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.’...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dr Raymond W. Schmitt – Uncovering The Connection Between Ocean Salinity And Terrestrial Rainfall For the first time, scientists have shown that salinity levels in the ocean’s surface can be a predictor of rainfall on land. Dr Raymond Schmitt and his colleagues...
by nick | Feb 20, 2017 | Astronomy and Planetary Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences & Mathematics
American Geophysical Union – Space Physics And Aeronomy The Space Physics and Aeronomy (SPA) section of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) is the primary professional organisation for over 2800 scientists, engineers and space weather forecasters across the globe who...
by nick | Feb 18, 2017 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
William Hunt Ralph Hartley – Breaking Free The Stones Of The Past Professor William Hunt and Ralph Hartley are both experienced archaeologists and anthropologists within the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They have recently...
by nick | Feb 18, 2017 | Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Dr Mirjam Knörnschild – Bats In Translation Dr Mirjam Knörnschild and her group at the Free University Berlin study the acoustic communication and social behaviour of wild bats to understand the evolutionary interplay of social and vocal complexity, the...
by nick | Feb 15, 2017 | Agricultural Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biology
Professor Joyce Van Eck – Improving Crops By Genetic Engineering And Targeted Genome Editing Located at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an independent affiliate of Cornell University, the Van Eck lab explores novel methods for major crop improvement possibilities...
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