#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
#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.
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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.
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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
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.
#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.
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.
and Latin america The European space agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission measures soil moisture at a resolution of 31 miles (50 kilometers) but because soil moisture can vary on a much smaller scale its data
Enter NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite. The mission scheduled to launch this winter will collect the kind of local data agricultural and water managers worldwide need.
and sustainable withdrawals from groundwater said Forrest Melton a research scientist in the Ecological Forecasting Lab at NASA Ames Research center in Moffett Field California.
If farmers of rain-fed crops know soil moisture they can schedule their planting to maximize crop yield said Narendra Das a water and carbon cycle scientist on SMAP's science team at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California.
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NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records
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#Signs of deforestation in Brazilmultiple fires are visible in in this image of the Para and Mato grosso states of Brazil.
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This study helps make sense of the challenge faced by thousands of rangers working on the frontlines to protect elephants
and professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Mahalingam is studying how wildland fire propagates in an effort to be able to more accurately model such fires via physically based computational models.
With funding from the U s. Department of agriculture's U s. Forest Service Division Dr. Mahalingam and his collaborator UAH Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty member Dr. Babak Shotorban are currently supervising four doctoral
These findings and many others are viewable via the Land Cover Atlas program from the NOAA's Coastal Change Analysis Program (C-CAP.
The ability to mitigate the growing evidence of climate change along our coasts with rising sea levels already impacting coastlines in ways not imaged just a few years ago makes the data available through the Land Cover Atlas program critically important to coastal resilience planning said Margaret
The atlas's visuals help make NOAA environmental data available to end users enabling them to help the public better understand the importance of improving resilience.
Seeing changes over five 10 or even 15 years allows Land Cover Atlas users to focus on local hazard vulnerabilities
For instance the atlas has helped its users assess sea level rise hazards in Florida's Miami-Dade County high-risk areas for stormwater runoff in southern California and the best habitat restoration sites in two watersheds
of America (ESA) meeting. Perhaps not surprisingly Ward along with fellow doctoral students Ryan Rebozo and Kevin P. W. Smith from the Laboratory of Pinelands Research led by Walter Bien Phd in Drexel's College of Arts
When Snakes Meet the New jersey Highwayroads are a challenge for northern pine snakes (Pituophis melanoleucus) in the New jersey Pine Barrens based on the findings that Ward will present at the ESA meeting on Aug 15.
At this meeting Ward will also become chair of the student section of ESA after serving as vice chair for the past year.
Newborn Snakes Finding Their Path Through Lifemost reptiles are said great mapmakers Smith a doctoral student in Drexel's Laboratory of Pinelands Research who will present research on northern pine snakes at the ESA
We hope that soon we will be able to examine agricultural practices in even greater detail--with the launch of the European space agency's Sentinel satellites which will provide regular data at even higher spatial resolution.
NASAS Aura and climate changenitrogen and oxygen make up nearly 99 percent of Earth's atmosphere.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this week NASA's Aura satellite and its four onboard instruments measure some of the climate agents in the atmosphere including greenhouse gases clouds
and managed by NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena California delivers global maps showing annual averages of the heat absorbed by ozone in particular in the mid troposphere.
and how they change over time said Bryan Duncan an atmospheric scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Maryland.
and managed by JPL made the first global measurements of cloud ice content in the upper troposphere providing new data input for climate models.
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and ground-based observation campaigns. NASA develops new ways to observe and study Earth's interconnected natural systems with long-term data records
and computer analysis tools to better see how our planet is changing. The agency shares this unique knowledge with the global community
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#Big data used to guide conservation effortsdespite a deluge of new information about the diversity and distribution of plants and animals around the globe big data has yet to make a mark on conservation efforts to preserve the planet's biodiversity.
The study incorporated research findings from field studies conducted in Morocco's Atlas Mountains and Oriental region and in the highlands of Tibet as part of two interdisciplinary projects.
and land use change on natural resources in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Their data on rainfall fluctuations and on the productivity and regenerative capacity of pasture vegetation formed the basis for the ecological part of the model.
and NASA among others followed the explosion right from the start and the following 2â years and analysed the light from the very bright supernova.
The research developed by UB research group was supported also by the UB Science and Technology Centres (CCITUB) the Group of Rangers of the Government of Catalonia the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture Nutrition and Environment the Government of Andalusia and The french
#University students developing robotic gardening technologyfor more than a half-century NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality.
Researchers are continuing that tradition by designing robots to work in a deep-space habitat tending gardens and growing food for astronaut explorers.
As astronauts explore beyond Earth they will need to make their habitat as self-sustaining as possible.
and use it in future space missions said Tracy Gill NASA's technology strategy manager at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
The University of Colorado students demonstrated their X-Hab project at Kennedy's Space station Processing Facility on June 23 to a group of employees that included center director Bob Cabana.
It is a concept for producing edible plants during long-term missions to destinations such as Mars. Heather Hava who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences explains that the goal is to have robots do much of the monotonous tasks saving time
for the astronauts. The'Plants Anywhere'approach is designed to help minimize astronaut workload said Hava whose degree will focus in bioastronautics.
This keeps them free to concentrate on more important tasks. A year ago the University of Colorado student team demonstrated a gardening system with plants robotically tended on a Lazy susan-like device.
If an astronaut requests tomatoes for a salad the system decides which specific plants have the ripest tomatoes
We also want the plants to be in the astronauts'environment so they can see them smell them
Hava noted that the team has benefited from support from former NASA astronaut Joe Tanner who now is a senior instructor of aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado and Nikolaus Correll assistant professor of computer science at the university.
Gill says involving students in ongoing NASA projects is crucial for the future. This is an opportunity to prepare the next generation of engineers scientists
and explorers for our space program he said. They tell us how their design for the system keeps evolving.
Gill added that Gioia Massa Ph d. of the International Space station Ground Processing and Research Project Office Morgan Simpson of NASA Ground Processing Directorate and Ray Wheeler Ph d. of the Surface Systems office in NASA's Engineering and Technology Directorate also provided guidance
for the University of Colorado team. They all also helped advise the students as they developed their project
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation selected seven projects from six universities for the 2013-2014 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.
In doing so they worked in close cooperation with members of the NASA Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Program's Deep-space Habitat Project team.
Participants are required to explore NASA's work on development of deep-space habitats and help the agency gather new ideas to complement its current research and development.
The University of Colorado Boulder also is among five universities selected by NASA for the 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge.
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#From antibiotics to yeast: Latest student science heads for spaceastronauts on future missions may nibble on lettuce
and grow their own antibiotics depending on the results of research that student scientists plan to conduct on the International Space station.
Mission 5 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is scheduled to launch to the space station on July 11.
Students from Cottage Lane Elementary in Rockland County New york and Hillsborough County Florida envisioned astronauts growing their own lettuce.
Onion cell mutations could have ramifications for other organisms including astronauts. The team at Academy at Shawnee in Kentucky wonders whether microgravity would increase the rate of yeast fermentation in honey.
Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle school in New jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.
which could rust the interior and exterior of spacecraft. Milton L. Olive Middle school in New york evaluates the effectiveness of a commercial spray corrosion inhibitor Rust-Oleum's'Stops Rust'in microgravity.
This wide range of subjects illustrates the diversity of the space station as a microgravity research laboratory.
The space station offers students the ability to ask what system would I like to explore with gravity seemingly turned off
what NASA uses with the professional community. So far more than 30000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program
A strategic partnership with Nanoracks LLC working with NASA under a Space Act Agreement makes the space station available as a student laboratory.
when they grow up the astronauts of the future will be grateful for their hard work now.
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The observations were made by the Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) aboard the European space agency's Rosetta spacecraft on June 6 2014.
not only for cometary science but also for mission planning as the Rosetta team prepares the spacecraft to become the first ever to orbit a comet (planned for August)
but we were surprised at how early we detected it said Sam Gulkis principal investigator of the MIRO instrument at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California.
MIRO first detected water vapor from the comet when the Rosetta spacecraft was about 217000 miles (350000 kilometers) away from it.
and then away from the sun. The gas production rate is also important to the Rosetta navigation team controlling the spacecraft as this flowing gas can alter the trajectory of spacecraft.
and beginning to put on a show for Rosetta's science instruments said Matt Taylor Rosetta's project scientist from the European space agency's Science and Technology Centre in Noordwijk The netherlands.
MIRO is one of three U s. instruments aboard the Rosetta spacecraft. The other two are an ultraviolet spectrometer called Alice and the Ion and Electron Sensor (IES.
NASA also provided part of the electronics package for the Double Focusing Mass spectrometer which is built part of The swiss Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis (ROSINA) instrument.
NASA's Deep space Network is supporting ESA's Ground Station Network for spacecraft tracking and navigation.
The Microwave Instrument for Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) was built at JPL. Hardware subsystems for MIRO were provided by the Max-Planck Institute for Solar system Research
d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique of the Observatoire de Paris Rosetta is an ESA mission with contributions from its member states and NASA.
Rosetta's Philae lander is provided by a consortium led by the German Aerospace Center Cologne; Max Planck Institute for Solar system Research Go?
French National Space agency Paris; and the Italian Space agency Rome. JPL a Division of the California Institute of technology Pasadena manages the U s. contribution of the Rosetta mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.
JPL also built the MIRO and hosts its principal investigator Samuel Gulkis. The Southwest Research Institute (San antonio and Boulder) developed the Rosetta orbiter's IES
and Alice instruments and hosts their principal investigators James Burch (IES) and Alan Stern (Alice). For more information on the U s. instruments aboard Rosetta visit:
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