Symposium at Yale to honor Mary Helen Goldsmith and auxin research
... growth by environmental signals and hormones, the polar transport of auxin, and the role of proton pumps and ion channels in acquisition of nutrients. The featured speakers of the symposium include former students, research associates and colleagues of Goldsmith. The symposium will begin with opening r...Mars Express and the story of water on Mars
...entists detected abundant water ice in the Martian polar regions and also received a surprise from some of the very first results that MARSIS returned. When the radar passed over the mid northern latitudes of Chryse Planitia, the signals showed a buried impact crater, below the surface. Inside this impact ...NSF awards 17 grants for research on biocomplexity in the environment
... awards, as do environments that range from frozen polar regions to deep-ocean hydrothermal vents, from temperate forests to agricultural lands to the neighborhoods and industries of urban centers. CWES awardees will work to find new ways of understanding the complex relationships between and within the g...Ice-breaker Polarstern to explore uncharted seafloor
...jor event in the IPY, and open the way for further polar expeditions....Video explains what science learns from avian stars of 'Happy Feet' and 'March of the Penguins'
...ney in the World," became an undisputed classic of polar literature. "Antarctic exploration is seldom as bad as you imagine," wrote its author Apsley Cherry-Garrard. "But this journey has beggared our language: no words could express its horror." Two eggs broke during the return journey. Three were pres...Carnegie Mellon's Granger Morgan pens op-ed
...cent -- a small price to pay to save arctic seals, polar bears, coral reefs and other valuable ecosystems," Morgan said....Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...p of Antarctic explorer Shackleton in 1915, Census polar researchers found 59 komoki and komoki-like species, at least 42 unknown to science. Doubling Zooplankton Census zooplankton researchers discovered 3 new genera and 31 new species of copepods and mysids, small crustaceans, in Southeast Asian, Aus...NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
...ce in Alaska to determine the relationship between polar sea ice formations and the preferred habitat of the Pacific walrus. For the first time, radar sensors were used to study the walrus in the Alaskan Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. "Last spring, the largest census ever performed on the walrus population was ...Leibniz Prize winners 2007 announced
...ved that changes in the physical stratification of polar and subpolar oceans are closely related to alterations in the exchange of the greenhouse gas CO2 between the ocean and the atmosphere. Gerald Haug studied geology at the University of Karlsruhe and earned his PhD at the University of Kiel in 1995. ...Multinational scientific expedition kicks off International Polar Year 2007-2008
...onduct teleconferences, bringing the excitement of polar research to life for the next generation. Through the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), teachers aboard the Oden will be taking part in a series of Web seminars for their colleagues in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. The...How fish species suffer as a result of warmer waters
...er thermal windows than, for instance, fishes from polar regions living at constant low temperatures. The latter are able to grow and reproduce only within a very limited thermal tolerance window. Investigations at the Alfred Wegener Institute show the key importance of oxygen uptake and distribution th...National Science Foundation supports UCR study of polar lake life forms
...ody of fresh water trapped under 4 kilometer-thick polar ice sheet. The goal is to reconstruct the genome...ernational scientific campaign to learn more about polar science, to improve understanding of the critical role of the polar regions in global processes, and...Why are lions not as big as elephants?
...round 15 tons. The largest existing carnivore, the polar bear, is only around half a ton, while the largest known extinct carnivores, such as the short-faced bear, weighed around one ton. The authors also note that the largest terrestrial non-mammalian predators, such as Giganotosaurus and Tyrannosaurs, ma...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 17, 2007
...e kind of multi-channel microtubes found in birds, polar bears and other animals. Lei Jiang, Xinyu Cao and Yong Zhao describe the new electrojet spinning technique in an article scheduled for the Feb. 7 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a weekly publication. The advance in biomimic ma...Satellite data vital to UN climate findings
...e of global warming can be found in the melting of polar sea-ice and ice caps. Satellites are often the onl...ular they documented large changes taking place in polar regions, e.g. Greenland and Antarctica, which result from climate warming, over the most inaccessibl...Man-made proteins could be more useful than real ones
...parallel and antiparallel helices, and an array of polar side chains on the surface. Looking from a distance, you'd say this was a helical bundle protein." There were significant differences, however. "Only when you look at the details, does it become clear that there are differences between the -peptide...National Academies Advisory: International Polar Year Event, Feb. 26
... a global research effort to better understand the polar regions and their climatic effect on the Earth. Mo...ars to study changes to permafrost, the melting of polar ice sheets, and marine life in the cold and dark. The research completed during IPY will provide a ...European launch of International Polar Year 2007-2008
... this major international scientific effort. The polar regions are sensitive barometers of environmental change, and polar science is crucial to understanding our planet and our impact on it. Involving around 50,000 people ...Antarctic warming to reduce animals at base of ecosystem, shift some penguin populations southward
...at Ohio State University. Lyons was one of many polar researchers reporting this week on the global climate threat during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco . "Researchers are seeing the movement of penguin populations southward down the pen...Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker
...e considered sites in Alaska and Rwanda to observe polar bears and gorillas, respectively. "Our goal is to use the emerging capabilities of computers and networks to better understand the natural world," Goldberg said. "It's very exciting to work with researchers in fields beyond engineering." The ivo...