Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...ionships among fish stocks and the fisheries that harvest them. By tracing out the biological and economic effects of alternative fisheries policies, such a model provides support for resource managers. The proposed coastal hydrography and circulation project will establish a suite of observational an...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
...waters. If they had sufficient warning, they could harvest at least a portion of their ripening crops, move some livestock to safety, encircle fish ponds with nets to prevent fish from escaping, and stock food and other supplies. "The goal here is to help very local, grassroots economies," Hopson explains....Researchers watch antibiotics, bacteria meet at atomic level
...ex to increase the efficiency of bacteria that can harvest biofuels, Artsimovitch said. We think that this mobile loop is a hot spot for regulating transcription in all living organisms, not only by using antibiotics but also by manipulating cellular factors, she said....Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
...iego who managed the data. And we need to reliably harvest this information at sea, thousands of miles from our shore-based labs, and to preserve it as a unique snapshot of these iceberg ecosystems at this point in history. Using SDSC-developed technologies, Helly collected the data using the SIOExplorer-...On-farm research shows farmers that they can use less nitrogen
...in the silage," Kiechle said. "I had been happy to harvest 18 tons of corn silage on my clay soils, so when we harvested 20 tons in 2006, I was excited." This year, Kiechle is applying half the nitrogen he used last year. "This on-farm research trial showed I was just wasting money to apply more. I cut back,...Rove beetles act as warning signs for clear-cutting consequences
...of mature forest beetles that survived the initial harvest would eventually die out or migrate elsewhere within a few years of harvest. The more forests are harvested, the more mature forest species, such as the rove beetle, become threatened by fragmentation and loss of habitat. This study is significant ...Study helps preserve Arctic whale, Eskimo subsistence hunt
...ing Commission ruled last week to allow Eskimos to harvest 56 whales per year, the same quota that had been in place but had expired. "Eskimos have been whaling for more than 2,000 years and have never endangered the bowhead whale," said Bickham, the professor of forestry and natural resources who present...Reprogrammed fibroblasts identical to embryonic stem cells
...t cells. The trick would be to figure out a way to harvest Oct4- and Nanog-active cells from the rest of the population. The answer came in the form of a laboratory technique called homologous recombination. Here, the scientists took genetic material known to be resistant to the toxic drug neomycin, and s...New screening method to help find better biofuel crops
...so we can determine if there is an optimal time to harvest a particular crop. Plant material for the project will be provided by collaborator Ken Moore, Iowa State University agronomy professor and expert in biomass crop systems. While the scope of this project will be used to study biofuel crops, Smith ...Cold Spring Harbor Protocols features methods to understand embryos, clones, stem cells
...normal cellular environment). It specifies how to harvest native chromatin from a variety of cell types, fractionate the chromatin into manageable fragments, and then use an antibody to tag and isolate the proteins that possess specific epigenetic marks. Because the proteins remain bound to the DNA, the re...Flexible genes allow ants to change destiny
...ogical impact because of the amount of leaves they harvest and are a significant pest for several crops. They particularly like citrus and Eucalyptus trees and a colony of the Atta species can defoliate a tree in a single night. They have been estimated to remove 17 per cent of leaf production in some tropic...The Institute of Ecosystem Studies recognized by the Wildlife Society
... revealed useful information about maximizing deer harvest and hunter safety, assessing vegetation response to deer control, implementing deer deterrents, evaluating how management impacts deer population health, and training and retaining a cadre of informed hunters. Findings have been published in Northeas...Salmon tracking program expands to California
...anagers can make in-season decisions and allow the harvest of healthy stocks while mitigating the harvest of weakened runs. The ultimate goal is to avoid shutting down the entire coastal fishery as happene...Climate policy: It's good to be in the 'RED'
...as oil- and ore-rich nations exercise the right to harvest those resources. As such, many proposed solutions are centered on direct economic incentives to reduce rates of tree clearing. However, the authors of the policy article describe low-cost measures that can enhance the success of carbon-trade system...Climate change a threat to Indonesian agriculture, study says
...nce 1983. Indonesia has two rice harvests-the main harvest in December and January and a smaller one in late ...ns call the "hungry season." Planting for the main harvest usually begins in October with the coming of the monsoon rains. The researchers found that rice pr...Meeting the ethanol challenge: Scientists use supercomputer to target cellulose bottleneck
...undant plant material, from corn stalks left after harvest to wood chips from papermills and fast-growing weeds. "Our simulations have given us a better understanding of the interactions between the enzyme complex and cellulose at the molecular level -- the computer model showed us how the binding portion...How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones
... on the effects on vulnerability of fragmentation, harvest systems, and other aspects of stand structure."...New diagnostic technologies offer non-invasive means
...hem to run through the circulatory system and then harvest them by simple blood withdrawal for analysis. Whil...nts. In the meantime the particles can be used to harvest candidate biomarkers from a tube of blood drawn from patients. "There is a tremendous need to iden...New study sheds light on long-term effects of logging after wildfire
...pril 9, 2007. A new study on the effects of timber harvest following wildfire shows that the potential for a recently burned forest to reburn can be high with or without logging. Recently published in the journal, Forest Ecology and Management, the study demonstrates that the likelihood of a severe reburn i......tons a yearroughly equivalent to the entire annual harvest of all the commercial fisheries on Earth. Humans also are big consumers of squid, including jumbo squid, now the target of a thriving commercial fishery in Baja California. "Even though this species is found only in the eastern Pacific, it reaches ...