Symposium relates long-term ecological research to ecosystem management
...ce to Ecosystem Management." Thesymposium will be held at the National Science Foundation (NSF),which fun...the fourth such annual review of LTERscience to be held at NSF headquarters, and will build on thesuccesses of the first three symposia. *******************...GM nation? Public debate: a valuable experiment
...cussed at a meeting today (19 February 2004) to be held at the British Academy in London....Exposure to low-level magnetic fields causes DNA damage in rat brain cells, researchers find
...r effects. Traditionally, scientists have held that low-level electromagnetic fields couldn't be harmful because they weren't potent enough to break chemical bonds in a living organism. Lai doesn't disagree he simply suspects a more subtle mechanism is at work. He believes that the fields, rat...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
...cal Analysis of Multiscale Geophysical Data" to be held on February 16. "Sometimes scientists have a single measurement and they are unable to get another measurement," Vidakovic explained. "Sometimes they would like to have an ensemble of measurements with similar boundary conditions so the heterogeneit...Jefferson researchers uncover biochemical clues to how cells migrate in embryos
...s important in cancer metastasis. "It's a commonly held view among scientists that many pathways common to cancer are in some regard a recapitulation of the pathways involved in early development," says Dr. Farber. "A cancer cell growing out of control needs to metastasize to other areas to set up shop. W...U. of Colorado professor pioneering tissue engineering from knees to hearts to brains
...Association for the Advancement of Science meeting held in Seattle Feb. 12 to Feb. 16. She also is collaborating with faculty, researchers and students in the molecular, cellular and developmental biology department to bioengineer human heart valves. Currently, faulty heart valves are replaced with mech...Local, regional governments could take lead in curbing global air pollution
...m on the international transport of air pollution, held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle. She noted that there are many common-pool resources oil reserves, forests, aquifers, even the Internet. There is competition for access to each, but in each case it is d...AAAS hosts 'Battle of the Brains' to choose area student for international competition
...D.C. In a two-step process, local competitions are held between young men and women from North America to determine who is the "best brain" on topics such as intelligence, memory and stress. The winners will be invited to the championship at the University of Maryland at Baltimore in March during Brain Aw...Dinosaur fossil record compiled, analyzed
...nual meeting of the Geological Society of America, held Nov. 2-5, 2003, in Seattle. Heathcote used three different calculations to achieve her results: the Stratigraphic Consistency Index, the Relative Completeness Index and the Gap Excess Ratio. The first is a measure of how well the relationships that ...Symposium focuses on unique challenges of environmental pathogens
...onmental Microorganisms as Human Pathogens," to be held at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Saturday, February 14, 2004, 2:305:30 p.m., in Seattle, WA. The symposium will examine several issues that are vital to current research on environmental path...New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
...oup's results make it difficult to accept the view held by some coral biologists that reduction of grazers by overfishing is the main driving force behind the damaging spread of algae on reefs, a view known as "top-down" control. "Basically, I think the top-down view has been a matter of looking at the p...World's largest-ever sea turtle symposium to address plummeting populations of sea turtles
...sea turtle conservation from 70 countries, will be held in San Jose, Costa Rica at the Herradura Hotel and International Conference Center from February 22 to 29, 2004. The release of the 2004 State of the Sea Turtles report at the end of the symposium will offer the most up-to-date information on the ...MIT student dances with robots
... subjects with varying degrees of dance experience held the "hand" of the PHANToM and managed, for the most part, to successfully follow its unpredictable leads. The key was their familiarity with the moves. It wasn't exactly Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, but it was a solid first step in Gentry's far-of......smids. The reverse engineering patent, however, is held by the biotech company Medimmune of Gaithersburg, Maryland, and the plasmids used are patented by various companies, all of whom will be entitled to payment if their property is used to make a commercial product. Wood says he doesn't know how the ex...Spruce bark beetle outbreaks examined at Alaska Symposium
...orest Ecosystems in South-Central Alaska," will be held in Homer, Alaska, February 24 to 26 at the Land's End Resort. Co-coordinators of the conference are Roger Burnside, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, and Ed Holsten of the USDA Forest Service. "The spruce beetle outbreak peaked in 1996 when abo...Stanford launches public lecture series on genomic medicine
...e: What Does It Tell Us About Ourselves,'' will be held in Fairchild Auditorium on the Stanford campus. Th.... The third lecture, on genomics and race, will be held on Wednesday, March 17, at 6 p.m., following a reception at 5 p.m. The lecture will be delivered by ...The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meets in Boston
...b04@bellsouth.net . Daily media briefings will be held during the meeting, and meeting updates will be posted at http://www.eurekalert.org . Visit http://www.asbmb.org/meetings for more information on the meeting itself. Feb. 11 is the deadline for scientists to submit papers and for students under...AGI announces the winners of Earth Science Week 2003 contests
...ce Week 2003 was a tremendous success, with events held in cities across the U.S. and in several countries. The celebration was officially proclaimed by 21 states and was recognized by President George W. Bush. The theme for Earth Science Week 2003, "Eyes on Planet Earth: Monitoring our Changing World," e...Evolutionary Genomics meeting in Tucson
...d cover the Evolutionary Genomics Conference to be held Jan. 15 through 17 at the Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson, Ariz. The conference is sponsored by the University of Arizona's program in evolutionary, functional and computational genomics and sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Int......se last summer funded by the Agouron Institute and held at the University of Southern California Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies. "We asked two questions. First, what simple organic molecules might have been present on early Earth as starting materials to form ribose? Then, what might have bee...