A Phoenix From A Ring Of Fire Is A Pattern For The Recovery Of Mount St. Helens
...all of us look like chimney sweeps." A celebrated entomologist as well as a developmental neuroscientist, Edwards made a decade-long, detailed study of Mount St. Helens' recovery, beginning just three weeks after the eruption. Of all the contrasts between the Washington volcano and Krakatau, the ...Rice Names Matthews Dean Of Natural Sciences
...a renowned scholar, but she is also a celebrated teacher of undergraduates, superb mentor of undergraduates. "On top of all that, she has been able to hone her organizational and administrative skills to a very fine point. Few academicians possess all ......lingto have a heart transplant," said Nuckols, who celebrated his 57th birthday onAug. 24. Although he had been released from the Mission Viejo hospital after the Februaryheart attack, extreme shortness of breath sent him back on July 7. He wastransferred to Cedars-Sinai two days later to undergo testing and pr...Ringling Bros. announces four Asian elephant pregnancies at Center for Elephant Conservation
... the CEC. Osgood, the CECs most recent addition, celebrated his first birthday on August 16. Born blue or oxygen-deprived, Osgood had to be revived on arrival and was then so weak that he could barely stand without the support of two men to hoist up his 250-pound body. Had Osgood been born in the wild, he wo...The Frozen Zoo: the University of New Orleans and the new world of saving endangered species
... on. A little more than a year ago, New Orleans celebrated the birth of Jazz. No, not the kind practiced by Louis Armstrong and the Marsalis family. This Jazz is a wide-eyed, yowling African wildcat. The African wildcat is endangered, so the birth of any new offspring is cause for celebration. But Jazz's...Betting on climate change: Alaskan gambling contest yields treasure trove of scientific data
A celebrated betting pool in Alaska is providing researchers with a remarkably accurate record of global climate change, according to a new study in the journal Science. And the results show that spring is coming earlier and earlier. Every spring, the Alaskan vil...Fish may show how nature diversifies
... Although the threespine stickleback fish has been celebrated on the currency of the Netherlands and been a star of a pioneering 1928 French documentary film, the fish has found its most receptive audience with biologists, who have been studying it for more than 100 years. In what may be its most important role...PNNL celebrates arrival of powerful NMR
...ergy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory today celebrated the arrival of the world's largest, highest-performance nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer-a first-of-its-kind 900 megahertz (MHz) wide-bore system developed by Oxford Instruments and Varian Inc. The 900 MHz wide-bore nuclear magnetic resonance...Scientist at Robarts Research Institute among Canada's Top 20
...he occasion of its 20th anniversary, which will be celebrated in Victoria, B.C., June 14-17. There the winners will join CIAR researchers in discussing the major intellectual questions of the next 20 years....April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...The Hetang biota is ca. 535-520 Ma--older than the celebrated Chengjiang and Burgess Shale biotas. Unlike the Chengjiang and the Burgess Shale, however, the Hetang biota is dominated by extraordinarily preserved sponge body fossils, towering sponges that dwarf many bilaterally symmetrical animals (bilaterians) ...'The end of the world' has already begun, UW scientists say
...rth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by th...Tufts civil engineer predicts Bostons rising sea levels could cause billions of dollars in damage
...onditions are more severe than expected. "We just celebrated the 25th anniversary of Boston's notorious Blizzard of '78, which created enough damage across coastal Massachusetts to cost $550 million in today's dollars," said Kirshen. "Because of the rising sea level and increased waterfront development, a stor...Project BioShield: Consistent financing, markets, indemnity for biodefense vaccine developers needed
...respects. The Strategic Defense Initiative, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last month, launched a missile defense program whose funding has not dropped below $3 billion dollars annually over two decades. That kind of long-range commitment will convince companies that the government is a serious partner...Lab, OSU join in new microproducts institute
...st National Laboratory and Oregon State University celebrated a "virtual groundbreaking" in Portland, Ore., recently for their new Microproducts Breakthrough Institute. The institute will advance the science of microtechnology, provide educational opportunities through OSU and promote regional development by co...New biography details adventures of 'Fritz Muller, A Naturalist in Brazil'
...eworthy that Brazil's foremost naturalist is being celebrated in this splendid biography. It is a fascinating story." West, who retired from Virginia Tech in 1998, has also published on industrial melanism, butterfly pupal color and pupation behavior, and mimicry in a Brazilian swallowtail butterfly....Plant pathologists to discuss deadly oak diseases
...s to take a close look at this symbolic and highly celebrated tree. Reports of local and regional episodes of oak mortality, outbreaks of new pathogens, and the expansion of known pathogens into new areas appear to be growing. One disease affecting oaks, Sudden Oak Death, has already killed tens of thousands o...Geoscience community outlines cooperative activities
... and the expansion of Earth Science Week, which is celebrated annually during the second full week in October. Closely tied to education is the need for sufficient funding of Federal geoscience programs. As a primary source of essential geological, hydrological, biological, and mapping data, as well as being a...Research on relative species abundance provides new theoretical foundation
...flies in the face of 50 years of research that has celebrated the uniqueness of all species in nature," said Hub...ed the authors to solve one of the oldest and most celebrated theoretical problems in ecology. "Sixty years ago, the great geneticist and statistician, Ronald Fis...Lewis and Clark notes reveal history of human impacts
... As a result, they crafted a journal that has been celebrated for 200 years for its level of scientific detail, daily observations and careful accuracy in reflecting the natural and ecological conditions of the time. The OSU researchers used this data in a computerized geographic information system to create a......cal progress," said Ellis Rubinstein, who recently celebrated his one-year anniversary as the Academy's Chief Executive Officer. "This collaboration is a major milestone in the Academy's broad-based program to reinvigorate its services to our members, the scientific community, and society at large." Mr. Rub...