He is also Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Mountain Development, in recognition of his global role in mountain research and knowledge exchange.
"But, ' adds Mel Reasoner, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative, "in many arid and semi-arid areas, people are dependent not only on the amount of glacier melt water, but on the timing of the water flow.
In a partnership with the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) based in Berne (Switzerland), the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), UNESCO is selecting biosphere reserve sites from each of the major mountainous regions of the world as the focus for this new global climate change monitoring programme.
The moral of such stories, and the conclusion of a mountain of research, is that although money can sway the odd race here and there, it is generally subject to the law of diminishing returns.
Michael Simonsen, CEO of Altos Research, a Mountain View, Calif. real estate research firm and the proprietor of his own widely read industry blog How's The Market?
Simon Lowden, chief marketing officer for PepsiCo's Americas beverages, says the idea for Kickstart came about after the company learned through consumer research that Mountain Dew fans were looking for an alternative to traditional morning drinks such as coffee, tea and juice.
They added a provision so that they can allow third-party research consultants, not employed by 23andMe, to go to their facilities in Mountain View to do on-site research with the data of people who have opted in to 23andWe.
"I think this is probably the only definitively habitable environment that we have described and recorded, " said David Blake, a scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
"We have so many more worlds that could be a locus for life, but so much less information upon which to understand the habitability of that world, " said astrobiologist Tori Hoehler at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
The plane, Solar Impulse, is expected to be ready to leave from the San Francisco Bay Area on May 1, although the actual departure will depend on the weather, the plane's Swiss creators said at a news conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
Mountain ecosystems are well suited for research to track global climate change.
Of those, more than a billion are equipped with cameras, according to Tom Hausken, an analyst at Strategies Unlimited, a market research firm based in Mountain View, California.
Wearing sweatshirts and jeans, they demonstrated the search giant's latest technologies and some of the research challenges they hope to conquer working at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif.
"The Greeks were great storytellers and they have given us a colorful cast of characters to work with, " said Mark Showalter, Senior Research Scientist at the Carl Sagan Center of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
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Finally, Google could continue creating jobs as it research, design, and manufacture the systems close to its current operations in Mountain View and the secret Google X Lab believed to be in the Bay Area, where the autonomous cars were developed.
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