Latest James Clark Stories
Professor James Clark, of the Green Chemistry Center of Excellence at the University of York, announced a new technology recently that could help eliminate waste from the food supply chain. This waste will be converted, with the help of microwaves, into useful biomass derived chemicals, materials, and fuels. The project dubbed the Orange Peel Exploitation Company (OPEC) is a partnership among researchers at the University of York, The University of Sao Pablo, Brazil, and the...
Study of 27,000 trees shows early spring warming, summer drought as major factorsAn 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists finds that tree growth and fecundity--the ability to produce viable seeds--are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.The results, published tomorrow in the journal Global Change Biology, identify earlier spring warming as one of several factors that affect tree reproduction and growth. They also...
Novel green chemical technologies will play a key role helping society move towards the elimination of waste while offering a wider range of products from biorefineries, according to a University of York scientist.Professor James Clark, Director of the University's Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, will tell a symposium at the Annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) that the use of low environmental impact green chemical technologies will help...
BOULDER, Colo., May 28 /PRNewswire/ -- James Clark, co-founder of Room 214 and Wendy Hofstetter, group practice leader in entertainment at Room 214, will lead the upcoming AMA Data and Dashboards workshop in Atlanta on June 2 and 3. The workshop provides mid- to senior-level marketers with the knowledge to put data at the center of their marketing decisions. With the shift of marketing resources to online and social media as a way to lower costs and increase marketing effectiveness,...
Thinking flawed that all species react the same to the environmentIt's a paradox that's puzzled scientists for a half-century.Models clearly show that the coexistence of competing species depends on those species responding differently to the availability of resources. Then why do studies comparing competing tree species draw a blank?Competitors like black gums and red maples have coexisted for millennia in the shaded understories of eastern U.S. forests, yet species-level data offer scant...
BOULDER, Colo., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Join James Clark, co-founder of Room214 and Ari Newman, president of Filtrbox for a free Webinar focused on how to best leverage social media to make your business more successful. WHAT: The Webinar will cover the basics of social media interaction and recommend best practices for engagement to develop better relationships with customers. It will include a basic framework for social media activities within your organization. Attendees will get a...
Scientists have uncovered a beaked dinosaur in China that is providing new clues into how birds' hands evolved to develop fingers.Writing in the journal Nature, scientist James Clark of George Washington University and Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Science's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing detailed the new discovery, which was found amidst 159-million-year-old deposits in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang."This finding is truly exciting, as it...
Nine Wisconsin high school seniors barred from walking in their graduation for using sidewalk chalk outside the school say the punishment doesn't fit the crime. James Clark, one of the seniors suspended from Hartland's Arrowhead High School, said he and his co-conspirators used chalk to write Class of 09 and other small messages and designs on the school Thursday night, WISN-TV in Milwaukee reported Monday. In some ways I thought it was a pretty lame prank, you know, it looked more like a...
