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Expedition finds Nemo can travel great distances to connect populations

By Guest PostSeptember 25, 2014Nature, Scienceamerican, arabian peninsula, archaeal signatures, betina faist, buckingham palace, clark peters, dna fingerprinting, expedition, goettin gula, hasan qasim, human skin microbiome, keilschriftarchiv, kelli canada, klaus oppermann, kurdistan, larval stage, marine environment, mittani reich, most overlooked inventors, new york, ocean, oman, out of jail, ressourcen kulturen, sensual crime, skin moisture, steve simpson, tempel, travel, university of exeter

Clownfish spend their entire lives nestling in the protective tentacles of host anemones, but new research shows that as babies they sometimes travel hundreds of kilometres across the open ocean. Although the process of long-distance dispersal by reef fish has been predicted, this is the first time that the high level exchange of offspring between distant populations has been observed.

Dr Steve Simpson, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology and Global Change in Biosciences at the University of Exeter, and colleagues from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC COE CRS), Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France) have published their findings on the dispersal of Omani clownfish larvae in the journal PLOS ONE. (more…)

Yale study: Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot

By Guest PostFebruary 7, 2014Environment704 node cluster, aerosol particles, ancient atmospheric level, ancient earth, arabian peninsula, carbon dioxide, climate scientists, co2 concentration, co2 emission, earth, earth system model, forest emissions, hot, methane, model e2, nadine unger, omega supercomputer, ozone, pliocene, pre industrial climate, radiation balance, volatile organic compound, wildfires, yale study, yale university

The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth’s forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new Yale study finds.

The research provides evidence that dynamic atmospheric chemistry played an important role in past warm climates, underscoring the complexity of climate change and the relevance of natural components, according to the authors. They do not address or dispute the significant role in climate change of human-generated CO2 emissions. (more…)

From military to MBA

By Guest PostSeptember 23, 2013Educationafghanistan, arabian peninsula, black sea, charles altman, d day planning, ernie lietzan, gi bill, heidi sandell, infantry, Iraq, level of accuracy, marine captain, marine corps base, marine infantry, mba program, middle east, military service, military to mba, national guard, operation new dawn, persian gulf, philip miller, quantico, robert paulus, university of minnesota, virginia

How the Carlson School supports veterans going for an MBA

Looking to apply to an MBA program, Heidi Sandell faced a common problem among veterans.

“I had a hard time translating my skills into something the business world could use and appreciate,” says Sandell, who served four years in the U.S. Navy. (more…)

Growing U.S. Violent Extremism – Facts on the Ground: UMD Database

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2011General, Politicsal qaida, anti abortion extremists, aqap, arabian peninsula, attacks, blueprint, community resilience, earth liberation front, elf, environmental extremists, financial schemes, foiled terrorist plots, ft hood, gary lafree, global war on terrorism, homegrown terrorists, islamist extremists, janet napolitano, lone wolf, North America, plots, political spectrum, radicalization, start, statistics, tehrik i taliban pakistan, terrorism database, terrorist attacks, texas, ttp, united states, university of maryland, violent extremism, White House, white supremacists, work of extremists

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Over the past decade, attacks and plots by homegrown terrorists in the United States have increased, the work of extremists from across the political spectrum – roughly 40 percent of it by so-called ‘lone wolf,’ non-aligned actors – says an analysis by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) based at the University of Maryland.

The statistics underscore the threat addressed in a White House plan released Thursday: Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States – a blueprint for “building community resilience against violent extremism.” (more…)

NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2011Scienceairborne sounding radar for aquifer mapping, airborne sounding radar prototype, arabian peninsula, depth and extent of aquifers, earth desert, essam heggy, evidence for climate change, geological processes, jet propulsion laboratory, low frequency radar signal, maps of freshwater aquifers, mars orbiting spacecraft, muhammad al rashed, NASA, north africa, northern kuwait, radar sounding technology, semi arid environments, southwestern united states, subsurface of mars, water saturated zones, west and central asia

PASADENA, Calif. — A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first use of airborne sounding radar for aquifer mapping.

The research may help scientists better locate and map Earth’s desert aquifers, understand current and past hydrological conditions in Earth’s deserts and assess how climate change is impacting them. Deserts cover roughly 20 percent of Earth’s land surface, including highly populated regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, west and central Asia and the southwestern United States. (more…)

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Expedition finds Nemo can travel great distances to connect populations

Yale study: Forest emissions, wildfires explain why ancient Earth was so hot

From military to MBA

Growing U.S. Violent Extremism – Facts on the Ground: UMD Database

NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth