Scholar: hurricanes helped shape Cuban culture, history
...s, many others have come, but the hits of the 19th century have enabled Perez, who has studied Cuba and the Caribbean for 25 years, to examine the fallout over decades that followed. The example was equally as dramatic for the peoples understanding of what they were experiencing, he said.For years, hurricane...Keck grant launches Gulf Coast Consortia
..."The realm of the biological scientist in the 21st century intersects with that of the computer scientist, mathematician, statistician, chemist, engineer and physicist. The GCC will bring together complementary and disparate faculty expertise to define and develop new methodologies to study the function and ...Answers to Florida bay restoration are clear as mud!
...rstand natural ecosystem variability prior to 20th century human disturbance, explains Wingard. Striking changes to plant and animal communities in Florida Bay during the last few decades are driving massive ecosystem restoration efforts both in the bay and in the Everglades. Salinity and water quality are......llenges the global community will face in the 21st century is environmental quality, says Syracuse University Vice Chancellor and Provost Deborah A. Freund. The symposium will bring together scholars and experts from distinct disciplines who have a lot to offer each other. By encouraging the discussion acros...Researchers uncover a piece of nature's secret nitrogen formula
... roots of plants. Since the early part of the 20th century when chemist Fritz Haber discovered that iron can be used on a large scale to fix nitrogen, iron has been recognized as playing an important role as a catalyst. Bacteria also use iron, but Holland has found that the way in which bacteria's iron is bo...New study shows that salmon 'feed' the very forests that nurture them
...r in-stream habitat can be produced in less than a century along salmon rivers as opposed to taking over three centuries along rivers without salmon. Because of the mutually dependent relationship between salmon and riparian vegetation, a decline in salmon could cause changes in the riparian forest. Those c......e American Fisheries Society now recognizes a half century of commitment to excellence, dedication, and intellectual development with its highest award for professional excellence. Sauls journey as a scientist has indelibly left its mark on the field and on all those whose lives he has touched. He was an ea...American Chemical Society meeting features cutting-edge research August 26-30 in Chicago
...e Great Lakes region and energy needs for the 21st century will be featured at a gathering of worlds largest ...bargoed until 10:15 a.m. ) Energy in the 21st century A one-day symposium will view the current energy situation and make suggestions for the future. To...Scientists weigh costs of mycotoxin-contaminated crops
...toxins for hundreds of years, as early as the 11th century AD, states Kitty Cardwell, a plant health researcher formerly with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and organizer of the meeting on mycotoxins. Certain foods like nuts, corn, barley, and wheat are the most susceptible and because m...Widespread 'superbug' is expert at acquiring drug-resistance
...ity of this clone over a period of close to a half century documents the remarkable fitness of this staphylococcal lineage." "The most challenging question to answer next will be what factors, what genetic determinants are responsible for the evolutionary success of such epidemic strains," says Tomasz. "Un...To suppress or not to suppress: Questioning the ponderosa pine model of forest fire management
...ression of surface fires by humans during the last century has led to a large accumulation of fuel, which has in turn led to an increase in damaging and uncontrollable fires in the crown areas of trees. In order to manage fire risk, land managers have adopted a method of planned or "prescribed" burns, wher...Scientists examine the seas our ancestors fished to better understand today's changing oceans
...sion in the Americas and South Pacific in the 15th century to the present; and ecological studies from the past century to help calibrate the other records. They found that the three cultural stages they examined --abori...Scientists: Collapse of coastal ecosystems tied to past overfishing
...e to current populations paint a bleak picture. A century ago, an estimated 104,000 dugongs, a type of sea cow, swam in the waters of Moreton Bay, Australia; now there are just 500. Where Atlantic cod in the Gulf of Maine once measured an average of about 3 feet, todays average size is about a foot. Where s...Overfishing sets the stage for other problems in marine ecosystems
...exhaustable resource,it wasn't until the last half century that cod became rare in coastalzones. Since then, increased lobster and sea urchin abundances may be theresult of those former prey species living in a new predator-free world,he adds. The article notes that a lack of historical perspective has l...Famous coral reefs damaged due to global warming will take a century to recover, says new research.
...s most exclusive diving areas will take at least a century to recover. Huge swathes of the coral at Rangiroa in French Polynesia died during three months of exceptionally warm weather in 1998, when sea temperatures soared to an average of 32 degrees centigrade for the first time. Research by Newcastle Univ...Warmer climate linked to earlier frog calling
...n the U.S. To assess climate change over the last century in the Ithaca area, Gibbs and Breisch used historical records of the average daily maximum temperatures from November through June, which are key months for the timing of frog reproduction. During five of these key months, the temperatures increased ...World land database charts a troubling course
... 300-year period between the beginning of the 18th century and today. The database, says Ramankutty, is intended to provide a comprehensive picture of the growing dominance of human land use on global land-cover patterns. Data sets, he notes, could be used within global climate models and global ecosystem m......removed in 1899 NORTHAMPTON, Mass.--Just over a century ago, industrialist and railroad magnate Edward Har...ime capsule of data from 1899 in the light of 21st century methodologies and sensibilities. The expedition and its findings will be the subject of a nationall...Climate change and coral reefs
...nt, but their fate may be determined in the coming century by the relative rates and timing of sea level rise, global warming and other anthropogenic impacts. Disentangling these effects is a complex problem. Corals can only grow within a very narrow window of ecological conditions, determined by depth, t...Heritability of attitudes: Twin research in religious perspective
...ot add much to the heuristic developed more than a century ago by the great biologists of the nineteenth century. Richard Lewontin noted that part of the impact of Darwins work was to establish a materialist metaphysic at the heart of our understanding of the human. The current data reinforce the fundament...