse now acknowledges that modern China's first leader, Mao Zedong, «was a human being,» says Zhichang Zhu, a systems scientist at the Xiamen University Malaysia in Sepang.

More recently, the involvement of China's systems scientists in designing the country's digital infrastructure has raised similar questions about whether the scientists are aiding the state at the expense of the public.

Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, calls the study «a very significant step» in understanding the health implications of international trade.

Researchers in China often approach megaprojects like Three Gorges «from the perspective of how to successfully implement the project whose execution has already been decided politically,» says Yoshiteru Nakamori, a systems scientist and former dean of the School of Knowledge Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Nomi.

«What we've done is quantify in terms of the numbers of deaths this tradeoff between economic development and environmental impact, some of which is hidden by international trade,» says Steven Davis, a co-author and earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine.

As with the one - child policy, though, the systems scientists entrusted with studying the Three Gorges Dam devoted little time to consulting people whom the project would affect most.

«Using satellite data, we continue to measure the evolution of the grounding line of these glaciers, which helps us determine their stability and how much mass the glacier is gaining or losing,» said the Earth system scientist.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

«Less spatially detailed models often struggle to simulate the jet stream's complex behavior,» said Dr. Jian Lu, PNNL Earth systems scientist, lead author of the paper.

If we listen to what Earth system scientists, including climate scientists, are telling us, the warming of the Earth due to human causes is a slowly unfolding catastrophe.