Sentences with phrase «with ecological data»

The US researchers drew up the initial list of all suspect species by combining information on outbreaks with ecological data.

Not exact matches

During 2015 Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project (SMS) and Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER) began involvement via our Schoolyard K - 12 education program with the Michigan State University NSF sponsored Data Nuggets activity.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

A new in - depth analysis of global bycatch data provides fisheries and the conservation community with the best information yet to help mitigate the ecological damage of bycatch and helps identify where mitigation measures are most needed.

But with enough data and a novel statistical framework, we now have timings that are precise enough to correlate them with ecological and cultural shifts.»

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

The team will couple their social, ecological and phytochemical data with climate data to develop models that predict the future of maple syrup production.

She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including Environmental and Molecular Analysis of Disease, Ecological Analysis with GIS, and Where the City Meets the Sea, where students are challenged to develop research questions, collect data and communicate their scientific findings.

She also manages the Farallon Institute's Integrated Marine Ecological Database (IMED) with physical and biological data sets for the California Current.

To address this uncertainty, the science, education, computing and engineering communities provided input to NEON's design, with the shared goal of creating a long - term ecological observatory that collects and provides a diverse suite of comparable and consistent ecological data at multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Come learn how drones are being used to detect environmental hazards such as gas leaks and airborne disease microbes, how planes equipped with sensors can tell us about ecological change and how DIY sensors placed in homes by journalists generate data and stories about the impact of heat waves.

Some screens compile this information via a questionnaire with numerical scoring (such as the Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit), while others assemble the data qualitatively (e.g. Ecological Risk Screening Summary, which has been used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assess many species, including the 43 in the aforementioned petition).

With a wilderness over twice the size of Yellowstone comprised of complex and abundant ecosystems, Katmai offers a wealth of ecological data for everything from the habits of brown bears to the adaptations of tundra plants.

[6] As a first step they are developing data management solutions with partners at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis for two new data streams: broadband acoustic data and Automatic Identification System (AIS) data on ship travel.

Prior to working with NIDIS, Kat worked at the National Ecological Observatory Network developing web and print communication resources and improving the usability of online interactive data visualization tools in conjunction with staff from the National Geographic Society's FieldScope Program.

Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.

I'm used to using PCA in an ecological context with a multivariate dataset where you might have all sorts of different types of data like various species abundances, and you plot PC1 vs PC2 to look at how different communities fall out.

Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.

Currently, monitoring is taking place in a variety of contexts, and some data - sharing and uniformity of data sharing is emerging with efforts such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).23 But in general different things are being monitored in different ecosystems, and there is little coordination among different groups.

This requires comparing changes observed over decades and centuries to long - term ecological baselines of change interpreted from relevant prehistoric records — much as the climate community has done with comparing recent changes with prehistoric proxy data (Barnosky et al., 2012; Hadly and Barnosky, 2009).