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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Description: "Do not go where the path may lead," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail." That could be the motto of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Trailblazing has been the business of JPL since it was established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s. America's first satellite, Explorer 1, was created at JPL. In the decades that followed, we sent the first robotic craft to the Moon and out across the solar system, reconnoitering all of the planets except one. Pushing the outer edge of exploration, in fact, is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory. In that spirit, this is an exceptionally busy period for JPL in laying new paths. The Deep Impact spacecraft recently scored a phenomenal success when it blasted a crater in the nucleus of comet Tempel 1, revealing for the first time the inner stuff of these ancient wayfarers of the solar system. Another comet-chasing spacecraft, Stardust, is on its way back to Earth with a cargo of dust samples it collected when it flew by comet Wild 2 last year. The flagship explorer Cassini continues its looping orbits of Saturn, scrutinizing the ringed planet and its moons, including the haze-shrouded Titan. Like the alkaline batteries that don't give up, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers carry on in their ambles across the surface of Mars, probing rocks for signs of water in the planet's past -- far beyond the mission they were originally designed for. The Voyagers are exploring the edge of our solar system. In total, JPL has 16 spacecraft across the solar system. All these missions are part of NASA's Vision for Space Exploration, to send robots and humans to explore the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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Universit� de Li�ge
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Description: At PNNL, we deliver breakthrough science and technology to meet key national needs. We also apply our capabilities to meet selected environmental, energy, health and national security objectives, strengthen the economy, and support the education of future scientists and engineers. PNNL is managed by DOE's Office of Science, but we perform work for many DOE offices as well as other government agencies. Battelle has operated PNNL for DOE and its predecessors since 1965. A unique feature of Battelle's contract with DOE allows our staff to work for private industry.
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Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Description: The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) carries out interdisciplinary and prediction of the ocean environment on time scales from hours to decades. Studies are conducted to improve our understanding of the complex physical and geochemical processes operating in the world oceans, to define the forcing functions and the processes driving ocean circulation and the global climate system, and to improve environmental forecasting capabilities and other supporting services for marine commerce and fisheries. Results from PMEL manage the use of coastal and ocean resources through ecosystem-based information. PMEL provides sound, state of the art research that underpins NOAA�s environmental assessment, prediction, and ecosystem management missions and contributes to the development of an integrated global environmental observation and data management system.
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Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC)
Description: It is therefore anticipated to grasp the environment changes on the continent and ocean scales including such regions as the vast region of underwater, polar region, permafrost zone, tropical rainforest and alike, where the observations are conducted with enormous efforts. Based upon the observed data in such regions, we are determined to elucidate individual processes of the environment changes and interactions among them so that which can be mathematically modeled before being integrated into a global change prediction model with high accuracy.
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North Central Research Station
Description: Resource conditions are in the midst of an historic change.� As 78 million new people join the planet each year, ecosystem services such as air and water purification, nutrient recycling, production of renewable goods are growing more precious and pressured.�� Whose job is it to ensure that ecosystems stay healthy enough for the work ahead?�� Here in the Midwest, this awesome responsibility rests with our clients, the people who are asked to make tough calls about natural resources every day.� Consider the county commissioner who must vote on whether to replace forestland with additional housing.� Or the governor who must decide whether to invite a chip mill to the state.� Or the sanitarian who must lobby for a tax increase to protect a town watershed.� Or the landowner who must decide to plant, harvest, or subdivide.� These decision-makers are being asked to allocate precious resources, and the consequences of their decisions will reverberate for years to come.��
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nternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Description: The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is a non-governmental research organization. It conducts inter-disciplinary scientific studies on environmental, economic, technological and social issues in the context of human dimensions of global change. IIASA is located in Austria near Vienna and is sponsored by its National Member Organizations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. IIASA's research scholars study environmental, economic, technological, and social developments. The research areas covered link a variety of natural and social science disciplines. The work is based on original state-of-the-art methodology and analytical approaches. The methods and tools generated are useful to both decision makers and the scientific community.
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Description: In 1990 Princeton University divided Biology into the Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Biology. Since then we have grown and now consist of 18 faculty, approximately 40 graduate students, 45 postdoctoral fellows, and about 100 undergraduate concentrators. Our offices and laboratories are located in Guyot and Eno Halls, but our research often takes us to field sites in Africa, Asia and parts of North, Central and South America. �� Although faculty and students in the Department study a wide range of biological problems, evolution is the theme that unites us, and mixing of theory and empiricism is a style that guides us. And despite our breadth, we are deep in the areas of ecology, evolution and behavior. Many of the research projects are interdisciplinary and have resulted in strong links to the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton�s Environmental Institute (PEI) and the Woodrow Wilson School�s Program in Science Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP). The excitement and quality of the research that is done in the Department creates an exceptional learning environment for undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students. We invite you to learn more about our research activities by exploring links to the faculty and to the activities in each of our core areas�Ecology & Conservation, Evolution & Genetics, and Behavior & Physiology.
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North Central Soil Conservation Research Lab
Description: The North Central Soil Conservation Research Laboratory (NCSCRL) was established in Morris, Minnesota, in 1958 to conduct research on various agricultural problems in the transitional subhumid zone of the United States. Physiographically, this included the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota and extended down through western and south central Minnesota and into north central Iowa, and southeastern South Dakota. In response to increasing public concerns over the environmental impact of intensive agricultural practices, the NCSCRL has since expanded the scope of its research to include environmental and production concerns, with cooperative research that spans the globe.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
Description: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the University of California's Berkeley campus, adjacent to the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab holds the distinction of being the oldest of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Laboratories. The Lab is managed by the University of California, operating with an annual budget of more than $500 million (FY2004) and a staff of about 3,800 employees, including more than 500 students.
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