Exploring the deepest depths: Preliminary design of a novel light-tethered hybrid ROV for global science in extreme environments.
In more positive news for global science, a National Academies' panel urged the United States to relax rules restricting scientific communication between countries, as a way of cutting a thicket of red tape that is hindering the work of high-tech companies, scientists who want to collaborate with foreigners, and even efforts to equip U.S. soldiers with up-to-date weapons.
"It is a hopeful sign," said Dr. James A. Hendrix, director of global science initiatives for the Alzheimer's Assn.
NEX-supported applications range from modeling El Niño, creating neighborhood-scale climate projections, assisting in crop water management, and mapping changes in forest structure across North America, to mapping individual tree crowns at continental scale as a foundation for new global science at unprecedented spatial resolution.
The United Kingdom leaving the European Union would spell bad news for the global science community, according to a winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Andrew Coates, who works on the ExoMars rover at University College London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, said: "The science of 2020 is a huge chance for Europe and Russia, and the global science community, to get more information on whether there was or is life on Mars.
According to Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith, the chairman of the advisory group for another report on global science (to be published early next year by the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy), more than 35% of articles in leading journals are now the product of international collaboration.
He pointed to initiatives like the Google Science Fair, an online, annual, global science competition for teenagers, as an example.
"The situation is deteriorating and the trends are intensifying," said Tris Allinson, senior global science officer for BirdLife International, which produced the report.
In all my years as a scientist, including heading a billion-dollar U.S. research agency, this was the most significant invitation I had ever received to meet with a sitting national leader to hear his vision for science and discuss important global science matters.
In academic communities, international mobility of teachers, researchers and students is considered a prerequisite for continuing participation and access to global science [ 1].
