Northern in Biological News

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

... winds might drive current variability in the northern Indian Ocean Closely spaced fjords increase ... winds might drive current variability in the northern Indian Ocean Oceanographers and ... To study the dynamics of the response of the northern Indian Ocean to intraseasonal winds, Vialard et ...

'Green' energy from algae

... for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology on the northern campus of the KIT. Here, it is focused on ... and demonstration plants shall be built on the northern KIT campus, with the favorable conditions in ... gasification process developed on the northern campus. ...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... variations are linked to long-term changes in the northern Hemisphere growing season as controlled by ... dust particles are blown from the arid lands of northern China. However, scientists know little about the ... over the past few million years -- spanning northern China. They analyzed the isotopic composition ...

New tracking approach will help protect polar bears

... $500,000 from the federal Ministry of Indian and northern Affairs to refurbish and upgrade research cabins ... is part of the federal government's integrated northern Strategy that focuses on exercising Canada's ... social and economic development, and improving northern governance. ...

When palm trees gave way to spruce trees

... But what exactly was happening on land, in northern latitudes? When and how did northern glaciation begin, and what does this knowledge ... the march to a cooler world was gradual in northern latitudes, it was inevitable according to Dr. ...

Climate change driving Michigan mammals north

... historically southern species are replacing their northern counterparts. The finding, by researchers at ... their natural history to know whether replacing a northern species with a southern equivalent is going to ... deer mice, southern red-backed voles, northern flying squirrels, woodland jumping mice, and ...

Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilized

... show that icebergs have begun to calve from the northern front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf indicating that ... effectively formed a barrier pinning back the northern ice front of the central Wilkins Ice Shelf, ... the rifts, which had already featured along the northern ice front, widened and new cracks formed as the ...

Federal scientists recognized for contributions to knowledge of bird ecology and habitat

... and ecology of the marbled murrelet and the northern spotted owl. Martin Raphael and Eric Forsman, ... Research. Forsman has conducted research on northern spotted owls since 1972, and since 1987 has ... First 10 Years (1994-2003): Status and Trends of northern Spotted Owl Populations and Habitat. Other ...

February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Eocene records from high-latitude regions in the northern Hemisphere. It now seems likely that some as yet ... in 9-million-year-old mammalian tooth enamel from northern Pakistan to reveal how the landscape and ... water. Multicentennial megadrought in northern Europe coincided with a global El Nio-Southern ...

January-February GSA Bulletin media highlights

... of quartzites exposed in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico and provides new insights into the ... north and central lowlands of Ireland into the northern Irish Sea Basin during the Killard Point stadial ... bed is about two million years old, so that the northern boreal forest of northwestern North America, as ...

AGU journal highlights -- Dec. 31, 2008

... dune migration in the Bodl depression of northern Chad over time intervals of 1 month to 6.5 years. ... hidden ice Surface features common in the northern and southern midlatitudes of Mars and known as ... of frost. Earlier in 2008, during early northern Martian spring, HiRISE captured several cases of ...

Rudolf's kin more than just Santa's ride

... "The caribou is central to the normal function of northern ecosystems," said Dr. Justina Ray, Executive ... WCS has been conducting caribou surveys in northern Ontario for the past several years, collecting ... an important role in the rich ecosystems of the northern Hemisphere that we all rely on. Protecting ...

EPA and USDA should create new initiative to better monitor nutrients

... the Mississippi River basin and into the northern Gulf of Mexico, says a new report from the ... "However, efforts to reduce nutrients in the northern Gulf of Mexico will face significant management, ... in the Mississippi River basin and into the northern Gulf of Mexico -- EPA asked the Research Council ...

Snowy owl -- a marine species?

... re-thinking about how the snowy owl fits into the northern ecosystem. "Six of the adult females that we ... understand key indicator species of Canadian northern ecosystems. The finding flabbergasted the ... be a revolution in our understanding of this key northern species," said Gauthier. That knowledge can't ...

Shrimp trawling may boost mercury in red snapper, study suggests

... Concentration in Juvenile Red Snapper from the northern Gulf of Mexico," the paper is in the November ... and the intense fishing effort throughout the northern shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, it's definitely an ... among juvenile red snappers in areas of the northern Gulf Coast where shrimp trawling occurred. ...

December 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... the most striking temperature increase in the northern Hemisphere high latitudes during the entire last ... circulation and the abrupt warming in the northern Hemisphere high latitudes 14,700 years ago. ... ago during a rifting event that tore apart the northern margin of the continents that together formed ...

Dry spells spelled trouble in ancient China

... and now could be lessening precipitation in northern China. Results of the study, led by ... the rains stall farther south and east, depriving northern and western parts of China of summer rains. A ... during one of China's "golden ages," the northern Song Dynasty. The ample summer monsoon rains ...

Dried mushrooms slow climate warming in Northern forests

... covering Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and other northern regions, a new UC Irvine study finds. When ... gas emissions. This is especially important in northern forests, which contain an estimated 30 percent of ... located in Alaska, Canada, Western Siberia and northern Europe. Global warming is expected to ...

Methane gas levels begin to increase again

... the majority of methane emissions are in the northern Hemisphere, and it takes more than one year for gases to be mixed from the northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere. Hence, ... both hemispheres at the same time. A rise in northern Hemispheric emissions may be due to the very warm ...

Genetic evidence for avian influenza movement from Asia to North America via wild birds

... of Asian forms of avian influenza to Alaska by northern pintail ducks. In an article published this ... pathogenic avian influenza viruses found in wild northern pintail ducks in Alaska contained at least one ... obtained samples from more than 1,400 northern pintails from locations throughout Alaska. ...

Global warming threatens Australia's iconic kangaroos

... of one macropodid (kangaroo) species in northern Australia," write study authors Euan G. Ritchie ... accepted climate models predict temperatures in northern Australia to be between 0.4 and two degrees ... of available water. This is particularly true in northern Australia, says Ritchie. "If dry seasons are ...

NC State researchers get to root of parasite genome

... soil-dwelling worm known more commonly as the northern root-knot nematode. The research could help ... specific information about the parasite. The northern root-knot nematode is the smallest multicellular ... also contributed to the research. The northern root-knot nematode has been developed into a key ...

'Chemical equator' discovery will aid pollution mapping

... Equator' that divides the polluted air of the northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated ... the boundary between the polluted air of the northern Hemisphere and the cleaner air of the Southern ... Southern Indian Ocean by a land based cyclone in northern Australia. The scientists discovered evidence ...

Arctic science conference to focus on northern sustainability

... and focus on observed and continuing changes in northern regions, as well as on the responses to those changes by northern residents now and in the future. Highlights include sessions on indigenous people and knowledge, northern engineering, terrestrial responses to climate ...

Scientists point to forests for carbon storage solutions

... between 1999 and 2005 at a forest study site in northern Michigan, the scientists have determined that ... suggesting that a heavily forested region in northern Michigan could store more than 350,000 tons of ... management practices on forest carbon storage in northern Michigan should serve as a caution to ...

Bad sign for global warming: Thawing permafrost holds vast carbon pool

... GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of ... estimate to the rest of the permafrost-covered northern latitudes of Russia, Europe, Greenland and North ... process as temperatures in the world's most northern latitudes have warmed. Just last week, it was ...

USGS news: August science picks

... the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin to the northern Gulf of Mexico is estimated to be among the ... hypoxic zone that forms during the summer in the northern Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf hypoxic zone is an area ... being conducted by scientists from the USGS and northern Arizona University. To learn more about the use ...

Wildlife Conservation Society discovers 'Planet of the Apes'

... lowland gorillas in two adjacent areas in the northern part of the country, covering an area of 18,000 ... with the Government of Republic of Congo in the northern area of the country for nearly 20 years, helping ... illegal hunting. "These figures show that northern Republic of Congo contains the mother lode of ...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... human presence yet discovered along Egypt's northern Nile delta; analysis of Yellowstone's hotspot; ... human presence discovered by core drilling at the northern Nile delta coast, Egypt Jean-Daniel Stanley ... rate. A zone of shear is present along the northern margin of the Snake River Plain to accommodate ...

Scattered nature of Wisconsin's woodlands could complicate forests' response to climate change

... - If a warmer Wisconsin climate causes some northern tree species to disappear in the future, it's ... and David Mladenoff suggests that while certain northern species, such as balsam fir, spruce and jack ... progress, says Mladenoff. "The result is that northern forest biomass in the future - that is, the ...

New study finds that some plants can adapt to widespread climate change

... clinging to a steep, rocky dale-side in northern England seem to defy the odds and adapt to ... for the first five years. Data collected from the northern and southern sites was the subject of a study ... there was something unique happening in the northern grasslands that enabled the plants to resist ...

Climate change could severely impact California's unique native plants

... plants may no longer be able to survive in the northern Sierra Nevada or in the Los Angeles basin, while plants of northern Baja California will migrate north into the San ... and also includes parts of southern Oregon and northern Baja California. The plants assessed include ...

Britain's last Neanderthals were more sophisticated than we thought

... has thrown remarkable new light on the life of northern Europe's last Neanderthals. It provides a ... of the last Neanderthal hunting groups to occupy northern Europe. The impression they give is of a ... has strong affinities with other tools from northern Europe dating back to between 35,000 and 42,000 ...

Queen's University launches UK's first Center of Excellence for Public Health

... "The opening of the Centre of Excellence confirms northern Ireland's place on the international public ... understand and improve the public health of northern Ireland. By linking public health research to ... Office, the Health Promotion Agency NI, the northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and the ...

Woolly-mammoth gene study changes extinction theory

... adapted to living in the cold environment of the northern hemisphere. The bodies of these mammoths were found throughout a wide swathe of northern Siberia. Their dates of death span roughly ... Europe, to the Bering Strait in Siberia, to northern America," Miller said. "The low genetic ...

Are Ice Age relics the next casualty of climate change?

... musk ox are faring in areas along the Chukchi and northern Bering Seas, and the extent to which snow and ... to climate change. Once found in Europe and northern Asia, today musk ox are restricted to Arctic ... they have been introduced into Russia and northern Europe. They have been reintroduced in Alaska ...

Vitamin D in brain function

... D deficiency among African Americans living in northern latitudes. Dark skin has been selected during ... much UV exposure to make sufficient vitamin D in northern (high) latitudes. Thus, fair-skinned northerners ... cancer, while dark-skinned people in the northern U.S. or European latitudes with little exposure ...

Scientists believe photograph depicts wolverine in California

... U.S. populations are found largely in the northern Cascades in Washington, and northern Rockies in Montana and Idaho. The nearest known ... 900 miles north of the Tahoe National Forest in northern Washington. Attempts have been made for decades ...

Northern right whales head south to give birth, leave genetic 'fingerprints' with NOAA researchers

... south to warmer climates for the winter, many northern right whales also head south in November and stay ... (NOAA Fisheries Service). The pair has studied northern right whales for years. For the last two years ... by the New England Aquarium in Boston. Adult northern right whales can be easily identified by ...

March GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

... bedrock outcrop of originally sedimentary rock in northern Ontario, Canada, where the lower crust has been ... the stability of the regions that lay beneath the northern hemisphere ice sheets of the recent geologic ... Alaska. This compression was felt as far away as northern Alaska and Canada, where the Brooks Range and ...