KEN in Biological News

Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar receives Soil Stewardship Award

WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 22, 2008 Recognizing his strong support for agriculture and the conservation of Colorado's and the nation's lands, Senator Ken Salazar (D-CO), received the 2008 Excellence in Soil Stewardship Award presented by the Soil Science Society of America on July 17. A fifth gener...

Kornberg Associates Architects Selected to Develop Design for New Stanford University Imaging Center

...niversity to design a new Cognitive & Neurobiological Imaging Center. ken Kornberg, president and founder, made the announcement. The firm has worke...re located in Menlo Park and San Diego, CA; and Tokyo. Contact: ken Kornberg Kornberg Associates | Architects (650) 321-1295 ken@k...

Global sunscreen won't save corals

...be a slight reduction in this problem, because land plants would be expected to be able to grow more vigorously in a high CO 2 , but cool world," says ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, a co-author of the study with lead author Damon Matthews of Concordia University,...

Tulane receives grant to study limb regeneration

...entific breakthrough for humans who have lost limbs? With the help of a $6.25 million U.S. Department of Defense grant, Tulane University professor ken Muneoka, the John L. and Mary Wright Ebaugh chair in science and engineering, will lead a team of researchers from the University of California - Irvi...

Tulsa County Sheriff Selects BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System

...t the dots between suspicious activity here and an incident in another community." "What's happening in Oklahoma is a model for the nation," said ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "Under the leadership of Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel,...

U of Minnesota research reveals critical role of evolutionary processes in species coexistence

...g to accumulate evidence that community structure and interactions through time can feedback to promote or constrain diversification of species," said ken Kozak, also a professor at the University of Minnesota. "The blurring of boundaries between classical community ecology and biogeography has been key ...

Tulsa County Sheriff Selects BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System

...t the dots between suspicious activity here and an incident in another community." "What's happening in Oklahoma is a model for the nation," said ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "Under the leadership of Oklahoma County Sheriff John Whetsel,...

Aerosol: A key piece of the climate change puzzle

...n has often been referred to as global dimming. "Aerosol is the most important factor that affects climate after greenhouse gases," says Professor ken Carslaw from the University of Leeds, who is leading the research. "Aerosol pretty much counteracts a large part of global warming caused by greenh...

Late motherhood boosts family lifespan

...your family give birth at older ages, you may well have a chance of living longer than you would otherwise," says the study's lead author, demographer ken R. Smith, a professor of family and consumer studies at the University of Utah. "If you have a female relative who had children after age 45, then the...

Symposia selected for Entomological Society of America meeting

...enoptera Heteropterists Conference Insect Resistance Management: Science, Scope, and Solutions Korean Young Entomologists (KYE) Look What ken Yeargan Started! Minute Pirate Bugs (Orius spp.) a Potential Biocontrol Tool in IPM of Fruit, Ornamental, and Vegetable Pests North American Neu...

Nine Additional Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies Deploy BIO-key(R) and DaPro Systems Solution

...ess integration of BIO-key and DaProSystems Public Safety Software solutions to improve their officer safety and better serve their communities" added ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. About BIO-key BIO-key International, Inc., headquarte...

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

...to my summer research experience and would like to thank ASPB very much for this opportunity. Sharon Holifield, University of Arkansas Mentor: ken Korth The role of glyoxalase I in abiotic stress tolerance of soybean, Glycine max. I am more than excited about being able to do this summer resea...

Nine Additional Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies Deploy BIO-key(R) and DaPro Systems Solution

...ess integration of BIO-key and DaProSystems Public Safety Software solutions to improve their officer safety and better serve their communities" added ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. About BIO-key BIO-key International, Inc., headquarte...

AGU journal highlights -- March 25, 2009

... Carnegie Institution, Stanford, California, U.S.A.; Boaz Lazar, and Jonathan Erez: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; Long Cao, ken Caldeira: Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, California, U.S.A. Source: Geophysical Research Letters (GRL) paper 10.10...

Seattle Times reporters win ASM public communications award

...cation Award has been awarded to Seattle Times reporters Michael Berens and ken Armstrong for their three-part investigation into methicillin-resistant St...of journalism at Northwestern University and remains an active lecturer. ken Armstrong also has an accomplished background in investigative reporting. H...

Researchers take first look at the genetic dynamics of inbreeding depression

...mount of inbreeding depression is due to a few key genes that affect the expression of other genes," said animal biology professor and department head ken Paige, who led the study. Of particular note were identical changes in the expression of 46 genes in all three of the high inbreeding depression li...

Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards prestigious fellowships to 13 top young investigators

... insulin signaling are already known to function in tumor suppression, this study may lead to the identification of new tumor suppressor pathways. ken S. Lau, PhD, with his sponsors Kevin M. Haigis, PhD, and Douglas A. Lauffenburger, PhD, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, is w...

Marine scientists to assess environment before offshore drilling begins in US arctic waters

...s. It was the first lease sale in the Chukchi since 1991 and the most successful in Alaska's history. The research team, led by chief scientist Dr. ken Dunton of the University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute (UTMSI), will establish the environmental baseline for the Chukchi Sea's seabed...

Will large amounts of soil carbon be released if grasslands are converted to energy crops?

...s observed to conserve both previously sequestered SOC while also enhancing sequestration of SOC by the bioenergy crops." Coauthors Gary Varvel and ken Vogel indicate that no-till conversion of CRP grasslands into grain crops or perennial biomass crops such as switchgrass is significantly less expensi...

Texas researchers provide emissions data for livestock industry

...State University. "The EPA rule basically gave these livestock operations one month to report on-going emissions that exceeded the thresholds," Dr. ken Casey, AgriLife Research air quality engineer said. "Needless to say releasing the rule when they did, just before Christmas, without any advance noti...

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

...rl Schwarz, Simon Fraser University; Jim Nichols and Jim Hines, US Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center; Alan Franklin, David Anderson, ken Burnham, and Gary White, Colorado State University. ...

BioScience tip sheet, February 2009

...Jacquie Clark, Simon Gillings, Albert S. Gates, Patricia M. Gonzlez, Daniel E. Hernandez, Clive D. T. Minton, R. I. Guy Morrison, Ronald R. Porter, R. ken Ross, and C. Richard Veitch. The authors present data indicating that the 2007 horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay exceeds that of 1990, despite ...

BIO-key(R) Mobile Data and Messaging Solutions Link Nebraska Law Enforcement Agencies

...SecureMessage will give us a much more targeted ability to communicate - as broad or selective as we need to be - in responding to an incident." ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division, noted, "Utilizing radio communications as the primary communic...

Texas College Police Unit Deploys BIO-key(R) Mobile Data System

...ollin College join the many colleges and universities that rely on our mobile data solutions to help protect their students, faculty and staff," said ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "And we're continuing to expand our campus safety product offe...

Springer looks ahead to the Future City

... a truly world-class advisory board which includes renowned green architect ken Yeang, landscape architect and ecologist Joan Nassauer and distinguished ec... Changing Climate by Australian architect, Paul Downton, with a foreword by ken Yeang. The book highlights the urgent need to understand the role of citie...

Florida's 'worm grunters' collect bait worms by inadvertently imitating mole sounds

... When biologist ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practiced in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle one of his first tho...

BIO-key(R) Announces Additional $245,000 in Third Quarter Public Safety Orders

...eing from both existing and new customers is a direct result of the ongoing enhancements we're been making to our mobile data product portfolio," said ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "Our customers are looking for ways in which they can increase...

Form of Crohn's disease traced to disabled gut cells

...ase patients have a mutation in a gene known as Atg16L1. The mutation increases risk but doesn't automatically lead to Crohn's disease. To learn more, ken Cadwell, Ph.D., a postdoctoral student in Virgin's lab, created and studied two lines of mice with a genetic alteration that reduced their ability to ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 24, 2008

...eles, according to a study scheduled for the October 15 issue of ACS' Environmental Science and Technology, a semi-monthly journal. In the study, ken Docherty and colleagues point out that current air quality regulations target sources of 'primary,' or directly emitted, particles. Yet their new find...

Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners

...usly achieving academic excellence. David R. Coyle , this year's winner, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison working with Dr. ken Raffa. His research is on the ecology and impact of a suite of invasive root-feeding weevils that inhabit the Lake States. Specifically, he is investi...

CU-Boulder study suggests air quality regulations miss key pollutants

...particles in the air. "Air quality regulations today effectively target most sources of 'primary,' or directly emitted particles," said lead author ken Docherty, a researcher with the university's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. "Yet our study indicates that the 'seconda...

Modest CO2 cutbacks may be too little, too late for coral reefs

...tmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical oceanographers Long Cao and ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters . The researchers' conclusions are...

BIO-key(R) Announces Emergency Alert and Management Solutions for Schools and Campuses

... who most need it -- school resource and campus patrol officers and administrators chartered to protect our young children and college students," said ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. "School departments and higher education institutions now have...

Regional Law Enforcement Data Exchange System Expands

...roduction just a year ago, InfoExchange has been helping hundreds of officers and investigators across the U.S. to be safer and smarter," according to ken Souza, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BIO-key's Law Enforcement Division. About BIO-key BIO-key International, Inc., headquartered i...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...that previously could only be simulated in the laboratory. Temperature of the plume layer beneath the Yellowstone hotspot Derek Schutt and ken Deuker, Dept. of Geosciences, Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State University, Colorado 80523-1482, USA. Pages 623-626. The basalt-c...

Iowa State researchers study ground cover to reduce impact of biomass harvest

...r corn fields to slow wind and water erosion and re-supply the soil with organic material to ensure future productivity. "The issue is this," said ken Moore, Iowa State University agronomy professor. "How do you harvest corn stover in a way that sustains the productivity of the environment for produc...

Senate resolution shines spotlight on the importance of soils

... On June 23, Senator Brown was joined by co-sponsoring Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Tom Harkin (D-IA), ken Salazar (D-CO) and George Voinovich (R-OH) to successfully pass Senate Resolution 440, which also highlights the "critical role" soils professionals p...

Purple extremist thrives under inhospitable conditions

...d these substances into their metabolism. And afterwards they never left its environment, even as this became increasingly scarce on earth." Prof. ken Timmis, Head of the Environmental Microbiology Group at HZI, is considering the future uses of the findings of the team: "Enzymes are required for man...

Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: UN experts

..., Virginia; Anthony J. Hooten, AJH, Environmental Services, Bethesda, MD; Jacob P. Kritzer, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA; ken Lindeman, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL; Prof. Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson, University of Hong Kong; and Prof. Bob Steneck, University ...

Coastal management cooperation, enforcement key to avoid pending crisis for millions: U.N. experts

..., Virginia; Anthony J. Hooten, AJH, Environmental Services, Bethesda, MD; Jacob P. Kritzer, Senior Scientist, Environmental Defense Fund, Boston, MA; ken Lindeman, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne FL; Prof. Yvonne Sadovy de Mitcheson, University of Hong Kong; and Prof. Bob Steneck, University ...