#Increase in woodpecker populations linked to feasting on emerald ash borerthe scourge of forests the emerald ash borer
or EAB is described usually with words like destructive and pest. A recent study based on data collected by citizen scientists suggests that one more adjective might apply at least from a bird's perspective:
NASA satellites used to predict zebra migrationsone of the world's longest migrations of zebras occurs in the African nation of Botswana
Using NASA rain and vegetation data researchers can track when and where arid lands begin to green
To track the greening of leaves the researchers relied on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on board NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
The team also used NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission data to map daily rainfall which gave the researchers an idea of how much rain was falling in three-hour intervals.
Guiding light among the starshaving access to NASA's free satellite images that shed light on the environmental conditions migratory animals face is something that Beck finds invaluable.
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#First probable person to person transmission of new bird flu virus in China; But H7n9 is not able to spread efficiently between humansthe first report of probable person to person transmission of the new avian influenza A (H7n9) virus in Eastern China has just been published.
and conservation biology will answer reporters'questions in the ESA press room after the session ends.
Other co-authors are Kevin J. Zahnle of the NASA Ames Research center in Moffett Field Calif.;
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#Climate forecasts shown to warn of crop failuresclimate data can help predict some crop failures several months before harvest according to a new study from an international team including a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
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The Singapore National Research Foundation the Office of Naval Research the Lockheed martin LANCER IV program and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the work.
According to co-author of the study Professor William Hughes of the University of Sussex:##oeif we don t act then the risk is that potentially tens of thousands of parasite-carrying bumblebee colonies may be imported into the UK each year and hundreds of thousands worldwide.
A. eucratides is the most similar species to chamrani in the wing pattern external and genitalia characteristics and it is also the closest geographically.
The research was supported by the Lockheed martin Advanced Nanotechnology Center of Excellence at Rice university the National Science Foundation the Department of energy the Welch Foundation and the National Institute for Nano Engineering and the Laboratory Directed Research and development
#IBEX spacecraft images the heliotail, revealing an unexpected structurenasa's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft recently provided the first complete pictures of the solar system's downwind region revealing a unique and unexpected structure.
The IBEX spacecraft uses two novel ENA cameras to image and map the heliosphere's global interaction providing the first global views and new knowledge about our solar system's interaction with interstellar space.
IBEX is part of NASA's series of low-cost rapidly developed Small Explorer space missions. Southwest Research Institute in San antonio leads the IBEX mission with teams of national and international partners.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research have been following this natural spectacle via Earth observation satellites Terrasar-X from the German Space agency (DLR)
Scientists from the American space agency NASA discovered the first crack in the glacier tongue on 14 october 2011 when flying over the area.
Rudimentary silicon memories made in the Tour lab are now aboard the International Space station where they are being tested for their ability to hold a pattern
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Sheng Yang He a Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator and an MSU University Distinguished Professor in the DOE Plant Research Laboratory and Plant
Benjamin I. Cook of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;
Livestock-associated methicillin and multidrug resistant Staphylococcus aureus is present among industrial not antibiotic-free livestock operation workers in North carolina was written by Jessica L. Rinsky Maya Nadimpalli Steve Wing
Chen Castner and Woroniecka were Brown undergraduatess who joined the project as Brown-Howard Hughes Medical Institute Summer Scholars.
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Boeing the Air force Office of Scientific research Sandia National Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research supported the research.
Flying low and slow above the wild pristine terrain of Alaska's North Slope in a specially instrumented NASA plane research scientist Charles Miller of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. surveys the endless whiteness of tundra and frozen permafrost below.
what we're doing here in the Arctic into perspective said Miller principal investigator of the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) a five-year NASA-led field campaign studying how climate change is affecting the Arctic's carbon cycle.
Aboard the NASA C-23 Sherpa aircraft from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Island Va. Miller CARVE Project Manager Steve Dinardo of JPL
Now in its third year this NASA Earth Ventures program investigation is expanding our understanding of how the Arctic's water
This instrument is an airborne simulator for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission to be launched in 2014.
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#Why fruit ripens and spoils: Thousands of plant genes activated by ethylene gasit's common wisdom that one rotten apple in a barrel spoils all the other apples
For example Ecker invited the expertise of Carnegie mellon University computer scientist Ziv Bar-Joseph transcriptional expert Timothy Hughes from the University of Toronto as well as computational biologist Trey Ideker
GM085022) National institutes of health NRSA (F32-HG004830) The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Science Foundation (MCB-1024999.
We are calling for a NASA-like mission to discover 10 million species in the next 50 years.
In a trend-setting collision of science and social media Hock Ping Guek photographed a beautiful green lacewing with dark markings at the base of its wings in a park near Kuala lumpur
The study was supported by CONACYT (Mexico) Howard Hughes Medical Institute the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences and the National Science Foundation.
and ash and generate this signal says Noel holder of Salk's Arthur and Julie Woodrow Chair and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.
More research is needed to understand exactly how the change in shape of the KAI2 protein activates a genetic pathway that regulates germination says Chory the Howard H. and Maryam R. Newman Chair in Plant Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical
The work was supported by the National institutes of health grants 5r01gm52413 and GM094428 National Science Foundation awards EEC-0813570 and MCB-0645794 and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Spera and Mustard used imaging from NASA's Terra satellite to track land use changes in Mato grosso from 2000 to 2011.
One of the more famous efforts in this area was conducted by the University of Arizona and NASA in
which they launched rats into space (aboard a space shuttle). However although the rats moved around in zero gravity they ran along a set of straight one-dimensional lines.
and pets said Knight also a faculty member at CU-Boulder's Biofrontiers Institute and an Early Career Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scientist.
A paper on the subject was published today in the new online science and biomedical journal elife a joint initiative of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust fund.
The study was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and the National institutes of health.
and natural habitats as well as a team of park rangers enforcing conservation laws that --although they had been in place
and runoff from Morocco's High Atlas Mountains has been dammed and redirected hundreds of kilometers to the south to irrigate oases farms in the arid sub-Saharan Draa Basin.
Warner noted that by using the isotopic fingerprinting technologies the researchers discovered a previously overlooked low-saline water source that flows naturally into the Draa Basin from the adjacent Anti-Atlas Jabel Saghro Mountains.
and at the human-made reservoir that stores and releases runoff from the High Atlas Mountains into the Draa Basin.
#NASA flies radar south on wide-ranging expeditiona versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long
A NASA C-20a piloted aircraft carrying the Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) is wrapping up studies over the U s. Gulf Coast Arizona and Central and South america.
The plane left NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale Calif. on March 7. NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. built
and manages UAVSAR. The campaign is addressing a broad range of science questions from the dynamics of Earth's crust and glaciers to the carbon cycle and the lives of ancient Peruvian civilizations.
This campaign highlights UAVSAR's versatility for Earth studies said Naiara Pinto UAVSAR science coordinator at JPL.
and its livelihood and well-being depend on services provided by marine ecosystems said JPL's Marc Simard one of the campaign's many principal investigators.
Another principal investigator Kyle Mcdonald jointly of JPL and the City university of New york Cooperative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Center (CREST) Institute is leading four data collections that will support the mapping
These studies assist scientists preparing for the launch of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite in 2014.
JPL researcher Sassan Saatchi is using UAVSAR to study the structure biomass and diversity of tropical cloud forests in the Peruvian Andes
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#New dual resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests with one-two punchin the battle against thrips Cornell breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a new weapon:
or she interacts with the official face of the park in the form of rangers and other personnel.
what they call the deformable pig brain atlas. We are taking 16 pigs and averaging them
It's called a deformable brain atlas because the software takes information from an individual
Earth Observatory and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Much of the arid U S. Southwest is expected to get even drier as winter precipitation declines under climate change
The NASA-funded study based on newly improved ground and satellite data sets examines critically the relationship between changes in temperature and vegetation productivity in northern latitudes.
which is roughly about the area of the USA--resembling the vegetation that occurs further to the south says Dr. Compton Tucker Senior Scientist NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Maryland.
Since the end of the civil war five years ago park rangers have reduced the decline from approximately 400 to 170 elephants annually.
Despite this success the park rangers cannot keep up with the dramatic increase in demand for ivory that is being fueled by economic growth in Asia particularly China
Rebels launched a deadly attack on the park headquarters in June 2012 killing park rangers
of wings teeth and certain bones type of hair cover and brain structures. The dataset is about 10 times larger than information used in previous studies of mammal relationships.
Another peculiar feature are the so-called wings or the expanded part of epidermis near the body tip.
The function of the wings is still unknown to scientists but it has been suggested that they evolved to assist breathing in such aquatic habitats.
Because the wings will be located deep in the burrow at a low oxygen supply and are absent in sexually immature juveniles a more conventional explanation might be that they are used to aid copulation rather than respiration.
#New retention model explains enigmatic ribbon at edge of solar systemsince its October 2008 launch NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has provided images of the invisible interactions between our home in the galaxy and interstellar space.
IBEX is the latest in NASA's series of low-cost rapidly developed Small Explorer space missions.
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
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This systematic approach yielded a so-called proteome atlas which maps out the proteins present in the various tissue types at a given point in time.
Lead coauthors Paul Abraham and Richard Giannone describe how the atlas offers a broad overview of the poplar proteome
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dynamics problem--the prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Joseph Nichols a research associate in the center worked on the newly installed Sequoia IBM Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (LLNL) funded by the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) Program of the National
and colleagues at Brown University in a paper published online this month in ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
#NASA ozone study may benefit air standards, climatea new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals location matters.
Ozone is both a major air pollutant with known adverse health effects and a greenhouse gas that traps heat from escaping Earth's atmosphere.
Research scientists Kevin Bowman of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. and Daven Henze of the University of Colorado Boulder set out to quantify down to areas the size of large metropolitan regions how the climate-altering impacts
The satellite data were collected by the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument on NASA's Aura spacecraft. When it comes to reducing ozone levels emission reductions in one part of the world may drive greenhouse warming more than a similar level of emission reductions elsewhere said Bowman lead author of the study published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
The model simulations are based upon actual observations of ozone warming effects measured by NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer satellite instrument.
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#Paradise found for Latin americas largest land mammalwildlife Conservation Society scientists have documented a thriving population of lowland tapirs--the strange forest
study findsan area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005 finds a new NASA-led study.
An international research team led by Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. analyzed more than a decade of satellite microwave radar data collected between 2000 and 2009 over Amazonia.
The observations included measurements of rainfall from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and measurements of the moisture content
and structure of the forest canopy (top layer) from the Seawinds scatterometer on NASA's Quikscat spacecraft.
and NASA's Ames Research center Moffett Field Calif. For more on NASA's scatterometry missions visit:
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#Heat waves, storms, flooding: Climate change to profoundly affect U s. Midwest in coming decadesin the coming decades climate change will lead to more frequent and more intense Midwest heat waves while degrading air and water quality and threatening public health.
#NASA Mars rover preparing to drill into first Martian rocknasa's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red planet.
since the landing It has never been done on Mars said Mars Science Laboratory project manager Richard Cook of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The drill hardware interacts energetically with Martian material we don't control.
JPL a division of Caltech manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
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and visualizing Earth science data from a NASA and U s. Geological Survey satellite program is resulting in for the first time the ability to tease out the small events that can cause big changes in an ecosystem.
Kennedy created the Landtrendr program specifically to work with data from the NASA and U s. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat program.
Not that long ago the size of an individual Landsat scene would have crippled most desk top computers says Doug Morton a physical scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md. who uses Landsat
That ability to read the story of the landscape is something that the Landsat archive allows us to do like none other says Doug Morton of NASA Goddard.
NASA and the USGS will continue providing the means to see it with the next satellite in the Landsat series to be called Landsat 8 scheduled to launch in early 2013.
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We expect this combination of properties will lead to new products with unique capabilities for the aerospace automotive medical and smart-clothing markets.
The role of the bacterium is to act as a sort of shuttle service for the modified gene.
which it can react there is a greater likelihood that the'magic'will happen with graphene oxide than with a big old hunk of bentonite said Steven Winston a former vice president of Lockheed martin
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Habitat and eroded coastline are recovering at an astonishing pace only one year after the demolition of two dams freed the river as Noreen Parks reports for her news story Rebirth of the Elwha River in ESA Frontier
and water infrastructure management writes N Leroy Poff of Colorado State university in his guest editorial for ESA Frontiers in
#NASA, partners target megacities carbon emissionsdriving down busy Interstate 5 in Los angeles in a nondescript blue Toyota Prius Riley Duren of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena California is a man
A NASA aircraft soon appears overhead carrying a prototype satellite instrument that records high-resolution images of methane that scientists can use to identify gas plumes.
In many cases we know very little about the carbon emissions of individual cities said LA Megacities Carbon Project Co-Principal investigator Charles Miller of JPL.
NASA's recently launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite is capable of detecting the enhanced levels of carbon dioxide over the world's largest cities
Satellites such as NASA's OCO-2 and Japan's Greenhouse Gases Satellite (GOSAT) periodically sample the air over Los angeles and a subset of other cities around the world.
A follow-on version of NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 that may ultimately fly on the International Space station is being designed with a city mode that will provide frequent maps of the carbon dioxide emissions of many of the world's largest emitters.
Wilson super-site is JPL's California Laboratory for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (CLARS) located 5700 feet (1737 meters) above the Los angeles basin.
The brainchild of JPL Principal investigator Stan Sander CLARS is a prototype for the next generation of satellite instrument.
The LA pilot project is funded by NASA; NIST; NOAA; the Keck Institute for Space Studies Pasadena California;
Additional CLARS support was provided by NASA NOAA and CARB. LA project implementing partners include JPL;
Caltech; Scripps Institution of Oceanography La jolla California; Arizona State university Tempe; University of Michigan Ann arbor; University of Colorado Boulder;
and NASA's Ames Research center Moffett Field California. Other collaborators include Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement Gif-sur-Yvette France;
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#Impact of temperature on belowground soil decompositionearth's soils store four times more carbon than the atmosphere
He and first author Su-Jong Jeong a former Princeton postdoctoral student now at NASA found that daily temperature
Dr Askew observed the position of each bird's centre of mass their wing motions
and gain height over the first two wing beats. He found it was essentially the same regardless of the presence or absence of the train.
and Vladimir Volman an engineer at Lockheed martin. Tour is the T. T. and W. F. Chao Chair in Chemistry as well as a professor of materials science and nanoengineering and of computer science.
The Lockheed martin Aerospace Co. through the LANCER IV Program the Office of Naval Research's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the research.
Small bumps and spines on the outer surface of their wings and heads that aren't visible to the human eye scatter light in a distinctive pattern.
Persistence of livestock-associated antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among industrial hog operation workers in North carolina over 14 days was written by Maya Nadimpalli Jessica L. Rinsky Steve Wing Devon
#New NASA probe will study Earths forests in 3-DA laser-based instrument being developed for the International Space station will provide a unique 3-D view of Earth's forests helping to fill in missing
The system is one of two instrument proposals recently selected for NASA's Earth Venture Instrument program
The instrument will be built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland. As a global leader in research and discovery related to environmental sustainability the University of Maryland is extraordinarily proud to be a part of this new venture with our partners from NASA said University of Maryland Vice president and Chief Research
Officer Patrick O'Shea. GEDI lidar will have a tremendous impact on our ability to monitor forest degradation adding to the critical data needed to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer is an instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites.
NASA's Earth Venture Instrument program is part of the Earth System Science Pathfinder program managed by NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton Virginia for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.
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Through a three-year $2. 2 million grant from NASA Cochrane and his team are using satellite imaging field studies
The grant is part of NASA's global carbon monitoring program which is part of an international focus on reducing emissions due to deforestation.
Consistent with the observations in other countries Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) is the virus most strongly affected by the spread of Varroa throughout New zealand.
Last December online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery suggesting that fleets of flying robots might serve as autonomous messengers that shuttle packages to customers within 30 minutes of an order.
which needs to be done persistently over hours you need to take into account the health of the system says Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi a postdoc in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Jonathan How the Richard Cockburn Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and John Vian of Boeing.
Tree of possibilitiesplanning an autonomous vehicle's course often involves an approach called Markov Decision Process (MDP) a sequential decision-making framework that resembles a tree of possible actions.
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