Seagrass biodiversity is both a goal and a means for restoration

Seagrass biodiversity is both a goal and a means for restoration 11/18/2017 07:27 PM EST Planting multiple seagrass species, rather than a single species, could be better for restoring damaged coastal ecosystems in Indonesia's Coral Triangle. Full story at http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/egghead/2017/11/08/seagrass-biodiversity-goal-means-restoration/ Source University of California, Davis This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111

Research shows ice sheets as large as Greenland's melted fast in a warming climate

Research shows ice sheets as large as Greenland's melted fast in a warming climate 11/18/2017 07:29 PM EST New research published in Science shows that climate warming reduced the mass of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet by half in as little as 500 years, indicating the Greenland Ice Sheet could have a similar fate. Full story at https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2017/Q4/research-shows-ice-sheets-as-large-as-greenlands-melted-fast-in-a-warming-climate.html Source Purdue University This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111

China's sulfur dioxide emissions fell significantly while India's grew over last decade

China's sulfur dioxide emissions fell significantly while India's grew over last decade 11/18/2017 07:28 PM EST Sulfur dioxide is an air pollutant that causes acid rain, haze and many health-related problems. It is produced predominantly when coal is burned to generate electricity. Although China and India remain the world's largest consumers of coal, a new University of Maryland-led study found that China's sulfur dioxide emissions fell by 75 percent since 2007, while India's emissions increased by 50 percent. Full story at http://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/features/4021 Source University of Maryland This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111

CMU software assembles RNA transcripts more accurately

CMU software assembles RNA transcripts more accurately 11/18/2017 07:29 PM EST Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a more accurate computational method for reconstructing the full-length nucleotide sequences of the RNA products in cells, called transcripts, that transform information from a gene into proteins or other gene products. Their software, called Scallop, will help scientists build a more complete library of RNA transcripts and thus help scientists better understand the regulation of gene expression. Full story at http://www.cbd.cmu.edu/cmu-software-assembles-rna-transcripts-more-accurately/ Source Carnegie Mellon University This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111

Supercomputing speeds up deep learning training

Supercomputing speeds up deep learning training 11/18/2017 07:29 PM EST Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, Davis, and Texas Advanced Computing Center used Stampede2 to complete a 100-epoch ImageNet deep neural network training in 11 minutes -- the fastest time recorded to date. Using 1600 Skylake processors they also bested Facebook's prior results by finishing a 90-epoch ImageNet training with ResNet-50 in 32 minutes. Full story at https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/-/supercomputing-speeds-up-deep-learning-training Source University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center This is an NSF News From the Field item. Follow NSF:  This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314 · 703-292-5111