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Stroud Water Research Center, Academy Of Natural Sciences, Shippensburg University: Quantifying The Value Of Forest Protection For Clean Water, Impact Of Remote Working

PA Environment Daily

It builds upon OSI’s 2019 research, which shows that programs that fund land protection for water quality either skip evaluation altogether or use “avoided development” models — i.e., what would have happened had the land not been conserved — as the primary measure of success.

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Frontiers announces its first partnership with a leading Chinese University

Frontiers

Zhejiang University Press (ZUP), one of the leading academic publishers in China, and the open science publisher Frontiers announce their official partnership. Frontiers is a very innovative publisher with an impressive state-of-the-art publishing platform. I am sure our collaboration will be a success.”

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Floodplains and Redlines

Academy of Natural Sciences

I worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences for two of my co-ops and at the Philadelphia International Airport as an environmental engineering intern for one of my co-ops. I currently work at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the Live Animal Center. I had two minors, one in public health and one in geoscience.

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James Peebles: a life in cosmology

Physics World

How has life changed since you won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics? I consider cosmology a good example of how natural science is done because it is relatively simple compared, say, to quantum physics. I have just finished another book, which is closer to popular science. Can you tell us more about your new book?

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Fighting algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence

Physics World

Many of these issues were tackled in Discriminating System s – a major report from the AI Now Institute in 2019, which demonstrated that diversity and AI bias issues should not be considered separately because “they are two sides of the same problem”. Involving people from beyond the natural sciences community in the process would also help.

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Eat for the Planet!

Academy of Natural Sciences

For example, a 2019 report in The Lancet medical journal recommends Americans dramatically reduce the amount of beef and lamb they consume, for their own health and the health of the planet. Land use, water use and greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming all affect the environment.

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Bike to Work!

Academy of Natural Sciences

As of 2019, the Indego system has about 150 stations and 1,500 bikes available all over the city 365 days of the year. Don’t own a bicycle or nervous about investing in one? No worries, you can simply “rent” a bicycle for a single trip with Indego! Indego Bike Share is the only shared micro mobility service operating in Philadelphia.