Sentences with phrase «open environmental data»

Earth Genome, an environmental nonprofit, has built an Green Infrastructure Support Tool (GIST) on top of open environmental data to help businesses understand investment decisions involving «green» infrastructure.

Description: Open environmental data can be viewed as infrastructure for society: the data is available to the public and can be meaningfully used to understand nature - based solutions to environmental issues.

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All over the world, groups and individuals are using technology in a variety of innovative ways to increase government transparency, fight corruption, open data, hack on civic problems, strengthen economic development, address environmental problems, improve public health and education, and advance the conditions of women and children.

And he sat impassively at an open cabinet meeting as two of his appointees — acting health commissioner Howard Zucker and Department of Environmental Conservation commissioner Joe Martens — recommended that the state not allow natural gas hydrofracking, citing public health «red flags» and a lack of scientific data supporting its safety.

This study opens new avenues of research aiming at integrating genomic and epigenomic data together with environmental exposures in order to elucidate the physio - pathological mechanisms underlying asthma and to promote the development of new therapies.

He directs PersonalGenomes.org, the world's only open - access information on human genomic, environmental and trait data.

In a new paper just out in the open - access journal Environmental Research Letters, sociologist Mary Collins of the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and two colleagues from the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center and the University of Maryland examined what they term «hyper - polluters»: Industrial facilities that, based on EPA data, generate disproportionately large amounts of air pollution.

The core Public Lab program is focused on «civic science» in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health....

Fortunately, the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative, an organization comprised of academics and non-profits promoting open and accessible government, released a report detailing exactly how the Trump Administration is systematically changing climate change information and thus fundamentally altering the narrative of how the U.S. should respond to climate change.

While cautioning against jumping to dire conclusions based on the sighting of open polar water, Dr. Serreze of the ice data center is the principal author of a review article, published this summer in the Dutch journal Climate Change, on Arctic environmental change over decades and centuries.

European Forest Data Centre; EFDAC; free software; Free Scientific Software; Free and Open Source Software; Europe; forest information system; European Forest Fire Information System; EFFIS; geospatial; geospatial tools; semantic array programming; morphological spatial pattern analysis; GUIDOS; reproducible research; environmental modelling

Dr. McCarthy said he would report the encounter with open polar water to environmental scientists and consult other scientists to see if new satellite remote - sensing data have detected the extent of the melting.

It's almost impossible to talk about this project without going overboard on buzzwords, because the Smart Citizen Kit environmental monitoring platform is not only campaigning for funding at Kickstarter, it also has an open - source Arduino - compatible hardware design, an open - source API, and includes a mobile app and an interactive, crowdsourced data visualization available online.