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The National Science Foundation has partnered with four universities on a five-year $18.5 million grant to develop sustainable ways to manage urban water. The Urban Water Engineering Research Centers (ERC) will be led by Stanford with additional labs at the University of California-Berkeley, Colorado School of Mines, and New Mexico State University. The Urban Water [...]
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A Netherlands-based partnership between WaterWatch and Basfood, two providers of geo-information services, has yielded a new worldwide source for data on water and vegetation on land surfaces. The mission of eLEAF is to support sustainable use of water, to increase food production, and to protect the environment. The water information service combines more than 50 [...]
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Creek Watch is a free iPhone application created by IBM Research in conjunction with California State Water Resources for monitoring the health of watersheds. The app enables users to quickly collect details about their local waterway, including the amount of water, the rate of flow, the amount of trash as well as capturing a [...]
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The International Programme on the State of the Ocean was created to assess and mitigate the decline of the global ocean, “earth’s circulatory system that performs vital functions to make the planet habitable.” The organization just released an international and interdisciplinary report by marine experts that reviews the latest scientific research and concludes that the [...]
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The forces involved in coastal zone change are difficult to assess and understand. There are now several efforts underway to embed sensors in individual pebbles in order to track them and visualize their location change over time. There have been a number of more passive tracking methods deployed in the past, including acoustic sensors. With [...]
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The waterways of Mexico City were first crafted by the Aztecs to manage floods and to form protective barriers. These natural corridors were then heavily impacted by the advent of cars, putting roads above rivers in order to quickly move traffic. Now, an ambitious group of planners are hoping to replace the roads with rivers [...]
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Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) signed an agreement to work together to develop more integrated and adaptive water resources management information and service for the nation. Each agency has a complementary mission regarding the nation’s water resources and management [...]
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Geophysicist David Sandwell, professor of geophysics at Scrips Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, was named to the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to the freshman seminar in the physics of surfing, Sandwell also teaches satellite remote sensing and geodynamics, and is a pioneer in seafloor mapping. “Sandwell’s research focuses on mapping large-scale topographic [...]
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Esri is reorganizing their Water Utility Resource Center into a new ArcGIS for Water Utilities offering that will be available prior to the Esri User Conference in July. The new collection of maps and apps are designed to address the needs of water, wastewater and stormwater utilities. The combination of desktop, mobile GIS, web GIS, [...]
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Clemson University has deployed sensors and corresponding system software for the Intelligent River project along the Savannah River in upstate South Carolina. Researchers are monitoring 120 miles of river with wireless sensor motes that monitor a wide variety of parameters associated with water quality, pollution and environmental impacts. The way that Clemson approached this problem [...]
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