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Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 3 of the GEOSS Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP)
The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC®) announces a Call for Participation (CFP) in Phase 3 of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Architecture Implementation Pilot (AIP) issued by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). The CFP documents are available at: http://earthobservations.org/geoss_call_aip.shtml.
Lance McKee, posted on
February 11th, 2010
Announcements, Articles, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News
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Education Around Earth
NASA Contest for Teachers Makes “Top Stars” of Stellar Lessons on Hubble
Find out how teachers who are stars in their classrooms can become “Top Stars” at a NASA-sponsored contest that invites U.S. formal (K-12 and college) and informal educators to submit their best examples of using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in science, technology, engineering or mathematics education.
Dan Stillman, posted on
January 6th, 2010
Announcements, Articles, Education, Technology
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Announcement
Integrative geospatial science for disaster risk management @ EGU 2010
The annual General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union – one of the most prestigious events in the field of geoscience – will take place in Vienna, Austria from 02-07 May 2010. The Assembly will draw a crowd of scientists from all over the world, covering all disciplines of Earth, planetary and space science. Earthzine will support a special session within the Natural Hazards Program Group dedicated to the concept of disaster management, one of the GEOSS societal benefit areas.
Christoph Aubrecht, posted on
November 2nd, 2009
Announcements, Disasters, Earth Observation
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Announcement
Earthzine Book Reviews
Earthzine would like to invite you to submit reviews and recommendations of some good books you’ve read lately! They can be fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama or prose. Thematically, they should address in some way one or more of the nine societal benefit areas of GEOSS: agriculture, biodiversity, climate, disasters, ecosystems, energy, health, water, weather; also oceans and sustainability.
Paul Racette, posted on
October 26th, 2009
Announcements, Reviews
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Announcement
IEEE Student Members’ Designs to Aid Humanitarian Efforts
IEEE is sponsoring a Regional Student Design Competition for solutions to one of three humanitarian problems as part of the joint IEEE-United Nations Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC). HTC is a partnership among humanitarians, technologists, funders, and others, to develop implementable technological solutions to some key challenges facing humanitarian health and disaster workers today.
Jay Pearlman, posted on
October 20th, 2009
Announcements, Health, Technology
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Announcement
GEO-IGOS Symposium: “The Need for Earth Observations: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”
To address the challenges of global environmental change, policy-makers and managers need timely access to weather forecasts, climate predictions, satellite images of land-use change, water-cycle data, biodiversity indicators, seismographic information, topographical maps and many other Earth observation products and services. The GEO-IGOS Symposium will explore how the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) can help to meet these critical user needs.
Jay Pearlman, posted on
October 20th, 2009
Announcements, Earth Observation, GEOSS/ICEO News
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Announcement
Call for Papers: Earth Information Systems and Capacity Building
Earthzine is soliciting original articles for an upcoming theme on “Earth Information Systems and Capacity Building.” Topics of interest include the design, development and operation of specific information systems and issues/challenges related to infrastructure development and capacity building. See the Call for Papers for more details.
John C. Kostelnick, posted on
October 19th, 2009
Announcements, Earth Observation
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Announcement
The Volvo Adventure Begins Again
The winners of the Volvo Adventure, the world wide search undertaken with United Nations Environmental Programme to find the most innovative, imaginative and practical projects devised by young people to solve environmental problems, have been announced. A team from the Yucatan coast of Mexico took first place for their ingenious project involving sustainable aquaculture ponds, while second and third place went to schools in England and India respectively.
Wayne Talbot, posted on
September 2nd, 2009
Announcements, Sustainability
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Announcement
NOAA – David Johnson Award for Outstanding Innovative Use of Earth Observation Satellite Data
The NOAA – David Johnson Award is presented by the National Space Club in honor of the first Administrator of what was to become the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). Nominations may be submitted for individuals or groups. If nominating a group, all members of the group should have been actively involved in the design and/or implementation of the application, and each must be a United States citizen, national, or permanent resident.
Jay Pearlman, posted on
September 2nd, 2009
Announcements, Earth Observation, Oceans, Weather
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Announcement
“How to Feed the World in 2050?” – Online Discussion on the FSN Forum from 16 September 2009
Please join in on the online discussion of how we can ensure that enough food is available for and accessible to a growing world population. The results of this online debate will help prepare the High-Level Expert Forum on “How to Feed the World in 2050″, scheduled to take place at FAO headquarters in Rome this coming October.
Jay Pearlman, posted on
August 26th, 2009
Agriculture, Announcements, Health
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