Understanding nature and the lessons of long-term research may require adjusting our sense of what counts as normal.
This risk, and the lack of long-term research on the residual risks of nicotine, argue for restricting the sales of e-cigarettes to children.
First, I spoke to Dr. Greg Yep, an organic chemist and PepsiCo's senior vice-president of long-term research, who is in charge of the scientific work being done on the core ingredients.
More recently, we opened a science and engineering research support facility, which will facilitate the development of long-term research projects with local businesses – a project which received £3.9m from the European Regional Development Fund.
To results of long-term research done in the right way will impact and benefit without prejudice, and public-wide engagement should run from the very start to the end of those long term goals.
The study confirms the value of long-term research: the national soil inventory was established in 1978 as a network of fixed points at intervals of three miles, and the scientists used went on using the same techniques to measure the changes in soil carbon over more than 20 years.
The tie-up takes the form of a formal Memorandum of Understanding, which – in Shell's words – is intended "to maximise the benefits from our mutual interests in areas of long-term research, postgraduate training and knowledge exchange through jointly funded and supported research projects".
On a Monday morning last summer, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society boarded the Morning Star, a thirty-five-foot downeaster out of Babylon, New York, to conduct a whale survey — something they do, weather and funding permitting, as part of long-term research on humpback genetics and song.
That topic isn't always at the top of students' and professors' minds when they're doing the sort of "long-term research" to which Rus refers.
While many scientists welcomed the initiative, some worry that its 3-year time frame--with no clear guarantee of long-term research money--might limit its impact.
