AScribe Science News Service articles from April 2009

AScribe Science News Service archives from April 2009

More Than 500 Seismologists to Meet April 8 - 10 in Monterey, Calif., for 2009 Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America EL CERRITO, Calif., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Seismologists from around the world will gather at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Seismological Society of America (SSA). Featuring more than 600...

Signing of 'Transformation Proclamation' Creates Alliance to Reform Engineering Education.
April 1, 2009... Byline: Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering NEEDHAM, Mass., April 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- Representatives of U.S. and international engineering schools today signed a "transformation proclamation" pledging their commitment to a...

Drexler's Dark Matter Accurately Predicts Maximum Size of 430 Million Light Years for Galaxy Superclusters.
April 6, 2009... Byline: AScribe, The Public Interest Newswire SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Bell Labs-trained Jerome Drexler has written three astro-cosmology books providing overwhelming evidence that the dark matter of the...

'Unequivocal': How Climate Change Will Transform California.
April 7, 2009... Byline: University of California Division of Agriculture OAKLAND, Calif., April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earth's temperature has risen 1 degree F in the last 100 years - a small number with a profound impact for California. According to...

Educating a Generation of Socially Engaged Environmental Scientists.
April 7, 2009... Byline: Saint Joseph's University PHILADELPHIA, April 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- This year, Earth Day falls on April 22, and for its 39th anniversary, the eco-minded among us will be taking stock of advancements made by the green movement, as...

Carnegie Mellon Experts Say Cap and Trade Policies Are Not Enough To Reduce Emissions by 2050.
April 13, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report in a new policy brief that cap and trade climate policies alone will not be sufficient to put the...

ACM, IEEE-CS Honor Innovative Processor Architect Who Bridged the Industry-Academic Divide; Joel Emer Pioneered Quantitative Approach to Processor Performance Evaluation.
April 14, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, April 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) will jointly present the Eckert-Mauchly Award to Dr. Joel Emer of...

UC Santa Barbara Collaboration Receives $6.1 Million for Diamond-based Quantum Information Processing and Communication.
April 15, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- In the quest for quantum information processing, diamonds may be a physicist's best friend. According to scientists at University of...

Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season.
April 15, 2009... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., April 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky...

Kansas State Geologist, Collaborators Create Second Life Island to Help High School Students Learn About Earth Science through Virtual Time Travel, Exploration.
April 16, 2009... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- A mysterious island that moves through time. Travelers in search of answers. It sounds something like the science fiction television show "Lost," but it...

Environmental Researchers at UC Santa Barbara Urge International Cooperation on Governance Issues Arising From Diminishing Arctic Sea Ice.
April 16, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 16 (AScribe Newswire) -- Environmental researchers at UC Santa Barbara have issued a rallying cry to protect Arctic resources, in an article published in the April...

Report Calls for Ocean Zoning to Address Human Impacts on Oceans.
April 20, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- A major shift in ocean policy is strongly urged by a team of scientists who are calling for comprehensive, national, ecosystem-based ocean...

Scientific Support and Non-Opposition Leads to Symposium for Drexler's Dark Matter Cosmology.
April 21, 2009... Byline: The Drexler Foundation SILICON VALLEY, Calif., April 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- In his December 2003 astro-cosmology book, "How Dark Matter Created Dark Energy and the Sun," Bell Labs-trained Jerome Drexler disclosed and plausibly...

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America Special Issue on Rotational Seismology.
April 27, 2009... Byline: Seismological Society of America SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- A special May issue of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) focuses on the emerging field of rotational seismology and its...

ACM and Infosys Foundation Cite Network Pioneer for Revolutionary Advances in Web Search Techniques; $150,000 Prize to Cornell's Kleinberg for Contemporary Contributions in Computer Science.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Association for Computing Machinery NEW YORK, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery - http://www.acm.org) announced today that Jon Kleinberg, a professor at Cornell University, is the recipient...

Carnegie Mellon University Students Evaluate Ways to Empower Communities to Manage Local Nuclear Plant Risks.
April 28, 2009... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team of 30 Carnegie Mellon University students will unveil a new study about the role of public involvement in managing risks of nuclear power plants on April...

UC Santa Barbara Professor Emeritus Elected to National Academy of Sciences.
April 28, 2009... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., April 28 (AScribe Newswire) -- Stanton J. Peale, a professor emeritus renowned for his work in astrophysics at University of California, Santa Barbara, has been elected...