Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
... the result using existing ocean observatories and terrestrial IT infrastructure. The other half of the award will be administered by UCSD, with most of the work to be carried out by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT) 2 ]. ...Bush nominates NJIT space explorer Louis Lanzerotti to NSF governing board
...oblems related to the impact of space processes on terrestrial technologies, and those in space. Lanzerotti holds a B.S. in engineering physics from the University of Illinois and masters and doctoral degrees in physics from Harvard University. He has authored more than 500-refereed publications and co-auth...Alaska scientists find Arctic tundra yields surprising carbon loss
...en to plants. Nitrogen limits plant growth in most terrestrial ecosystems, said Bret-Harte" "What's really surprising about this result is that we didn't expect that this big loss of carbon from the soils would be stimulated by nitrogen alone. Everyone had assumed increased decomposition would be caused by incre...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...ish the Patagonia Coastal Zone Management Plan. In terrestrial regions, WCS is working on the Patagonian steppes to safeguard habitats of fox, puma, mara and Andean cat. Currently, WCS works with Chilean organizations in Bernardo O'Higgins National Park, a spectacular protected area known for its fjords, glacie...Genetic analysis rewrites salamander's evolutionary history
...ult. The new family tree shows, however, that some terrestrial salamanders regained their larval stage after moving back to the water. This may have happened in three separate lineages of Plethodontids, which is surprising for a seemingly complex feature biologists have assumed arose just once, very early in the...Berkeley Lab soil scientist Margaret Torn receives Presidential Early Career Award
... her innovative research on climate change and the terrestrial carbon cycle. She is one of four researchers from ...am members realized the first regional climate and terrestrial ecosystem supercomputer model that couples the land surface to the mesoscale; as a consequence, Berk...Genetic map of important tree genes outlined
... trees as "a life form of paramount importance for terrestrial ecosystems and human societies," because of their ecological dominance and provision of so much energy and industrial materials for human societies. "Arabidopsis is still the plant model that will first give us the basic answers to how plants functio...Integrative biology of exercise APS Intersociety meeting October 6-9, 2004 in Austin
.... Comparative biomechanics and muscle function in terrestrial vertebrates: in vivo studies. Chair Donald F. Hoyt and James Hicks. In addition to the formal sessions, a large portion of the day is set aside for the volunteered abstracts/poster sessions with the authors, and networking. At the closing banquet,...Meteorites supplied Earth life with phosphorus
...ment and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. But where terrestrial life got its phosphorus has been a mystery, he add...lues to life's orgin," Pasek said. The most common terrestrial form of the element is a mineral called apatite. When mixed with water, apatite releases only very s...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...r plants and animals that inhabit both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems," says Eddy Rubin, JGI Director. "By making JGI's powerful resources available to non-traditional end-users of sequence through the CSP we hope to advance knowledge across such vital topics as alternative energy production and bioremedia...T. rex owes its giant size to the ultimate teenage growth spurt
...-kilogram (11,000-pound) giant, one of the largest terrestrial carnivorous animals ever. "Knowing the lifeline is important because we now understand the evolution of T. rex's giantism, one of the most fascinating aspects of dinosaurs," said Peter Makovicky, PhD, Dinosaur Curator at The Field Museum and a coaut...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...d for a Leadership Award for his work in defending terrestrial wildlife in southernmost South America. Harris is president of Fundacion Patagonia Natural, the largest non-profit wildlife conservation organization in southern Argentina, as well as Southern Cone Regional Coordinator for the New York-based Wildlife...Climate change could doom Alaska's tundra
...ing and expert on the effects of climate change on terrestrial vegetation.She spoke at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. More precipitation, an overall loss of soil carbon, a probable reduction in forest fires and a likely increase in insect and pathogen attacks on trees are also pro......e more than 4,000. As chemists continue to explore terrestrial and marine organisms for new medicinal agents, a fraction of these natural chemicals will invariably contain chlorine or bromine, elements that have been a normal component of all life since the birth of our planet."...Carnivore extinction risk determined more by biology than human population density, says study
.... Now we intend to extend our methods to all 4,500 terrestrial mammals, to see if there are general predictors of extinction risk and that these rules apply between orders of animals." In the PLoS study, the researchers took all 280 of the well-characterised carnivore species and assessed human impact on each of...Scientists call for better protection for coral reefs
...cologicaldamage to reefs as a result of pollution, terrestrial runoff, turbidityand sedimentation. ISRS Briefing Paper 3 discusses the effects that global climatechanges like warmer temperatures, higher precipitation, rising sealevels and increasing solar radiation can have on sensitive reefecosystems. ISRS ...New version of premier global climate model released
...mprovements in simulating atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial processes," Collins says. "It has done remarkably well in reproducing the climate of the last century, and we're now ready to begin using it to study the climate of the next century." As scientists learn more about the atmosphere, the wor...Stanford researchers go from heaven to Earth in 'lifeguard' test
... data of use to the space program and is exploring terrestrial uses as well. Today Montgomery, a researcher in the School of Medicine's surgery department, is director of engineering at the Stanford University-NASA National Center for Space Biological Technologies, and Mundt, also a researcher in su...Alternative states in the ocean
...cterizing potentially permanent transformations of terrestrial grasslands to forests....It is usually thought that unlike terrestrial plants, submerged plants like algae will not show any response to an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. This view may be biased by a neglect of the effects of the plants themselves on the water chemistry. In the June issue of Ecology Letters ,...