National Ecological Observatory Network featured at ESA/SER Joint International Conference
... ... Dr. David Schimel (NEON CEO) will convene...ESA announces 2007 award recipients
... ... ... The E. Lucy Braun Award for Excellence in Ecology is given to a student for the most outstanding poster presentation at the ESA Annual Meeting. The 2006 recipient is Daniel Laughlin (Northern Arizona University) for his poster Climate-induced temporal va...ESA mission highlighted at remote sensing conference
... The International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is a major annual event sponsored by the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society to bring scientists, engineers and community leaders from all...50 new mission proposals for ESA's scientific program
... These 50 proposals represent more than a 50 percent increase in response by the science community, compared to the previous ESA Call in October 1999. ...The proposed missions cover a wide variety of scientific objectives, spanning from the search for extrasolar planets, to the study of Jupiter and its icy satellite Europa, testing the laws of gravity, and more. ... The missions' objective...ESA's water mission instrument passes test program
... After more than 10 years of research and development, the SMOS mission is adopting a completely new approach in the field of remote sensing by employing a novel instrument called MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis). By capturing images of microwave rad...Furry-clawed Asian crabs found in Delaware and Chesapeake Bays
... ... The mitten crab is native to eastern Asia and has already invaded Europe and the western United States, where it has establ...ESA presents the sharpest ever satellite map of Earth
... Bimonthly global composites for May to June 2005 and March to April 2006 can be accessed through a newly developed map server tool on ESAs GlobCover website. On 19 June, additional bimonthly global composites will be made available as well as the first part of a global land cover map over Eurasia. ...Around 40 terabytes of imagery an amount...Little lifesavers -- Nanoparticles improve delivery of medicines and diagnostics
... Using an innovative technique they invented, a Princeton University-led research team has created particles that can deliver medicine deep into the lungs or infiltrate cancer cells while leaving normal ones alone. Only 100 to 300 nanometers wide -- more than 100 times thinner than a human hair -- the particles can be loaded with medicines or imaging agents, like gold and magnetite, that...ESA open-source software supports Germany's TerraSAR-X
... The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is on track to launch TerraSAR-X, an Earth observation mission using synthetic aperture radar in the next few weeks, and is now finalising a sophisticated 'ground segment' infrastructure that will support the satellite, or space segment, for mission control and data distribution. ... A key part of...ESA's Medspiration project branches out to support biodiversity
... Galapagos Islands and Cocos Island have been integrated into Medspiration until 31 March in order to support the study of wildlife migration processes from the two islands as part of ESA's new Diversity project, which kicked off in January 2007 to support the initiati...CESAR could hail cheaper and greener small aircraft
... ... The research forms part of the Cost Effective Small Aircraft (CESAR) project, which involves 35 commercial and academic organisations right across the...ESA POLinSAR 2007 -- Imaging forests in 3-D
... Polarimetric interferometry is performed using two polarimetric SAR images acquired from slightly different directions. The study of these data sets permits us to retrieve information related to the 3-D structure of forest or other natural volume sc...ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity
... Biodiversity, the variety of life including ecosystems, species, populations and genes, is of grave importance for sustaining the planet's six billion people. The loss of biodiversity threatens o...ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
... More than 6 000 representatives of national governments, international organisations and non-governmental organisations are present at the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2), held in conjunction with the twelfth sessio...UCLA engineers develop revolutionary nanotech water desalination membrane
... ... The new membrane, developed by civil and environmental engine...The CReSA is working on a new strategy to combat spongiforms
... The infectious agent responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, also known as prion diseases,...Huge unmet need for Caesarean sections in developing countries
... ... To investigate, Carine Ronsmans (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) and colleagues examined caesarean rates by socioeconomic groups in 42 developing c...New scientific challenges and goals for ESA's Living Planet Program
... The Changing Earth: New Scientific Challenges for ESA's Living Planet Programme focuses on the most fundamental challenge facing humanity at the beginning of the 21st century that being global change. As we begin to understand more about the Earth as a system, it is very apparent that human activity is having a profound and negative impact on our environment. For...ESA's microsatellite playing major role in scientific studies
... Launched on 22 October 2001, Proba orbits 600 kilometres above the Earth and acquires around 450 scientific image datasets of more than 100 separate sites each year. Its main payload, the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS), is a highly configurable hyperspectral imager that...For low-risk women, risk of death may be higher for babies delivered by cesarean
August 29, 2006 For mothers at low risk, infant and neonatal mortality rates are higher among infants delivered by cesarean section than for those delivered vaginally in the United States, according to recent research published in the latest issue of Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed over 5.7 million live births and nearly 12...NJIT professor to address Water Industry Conference At Harvard Club about desalinating water
Chemical engineer Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, a distinguished professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) will discuss Thursday new technologies for desalinating and treating water. Sirkar, an expert in membrane separation technology whose work is supported by grants from the US Department of the Interior and US Office of Naval Research, speaks at 4:30 p.m., June 8, 2006, at the Harvard Cl...ESA to host Atmospheric Science Conference
ESA will hold a five-day Europhysics Conference at its ESRIN facilities in Frascati, Italy, from 8-12 May 2006, for data users, scientists and students working in the field of remote sensing of the atmosphere.... ... The composition of the atmosphere is changing as witnessed by global warming, acid rain, the depletion of the ozone layer and a global increase in asthma rates. As the long-term cons...Woods Hole Research Center scientists create satellite map to show Chesapeake Bay urban development
The way in which buildings, roads, parking lots and other components of the built environment are integrated into communities impact a wide range of biogeochemical and hydrological processes. Among other effects, increased pollution discharge into streams has significant implications for the health of ecosystems. Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center have developed new high resolution maps...Through a satellite darkly: Night views of European seas improve ESA ocean heat map
The Mediterranean looks better in the dark - at least in the view of an ESA-led effort to use satellites to take the daily temperature of Europe's seas. A switch to data acquired at night is one of several improvements undertaken to enhance reliability and reach of Medspiration project outputs....... With sea surface temperature (SST) an important variable for weather and ocean forecasting - and...ESA calls for federal leadership to control invasive species
From combustible cheat grass to voracious carp to the West Nile virus, harmful, non-native species are spreading into U.S. lands and waters at an accelerating pace. Their damage to economic activity, ecosystems, and human welfare is accumulating. Without an improved national strategy based on science, these invasive species will cause increasing damage to the nation's natural and economic resou...NJIT professor discovers better way to desalinate water
Chemical engineer Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, a distinguished professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and an expert in membrane separation technology, is leading a team of researchers to develop a breakthrough method to desalinate water. Sirkar, who holds more than 20 patents in the field of membrane separation, said that using his technology, engineers will be able to recover water fro...Book released on Hurricane Isabel's effect on Chesapeake Bay
A new book entitled Hurricane Isabel in Perspective has just been released. While Isabel was not a hurricane when she arrived in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in September 2003, it caused devastating damage to its tidal areas and tributaries. Parts of Annapolis, Baltimore's Fells Point and Alexandria, Va were underwater, destroying boats, docks, cars, and homes....... The book is based on procee...Nutrient pollution causes a long-term effect on Chesapeake Bay ecosystem
CAMBRIDGE, Md. (Nov. 27) A team of scientists has determined that the growing worldwide problem of increased nutrient pollution, primarily nitrogen and phosphorous, on coastal waterways has altered the ecology of Chesapeake Bay as reported in the most recent issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series. ...... During the last 50 years, nutrient enrichment has reduced the size of sea grass beds and lo...Highlights from October ESA journals
... ... How many endangered species are there in the United States?... ...With only 15 percent of known species in the United States studied well enough to determine if they are imperiled or not, David Wilcove (Princeton University, US) and Lawrence Master (NatureServe, US) review and extrapolate the actual number of species in danger, based on the numbers we do have. ... ... Reviews in Frontie...Killer microbe may be a lifesaver after all
Advances in the molecular modeling and simulation of complex biological systems...are enabling researchers to study how certain microbial systems may play an...important role in the remediation of contaminated soils. One target is Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common microbe in sediments and the subsurface. This bacterium is also an important opportunistic pathogen that can cause fatal infections in...Brain activity in youth may presage Alzheimer's pathology
Researchers who used five different medical imaging techniques to study the brain activity of 764 people, including those with Alzheimer's disease, those on the brink of dementia, and healthy individuals, have found that the areas of the brain that young, healthy people use when daydreaming are the same areas that fail in people who have Alzheimer's disease....... On the basis of their data, the...Members of the media and freelance writers are invited to attend the Ecological Society of America's (ESA) 90th Annual Meeting, to be held jointly with the INTECOL IX International Congress of Ecology in Montral, Quebec, August 7-12, 2005. The meeting theme is, "Ecology at Multiple Scales." Over 4,000 ecological scientists, researchers, educators, administrators, and policy-makers from around th...Plunge into warmer waters this summer with ESA's Mediterranean heat map
Summer in Europe means time for the beach. Testing the waters is a traditional holiday ritual: a swift hand or foot in the surf to check sea temperature. Or there is the modern approach a flotilla of satellites identifying the warmest parts of all 2 965 500 square kilometres of the Mediterranean on a daily basis....... An updated map of the sea surface temperature (SST) of the world's largest in...ESA's Epidemio and Respond assist during Angolan Marburg outbreak
World Health Organisation personnel combating an Angolan outbreak of the lethal Marburg virus used high-resolution satellite-based urban maps provided through a pair of ESA-led activities....... The Marburg virus causes Ebola-like internal bleeding in humans, with an incubation period of between five and nine days. A Marburg outbreak was detected in Angola's Luanda city at the start of April. It...ESA at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
Taking place in Vienna from 24 to 29 April 2005, the European Geosciences Union General Assembly will bring together over 8 000 scientists from the fields of Earth and Planetary sciences. ESA will present recent space-based findings and results concerning the Earth, Mars, Titan and the Moon as well as its future missions.... ...The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly is an annual ev...Incubator company at NJIT develops lifesaving MRI coil for small animals
NEWARK, Mar 7-Supertron, a start-up technology company housed in the small business incubators at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT, announced today that it has begun developing a cryogenic coil to improve Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. ... "The new coil will be well suited for animal imaging," said Supertron President Jon T. DeVries. "Small animal models, particularly gene...Scientists urge outcome-based, watershedwide approach to restore the Chesapeake
WASHINGTON, DC -- More than twenty years after the historic Chesapeake Bay Agreement set out a roadmap for a coordinated clean-up effort at state and federal levels, the region is struggling to follow it, scientists say. ...Panelists speaking at a February 20 session of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC emphasized the importance of an adaptive appro...Prior caesarean delivery not linked to increased risk of stillbirth
Women with a history of caesarean section deliveries do not have a higher risk of a subsequent stillbirth, according to researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Columbia University. ...... Yale Obstetrics and Gynecology scientist Mert Ozan Bahtiyar, M.D., presented the findings today at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine, held February 7-12 in Reno, Nevada....... ...ALEXANDRIA, VA The American Geological Institute (AGI) has released the tenth edition of the GeoRef Thesaurus. The reference includes 21,700 index terms, of which approximately 1,250 are new additions.... ...Scientists and researchers can consistently rely on the GeoRef Thesaurus to obtain the most useful and accurate literature searches of the GeoRef database. It is a guide to the index terms u...The European Space Agency's Huygens probe was successfully released by NASA's Cassini orbiter early this morning and is now on a controlled collision course toward Saturn's largest and most mysterious moon, Titan, where on 14 January it will make a descent through one of the most intriguing atmospheres in the solar system to an unknown surface.... ...The separation occurred at 02:00 UTC (03:00 C...