New life discovered in deep ocean floor
...nvironmental Laboratory endured grueling shifts on remote ocean drill rigs to get frozen cores of mud. Then came painstaking lab work, analyzing the microbial inhabitants of the deep seafloor sediment. The reward: discovering new life and gaining new insight into the microscopic creators of the largest froz...A global 'catastrophe' -- coal fires threaten environment, human health
...l spread has been a major challenge, especially in remote areas like northern China. In collaboration with ...Dijk and his colleagues have used a combination of remote sensing data and GIS technology to detect and monitor coal fires in the northern regions of the coun...Carnegie Mellon University receives NASA award to develop probes to detect life on Mars
...evelop fluorescent-dye-based systems to be used in remote operations to detect life on Mars and in other hos... the most sensitive means of detecting life with a remote device." The technology has potential beyond Mars, according to Shmuel Weinstein, project manager. ...First-ever photo of wild Siberian tiger taken in China
NEW YORK (Feb. 6) -- A remote camera clicked the first known photograph of a wild Siberian or Amur tiger in northern China last week, providing strong evidence that tigers are crossing from the Russian Far East to repopulate previous tiger strongholds, the New York-based Wildlife...UCSD brings powerful visualization to high school classroom
...r classroom-based science inquiry activities using remote data sets within the science domains featured in the OptIPuter proposal geophysics and neuroscience....Coral smothering 'green tide' seaweed spreading on Florida reefs
...algae spread in Florida and around the globe using remote sensing from satellites or airplanes. Lapointe believes that harmful macroalgae blooms are going to continue to spread north and south from Palm Beach County, devastating South Florida reefs, unless the flow of hundreds of millions of gallons of in...Is remote sensing the answer to today's agriculture problems?
... imagery. In this 2000-2001 study, scientists used remote sensing in the form of infrared aerial photographs...ange of environmental and climatic conditions. The remote sensing technique was found to accurately time nitrogen fertilizer applications 86% of the time acro...Research finds life 1000 feet beneath ocean floor
...nce more expands the realm of seemingly hostile or remote environments in which living organisms can apparently thrive. The research was done off the coast of Oregon near a sea-floor spreading center on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, by scientists from Oregon State University and several other institutions. It wi...Newer methods added, scope expanded in new Methods of Soil Analysis Book
...sticides, chemicals, and microorganisms and use of remote sensing procedures to assess large-scale geochemical processes. The book includes very thorough discussions of the principles behind the methods, explores more issues related to handling the data generated, and provides more commentary and evaluation...Cat parasite killing otters; Michigan's perch pressured; HACCP for medicine
...with scientists and researchers doing fieldwork in remote locations in the world. Site also provides professional development for teachers. Features include profiles of Great Lakes fish, birds, and frogs; interactive quizzes; guides to student and teacher resources, interviews with scientists, and student ...Researchers reach milestone in fight against lymphatic filariasis
...easts, and genitals. Treating 2500 residents in a remote area of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific, the researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research found dramatic results with four annual mass...Wildlife researcher captures jaguars with camera
...logy to conduct a series of live webcasts from the remote field site in Las Cuevas, Belize. The studio audience and anyone watching the webcast were able to ask questions about her project with jaguars. The interview is available as an archive at www.exploratorium.edu/origins/belize-london/live/index.html ...Brain's method of creating mental images differs with the source of cues received
...ould spur advances in virtual reality programs and remote surgery applications, which rely upon accurately m...velopment of virtual reality applications, such as remote surgery technology, when what the eyes see and what the hands feel must accurately reflect reality. ...Telerobotic equipment aids in cleanup activities
...future uses for various cleanup tasks. The compact remote control console, which is the front end of the sys...actual cleanup work. It includes four monitors for remote task viewing, two touch screen-based graphical user interface computers, a telerobotic control compu...Genetic variant protects people against malaria
...k for severe malaria. While malaria is seemingly a remote possibility in the heartland of America, the disease was once prevalent in the parts of the U.S. It was virtually eliminated by the 1940s through better mosquito control and improved living conditions, yet the disease periodically emerges in the U.S....Biosensor research expands globally to reach a variety of key industries
...suitable for subcutaneous implantation, as well as remote environmental monitoring. New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan ( www.Technical-Insights.frost.com ), Biosensors, provides a collection of the latest information on biosensing breakthroughs worldwide. Technical Insig...Rolex announces winners of international awards
...iode supplies enough light for a child living in a remote area with no electricity to read by. The simple b...or endangered birds, improving living standards in remote villages, safeguarding our precious rainforests, or developing low-tech agricultural methods in one ...Pennsylvania's West Nile Virus surveillance system gets an assist from NASA data
...for collecting data from the field, laboratory and remote sensing images. Those data were combined and used to create a map of the state, with county designations that can indicate which counties West Nile Virus has been reported in. The PAWNVSS system was established so that counties could respond with in...NSF awards $37.9 million in grants to study biocomplexity in the environment
...e impact. "Past investments in molecular biology, remote sensing, information science, and mathematics have yielded tremendous advances and powerful new technologies and tools that now make biocomplexity research possible," she said. 'The biggest, most exciting scientific questions are now at the interfac...'OptIPuter' design for data-intensive computer wins $13.5 million NSF award
...ces research, including environmental, seismic and remote sensing. It is one of the largest Information Tech...and scientific interpretation of satellite-derived remote sensing, near-real-time environmental, and active source data. The OptIPuter is a "virtual" parallel...