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Finnish Meteorological Institute Popular

Description: The predecessor of the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the Magnetic Observatory of Helsinki University, was founded as early as 1838.

Meteorological observations were included in the work of the Observatory from the very beginning; later, in 1881, the Society of Sciences assumed responsibility for the operations, and official name was changed to the Meteorological Central Office, under which name the Institute began to prepare daily weather information for the newspapers of Helsinki in 1885.

In 1919 the FMI became a research institute under the Ministry of Agriculture and later on, in 1968, it was transferred to the Ministry of Transport and Communications.

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NOAA Paleoclimatology Program Popular

Description: NOAA works closely with the international PAGES/ CLIVAR initiative to improve our understanding of societally relevant climate variability and our ability to predict future climate change. NOAA contributes to the PAGES/CLIVAR initiative by supporting the World Data Center for Paleoclimatology, and by providing extramural support (jointly with the National Science Foundation) for the Earth System History Program area of special emphasis on paleoclimate variability
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Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Popular

Description: Polar and Marine research are central themes of Global system and Environmental Science. The Alfred Wegener Institute conducts research in the Arctic, the Antarctic and at temperate latitudes. It coordinates Polar research in Germany and provides both the necessary equipment and the essential logistic back up for polar expeditions. Recent additional research themes include North Sea Research, contributions to Marine Biological Monitoring, Marine Pollution Research, Investigation of naturally occuring marine substances and technical marine developments.�
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French Atomic Energy Commission
Description: CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation.
A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.
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Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences
Description: Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS) is one of the highest meteorological research institutions in China. CAMS is attached to China Meteorological Administration, and supported by both China Meteorological Administration and Ministry of Science and Technology of China. It was established in 1978. Its predecessor was the Central Meteorological Institute, which was renamed as CAMS in 1991.
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Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI)
Description: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI) plays a role to contribute to development of science and technology, forestry administration, Japan's international cooperation, and public activities, for promotion of sustainable forest management and resource utilization, through research on forest, forestry and forest products
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Biology in Colorado | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, CU, Boulder
Description: The importance of a broad undergraduate education in Biology cannot be overstated and our recent restructuring has put the department of EBIO in a unique position at CU to prepare students for advanced research in all aspects of Biology, as well as giving them a broad general undergraduate education. In the Letters section (here in PDF format, please scroll to page 3!) of the Nov 28th issue of Science a letter from the President of the National Academy of Sciences discusses this importance. The letter is based on a report called Bio 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists. This report was written at the request of the National Institute of Health and Howard Hughes Medical Institute and presents a recommendation for educating students interested in careers central to biomedical research. As the President quoted from the report
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Tohoku University
Description: Tohoku University was founded in 1907 as the third imperial university, during the period when Japan had begun to transform itself into a modernized society. Since then, it has played a leading role in both research and education in Japan, and is now ranked among the top universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Botany & Microbiology at The University of Oklahoma
Description: The Department of Botany and Microbiology is located in George Lynn Cross Hall -- a modern nine-story building on the Norman campus that contains teaching classrooms and laboratories, research laboratories, faculty, graduate student and supporting staff offices, a media preparation center, microbiology culture collection and stockroom. The department also operates two greenhouses and several field sites.
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National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences
Description: The former National Institute of Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) was founded in 1983 to conduct advanced and basic technological development pertaining to the control, maintenance and utilization of the agro-environment, including the biological environment. The new National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences (NIAES) was turned into an Independent Administrative Institution (a semi-autonomous agency) on April 1, 2001 and concentrates to fulfilling its research mission on a global scale as follows: 1) strategies to ensure stable food supplies under global environment change, 2) assuring the safety of food and environment utilizing the natural circulation function of agriculture, and 3) succession of the agro-environmental resources to future generations.
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