Maeve Hickok
SSIT President Janet Rochester Observes Earth and the Implications of Technology
Janet Rochester is a senior member of the IEEE leadership and president of the Society on Social Implications of Technology. In this interview she shines a spotlight on the range of SSIT members’ interests, and on her own intellectual considerations and concerns.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
November 9th, 2009
Climate, Earth Observation, Featured Person, People, Politics, Technology
Kuruom vidyalaya: the Power of One in a Billion
In Korown, an Uttar Pradesh India farming village where little has changed for hundreds of years, a 21st century school opened its doors for the first time in July to 100 girls and boys in grades 1-4, 6, and 7. Kuruom vidyalaya is the bricks-and-mortar embodiment of the Hindu goddess Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, and testimony to one man’s spirit and commitment. That man is Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D., 51, once a child of the village and now a successful biophysical chemist at a U.S. university (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) and director of its Center for Indic Studies, who built the school himself without government assistance. Deeply engaged as a Hindu, a family man, a professor, research scientist, and a U.S. citizen, he is also determined to prove that “one little man” can change the status-quo in India for the better.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
August 26th, 2009
Economy, Education, Featured Person, Millennium Development Goals, People
La Vie de Josiane Zerubia: A Very Modern Woman of Science
Josiane Zerubia is a director of research, first class, at INRIA, the premiere French public research institute in applied mathematics and computer science. Her contributions to Markovian modeling in image processing and remote sensing were recognized by IEEE with her elevation to Fellow in 2003. But her story really begins in Cannes, France where she was taught at an early age by her mother Jeanne and grandmother Louise that she could do whatever she wanted if she worked hard enough. La Vie de Josiane Zerubia: A Modern Woman of Science begins here.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
July 27th, 2009
Earth Observation, Education, Featured Person, People, Technology
Announcing the 2009 Student Essay Competition Sustainability through Earth Observation and Engineering
Earthzine will host its first essay competition for college and university students with the goal of supporting and advancing the twin themes of sustainability in the 21st century: social equity and environmental protection.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
July 13th, 2009
Articles, Earth Observation, Education, Energy, Oceans, Sustainability, Technology
IEEE Committee on Earth Observation Standards Working Group (ISWG) is recruiting volunteers to build GEOSS
Imagine a world where adoption of uniform standards for all manner of Earth observation systems and services made universal interoperability the rule, not the exception. Working towards this goal, the international community of volunteers who comprise ISWG has been meeting regularly since May 2005. As it moves forward, ICEO has a call for volunteers to participate as a team of experts to establish best practices for the taxonomies and ontologism of Earth Observation.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
May 21st, 2009
Articles, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News
Forest Watch science and education strive to halt climate change
As the international remote sensing community readies the 2009 IGARSS in Cape Town, South Africa this July, Earthzine recalls last summer’s conference in Boston, Massachusetts with this Featured Person interview with Dr. Barrett N. “Barry” Rock, professor of forestry, botany and remote sensing in the Complex Systems Research Center and the Department of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire. Barry Rock exemplifies IEEE’s mission to put science and technology to work for the benefit of humanity and Earth. He has “grown” a network of hundreds of students and teachers in Forest Watch, the outreach program he founded in 1991 in order to scientifically track the effects of U.S. efforts to diminish the damage of air pollution on human health and vegetation. In Boston, he demonstrated the Forest Watch model of university/K-12 partnership and IEEE scientific/community outreach at the 2008 IEEE International Geosciences and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
May 7th, 2009
Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Education, Energy, Featured Person, People, Politics, Would You Believe?
GEO Call for Proposals to support decision making—developing countries
The Group on Earth Observation has issued a Call entitled “Earth Observations in Decision Support Projects” that seeks to identify projects that demonstrate the benefits of Earth observation applications to end users in developing countries, particularly in the fields of agriculture (including forests), energy, human health (including air quality) and water.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
March 22nd, 2009
Articles, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News
About Roy Gibson
Introduction to Roy Gibson, former director of ESA, at the 50th Anniversary of the Space Age held by the International Astronautical Federation on 21 March 2007 at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, France.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
February 22nd, 2009
Articles, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News, People, Technology
NASA and USAID Bring Earth-Observation Benefits to Africa
NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and their international partners have cut the ribbon in Nairobi, Kenya, for SERVIR-Africa. The SERVIR-Africa system integrates the satellite resources of the United States and other countries into a Web-based Earth information system.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
December 2nd, 2008
Articles, Earth Observation
GEO BON – First-Ever Global Biodiversity Observation Network Launched
The GEO and some 80 leading scientific institutes, intergovernmental organizations and national ministries have joined forces to start building a global Biodiversity Observation Network for monitoring and assessing the world’s species and ecosystems in order to prevent their further destruction.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
November 17th, 2008
Articles, Biodiversity, GEOSS/ICEO News
NASA Daily Image
Large X-class Flare Erupts on the Sun
On Jan. 27, 2012, a large X-class flare erupted from an active region near the solar west limb. X-class flares are the most powerful of all solar events. Seen here is an image of the flare captured by the X-ray telescope on Hinode. This image shows an emission from plasma heated to greater than eight million degrees during the energy release process of the flare. Image Credit: JAXA/Hinode