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A Letter On Earth Observation And Global Awareness
Editor-in-Chief Paul Racette shares his wonder of the meaning of Earthzine’s tagline, Fostering Earth Observation and Global Awareness. It seems that fostering Earth observation, fosters global awareness for it is through observation that we become aware.
Paul Racette, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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IEEE Calls For Participation To Develop Standards For Quantifying GHG Emissions From Small Hydro And Wind Power Projects, And Grid Baseline Conditions
The IEEE Standards Association announces a call for participation for the IEEE P1595(TM) Working Group to help develop new standards for quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emission credits from small hydro and wind power projects and for grid baseline conditions.
Tom Baumann, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Third Symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World
The third symposium on The Ocean in a High-CO2 World will convene in autumn 2012 in Monterey, California. The symposium will explore the impacts of ocean acidification on marine organisms, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles as well as cover socio-economic consequences of ocean acidification, including policy and management implications.
Jay Pearlman, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Identifying And Quantifying The Benefits Of GEOSS
The European Commission sponsored project “Global Earth Observation – Benefit Estimation: Now, Next and Emerging” (GEOBENE) has developed methodologies and analytical tools to assess the societal benefit areas (SBAs) of GEO in the domains of: Disasters, Health, Energy, Climate, Water, Weather, Ecosystems, Agriculture and Biodiversity. This article presents several of these overarching methodologies as a contribution to the ongoing effort to improve GEOSS, and looks to the future via the EuroGEOSS Project.
McCallum et al., posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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The OceanoScientific® Programme
Racing yachts and their competitive sailors are the laboratories and citizen scientists being tapped to collect and validate data from the ocean-atmosphere interface for scientific projects by The OceanoScientific® Programme. In the past, racing yachts have been equipped with scientific sensors, but the possibilities were always very limited because of the competition and onboard conditions. In 2006, the French Sailing Federation (FFVoile) launched the SolOceans race, which from the beginning combined the sportive aspects of a sailing race in the Southern Ocean with the scientific need for data. Read about it here.
M. Kramp, et al., posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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EuroSITES Open Ocean Observatory Network: Monitoring Europe’s Open Ocean
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, hurricane and tsunami disasters and ocean ‘health’ issues including ocean acidification highlight the importance of ocean observing systems. The authors provide overview current European (EuroSITES) and international (OceanSITES) initiatives and the growing need for high quality, high resolution ocean datasets to feed models and produce products and services to society.
Kate Larkin, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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A Web Based Toolkit for Using Remote Sensing Data
This interactive, web-based toolkit was created by the Biophysical Remote Sensing Group at the University of Queensland to enable technicians, scientists and managers to make the most appropriate selection of data and a processing approach to monitor, model and manage marine, terrestrial and atmospheric environments with data that are derived from airborne and satellite imaging systems.
Chris Roelfsema, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Nutritious Potato a Global Source of Sustainable Food and Income
Though the potato was introduced to East Africa as far back as the 1880s, it is only over the last thirty years that it has become a staple as both a food crop, second only to maize, and as a source of income, with more than 2.5 million people employed in potato farming activities. According to CIP, Kenya’s potato fields have remained stagnant over the past decade due to factors such as price hikes, climate change, and policy deficiencies as well as farmers’ use of poor quality seed and improper post-harvest practices. But now may be the perfect time to turn to the potato.
Emily Sullivan, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Keeping an Eye on Volcanic Ash
ESA and EUMETSAT recently organised a workshop in Frascati, Italy (May 2010) for more than 50 experts on volcanic ash from around the world to take stock of what has been learned about ash cloud detection, monitoring and prediction, and identify future opportunities. The workshop was convened following the recent ash clouds from Iceland’s Eyjafjälla volcano that grounded hundreds of flights across Europe causing travel chaos and costing the European airline industry billions of Euros.
Claus Zehner and Neil Fletcher, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Announcement – “Making Citizen Observations a Global Vision” Annual College and University Student Essay and Blogging Contest
This preliminary announcement introduces Earthzine’s second global essay and blogging competition for college and university students. More detail is linked here and will become available in the next few months.
Maeve Hickok, posted on
March 31st, 2008
Earth Observation
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Tweetup at HQ
NASA astronaut TJ Creamer talks about his experience in space during a "Tweetup" at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Washington. Creamer, who spent 161 days living aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 22/23 crew, set up the orbiting outpost's live Internet connection and posted updates about the mission to his Twitter account, sending the first live tweet from orbit. Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers
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