National Academies Advisory: International Polar Year Event, Feb. 26
...ll mark the start of this initiative with an event hosted by the National Academies and the National Science Foundation. During the ceremony a panel of polar scientists will discuss the latest research and present an overview of expeditions to take place during IPY. There will also be remarks from governm...Are we killing the world's oceans?
...ision-makers as they search for answers at a forum hosted by the University of Victoria on Feb. 21-22. The gathering, which is open to the public, will address scientific and policy issues of critical importance to the future of Earth's oceans. The event is part of a series of Forums on Taboo Topics creat...ESA POLinSAR 2007 -- Imaging forests in 3-D
...f SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry, hosted at ESRIN, ESAs Earth Observation centre in Frascati, Italy, to hear the first space borne results and to attend interactive training sessions. Polarimetric interferometry is performed using two polarimetric SAR images acquired from slightly differe...JDRF-funded researchers discover protein that causes blood vessel leakage and swelling in eyes
...iology, Director of Joslins Proteomics Core, which hosted the study, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. One of the proteins was carbonic anhydrase 1, or CA-1, an enzyme that is normally found in red blood cells. "We suspected that high levels of this protein in the vitreous f...Joslin discovers protein that causes blood vessel leakage and swelling with diabetic retinopathy
...ology, Director of Joslin's Proteomics Core, which hosted the study, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The work was funded by grants from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), the Massachusetts Lions Eye Research Fund, the National Institutes of Health, the Adler ...Wanderlust -- deep-sea fauna under Antarctic ice shelf
...cts of ecosystem components. This workshop will be hosted by the ICM and is supported by the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML). Marine ecologist Julian Gutt is looking to the future: "The minute we have a better understanding of how ecosystems under the ice shelf work we might dare to put forward progn...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...gramme, with 10 partner international agencies and hosted by the Algerian government to conclude the UN International Year for Deserts and Desertification (IYDD), the conference will hear from experts at the forefront of policy efforts to address the problem. Such policies, if successful, could also direct...National Allium Research Conference
...od crops. The National Allium Research Conference, hosted by Texas A&M University's Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, will be at the Hilton Hotel in College Station. Allium is a family of plants that include onion, garlic, chive, leek and shallots, according to Dr. Kilun Yoo, Texas Agricultural Experi...Report outlines funding to conserve half of Massachusetts's land
...nservation finance experts from across the nation, hosted by Harvard University's Center for the Environment and supported by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Those experts recommended funding forest protection through a mix of conventional f...Nano competition debuts at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...This is the first time this type of event has been hosted by a national laboratory," said Alex Fischer, dire...es for nanoscale materials. The center has already hosted nearly 100 outside users from research institutions around the world and industry. ORNL researcher...Environmental toxicology experts to convene at Penn symposium
...d The Environment, Health and Disease, a symposium hosted by the new Center for Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. The Center is the first of its kind in Pennsylvania and will bring together world-renowned experts from the field of environment...IUFRO conference on forest landscape restoration
...wntown Seoul, Republic of Korea. The conference is hosted by the Korea Forest Research Institute and IUFRO Divisions 1, 6, and 8, with sponsorship from the Korea Forest Service, USDA Forest Service, Northeast Asian Forest Forum, and Seoul National University. Updated information concerning the Conference, i......econd annual Public Health Preparedness Symposium, hosted by the Northeastern Ohio Consortium for Biopreparedness (NEOCB) at Kent State University, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Kiva, Kent Student Center. The format will include four morning speakers and multiple afternoon sessions, inclu...Society of Nuclear Medicine offers free access to Journal of Nuclear Medicine
...T open access articles are available on a Web site hosted by HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources. JNM and JNMT will be two of more than 800 scholarly journals posted on that site ( http://jnm.snmjournals.org )....University of Pittsburgh to host Global Health Conference
...junction with LaRoche College in Pittsburgh, which hosted the first two meetings in 2004 and 2005. Members of the media are invited to attend. Global Problems, Global Solutions: Health, Dignity and Human Rights will highlight programs and approaches that have shown promise for effectively addressing a vari...It's not fair! We are programmed to resist weight loss
...d at an international gathering of obesity experts hosted by QUT this week. Queensland University of Technology appetite regulation and energy balance researcher Dr Neil King, from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI), said our bodies have strong mechanisms to defend attempts to lose w...Deer-free areas may be haven for ticks, disease
...ared to the control areas, the deer-excluded areas hosted a significantly higher number of nymph and adult female ticks, as well as a high prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis. Because tick-borne encephalitis is transmitted only between ticks feeding on these rodents, the findings suggest how small deer-f...Promising new research on hereditary diseases
...4, 2006, to develop the guidelines' procedures was hosted by the HDF, EHDN and Sir Michael D. Rawlins, Chair of the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). The Hereditary Disease Foundation's biennial meeting once again brings together an international cadre of junio...... of the International Society For Applied Ethology hosted by Bristol University from Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 August. The conference will bring together many academics whose common interest is studying animal behaviour and ensuring the welfare standards of all animals throughout the planet. The range of...