Sentences with phrase «environmental monitoring from»

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The highlight was working on a whole - of - life data project that involved constructing networks of environmental monitoring stations in the Australian outback, and then using the collected data to empirically model groundwater dynamics — which doesn't sound all that interesting, but was actually quite a departure from the generally accepted contemporary methods.

I worked at an environmental consultancy for nearly a year for one of my CO-OP placements during my undgergrad, and one of the experiences from my time there that really stuck with me was doing groundwater sampling on a landfill site for a groundwater monitoring project.

The management, delivery and monitoring of Commonwealth environmental water relies on considerable advice and assistance from local organisations, state governments and others.

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.

These monitoring projects involve teams of experts, including scientists from some of Australia's leading regional universities and research institutions, and local land and water managers, assessing the impacts of environmental water use in the Gwydir, Lachlan, Edward - Wakool, Murrumbidgee, Goulburn, Lower Murray and the Junction of the Warrego and Darling rivers.

Monitoring and evaluation supports the efficient and effective use of Commonwealth environmental water and will assist in demonstrating the environmental outcomes from watering activities.

The management, delivery and monitoring of Commonwealth environmental water relies on considerable advice and assistance from delivery partners and water management authorities including:

Dr Skye Wassens and her team from Charles Sturt University are monitoring ecosystem responses to environmental water into the Murrumbidgee River.

Information collected from the monitoring will inform adaptive environmental water management in the Macquarie Marshes and at other important waterbird locations across the basin.

The CSIRO conducted short - term monitoring on behalf of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to assess both the impacts of predators during waterbird breeding and the birds» patterns of movement away from the colony during and after breeding.

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.

Environmental impact from the printing process is protected through strict regulation and monitoring.

Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.

Dr. Devra Davis PhD., MPH, founder of Environmental Health Trust (EHT) and an award - winning, internationally renowned scientist who also was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, states: «No studies show that microwave radiation exposure in children is safe or that continuous exposure from cell phones, cell towers, cordless phones, Wi - Fi routers, baby monitors, etc. is safe.»

Paula - Marie Brown, IET Head of Sector for Transport, said: «A whole range of sectors can benefit from the advancements of UA, from infrastructure development to police and law enforcement, agricultural and environmental monitoring to disaster support.

The state will unlock $ 60 million in grant funding for the initiative's execution, including new monitoring and treatment technologies, with funds coming from the Clean Water Infrastructure Act and the Environmental Protection Fund.

«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.

The loan would come from the state's Environmental Facilities Corporation — an entity monitored by the Authorities Budget Office (ABO).

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.

However, while working with Michael Meyer, a marine scientist from the Department of Environmental Affairs, and shark conservationist Michael Rutzen from Shark Diving Unlimited, Dr Andreotti realised that the software needed some more tweaking if it were to fit the ideal of sustaining a large database for the long - term monitoring of the white shark population.

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.

Tyler has been adapting this technology for his own environmental monitoring in places ranging from Chile's Atacama Desert to Switzerland, ramping up the sampling speed and resolution in order to measure small temperature changes in lakes, streams, and the atmosphere.

Through monitoring and evaluating activities, scientists track algal blooms, rainfall shifts, frog survival, air quality, possible toxins in decomposing trash — anything affecting or resulting from an environmental factor.

On 21 June, the U.N. Compensation Commission (UNCC) governing council approved distributing $ 243 million from the fund for environmental assessment and monitoring research, with the lion's share going to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and smaller amounts to Iran, Jordan, and Syria.

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.

Many people are already using photogrammetry to stitch together a drone's - eye view of the world, monitoring everything from crop growth and construction projects to environmental pollution.

This HIA, done in conjunction with other environmental assessments under NEPA, made several proposals relating to factors ranging from monitoring pollution to managing caribou herds for subsistence populations,, many of which were later accepted by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, founded in the early 1980s and based in Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, is the only intergovernmental body gathering cross-border environmental information and monitoring climate change across a region stretching from the mountains of the Hindu Kush and Afghanistan in the west to Yunnan in southwest China in the east.

Environmental DNA (eDNA), the nuclear or mitochondrial DNA shed from an organism into its environment, is a rapidly evolving tool for monitoring the distribution of aquatic species.

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.

Through a few clever molecular hacks, researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have converted a natural bacterial immune system into a microscopic data recorder, laying the groundwork for a new class of technologies that use bacterial cells for everything from disease diagnosis to environmental monitoring.

The case study also recounts and assesses post-disaster monitoring efforts, recent scientific findings from the World Trade Center Health Program (WTCHP), and explores the implications of these experiences for ongoing and future environmental disaster response.

Several ribbons in full - scale operation will open the heavens for solar satellites that can beam power back to Earth, large - scale zero - gravity manufacturing, space tourism, better global environmental monitoring, orbiting observatories, removal of man - made debris from Earth orbit, asteroid mining, and Mars - colonizing ships filled with hundreds of people.

The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.

The scientists must constantly adapt and develop new technology for environmental monitoring, given such trends as the shift from staffed platforms to subsea installations.

Sanni is convinced that these developments will result in new technological solutions which mean that future environmental monitoring is done very differently from today.

Teams of scientists from Michigan Technological University led by wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson since 1975, and joined in 2000 by John Vucetich, assistant professor of forest resources and environmental science, have carefully monitored the waxing and waning of these animal populations.

Over time, the need for automated environmental monitoring systems will increase — in areas remote from land, for example.

The EC is «also discussing global monitoring for environmental security» and with the Commission recognising its importance for policy work, «what we're seeing is that earth observation is beginning to move from being an experimental science to being an operational one.»

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

To monitor urban air quality, environmental agencies typically measure pollutant concentrations in samples collected at centralized outdoor locations and extrapolate individuals» average exposures from those measurements.

This latest - generation RoboBee, which is 1,000 times lighter than any previous aerial - to - aquatic robot, could be used for numerous applications, from search - and - rescue operations to environmental monitoring and biological studies.

These are used to separate and quantify uranium and plutonium from nuclear fuel and liquid waste tanks, and measure trace and major elements in liquid and solid matrices (e.g., alloy compositions, or environmental monitoring samples).

Biomarker Monitoring of a Population Residing Near Uranium Mining Activities, W. W. Au, R. G. Lane, M. S. Legator, E. B. Whorton, G. S. Wilkinson, and G. J. Gabehart; reprinted from Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol.

«Satellites don't see mosquitoes per se,» says Assaf Anyamba of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, «However they provide us observation platforms from which to monitor the environmental variables that indicate where mosquito populations can flourish.

After graduating with a Master's degree in Marine Biology from UiO in 2006, Rune worked part - time as a high school teacher in biology, and on projects related to marine environmental monitoring and consultancy work at institutions, such as, UiO, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, DNVGL and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment.

«Radionuclide Sensors for Environmental Monitoring: From Flow Injection Solid - Phase Absorptiometry to Equilibration - Based Preconcentrating Minicolumn Sensors with Radiometric Detection.»

Rune was employed fulltime at DNVGL's section for environmental monitoring in 2011, and is currently on leave from DNVGL while working on his thesis.

This new approach, published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, offers remote monitoring of large swathes of inaccessible ocean from satellites that orbit the Earth some 700 km above our heads.