#Higher rates of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke in food desertthere is more to the cost of living in a food desert than higher prices for the few fruits
'The project was funded by the NASA Applied sciences Program through the Air Quality Applied sciences Team which is led by Jacob at Harvard
The forest has been studied well in the past--it was the site of the NASA-led BOREAS project in the 1990s a study that provided scientists with a lot of
Eric Zirnstein University of Alabama physics graduate student and NASA Earth and Space science Fellow in Heliophysics and May UAH doctoral graduate Brian Fayock who now does data analysis for NASA are comparing data
Recently NASA announced that measurements of the effects on Voyager 1 of a March 2012 coronal mass ejection indicated that it had ventured beyond the heliopause to begin its venture out into interstellar space.
and blasting them out at a staggering 23 watts for a trip that NASA says now begins in interstellar space.
For example NASA's Dr. Fayock says funding is drying up for his Voyager work and he is holding on to the hope that an upcoming UAH graduate student may see value in continuing it.
NASA expects it to send data through at least 2020 and its ability to power itself could last until 2025.
#Interstellar winds buffeting our solar system have shifted directionscientists including University of New hampshire astrophysicists involved in NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission have discovered that the particles streaming into the solar system from interstellar space have changed likely direction over the last 40 years.
The research was funded by NASA Carbon cycle & Ecosystems the National Science Foundation's Long term Ecological Research Program and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
NASAS Landsat directs restoration to at-risk areaswhile the 138000-acre Silver Fire still smoldered forest restoration specialists were on the job.
And Landsat satellites built by NASA and operated by the U s. Geological Survey help direct the crews to those forest areas needing attention.
and so sends back a strong signal to the Landsat detector that isn't present over burned areas explained Jeff Masek Landsat program scientist with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt Md.
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#Genesis and evolution of H7n9 influenza virusan international team of influenza researchers in China the United kingdom and the United states has used genetic sequencing to trace the source
#NASA fire towers in space watch for wildfires on the risethe Black forest wildfire this June was one of the most destructive in Colorado history in terms of homes lost.
As temperatures warm and weather patterns change scientists from NASA universities and other government agencies are putting their satellite observation
Over the last 30 years we have seen an increase in hot and dry conditions that promote fire activity said Doug Morton a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Md.
and Aqua two of NASA's flagship Earth-observing satellites have scanned the surface of our planet for fires.
The recently launched NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi-NPP) and its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) will continue the measurements from MODIS.
The U s Forest Service is one of the beneficiaries of NASA's fire detection capability
The project uses data from Landsat satellites a mission jointly operated by NASA and the U s. Geological Survey.
NASA recently launched the Landsat 8 and Suomi-NPP satellites which will provide information on fire fuels active fires aerosols and climate:
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#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.;
#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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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.
Benjamin I. Cook of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory;
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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
We are calling for a NASA-like mission to discover 10 million species in the next 50 years.
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
#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.
These studies assist scientists preparing for the launch of NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite in 2014.
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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:
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.
#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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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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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.
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.
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;
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
#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.
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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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.
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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.
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.
#University students developing robotic gardening technologyfor more than a half-century NASA has made the stuff of science fiction into reality.
and use it in future space missions said Tracy Gill NASA's technology strategy manager at the Kennedy space center in Florida.
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 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
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
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.
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