Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
...als are currently heavily hunted for food in their homeland of Madagascar,and naturalists believe they will become extinct within a decade. The expedition aims to capture three diademed sifakas -- a mate for Romeoand another breeding pair. Once captured, the animals will be temporarilyhoused at the Ivoloina ...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
...Romeo, in an October 2-16 expedition to thelemurs' homeland in Madagascar. Duke Primate Center Director Kenneth Glanderand his colleagues said Monday they sighted groups of rare diademed sifakaslike Romeo, but were unable to come close enough for a capture. The diademed sifaka is the largest living lemur and...Duke Lemurs Are Released In Madagascar
...edented effort to return endangeredlemurs to their homeland of Madagascar has emerged from the depths of theforest preserve to report that the five captive-born animals from Duke'sPrimate Center now roam free for the first time in their lives. Project leader Charles Welch reported that the black-and-white ru...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...e animals -- alsoworks against its survival in its homeland of Madagascar. Superstitious Malagasybelieve that if an aye-aye points its finger at them, they're doomed to die, sothey kill the animals on sight when they encounter them during the day. True to its patchwork appearance, the aye-aye is a bundle of b...Four More Lemurs To Be Released Into Madagascar Jungle This Fall
...later this month back into the wilderness of their homeland inMadagascar in the second year of a project to replenish wild stocks of theirspecies. The release will mark the opening of another chapter in a scientificadventure that has seen both success and misfortune, as well as new insightsinto the co...Biologists work to preserve rainforests endangered plants
...s. Their previous field siteshave been in Plair's homeland of Trinidad, and much of the laboratory work isdone at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden's Center for Research ofEndangered Wildlife (CREW). Pence is head of the Plant Conservation Division atCREW and an adjunct faculty member at UC. Plair is ...Striking back at biological invaders
.... In these cases,predators from an exotic species' homeland are imported and released to subduethe invader, like the weevil brought in to take on the tumbleweed in the westernUnited States. A third news story reports on the increasing demand forbiocontrol and why some scientists are worried that these new rec......and timber there. The launch area is part of the homeland of the Warao people, whose settlements date back 7000 years and are only now being excavated. "Building a rocket launch site will very probably destroy the archaeological record here before it has been fully explored," says Terry Roopnaraine, a Guyan...PNNL science, technology help keep America safe
... technology for multiplexed biodetection units for homeland defense applications. Special polymer senses nerve agents Detecting invisible chemical agent vapors is important in monitoring the safety of air in buildings or subways, and for protecting first responders to terrorist incidents. Scientists at......oviet activist and, in 1971, was expelled from his homeland by the KGB and hired by Northeastern in 1976. Since that time, Gorlov patented a device to foil car bombers and, in 1990, received a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for energy research. Gorlov also helped design the Aswan Dam in Egy...Institute to counter agricultural terrorism formalized
...road-based ongoing input to officials charged with homeland security, he said. "It's quite important in my view to start now to develop the entire spectrum of tools that we need both those for the immediate future and those that will be real problem solvers and breakthroughs in the future," Clarke said. Texas...... School offers inside look at Sensor Networks from homeland defense, environment and healthcare San Diego, Feb. 8 The emerging field of sensor networks will revolutionize the wireless Internet, and help advance the nations capability to analyze data and make informed decisions. National technology leaders...Office of Naval Research awards $8.4M to young investigators
...lance, such as the tracking of human activities in homeland defense. Dr. Scott D. Stoller, Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook will be investigating methods for the testing and verification of computer software in distributed heterogeneous open systems. The research will focus on different aspects of fault...Definitive analysis of President's FY2003 R&D budget available
...or the high-priority areas of defense, health, and homeland security. Echoing last year's request, however, the President would target the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for increases, leaving all other R&D programs overall with flat or declining budgets. Among the tre...NNSA's Livermore Lab partners with cities and counties to track biological, chemical releases
...grated with appropriate federal agency support for homeland security applications. In the initial stages of the pilot project, NARAC tools and services will be integrated with existing Seattle technology. The systems will be tested, evaluated and the operational capability demonstrated for emergency prepared...Two plans win Northeastern Universitys business plan competition
...sing mass spectrometers in life science/biopharma, homeland security, and environmental applications. CSIs unique data analysis software leverages the high cost of instrumentation against the need to obtain real-time information now. CSIs technology is patented. The two winning entries were chosen from mor...Homeland security highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
In this special issue dedicated to homeland security-related technologies and training, we are...on. Homeland security goes global - Protecting the homeland doesn't always begin at home. Preventing materials or components of a weapon of mass destruction fr...UCSD researchers fabricate tiny 'smart dust' particles
...bioreactor.htm (liver cell bioreactor) Additional homeland security story ideas at http://homelandsecurity.ucsd.edu...Enzyme discovery to benefit homeland security, industry
...nt of novel sensor and decontamination systems for homeland security, environmental protection and energy generation as well as new industrial chemicals and separations. "For decades, scientists have been searching for ways to immobilize soluble enzymes with a variety of solid materials. But the results ha...Artificial intelligence, swimmer detectors, and blast resistant structures
...s to support anti-terrorism, force protection, and homeland defense, many of the programs selected for award were responding specifically to an anti-terrorism Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). In Ireland, for example, ONR will fund a program to address the use of artificial intelligence and intelligence agent...