Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
...g sensor networks for conducting research in other remote and hostile environments. The National Science Foundation (NSF) today awarded $3.9 million over four years to the University of Washington (UW), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and partner institutions to build the Laboratory for the O...Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...ety of other scientific instruments to explore the remote desert. The instruments include a visible-to-near-...nvironment. Scientists using EventScope, a remote experience browser developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Studio for Creative Inquiry, will g...Researchers devise potent new tools to curb ivory poaching
...d the droppings from endangered species over large remote areas. The dogs can track up to 18 species at once at distances greater than a quarter-mile. Such non-invasive techniques can be used to quickly assemble genetic reference maps to apply this technology to other at-risk species. Besides Wasser and St...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
... turn on its video camera, transmitting video to a remote receiver. "This would require the submarine to know something about the topography of the ocean bottom in its area so it wouldn't run into a big rock or other obstacle while following the octopus," Vincent said. The advantage of fully autonomous trac...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
... at Virginia Tech, demonstrating the potential for remote monitoring of data from multiple well sites throughout the world from a central location. "This could pave the way for smart oil fields, with sensor highways connected seamlessly for password- or encryption-protected monitoring from any Internet acce...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...ate 10 between Jacksonville and Tallahassee. Using remote sensing, Demin Xiong of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is gathering extensive information about roadways such as pavement types, road conditions, geography, locations of road signs, traffic signals, center lines, shoulders, medians and lane widths. Th...Sandia experiments may reduce possibility of future water wars
...every few minutes, will be sent by phone line to a remote computer for analysis. "We expect that the [greenhouse] system will not be as slow-moving or spatially homogeneous as one might think in terms of environmental change," Ron says. "Every time the water system pops on, the local temperature around the ...Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
...icates that the virus may have been transmitted to remote locations through the vector of live bait infected salamanders being distributed and introduced to uncontaminated environments by fishermen and interstate bait wholesalers. A research article by a team (see end of release) headed by Arizona State Un...Fossils reveal direct link between global warming and genetic diversity in wildlife
...ecimens whose remains were buried in Lamar Cave, a remote site near the northeast entrance to the park. "The deposit in the cave is about nine yards deep and it took me seven years to excavate and identify the fossils," Hadly said. "It contains hundreds of thousands of bones and represents a continuous foss...NASA satellites detect 'glow' of plankton in black waters
...e nutrients in lakes, rivers, wetlands and oceans, remote sensing technology measure the quantities of plank...em is connected to what happens on land and in two remote rivers, the Peace and Caloosahatchee, as they drain into the ocean. Extreme climate conditions, such...UCR earns $1.5 million grant to examine how engineered crop genes stray
... from corn grown in the United States strayed into remote fields of corn in Mexico. UC Riverside's project is unusual because it will examine both the natural and the human factors that spread transgenes from engineered crops into non-engineered crops and natural populations. "This hasn't been done before...For Africa's valuable mahoganies, it's the soil, stupid
...of this vicious cycle are evident even in the most remote forests of Africa. Knowing and taking into account the regeneration requirements of these species when writing management plans will vastly improve the prospects for long-term management, Hall added. The authors said that failure to really look at ...Carnegie Mellon researchers to demonstrate autonomous robotthat will seek life in Atacama Desert
...ll be guided by a science team using EventScope, a remote experience browser developed by researchers at the Studio for Creative Inquiry in Carnegie Mellon's College of Fine Arts. It enables scientists and the public to experience the Atacama environment through the eyes and various sensors of the rover. A ...Common chemicals morphing into potential toxins in Arctic
...o protect carpets and fabrics may be travelling to remote regions of the planet and undergoing chemical reac...orinated carboxylic acids (PFCAs) were present in remote areas such as the Canadian Arctic, says U of T postdoctoral research fellow Jonathan Martin, a study...ESA and EADS-CASA sign contract to build instrument for the SMOS mission
...ng a completely different approach in the field of remote sensing. SMOS will carry the first-ever polar-orbiting satellite-borne2-D interferometric radiometer. From an altitude of 763 km, the novel MIRAS instrument has been designed to capture images of microwave radiation emitted from the surface of the Ea...Stanford researchers go from heaven to Earth in 'lifeguard' test
...e transmission of his vitals from a high-altitude, remote location to computers stationed in the Bay Area. In March, four team members tested LifeGuard aboard NASA's KC-135, a jet airplane that provides a taste of zero gravity by flying a roller-coaster-course trajectory. At the top of the arcs,...Nanotechnology pioneer slays 'grey goo' myths
... Eric Drexler, also warns that scaremongering over remote scenarios such as "grey goo" is taking attention away from serious safety concerns, such as a deliberate abuse of the technology. Phoenix said: "Runaway replication would only be the product of a deliberate and difficult engineering process, not an a...Articles on remote sensing in ecology published in BioScience
...an Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), assess remote sensing techniques that are now being used--or hav...y and others illustrate how data from a variety of remote sensing systems are now being incorporated into ecosystem process models. An introductory editorial ...... microarray chips to find and characterize life at remote places on Earth, Mars, and other places in the solar system," says Dr. Andrew Steele, a scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, a private research organization. Steele, the principal investigator for the Modular Assays for Solar System E...... science to disadvantaged and minority students in remote areas. Although its investigators conduct research at universities and medical schools, HHMI supports science at colleges because they also play a vital role in education, according to Peter Bruns, vice president for grants and special programs at H...