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Food and Fear: Modeling animal tradeoffs shaped by landscape complexity
Ecologists take a comprehensive look at sagebrush habitat through the eyes of a small, but important, resident Full story at https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/science_nation/foragingrabbits.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
Researchers track effects of changing ocean temperature on phytoplankton
Changes in ocean temperature affect a key species of phytoplankton, according to scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Their study, published in this week’s issue of the journal Science, tracked levels of Synechococcus — a tiny bacterium common in marine ecosystems — near the coast […] Read More
NSF funds new projects to explore graduate education models
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce the most recent awardees for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program, designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative models for graduate education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). “Innovative and interdisciplinary approaches will be key to […] Read More
NSF funds new projects to advance energy-efficient computing
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) have jointly awarded $21.6 million for <a … More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=190060&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Source: NSF news
Soil moisture, snowpack data could help predict 'flash droughts'
The “flash drought” that unexpectedly gripped the U.S. Southern Rockies and Midwest in the summer of 2012 could have been predicted months in advance using soil moisture and snowpack data, according to new research. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) analyzed the conditions leading to the 2012 drought — which resulted […] Read More