The success of interdisciplinary research teams depends largely upon skills related to team performance. We evaluated student and team performance for undergraduate biology and mathematics students who participated in summer research projects conducted in off-campus laboratories. The student teams were composed of a student with a mathematics background and an experimentally oriented biology st...

The semianalytical cloud retrieval algorithm for SCIAMACHY – I. The validation A. A. Kokhanovsky, V. V. Rozanov, T. Nauss, C. Reudenbach, J. S. Daniel, H. L. Miller, and J. P. Burrows Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany Department of Geography, University of Marburg, Germany Aeronomy Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, Colorado, USA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmen...

With massive amounts of data being generated in electronic format, there is a need in basic science laboratories to adopt new methods for tracking and analyzing data. An electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) is not just a replacement for a paper lab notebook, it is a new method of storing and organizing data while maintaining the data entry flexibility and legal recording functions of paper note...

Quantification of topographic venting of boundary layer air to the free troposphere S. Henne, M. Furger, S. Nyeki , M. Steinbacher, B. Neininger, S. F. J. de Wekker , J. Dommen, N. Spichtinger, A. Stohl †, and A. S. H. Prévôt Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland University of Essex, Colchester Essex, UK MetAir AG, Illnau, Switzerland Lehrstuhl für Bioklimatologie und Immissionsforschun...

This paper examines the role that basic research plays in the strategies pursued by industry in their interactions with federal labs. It draws on questionnaire-based data of 229 federal laboratory-industry joint R&D projects with 219 companies and 27 laboratories. The study documents the relative importance of basic research in the success of the interactions by comparing the incidence of basic...

The use of laboratories in Higher Engineering Education is an adequate opportunity to implement forms of experiential learning like problem-based or researchbased learning into manufacturing technology. The introduction of remote laboratories gives students the opportunity to do self-directed research and by that having their own and unique learning experiences. Recently finished research proje...

The School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University organizes research in cross-disciplinary designoriented studios. A newly established research studio is concerned with the design of technology-augmented creative environments. In this paper we present the conceptual framework underlying the research projects in the studio and give examples of research initiatives. The studio investigates...

There are now signs in the United States as well as in Europe that the importance of a positive human-nonhuman animal relationship in research laboratories is appreciated more seriously. In addition to knowledge and skills, primary attributes of animal research personnel must be feelings of compassion and sensitivity toward animals to safeguard the reliability of scientific research data.

The National Association of Physicians for the Environment (NAPE) has assumed a leadership role in protecting environmental health in recent years. The Committee of Biomedical Research Leaders was convened at the recent NAPE Leadership Conference: Biomedical Research and the Environment held on 1--2 November 1999, at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. This report summarizes ...

Laboratory studies of the homogeneous nucleation of iodine oxides J. B. Burkholder, J. Curtius , A. R. Ravishankara , and E. R. Lovejoy Aeronomy Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, USA now at: Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Mainz University, Mainz, Germany also associated with the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, U. of Color...