by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Daniel John Jackson – How Animals Fabricate Biominerals Professor Daniel J. Jackson and his team at the University of Göttingen use snails and sponges as models to study how animals make biominerals, and to gain insight into how this ability first...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Suzie Currie – Coping With Stress In An Aquatic World As high temperatures continue to set records around the globe, aquatic organisms are facing new environmental extremes. Freshwater and marine animals will either adapt to resulting changes in...
by nick | Feb 21, 2017 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor John Vucetich – Forging A Healthy Relationship With Nature Through The Marriage Of Science And Ethics Professor John Vucetich of Michigan Technological University spends much of his research life studying wolves in Isle Royale and Yellowstone National...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Geologist and volcanologist Professor Ken Sims and his colleagues from across the globe want to improve our understanding of active volcanoes in an effort to advance the science of volcanology. But they also want to protect the lives of people living near these...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Astronomy and Planetary Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering & Computer Science, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Dr Jesper W. Gjerloev – Earth Interactions With Space – Do We Finally Understand Them? Space scientist Dr Jesper Gjerloev and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, are part of a world-wide consortium of...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Professor John L. Hoogland – Prairie Dogs Are Charming And Cute, But They Are Also Serial Killers When John Hoogland first visited a prairie dog colony as a young graduate student, he said aloud to himself, ‘I could study these animals for the next 10 years.’...
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