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Kendra McLauchlan, an assistant professor of geography at Kansas State University and director of the university’s Paleoenvironmental Laboratory, has just been named to a list of the top 150 scientists in the history of Kansas. This award adds to the National Science Foundation CAREER Award that she received in 2010. McLauchlan’s research involves the reconstructing [...]
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Three researchers in the Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community College were dismissed this week in favor of expanded research in other areas, including sustainable energy and the development of technology to assist aging populations. There’s an outcry in the local paper that pins this as a poor decision that will hurt the [...]
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EarthCube is an ongoing effort to frame the research benefits of an integrated cyberinfrastructure to house data and information across the geosciences. The group has just released a white paper under the auspices of the Open Geospatial Consortium to outline seven data-intensive and cross-disciplinary science scenarios that would benefit from such a robust and adaptable [...]
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $750,000 grant to a consortium of 20 U.S. universities, two national labs and three international partners for the new Sustainable Cities – People, Infrastructures and the Energy-Climate-Water Nexus project. The grant seeks to develop harmonized methods, open datasets and shared curriculum on the topic of sustainable cities [...]
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While scientists have cataloged 1.3 million species, the total number of existing species has remained a mystery. The issue is that taxonomy takes time to correctly catalog each species that is discovered, as well as the fact that we simply haven’t encountered and cataloged all species, particularly in our oceans. Researchers have now worked to [...]
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In honor of Earth Day, it seems fitting to tackle the role geospatial technology plays in the greater understanding of our environment. These tools have played an unprecedented role in our comprehension of the complexity of Earth systems, but they are only scratching the surface of the types of insights that are yet to come. [...]
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The National Science Foundation is working to build a Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering, that is focused on enhancing support for the ongoing NSF-wide Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability (SEES) investment, where emphasis will be on developing clean energy and sustainability research networks. The CIF21 Campaign is a $117 million endeavor [...]
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A new report from the National Research Council, Understanding the Earth’s Deep Past: Lessons for Our Climate Future, promotes the idea of an integrated, “deep-time” climate research program that compiles ancient geologic records to enable scientists to better understand how climate behaved during past warm periods and other major climate transitions. The intent is to [...]
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There’s an interesting story on Space.com about a secret technology mission set to launch today on behalf of the National Reconnaissance Office. While there’s little insight into the secret payload, other than speculation that it may be testing new radar or imaging sensors, there is a strong focus on the research and development efforts that [...]
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Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are testing infrared remote sensing technology to evaluate the pollutant emissions from traffic jams. The new innovation comes with a technique called Open-Path FTIR that looks or specific infrared signatures from specific gas particle, weeding out those compounds that aren’t of interest. The technique can take [...]
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