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Humans 'damaging the oceans'

...cales from rock pools to ocean basins, impacting ecosystem services and threatening human food security," the study by Professor Mike Kingsford of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University and colleague Dr Andrew Brierley of St Andrews University, Scotland, warns. T...

121 breeding tigers estimated to be found in Nepal

..., WWF International and US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). The 2008 nation-wide tiger population was initiated on 15 November 2009 in the Terai arc Landscape (TAL) of Nepal both inside and outside the protected areas of Nepal. [TAL encompasses the Terai region of Nepal and into tiger range states ...

DOE-funded research projects win 46 R&D 100 Awards for 2009

...photovoltaic cell to achieve widespread use in the energy market. (Jointly with Solexant) NEXUS DLC-X Coating System with Pulsed Filtered Cathodic arc Technology a system that promises more computer memory at less cost by depositing thin films of diamond-like carbon required by next-generation compu...

'Invisibility cloak' could protect against earthquakes

... pass smoothly into the material and are compressed into small fluctuations in pressure and density. The path of the surface waves can be made into an arc that directs the waves outside the protective cloak. The technique could be applied to buildings by installing the rings into foundations. Sebasti...

Coral face 'a stormy future'

...uitment the regrowth of young corals drops sharply in the wake of a major bleaching event or a hurricane," says lead author Dr Jennie Mallela of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and Australian National University. Using the island of Tobago in the Caribbean as their laboratory she...

Gear bans 'can help save reefs'

...s coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change. An international team of scientists led by Dr Josh Cinner of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University has proposed that bans on fishing gear - like spear guns, fish traps, beach seine...

Help for climate-stressed corals

...pes of fishing gear could help the world's coral reefs and their fish populations survive the onslaughts of climate change according to a study by the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and other groups. The international team o...

Rules proposed to save the world's coral reefs

...Leis, S. Planes, G. R. Russ, P. F. Sale and S. R. Thorrold. The work was funded jointly by the World Bank Coral Reef Targeted Research program and the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. "The Coral Triangle Initiative is one of the most important marine conservation measures ever undertak...

A big lesson from the reef

...rn protects us. That's the message from Professor Sean Connolly from the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University who t...Program Leader of Understanding and Managing Coral Reef Biodiversity in the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. The Fenner Medal honours th...

Coral 'can't escape the heat'

... Reef to reveal disturbing changes in the chemistry of the world's oceans due to human activity. Professor Malcolm McCulloch, a geochemist with the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and Australian National University today receives Australia's top honour for earth sciences, the Australia...

Reef boom beats doom

...ls re-established in a single year, says Dr Guillermo Diaz-Pulido, from the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) and the Centre for Mar...d to Dr McCook, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority as well as the arc Centre of Excellence program. "This combination of circumstances provide...

April 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...ges related to glaciation. Circum-Pacific arc flare-ups and global cooling near the Eocene-Oligo... Wisconsin 53706, USA. Pages 303-306. Explosive arc volcanism can have significant environmental impac...and show that peak periods and subsequent lulls in arc magmatism over the past 50 million years are coeva...

February 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...eline about 120,000 years ago and have since been displaced by a prehistoric tsunami. Frohlich et al. analyzed undersea volcanic calderas in the Tofua arc west of Tongatapu and local slump features just offshore from the boulders and concluded that a caldera collapse was the likely cause of a tsunami lar...

Trees won't stop tsunamis, scientists warn

...t the damage to coastal communities had been less in places where there was a barrier of trees or coastal vegetation," explains Dr Andrew Baird of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University. "As a result there has been a lot of tree planting in coastal areas affected...

December 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Sulfur isotopes in sediment-hosted orogenic gold deposits: Evidence for an early timing and a seawater sulfur source Zhaoshan Chang et al., CODES arc Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 126, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia. Pages 971-974. Chang et al. report...

ORNL nanotechnologies big winners in DOE call

...netite produced in industrial size fermentors at or near room temperature. Transformational fabrication of nano structural material using plasma arc lamps. This technology, which converts electrical energy from an arc-plasma lamp into radiant energy, has tremendous potential for processing materia...

Rare corals breed their way out of trouble

...o cross-breed with certain other coral species to breed themselves out of a one-way trip to extinction. This finding, released by scientists at the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, has raised hopes for the ability of the world's corals to withstand the rigors of changing climates and h...

Cross kingdom conflicts on a beetle's back

...ition, they've identified the specific molecule that drives this whole phenomenon. The context of this discovery can easily be imagined as a story arc that includes some of the most unlikely characters and props. Setting: The interior of a pine tree. Enter the protagonist: The pine beetle, bo...

Fishy future written in the genes

...le to re-colonise regions of reef devastated by global warming and other impacts or settle new areas as the corals move south, says Dr Line Bay of the arc Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University (JCU) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). Dr Bay and her colleagu...

October 2008 GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

...ganisms. Naturaliste Plateau, offshore Western Australia: A submarine window into Gondwana assembly and breakup Jacqueline A. Halpin et al., arc Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, School of Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 126, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia. Pages 807-8...

World-first to predict premature births

... this project. Symbion has provided equipment, personnel and test results, which have enabled us to develop early findings and attract funding through arc Linkage Grant scheme," Professor Roger Smith said. ...

September Geology and GSA Today media highlights

... Anhydrite-bearing andesite and dacite as a source for sulfur in magmatic-hydrothermal mineral deposits Isabelle Chambefort et al., CODES, arc Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia. Pages 719-722. NSF funding received. Mag...

August 2008 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...tudy that examines the attributes of 91 Quaternary silicic calderas in 18 volcanic arcs. Hughes and Mahood show that the number of calderas in a given arc depends on the associated plate convergence rate, and that the age, thickness, and stress regime of the underlying crust determine the composition of ...

Monash researcher receives prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister's award

...k's award builds on a distinguished research career at Monash University, with highlights including a 2007 NHMRC Principal Research Fellowship, a 2008 arc Federation Fellowship and the 2006 Science Minister's Prize for Life Scientist of the Year. Professor Whisstock has published over 110 papers in leadi...

Does fishing on drifting fish aggregation devices endanger the survival of tropical tuna?

...iated concentrations of fish. Fishermen cast off floating rafts equipped with buoys which act as FADs. An enormous purse-seine net, deployed in a wide arc on either side of the vessel, encircles the school of tuna that come to shelter under the FAD. The lower part of the net is tightened, enclosing the f...

Sunflower debate ends in Mexico, researchers say

...S study. The research was funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Geographic Society. Pohl and Kevin Pope of Geo Eco arc Research discovered the early domesticated remains of sunflower a decade ago during an excavation of the San Andrs site in the modern-day Gulf Coast s...

Charting the epigenome

...de methylation at single-base resolution and to sequence the complete transcriptome within a reasonable timeframe. Collaborating scientists at the arc Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology at the University of Western Australia in Perth developed a powerful, web-based genome browser, which pla...

Bikini corals recover from atomic blast

...res to 55,000 degrees, shook islands 200 kilometers away and left a crater 2km wide and 73m deep. After diving into the crater, Zoe Richards of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University says, I didnt know what to expect some kind of moonscape perhaps. But it was i...

Coral's addiction to 'junk food'

...ng a worldwide scientific effort to decipher how corals and their symbiotic algae communicate with one another, says Professor David Yellowlees of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) and James Cook University. Its an incredibly intricate relationship in which the corals feed t...

Rabbits to the rescue of the reef

...saster like a cyclone, the coral will usually recover provided it is not choked by fast-growing marine algae, explains Professor David Bellwood of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University. The problem is that over the years we have fished down the populations of fi...

Researchers discover how stealthy HIV protein gets into cells

... splay curvature in the membrane. This shape resembles a saddle (like that of a Pringles potato chip), giving the openings, or pores, a bi-directional arc like that seen inside a doughnut hole. The newly formed pores in the membrane were 6 nanometers wide, large enough to allow fairly sizeable protein...

Butterfly fish 'may face extinction'

...re on the worlds coral reefs is confronting certain species with blind alleys from which they may be unable to escape, says Dr Morgan Pratchett of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies Media Release and James Cook University. In a study published in the journal Behavioural Ecology and So...

February Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...hawn Denniston et al., Department of Geology, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314, USA. Pages 151-154. Uplift of the Central American volcanic arc isolated the Caribbean and Pacific oceans approximately 3 million years ago, and changed the physiochemical characteristics of the Caribbean. In respo...

Starfish strike at coral kingdom

...iversity on Earth. Thats the finding of recent scientific surveys by the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and the Wildlife Conservation S...age to the corals was the Crown of Thorns Starfish, Dr. Andrew Baird of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University. We ...

Starfish outbreak threatens corals

... Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society and arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Th...Halmahera by the Wildlife Conservation Society and arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies confir... Crown of Thorns Starfish, Dr. Andrew Baird of the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and Ja...

November GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY Media Highlights

...ust does not change during evolution from juvenile arc crust to mature arc crust; and (3) a process is required to return maf...ust to the mantle to accomplish the evolution from arc crust to continental crust. These new findings res...

Everglades phosphorus limits on the right track, but more is needed

...teria that they set." Phosphorus is the key ingredient in fertilizers applied by the agribusinesses and housing subdivisions that have spread in an arc around the Everglades. It is carried in rainwater runoff into the wetlands, where scientists suspect it can harm organisms even in very small doses. ...

Key found to moonlight romance

...what could be the aphrodisiac for the biggest moonlight sex event on Earth. An ancient light-sensitive gene has been isolated by researchers from the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS) that appears to act as a trigger for the annual mass spawning of corals across a third of a milli...

Acid oceans warning

...sts at a national public forum at the Shine Dome in Canberra tomorrow. The Coral Reef Futures 07 Forum is on October 18-19, 2007 and is hosted by the arc Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (CoECRS). Recent research into corals using boron isotopes indicates the ocean has become about one th...

Environmental setting of human migrations in the circum-Pacific Region

... A new study by Kevin Pope of Geo Eco arc Research and John Terrell of The Field Museum adds insight into the migration of anatomically modern humans out of Africa and into Asia less than 100,...