- Industry: Government
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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The National Science Foundation in partnership with academic institutions, botanical gardens, freshwater and marine institutes, and natural history museums, seeks to enhance and stimulate taxonomic research and help prepare future generations of experts. NSF announces a special competition, Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET), to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms. This effort is designed to encourage the training of new generations of taxonomists and to translate current expertise into electronic databases and other formats with broad accessibility to the scientific community.
Industry:Natural environment
A chemical alarm substance (a pheromone) produced by the skin of some groups of fishes when injured. It stimulates conspecifics and perhaps some other fishes to exhibit fright and escape movements .
Industry:Natural environment
A material made up of two or more elements combined in a fixed ratio.
Industry:Natural environment
A proposal to reduce or alleviate potentially harmful impacts.
Industry:Natural environment
A statistical technique whereby variables are categorized to determine whether a distribution of scores is due to chance or experimental factors.
Industry:Natural environment
An instrument used in remote sensing often combined with a geographic information system to provide synoptic and objective views and data of the environment.
Industry:Natural environment
