Sentences with phrase «as environmental monitors»

Last week in the cloud forest of Tarapoto, Peru, EIA's partner Digital Democracy hosted a «hackathon» bringing together hackers from around the world, as well as environmental monitors, and indigenous organizations from Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru...

A long - sought goal is to adapt plants to sense and respond to specific substances for use as environmental monitors.

[You could make it compatible with a CatEye wireless cycle computer and use it as a cycle computer as well as an environmental monitor - all you would lose is the strain gauge.]

Not exact matches

Kids keep up internal environmental initiatives within the school, such as recycling batteries and ink cartridges, monitoring playground cleanliness with a litter metre, and managing a bottle depot (students and staff recently built a greenhouse out of 1,600 2L pop bottles).

Also targeted for steep spending rollbacks are the agency's monitoring and enforcement of compliance with environmental laws, as well as regional projects intended to benefit degraded areas such as the Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound and the Gulf of Mexico.

The program team will also continue to study the social, economic, and environmental benefits of shade trees (including species such as durian, sesbania, and mahogany) by working with Olam to distribute these to farmers, and develop a monitoring plan that will track trees and cocoa seedlings that are distributed.

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Edward - Wakool river system.

The classification can inform a range of environmental water management applications, such as planning, prioritisation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Lachlan river system.

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

As at 30 September 2015, over 4914 GL of Commonwealth environmental water has now been delivered to rivers, wetlands and floodplains of the Murray - Darling Basin, with early signs of significant environmental benefits showing up in monitoring programs.

Monitoring of environmental responses has been strengthened by transitioning from short (annual) to longer term (5 - yearly) projects as part of the $ 30 million Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project.

As summarised below, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will continue to work with the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state agencies, research organisations, regional organisations, local groups and others, such as landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin PlaAs summarised below, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office will continue to work with the Murray Darling Basin Authority, state agencies, research organisations, regional organisations, local groups and others, such as landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin Plaas landholders to collect and collate relevant monitoring information that facilitates evaluation and reporting of the use of water under the Basin Plan.

Operational monitoring is undertaken for all Commonwealth environmental watering actions and involves collecting on ground data with regard to environmental water delivery such as volumes delivered, impact on the river systems hydrograph, area of inundation and river levels.

As part of this requirement, the Basin Plan places a number of obligations on the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (CEWH), including principles of monitoring and evaluation and reporting requirements.

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Goulburn river system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder today released a series of scientific reports analysing the impacts of environmental water during 2014 - 15, as part of a $ 30 million investment in monitoring and evaluation projects across the Murray - Darling Basin over five yeaEnvironmental Water Holder today released a series of scientific reports analysing the impacts of environmental water during 2014 - 15, as part of a $ 30 million investment in monitoring and evaluation projects across the Murray - Darling Basin over five yeaenvironmental water during 2014 - 15, as part of a $ 30 million investment in monitoring and evaluation projects across the Murray - Darling Basin over five years (to 2020).

As part of our commitment to adaptive management, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office (CEWO) has commissioned a series of monitoring and evaluation reports on the ecosystem responses to environmental watering in the Edward - Wakool Environmental Water Office (CEWO) has commissioned a series of monitoring and evaluation reports on the ecosystem responses to environmental watering in the Edward - Wakool environmental watering in the Edward - Wakool river system.

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Lower Murray river system.

This report is the product of the first year of monitoring and evaluation at the whole of Basin - scale as part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's five - year Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIMmonitoring and evaluation at the whole of Basin - scale as part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's five - year Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIMMonitoring (LTIM) Project.

Delivering the right amount of water to the right place, at the right time, is generating positive results for the environment, as demonstrated by a series of scientific reports analysing the impacts of Commonwealth environmental water use during 2014 - 15 - part of a $ 30 million investment in monitoring and evaluation projects across the Murray - Darling Basin over five years (to 2020).

As part of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office's Long Term Intervention Monitoring Project, a detailed Monitoring and Evaluation Plan has been developed for the Gwydir river system.

Our long - term intervention monitoring (LTIM) researchers are well placed to understand and report on the benefits of natural flows (as distinct from environmental water flows) and how we might mimic similar conditions through environmental water delivery to stimulate future events.

This year, we have developed comprehensive multi-year plans in consultation with our State counterparts, river operators, the Murray Darling Basin Authority, scientists engaged in monitoring as well as local environmental water advisory groups and committees.

DiNapoli's Fiscal Stress Monitoring System looked at 23 financial and environmental factors, such as cash - on - hand and operation deficit patterns.

TARRYTOWN — As work begins on a temporary work platform to be constructed in the Hudson River just north of the current Tappan Zee Bridge, the public will be able to monitor environmental impacts online.

Answers received by Ms Swinson also show the # 2 million budget for monitoring the environmental impact of wave and tidal energy has gone unspent, as has four fifths of the available budget for infrastructure support

«Each week our Environmental Health Division collects a variety of mosquitos» species from 9 trap sites around the county and submits them to the Wadsworth Laboratory as part of our ongoing WNV monitoring program,» said Phyllis D. Ellis, Director of Health.

And as environmental issues continue to be closely monitored by voters and green groups in the Adirondack Park, critics often point out the lawmaker has received a 27 percent lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters, an environmental organization.

Science policy is an area of public policy which is concerned with the policies that affect the conduct of the science and research enterprise, including the funding of science, often in pursuance of other national policy goals such as technological innovation to promote commercial product development, weapons development, health care and environmental monitoring.

This includes tasks such as evaluating raw materials for hazards and toxicity, developing safe - handling practices, monitoring environmental exposure, and assessing risks.

Other disciplines such as ecology, conservation, and physiology will benefit from a more objectively based species circumscription, enabling us to interpret distribution and ecological patterns more precisely, while more accurately monitoring environmental disturbance and climate change.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.

They could also be used as environmental sensors, monitoring an oil spill or chemical contamination site, for instance, and then dissolving once the disaster is cleaned up, saving recovery teams the ordeal of collection.

WMO's Global Atmosphere Watch programme will therefore continue its crucial monitoring, research and assessment activities to provide scientific data needed to understand and ultimately predict environmental changes, as it has done for the past 25 years» said Mr Jarraud.

As is common around the country, New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation routinely monitors the levels of ozone, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulates in the air.

As part of the Coral Reef Monitoring Program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, Porter and colleagues in 1995 staked out 160 monitoring stations, each 2 by 20 meters, extending from Key Largo in the north to Key West, 160 km to Monitoring Program sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, Porter and colleagues in 1995 staked out 160 monitoring stations, each 2 by 20 meters, extending from Key Largo in the north to Key West, 160 km to monitoring stations, each 2 by 20 meters, extending from Key Largo in the north to Key West, 160 km to the south.

The EEA, which was launched in 1993 and should be up and running by the autumn, will mainly coordinate environmental monitoring across the European Union, as a basis for common environmental regulations.

As novel applications, such as drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplacAs novel applications, such as drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplacas drug screening, SNP detection, diagnostics, environmental monitoring, and food protection, are developed, there will be more demand for experienced microarray technicians in the workplace.

The guidance paper, jointly published this month in ACOEM's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) and AAOHN's journal Workplace Health & Safety, summarizes current evidence regarding marijuana consumption; discusses possible side effects, including temporary impairment as it relates to the workplace; reviews existing federal and state laws that impact employers; and suggests various strategies available for monitoring marijuana use among employees.

The São Paulo State Environmental Corporation (CETESB), for example, routinely monitors only solid particles with diameters of 10,000 nm (PM10) and 2,500 nm (PM2.5)-- as well as other gaseous pollutants such as ozone (O3), carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2).

He hopes to sell satellite data to investors in oil and gas companies, such as hedge funds, and to government agencies, environmental groups and insurance companies that might want to monitor a company's progress in reducing emissions.

She also served as Assistant Scientific Program Director of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, an independent federal agency, where she managed the research program and developed a model of environmental research for monitoring human impacts in Antarctica.

John Amos explains how satellite imagery is helping us find and monitor environmental damage as never before.

«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.

More precisely monitoring dolphins with seafloor recordings could provide new insight into how these animals respond to environmental problems such as oil spills and the long - term effects of climate change.

As they wrote in the journal Environmental Fluid Mechanics, the results of their model matched the results from the few air monitors that were functioning around New York City.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Almost all Chinese cities monitored for pollution last year failed to meet state standards, the vice-minister of environmental protection said on Saturday as he outlined the country's plans to redress the environmental consequences of rapid industrialization.

The council was created in 1996 as an international body to monitor environmental conditions in the Arctic.