The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports scientific studies in the geosciences, biological sciences and other fields highlighted at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco, Dec. 10-14, 2007.
Below are AGU town hall meetings, press conferences and scientific talks and posters that feature NSF-funded research.
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:54:20 -0600 (CST)
Subject: NSF Awards Grants for Three Critical Zone Observatories
NSF Awards Grants for Three Critical Zone Observatories
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected sites for three critical zone observatories (CZO). The observatories are designed to provide scientists with an understanding of what has come to be called the critical zone--the region between the top of the forest canopy and the base of unweathered rock: our living environment--and its response to climate and land use changes. The CZOs represent the first set of systems-based observatories dedicated to Earth surface processes. ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:50 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Digital Library for Geosciences Moves to National Center for Atmospheric Research
Digital Library for Geosciences Moves to National Center for Atmospheric Research
The nation's most extensive collection of digital learning resources for geoscience education is now based at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.
The move ensures that the Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE), developed with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), will continue to serve hundreds of thousands of K-12 educators and learners around the country.
"DLESE was an early pioneer in NSF's efforts to establish ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:58:02 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered
Missing Link Between Whales and Four-Footed Ancestors Discovered
Scientists have discovered the missing link between whales and their four-footed ancestors. The result is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Scientists since Darwin have known that whales are mammals whose ancestors walked on land. In the past 15 years, researchers led by Hans Thewissen of the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM) have ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:42:03 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Predicting Seasonal Weather
Predicting Seasonal Weather
Large-scale weather patterns play a large role in controlling seasonal weather. Knowing the conditions of these atmospheric oscillations in advance would greatly improve long-range weather predictions.
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:03:48 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Lithium and Beryllium No Longer "Lack Chemistry"
Lithium and Beryllium No Longer "Lack Chemistry"
Even though the lightest known metals in the universe, lithium (Li) and beryllium (Be), do not bind to one another under normal atmospheric or ambient pressure, an interdisciplinary team of Cornell scientists predicts in the Jan. 24 issue of Nature that Li and Be will bond under higher levels of pressure and form stable Li-Be alloys that may be capable of superconductivity. Superconductivity is the flow of electricity with zero resistance.
The ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:05:59 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Fossil Record Suggests Insect Assaults on Foliage May Increase with Warming Globe
Fossil Record Suggests Insect Assaults on Foliage May Increase with Warming Globe
More than 55 million years ago, the Earth experienced a rapid jump in global carbon dioxide levels that raised temperatures across the planet. Now, researchers studying plants from that time have found that the rising temperatures may have boosted the foraging of insects. As modern temperatures continue to rise, the researchers believe the planet could see increasing crop damage and forest devastation.
The researchers, from Penn State, the Smithsonian Institution, the ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:23:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
Agriculture Changing Chemistry of Mississippi River
Midwestern farming, and increased water flowing into the Mississippi River as a result, have injected the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers' worth of carbon dioxide into the Mississippi each year over the last 50 years, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature.
The research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
"It's like the discovery of a new large river being piped out of the corn belt," said Peter Raymond, ...
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Message: 12
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:32:22 -0600 (CST)
Subject: New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
New Antarctic Ice Core to Provide Clearest Climate Record Yet
After enduring months on the coldest, driest and windiest continent on Earth, researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
Working as part of the National Science Foundation's West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project, a team of scientists, engineers, technicians and students from multiple U.S. institutions have ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:38:01 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Foreign Science and Engineering Graduate Students Returning to U.S. Colleges
Foreign Science and Engineering Graduate Students Returning to U.S. Colleges
Enrollment of first-time, full-time foreign graduate students on temporary visas studying science and engineering (S&E) grew by 16 percent in 2006, following a 4 percent increase in 2005. The increases in the past two years reflect a reversal of the declines in enrollments of new foreign S&E graduate students experienced after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.
"The numbers indicate a rebound of first-time, ...
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