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Key: Meeting
Showing releases 176-200 out of 252. << < 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 > >>
Public Release: 27-Sep-2012
 Proceedings of the Royal Society BUCSB scientists capture clues to sustainability of fish populations Thanks to studies of a fish that gives birth to live young and is not fished commercially, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have discovered that food availability is a critical limiting factor in the health of fish populations. Contact: Gail Gallessich
Public Release: 27-Sep-2012
ScienceNow in Science: It's not too late for troubled fisheries A study published in Science magazine and co-authored by Bren School Sustainable Fisheries Group researchers and their colleagues confirms suspicions that thousands of "data-poor" fisheries, representing some 80 percent of the world's fisheries, are in decline but could recover with proper management. Contact: James Badham
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
2012 GSA Annual Meeting & Expositions - Geosciences: Investing in the Future2012 GSA Annual Meeting technical program & events -- media advisory 2 The program for GSA's 124th Annual Meeting & Exposition is now set and searchable online. Highlights include a Pardee Keynote Symposium on the work of the Mars rover, Curiosity, and sessions on sea-level rise, hydrofracking, and the 2011 Virginia earthquake. Notable speakers include Bill McKibben, this year’s GSA President’s Medal recipient; Scott Tinker, who will also present a screening of his energy film, SWITCH; and Julie Brigham-Grette, who will describe her work in Arctic Russia. Contact: Christa Stratton
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
NatureExtreme climate change linked to early animal evolution An international team of scientists, including geochemists from UC Riverside, has uncovered new evidence linking extreme climate change, oxygen rise, and early animal evolution. Their work provides the first real evidence for a long speculated change in oxygen levels in the aftermath of the most severe climatic event in Earth's history -- one of the so-called "Snowball Earth" glaciations. The researchers analyzed concentrations of trace metals and sulfur isotopes in mudstone collected in South China. 
National Science Foundation, National Air and Space Administration Exobiology Program, National Natural Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
General and Comparative EndocrinologyNew 'Skinny' on Leptin Leptin -- commonly dubbed the "fat hormone" -- does more than tell the brain when to eat. A new study by researchers at The University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University shows that leptin may play a role in hearing and vision loss. This discovery, made in zebrafish treated to produce low leptin, could ultimately help doctors better understand sensory loss in humans.
National Institutes of Health
Contact: Denise Henry
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Geophysical Research LettersHurricane Irene polluted Catskills watershed The water quality of lakes and coastal systems will be altered if hurricanes intensify in a warming world, according to a Yale study in Geophysical Research Letters.
Yale Hixon Center for Urban Ecology
Contact: David DeFusco
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesMBARI researchers discover what vampire squids eat Over the last 100 years, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on the mysterious vampire squid, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats. A new paper by MBARI Postdoctoral Fellow Henk-Jan Hoving and Senior Scientist Bruce Robison shows for the first time that the vampire squid uses two thread-like filaments to capture bits of organic debris that sink down from the ocean surface into the deep sea.
David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Contact: Kim Fulton-Bennett
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Grant to help citizen scientists assess impact of environmental change in the National Park System A $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will pair citizen scientists with researchers from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, National Park Service and the SERC Institute in effort to genetically identify plant and animal species in Acadia National Park and Frenchman's Bay.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jerilyn Bowers
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
U of M receives $4.3 million NSF grant to study interactions between water and land-use systems The University of Minnesota announced today that it has received a $4.3 million Water Sustainability and Climate grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to lead a study on the interactions between climate, water and land-use systems. The grant will specifically examine impacts of land use and climate change on water quality and ecosystem health using the Minnesota River Basin as a prototype.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rhonda Zurn
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Ocean acidification: Finding new answers through National Science Foundation research grants With increasing levels of carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere and moving into marine systems, the world's oceans are becoming more acidic. Contact: Cheryl Dybas
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Launch of new center to monitor effects of droughts, floods and land use change University of Leicester launches its new Centre for Landscape and Climate Research. Contact: Dr Virginia Nicolás-Perea
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Biology OpenPreserving large females could prevent overfishing of Atlantic cod Cod are among Sweden's most common and most popular edible fish and have been fished hard for many years. One consequence is the risk of serious changes in cod stocks, reveals research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Contact: Helen Nilsson Sköld
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Journal of the Royal Society InterfaceHow is a Kindle like a cuttlefish Research out today from a multidisciplinary team headed by the University of Cincinnati examines parallels between e-Paper technology (the technology behind sunlight-readable devices like the Kindle) and biological organisms that change color.
Air Force Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ARL, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research
Contact: M.B. Reilly
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
NatureSalt marsh carbon may play role in slowing climate warming, study shows A warming climate and rising seas will enable salt marshes to more rapidly capture and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, possibly playing a role in slowing the rate of climate change, according to a new study published in the Sept. 27 issue of the journal Nature.
US Geological Survey
Contact: Fariss Samarrai
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
Coral hotspots found in deepwater canyons off northeast US coast For the first time in decades, researchers have conducted an extensive exploration for deep-sea corals and sponges in submarine canyons off the northeastern coast of the US. The survey revealed coral "hotspots," and found that a new coral habitat suitability model could help predict where corals are likely to occur. The model is being developed by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center and the National Ocean Service's Biogeography Branch.
NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
LithosphereOctober LITHOSPHERE delivered online The October issue of Lithosphere covers geology in Wyoming, USA; the California Coast Ranges, USA; the Alpine Fault, New Zealand; the South Atlantic seafloor; the central Himalaya in Nepal; and Sidekan, Kurdistan Region, Iraqi Zagros suture zone. Topics and methods include tectonics, orogeny, hazards, paleogeography, trigonometrics, multiple-point data analysis, LiDAR, oceanic isostasy, computer modeling, and spectroscopy. Contact: Kea Giles
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
CopeiaNew UF study shows river turtle species still suffers from past harvesting University of Florida researchers studying river turtles in Missouri found populations of the northern map turtle have not recovered from harvesting in the 1970s. Contact: Max Nickerson
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of AmericaThe science of sound resonates at Acoustical Society Meeting in Kansas City, October 22-26 Perfect pitch, dolphin communication, and noise in the community and in nature are just some of the intriguing topics that will be presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Contact: Charles E. Blue
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Molecular EcologyNew CU-Boulder study clarifies diversity, distribution of cutthroat trout in Colorado A novel genetic study led by the University of Colorado Boulder has helped to clarify the native diversity and distribution of cutthroat trout in Colorado, including the past and present haunts of the federally endangered greenback cutthroat trout.
National Parks Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, US Bureau of Land Management, Trout Unlimited
Contact: Jessica Metcalf
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Gas outlets off Spitsbergen are no new phenomenon Marine scientists from Kiel, together with colleagues from Bremen, Great Britain, Switzerland and Norway, spent four and a half weeks examining methane emanation from the sea bed off the coast of Spitsbergen with the German research vessel MARIA S. MERIAN. There they gained a very differentiated picture: Several of the gas outlets have been active for hundreds of years. Contact: Jan Steffen
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
AZTI-Tecnalia to collaborate with China Academy of Environmental Sciences AZTI-Tecnalia, the Basque technological centre specialising in marine and food research, has signed a joint working agreement with the China Academy of Environmental Sciences to develop R+D projects for environmental prevention and recovery at sea and on the coast. The agreement is a further example of AZTI-Tecnalia as an international technological center of reference. Contact: Aitziber Lasa Iglesias
Public Release: 23-Sep-2012
Nature Climate ChangeScientists predict major shifts in Pacific ecosystems by 2100 Scientific models suggest that major Pacific ecosystems will move hundreds of miles by 2100 as a result of climate change. The results of this research could help officials manage the potentially significant impacts – on sea creatures and humans – of marine habitat shifts. Contact: Karen Marvin
Public Release: 23-Sep-2012
Nature GeoscienceLarge bacterial population colonized land 2.75 billion years ago New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and molybdenum into the oceans.
National Science Foundation, University of Washington/Astronomy Department's Virtual Planet Laboratory
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 23-Sep-2012
International Water Science ConferenceUN, other experts warn of 'water bankruptcy' for many regions after reviewing 200 major global projects A study of almost 200 major international water-related projects funded by the Global Environment Facility over the past 20 years reveals a suite of existing and emerging challenges and how science can offer remedies. GEF, the largest public funder of such projects, partnered with the UN University and the UN Environment Program to extract lessons from a $7 billion portfolio of past effort. Contact: Terry Collins
Public Release: 23-Sep-2012
Nature GeoscienceStratosphere targets deep sea to shape climate A University of Utah study suggests something amazing: Periodic changes in winds 15 to 30 miles high in the stratosphere influence the seas by striking a vulnerable "Achilles heel" in the North Atlantic and changing mile-deep ocean circulation patterns, which in turn affect Earth's climate.
University of Utah
Contact: Lee Siegel
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