Call for Papers – Meeting the Millennium Development Goals
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Earthzine is an informative scientific online journal dedicated to promoting global interconnections among Earth observers. It is sponsored by IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) in support of the Group on Earth Observation‘s Global Earth Observation System of Systems. We invite you to examine Earthzine, and to submit an article to us.
We can offer as incentives participation in building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), and the values of being part of a professionally diverse and global readership network.
Earthzine is soliciting articles for its theme issue on observing and monitoring key indicators for meeting the Millennium Development Goals that were initiated by the United Nations in 2000 to make tangible progress in alleviating global poverty by 2015. The eight Millennium Development Goals and their indicators are detailed on the United Nations website.
We are seeking contributions addressing current issues, techniques, and applications of Earth information to reduce poverty worldwide. We are most interested in receiving articles dealing with innovative examples of the use of scientific and technological research and application, as well as policy and its applications. Topics of interest focus on, but are not limited to,
• How earth observation Technologies have contributed or can contribute to meeting the MDG goals
• Countries and organizations that are using earth observation technologies to meet the MDG goals, or which have unmet needs which could be met by earth observation technologies
• Innovative people who are using earth observation technologies to meet the MDG goals,or who know how earth observation technologies can be adapted to help meet the MDG goals.
The theme issue is scheduled for the summer of 2009. We are actively soliciting articles from all regions of the globe. Submissions must be in English. Submit to Guest Editors Stephen Andersen or Lise Yale.
Types of articles we are interested in receiving are program, project, organization descriptions, latest discoveries, unusual findings, examples of interdisciplinary and/or cross-regional research. In addition to running a review process for original articles, we also publish opinion essays, book and art reviews. Please consult the Writer’s Guidelines for further information.
Important dates: Queries to the editors may be sent at any time (Stephen Andersen or Lise Yale). Submission of original articles, letters, opinions, book and art reviews for review begins: June 1, 2009.
Publication: All accepted contributions wil be published on-line at Earthzine in the summer of 20089 and will be freely accessible to the public.
Information:
Earthzine website: http://www.earthzine.org
Writer’s Guidelines: http://www.earthzine.org/about-2/writers-guidelines
GEO/GEOSS website: http://www.earthobservations.org
Editor-in-Chief:
Paul E. Racette, DSc
Managing Editor:
Maeve Hickok, MA
Guest Editors for Millenium Development Goals Theme:
Stephen Andersen, PMP
Lise Yale, MSPM, PMP
NASA Daily Image
Remnant of a Supernova
Vital clues about the devastating ends to the lives of massive stars can be found by studying the aftermath of their explosions. In its more than twelve years of science operations, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has studied many of these supernova remnants sprinkled across the galaxy. The latest example of this important investigation is Chandra's new image of the supernova remnant known as G350.1-0.3. This stellar debris field is located some 14,700 light years from the Earth toward the center of the Milky Way. Evidence from Chandra and from ESA's XMM-Newton telescope suggest that a compact object within G350.1+0.3 may be the dense core of the star that exploded. The position of this likely neutron star, seen by the arrow pointing to "neutron star" in the inset image, is well away from the center of the X-ray emission. If the supernova explosion occurred near the center of the X-ray emission then the neutron star must have received a powerful kick in the supernova explosion. Data suggest this supernova remnant, as it appears in the image, is 600 and 1,200 years old. If the estimated location of the explosion is correct, this means the neutron star has been moving at a speed of at least 3 million miles per hour since the explosion. Another intriguing aspect of G350.1-0.3 is its unusual shape. Many supernova remnants are nearly circular, but G350.1-0.3 is strikingly asymmetrical as seen in the Chandra data in this image (gold). Infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (light blue) also trace the morphology found by Chandra. Astronomers think that this bizarre shape is due to stellar debris field expanding into a nearby cloud of cold molecular gas. The age of 600-1,200 years puts the explosion that created G350.1-0.3 in the same time frame as other famous supernovas that formed the Crab and SN 1006 supernova remnants. However, it is unlikely that anyone on Earth would have seen the explosion because of the obscuring gas and dust that lies along our line of sight to the remnant. These results appeared in the April 10, 2011 issue of The Astrophysical Journal. Image Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/I. Lovchinsky et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech