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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 16:30:56 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: National Science Foundation Announces Partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Foster Sustainable Agricultural Solutions around the World
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced a nearly $50 million partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support innovative, solutions to critical agricultural challenges in developing countries. Each organization will provide $24 million over five years to support a competitive awards program for science research projects that address drought, pests, disease and other serious problems facing small farmers and their families who rely on their crops for their ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:16:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Spring Fishing Season Arrives ... And With It, Amphibian Diseases
Spring Fishing Season Arrives ... And With It, Amphibian Diseases
Waterdogs, they're called, these larvae of tiger salamanders used as live bait for freshwater fishing.
With tiger salamander larvae, anglers hope to catch largemouth bass, channel catfish and other freshwater fishes.
They may be in for more than they bargained for: salamanders in bait shops in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico are infected with ranaviruses, and those in Arizona, with a chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).
"These ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:17:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Largest Attempt in History to Understand Tornadoes Slated to Begin
Largest Attempt in History to Understand Tornadoes Slated to Begin
An ambitious project to explore the origin, structure and evolution of tornadoes will take place from May 10-June 13, 2009, across the central United States.
The project, VORTEX2 (V2), is the largest attempt in history to study tornadoes, and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars.
Verification Of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment 2 (VORTEX2) is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Oceanic and ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:18:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Human Impacts on Coral Reefs of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Revealed
Human Impacts on Coral Reefs of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Revealed
Results of a new study shed light on how threats to the world's endangered coral reef ecosystems can be more effectively managed.
In the current issue of the journal Coral Reefs, authors Kimberly Selkoe and Benjamin Halpern, both of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California at Santa Barbara, explain how maps of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI)--a vast area stretching across more than 1,200 miles of Pacific ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 11:19:26 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Desert Woodrats Switch One Dietary Poison for Another
Desert Woodrats Switch One Dietary Poison for Another
As the U.S. Southwest grew warmer between 18,700 and 10,000 years ago, juniper trees vanished from what is now the Mojave Desert, robbing woodrats of their favorite food.
Now biologists have narrowed the hunt for detoxification genes that let the rodents eat the toxic creosote bushes that replaced junipers.
"It was either eat it or move out," says biologist Denise Dearing of the University of Utah, lead author of a paper detailing the results, published ...
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