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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:40:22 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Resolving the Paradox of the Antarctic Sea Ice
Resolving the Paradox of the Antarctic Sea Ice
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:36:00 -0500
While Arctic sea ice has been diminishing in recent decades, the Antarctic
sea ice extent has been increasing slightly. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology provide an explanation for the seeming paradox of increasing Antarctic sea ice in a warming climate.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Survey Shows Many are Still Clueless on How to Save Energy
Survey Shows Many are Still Clueless on How to Save Energy
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:50:00 -0500
Many Americans believe they can save energy with
small behavior changes that actually achieve very little, and severely underestimate the major effects of switching to efficient, currently available technologies, says a new survey of Americans in 34 states. The study, which quizzed people on what they perceived as the most effective way to save energy, appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The Earth Institute at Columbia University
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:40:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Brain Gene _expression_ Changes When Honey Bees Go the Distance
Brain Gene _expression_ Changes When Honey Bees Go the Distance
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:51:00 -0500
Tricking honey bees into thinking they have traveled
long distance to find food alters gene _expression_ in their brains, researchers report this month. Their study, in the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior, is the first to identify distance-responsive genes.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Slowing Urban Sprawl, Adding Forests Curb Floods and Help Rivers
Slowing Urban Sprawl, Adding Forests Curb Floods and Help Rivers
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:52:00 -0500
Controlling urban growth and
increasing forested land are the most effective ways to decrease future water runoff and flooding, according to a Purdue University study.
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Purdue University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Big Quakes More Frequent Than Thought on San Andreas Fault
Big Quakes More Frequent Than Thought on San Andreas Fault
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:51:00 -0500
Earthquakes have rocked the powerful San Andreas
fault that splits California far more often than previously thought, according to UC Irvine and Arizona State University researchers who have charted temblors there stretching back 700 years.
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University of California, Irvine
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:40:25 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: New Study Shows How Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic Some 50 Million Years Ago
New Study Shows How Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic Some 50 Million Years Ago
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:05:00 -0500
A new study of the High Arctic climate roughly 50 million years ago led by the University of Colorado at Boulder helps to explain how ancient alligators and giant tortoises were able to thrive on Ellesmere Island well above the Arctic Circle, even as they endured six months of darkness each year.
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:14:08 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Cement, the Glue That Holds Oyster Families Together
Cement, the Glue That Holds Oyster Families Together
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:01:00 -0500
Oyster reefs are on the decline, with over-harvesting and pollution reducing some stocks as much as 98 percent over the last two centuries.
With a growing awareness of oysters' critical roles filtering water, preventing erosion, guarding coasts from storm damage, and providing habitat for other organisms, researchers have been investigating how oyster reefs form in order to better understand the organisms and offer potential guidance to oyster re-introduction projects.
At the ...
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Message: 8
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:22:40 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined
Genetic Structure of First Animal to Show Evolutionary Response to Climate Change Determined
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:36:00 -0500
Scientists at the University of Oregon have determined the fine-scale genetic structure of the first animal to show an evolutionary response to rapid climate change.
They used a high-throughput sequencing technique called Restriction-site Associated DNA (RAD) tagging to make the discovery.
Their results, which focus on the pitcher plant mosquito, Wyeomyia smithii, are published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). ...
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:56:39 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: On the line -- Studying West Antarctic Ice Cores
On the line -- Studying West Antarctic Ice Cores
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:41:00 -0500
In one small corner of the sprawling Denver Federal Center campus in suburban Lakewood, Colorado, about a dozen people, bundled up in thickly insulated Carhartt jumpsuits, wool caps, scarves and gloves, are slicing and dicing ice.
And not just any ice. This is ice from Antarctica, extracted from the middle of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) by the world's most advanced ice-coring drill. Researchers from across the United States will eventually analyze various properties of the ice ...
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