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Placental Mammal Diversity Blossomed After Age of Dinosaurs

By Guest PostFebruary 9, 2013Nature, Scienceafrica today, afrotheria, age of dinosaurs, american museum, americas, amnh, andrea cirranello, anthropologist, boundary, branching history, brazil, cloud based, common ancestor, cretaceous age mammal, cretaceous paleogene extinction, cretaceous terrestrial revolution, cyberinfrastructure, diversification, dna sequence data, earth, elephants to aardvarks, encoded by dna, evolutionary history, evolutionary trees, extinct biotic groups, federal university, fernando perini, fossil species, fossils and anatomy, fragmentation of gondwana, genetic, genetic data, genomic data, genomics based model, h richard lane, insect eating animal, john wible, kpg event, late cretaceous, mammal relationships, marcelo weksler, mary silcox, massive dataset, maureen oleary, mesozoic era, michael novacek, minas gerais, molecular clock, molecules and morphology, morphobank, nancy simmons, national museum, national science foundation, natural history, non avian dinosaurs, nsf, optimization, paleontologist, phenomic data, phenomic matrix, phenomic systems, phylophenomics, physical traits, placental mammal diversity, placental mammal tree, publicly accessible database, robb brumfield, scarborough, stony brook university, time of origin, tree of life, university of toronto, well preserved fossils

Scientists build new ‘tree of life’ for placentals, visualize common ancestor

Scientists have reconstructed the common ancestor of placental mammals–an extremely diverse group including animals ranging from rodents to whales to humans–using the world’s largest dataset of both genetic and physical traits. (more…)

Lionfish Invasion

By Guest PostFebruary 9, 2013Environment, Natureadam marsh, biological dynamics, caribbean, cayman islands, coral reef habitats, coral reef systems, coral reefs, diversity, economic threat, ecosystem, environmental, exotic lionfish, florida waters, gainesville, government permission, indo-pacific, invasive species, lionfish invasion, little cayman, mark moline, mark warner, native habitats, neil van niekerk, new york, overfishing and pollution, reducing biodiversity, reef dwellers, reef environment, shrimp, smsp, tom frazer, university of florida, venomous barbs, young lionfish

Invasive species among marine science subjects in Cayman Islands study abroad program

With a spiky fringe of venomous barbs and bold brown-and-white stripes, the exotic lionfish invaded Florida waters several decades ago and expanded its range widely from the Caribbean to New York. Native to the Indo-Pacific, the invasive species has no natural predators in this part of the world and readily feasts on small fish and shrimp.

UD students have the opportunity to observe these intruders — up-close and underwater — in a new study abroad program offered in the Cayman Islands through the School of Marine Science and Policy (SMSP). (more…)

Digitization with Google

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Education, Technologybook online, cliff haka, dayna topalian, digital library, digitization with google, Google, google books website, google project, hathitrust, human memory, library, midwestern universities, msu, nancy fleck, public domain, steven sowards

Books from the Michigan State University Libraries will soon be digitized by Google to become part of the Google Books website.

Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU’s participation is part of Google’s contract with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, a consortium of Midwestern universities. (more…)

Pacific Locked in ‘La Nada’ Limbo

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Environmentequatorial pacific, interannual ocean signal, la nada state, normal sea level, ocean circulation

Sea-surface height data from NASA’s Jason-2 satellite show that the equatorial Pacific Ocean is still locked in what some call a neutral, or ‘La Nada’ state. This condition follows two years of strong, cool-water La Nina events. (more…)

In Conversation with: Elizabeth Bradley, College Master with a Global Reach

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Education, Generalbranford college, China, clinton foundation, elizabeth bradley, ethiopia, faculty at yale, ghli, global health education, global health initiative, international projects, liberia, quality improvement, South Africa, strategic mission, to do list, trip to ethiopia, united kingdom, university, yale college, yale master, Zanzibar

Elizabeth Bradley started her career on the faculty at Yale in 1996 and currently serves in a variety of roles at the University, including professor of public health, faculty director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute, and master of Branford College.

Her research focuses on strengthening health systems and has contributed important findings about organizational change and quality of care within the hospital, nursing home, and hospice settings. She has been involved with several international projects including research in China, Ethiopia, Liberia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

Bradley spoke recently about her work on campus and around the world, and the many other items on her “to-do” list. (more…)

Social Networking: Gen Xers Connect Online as Often as They Socialize in Person

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Culture, Technologyamerican youth, americans, beginning, electronic era, electronic networking, electronic social networking, face to face, Facebook, first generation, generation x, generation x report, interactions, jon d miller, longitudinal study, personal emails, quality of life, skyping, social capital, social media, Twitter, university of michigan, vital component, young adults, young women

ANN ARBOR — Young adults in Generation X are as likely to connect with friends, family and co-workers online as they are in person, according to a University of Michigan study.

In a typical month, adults in their late 30s report that they engaged in about 75 face-to-face contacts or conversations, compared to about 74 electronic contracts through personal emails or social media. (more…)

New Coal Technology Harnesses Energy without Burning, Nears Pilot-Scale Development

By Guest PostFebruary 8, 2013Environmentamerica, atmosphere, carbon dioxide, cdcl, chemical reaction, clean coal technology, coal ash, coal derived syngas, coal feedstock, coal to electricity, combustion, consumes oxygen, convert, dawei wang, diameter, economy with jobs, elena chung, hot iron, human hair, iron oxide beads, liang shih fan, micrometers, millimeters, natural resources, new coal technology, ohio coal, ohio state university, pilot scale development, pulverized coal, reaction, reactor, research scale plants, samuel ayham, scl, syngas chemical looping, Technology, thermal kilowatts

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new form of clean coal technology reached an important milestone recently, with the successful operation of a research-scale combustion system at Ohio State University. The technology is now ready for testing at a larger scale.

For 203 continuous hours, the Ohio State combustion unit produced heat from coal while capturing 99 percent of the carbon dioxide produced in the reaction. (more…)

IBM Completes Acquisition of StoredIQ

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2013Technologyacquisition of storediq, big data initiatives, data governance, ibm, storediq, storediq software

Expands IBM’s Big Data Initiatives

ARMONK, N.Y. – 07 Feb 2013: IBM today announced it has completed the acquisition of StoredIQ, a privately held company based in Austin, Texas. (more…)

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