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Michael Fera HW#2 Selecting a Topic 9/13/09 1. Planck Sees Light Billions Of Years Old, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aug. 26, 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090814202536.htm 2. The article I read, “Planck Sees Light Billions Of Years Old”, talks about how light was collected by the Planck space telescope that scientists believe was from the original big bang explosion. The light traveled more then 13 billion years when it reached us on August 16th 2009 and was received by light traveled in cosmic microwave background, which is a type of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) that fills the universe and can only be seen with a special radio telescope. The radiation was received in a test and information like this will be gathered for 15 months or so and full results from scientists will be expected in three years. 3. How is this important to society? This is very important to society because it can change peoples beliefs forever. If the mission’s results go well, it can prove the big bang theory true which would also be disproving many huge theory’s and religions thought’s on how the universe became the way it is today. 4.Who are some of the top scientists in this field? Where are they working? Some of the top scientists in this field are all from NASA’s JPL (jet propulsion laboratory) and are from very well known university’s such as: The California Institute of Technology, The Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech; University of California, Davis; University of California, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; Princeton University, New Jersey; University of Miami, Fla.; Stanford University, Calif.; and University of Southern California, Los Angeles. 5. What type of equipment or organism do they use when they study this topic? The scientists at the JPL use powerful telescopes and cameras. The main telescope being used for this mission is on an observatory space craft named “Planck”. 6 Why is this interesting to you? This topic is interesting to me because I am fascinated by deep space and the studying of EMR. I would possibly do a project studying a topic pertaining to the electromagnetic spectrum. Michael Fera HW#2 Selecting a Topic 9/13/09 1. Dramatic Biological Responses To Global Warming, SceinceDaily, September 11 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910142348.htm 2. The article I am reviewing is called “Dramatic Biological Responses To Global Warming”. This article talks about the problem with global climate change and how it is dramatically affecting the northern and southern Polar Regions. Almost every aspect of these areas has suffered. For example, over the last 30 years, 45,000 square kilometers of sea ice coverage has melted each year, which completely changes the habitats of hundreds of species of animals. The team of Eric Post, the top scientist on this topic, has noticed that some of the severe damage caused by vegetation was a result of an unexpected release of methane into the atmosphere. 3. How is this important to society? This article is extremely important to society, because the results of global climate change can dramatically change the ecosystem because many animals are dying and having to change living habits because of loss of resources in areas in the north. 4.Who are some of the top scientists in this field? Where are they working The leading scientist of this project is Eric Post, a biology scientist at Penn State University 5. What type of equipment or organism do they use when they study this topic? The equipment used to study this topic is common weather equipment; Thermometers, Humidity readers, and carbon dioxide and methane detectors that read levels of gasses in the air per cubic foot. 6 Why is this interesting to you? This topic is interesting to me because I enjoy reading and studying biology topics. I enjoy learning about different species and it is also makes me more considerate to animals and wild life that are effected by global climate change and makes me want to help do something to prevent polar region’s ecosystems to collapse. Michael Fera HW#2 Selecting a topic 9/13/09 1. Fossils From Animals And Plants Are Not Necessary For Crude Oil And Natural Gas, Swedish Researchers Find, ScienceDaily, September 12, 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910084259.htm 2. This article talked about information pertaining to alternate sources of energy, which are very necessary in the time we live in. The article mostly talks about how animal and plant fossils aren’t needed anymore to create oil, because they found new sources of creating oil that can be found all over the world. Creating new oils can be very helpful because the supply of fossil fuels is lower then the demand meaning society is using more crude oil then is available and eventually the amount available would reach zero, but that wouldn’t happen for a while anyway. These new sources can help add to the amount of fuels supplied and give time for fossil fuels to be created. 3. How is this important to society? This is extremely important to society, because it changes the entire ecosystem and has a big effect on the economy. With more oil being supplied prices can lower in oil, leaving people with more money which and stimulate the depressed economy. 4.Who are some of the top scientists in this field? Where are they working? The top scientist in this field is Vladimir Kutcherov, a sweedish science professor at the Division of Energy Technology at KTH (A European institute of technology) 5. What type of equipment or organism do they use when they study this topic? The equipment used to study this topic is an oil refinery, drills, thermometers, a globe divided into a grid used to study the surface of the earth. 6 Why is this interesting to you? This topic is interesting to me, because I enjoy learning new ways to create sources of energy. I also enjoyed this topic, because I want to maybe do research and create a project based on alternate forms and creating forms of harvesting energy.