UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay
...maller reefs seem to show the best results. Oyster harvesting in the Great Bay estuary system ( http://www.oyste...ypically several hundred licenses for recreational harvesting issued each year by the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Also, the effect on water quality co...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces 2006 winners of Leonard M. Rieser Fellowship
...ocus on a rainwater catchment system, as rainwater harvesting has proved successful in East Africa. With village leaders, his team will also develop a written agreement on how water resources will be allocated, how access will be insured, and who will maintain the water supply....Massive marsh planting to begin in coastal Alabama and Mississippi
...tious schedule of restoration involves two days of harvesting black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus), constructing a sand wedge at the erosion site, and then transplanting the Juncus sp. to the sand wedge. The program involves the coordinated efforts of Dr. Cebrian and his students with the Dauphin Island Sea L...Researchers discover way to transport environmental arsenic to plant leaves in new clean-up strategy
... needed to be moved into the plant leaves for safe harvesting and disposal. In the just-reported research, the team identified a single gene, ACR2, in the Arabidopsis genome as one that allows the plants to move sequestered arsenic in roots. By engineering plant lines with a silenced ACR2 gene, they discovered...Molecular discoveries aim at advancing early diagnosis of cancers
...s or patients with diseases other than cancer." By harvesting messenger RNA from circulating cells in the blood, Morre and his colleagues were able to amplify the message for tNOX using the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The message was elevated in patients with cancer, but not in healthy indi...Red Tide causes sea turtle die-off in El Salvador
...creased but are high enough to maintain the ban on harvesting shellfish. Red Tide events have become increasingly common around the world, causing significant impacts on wild marine animal populations, massive economic losses to shellfish producers, and occasionally human deaths. While the algal blooms are a n...With a sense of timing, hummingbirds know when they've last emptied a flower
...measures of time intervals would support efficient harvesting of nectar. In the new work, the researchers found that free-living hummingbirds tested in their breeding territories in the Canadian Rocky Mountains have timing abilities that are considerably more impressive than those that have been shown previousl...Hawaii's anthurium growers cope with plant disease
...thurium blight include sanitation, disinfection of harvesting containers, chemical sprays, modification of cultural practices, production of pathogen-free planting stocks in vitro, use of resistant cultivars, and biological control....The rising tide of ocean plagues: How humans are changing the dynamics of disease
...and domoic acid levels in mussels. In California, harvesting of mussels and other shellfish is banned when their tissues contain levels of domoic acid over the deadly 200 parts per million. At lower levels, however, there is no public warning system. "I wouldn't eat shellfish during any sort of harmful algal ...Grand challenge seeks carbon sequestration, hydrogen production solutions
...vironment. They make significant contributions to harvesting solar energy, sequestering carbon, bio-assimilatin...se Cyanobacteria make significant contributions to harvesting solar energy, planetary carbon sequestration, metal acquisition, and hydrogen production in marine a...Early California: A killing field
...ogical research on the state's native peoples. The harvesting methods and strategies of native peoples have been suggested to have promoted the apparent superabundance of wildlife, and have been proposed as models for the management of wilderness areas and national parks today." Broughton says his study challe...Fewer fish eggs, smaller fish result from over-fishing
The practice of harvesting the largest individuals from a fish population int...e only one to simulate the evolutionary impacts of harvesting in a laboratory setting." Study results will appear in the February issue of Ecology Letters. Focusi...'Darwinian debt' may explain why fish stocks don't recover
...iversity believes they have an answer: continually harvesting the largest and oldest fish (as fishing regulations typically require) alters not only size but also numerous other genetic characteristics that are harmful to the overall population. As reported in Ecology Letters, the researchers experimentally har......ations demonstrate is that, although algae live by harvesting the sun's energy through photosynthesis, many of them are like animals in that they need another organism to supply them with a vital nutrient. This has implications for how we consider the ecosystems in the world's oceans." Professor Julia Goodfello...Plant-derived vaccines safeguard against deadly plague
...of 10 days, we can go from infecting the plants to harvesting the plants. From there, we purify the antigens in an additional one to two weeks to create the vaccine." The approach also eliminates the typical year-long lag time necessary to establish and characterize genetically modified, or transgenic plants. ...Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
... are taking an ecosystem approach, considering how harvesting one species will impact other species that rely upon it. However, so little is known about the diet of the murrelet that a study like this is important in informing fishery management decisions." "Our study also highlights the need to consider locati...Modern forests suffer from century-old logging legacy
...s were left to regrow after experimental clear-cut harvesting and burning anywhere from 6 to 68 years ago. This experimental disturbance imposed by researchers was in addition to the widespread logging and fire destruction of the early 20th century. Several adjacent plots that had not been experimentally harves...Abalones along Pacific coast may owe their huge, dinner-plate size to sea otters
...r seal for their pelts. By the time otter and seal harvesting was outlawed in the early 1900s, the otter was thought to be extinct. Abalone populations rose, and abalones moved into more open spots, even developing a more peaked shell since they no longer needed a slim shell to hide in crevices. "We got a taste...Pall Corporation presents approach for speeding vaccine production to Shanghai conference
...ccine development cycle from cell fermentation and harvesting to downstream processing steps. Disposables offer lower installation costs compared to stainless steel systems and eliminate cleaning and cleaning validation. These factors significantly lower labor and maintenance costs and reduce the time require...Selective logging causes widespread destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, study finds
...p to 30 more can be severely damaged by the timber harvesting operation itself. That's because when trees are cu...t 50 percent of the canopy damage caused by timber harvesting operations," Asner and his co-authors wrote. The Science study was conducted in close collaboration ...