Sentences with phrase «for ecological projects»

Not exact matches

After hearing evidence and considering submissions for 180 days, the Board arrived on 209 conditions it deemed necessary to mitigate the risks and adverse socio - ecological effects associated with the pipeline and its associated infrastructure to ensure the project is in the public interest.

Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and haltecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and haltEcological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and haltEcological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

This cross-disciplinary course is an opportunity for UH Hilo computer science, marine science and art majors to collaborate on a digital project meant to educate the public on ecological issues.

Short term projects have focussed on determining whether selected watering actions are meeting their intended ecological objectives and understanding the implications for environmental water delivery.

«Whether a natural resource professional, land trust volunteer, or local conservation advocate, users will find MAPPR to be an efficient and effective tool for gaining valuable insights into targeted land conservation in the 21st century,» said Jeff Collins, Mass Audubon Director of Ecological Management and project lead.

Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and damaged ecologies, for example by causing displacement and by undermining useful ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.

The project will create an ecological network for dormice and a range of other animal and plant species.

President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved a number of Ecological Fund Intervention Projects for the 4th Quarter of 2016 which would be located in 11 states across...

The project may seem whimsical, but there are serious ecological reasons for bringing aurochs back onto the scene.

After a gap year spent as the assistant project director for a chimpanzee field site for ecological research in western Uganda, I began graduate school in my first - choice neuroscience program.

Other projects, such as Peru's plans to dredge rivers to improve navigability, could exacerbate the ecological impact by changing flows, disturbing spawning sites, and disrupting the river - forest connection, says Fabrice Duponchelle of the French Institute of Research for Development in Marseille.

Deforestation in Indonesia is particularly problematic from a climate perspective because the local flora holds so much carbon, said project leader Lisa Curran, a professor of ecological anthropology at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

For an up - to - the - minute glimpse of Hawaii's ecological predicament, visit www.hear.org, which is run by the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk Project, a joint venture of the National Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the University of Hawaii.

These ecological problems are a new frontier for supercomputing, says John Cobb, a principal investigator for TeraGrid at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and a co-investigator for DataONE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to gather and harmonize ecological and environmental data sets.

They are also on the lookout for unintended ecological consequences of the project.

Scientific analysis of diatom oil has shown that it is very suitable for use as biofuel, says T. V. Ramachandra, a professor of ecological sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) here who is working on this project with IISc researchers Durga Mahapatra and Karthick Balasubramanian, along with Richard Gordon, a radiology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnepeg.

«Continued tapping of maple syrup, and passing on its associated traditional ecological knowledge, is important for food sovereignty of Native American communities,» said Autumn Brunelle, a Native American research associate on the project.

In the «APV Resola» project, researchers are investigating the economic, technical, societal and ecological aspects of the technology in a pilot plant under real conditions for the first time.

RUSSIA Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

With financial support from Baikal Watch, a joint Russian - American project of the Earth Island Institute and Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives, Paul Robinson - Research Director at Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - was able to accept the invitation and visit Chita.

Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

NC State undergraduates were already involved in the warming chambers research project, but the REU was designed to be a collaboration between NC State and Shaw University — a historically black university in Raleigh, N.C. — for the express purpose of engaging African - American undergrads in ecological research.

The project documents the effectiveness of instructional practices that are likely to enhance multistep reasoning, systems thinking, conceptual and spatial understanding, and motivation for learning while learning to work with maps to solve problems involving geography and ecological awareness.

It's not far from the hostel to the UK's largest ecological venture - the Eden Project and if you can tear yourself away from the beach, Newquay is the ideal base for exploring the mysterious county of Cornwall.

All Splash Dive Instructors are also registered with the Belizean Tour Operators association, and Splash is a leading member in the local community for ecological conservation and founder of several community projects.

Come and join us for the highest standards of training in Belize and make a difference by giving back through our community and ecological projects.

Claire Mooney, Project Coordinator for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, has worked in the field of ecological restoration and design for 15 years.

Rancho Delicioso is an eco village and permaculture volunteer project for people interested in an ecological, healthy, and artistic lifestyle.

It is a 8 hectare estate, placed in the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, close to Montezuma and Santa Teresa, n ecovillage and permaculture volunteer project for people interested in an ecological, healthy, and artistic lifestyle.

For their upcoming exhibition wilderness 24/7 at The Warehouse Gallery, ecoarttech has created an installation for both spaces (Window Projects / Main Gallery) and will offer performative hikes into Syracuse's neighborhoods that explore the modern ecological being amidst networked environmenFor their upcoming exhibition wilderness 24/7 at The Warehouse Gallery, ecoarttech has created an installation for both spaces (Window Projects / Main Gallery) and will offer performative hikes into Syracuse's neighborhoods that explore the modern ecological being amidst networked environmenfor both spaces (Window Projects / Main Gallery) and will offer performative hikes into Syracuse's neighborhoods that explore the modern ecological being amidst networked environments.

In addition to her curatorial position at SMMoA, Copelin organised a number of interdisciplinary events in Los Angeles, in places such as Machine Project and the Los Angeles Seminary for Embodied and Civic Arts, bringing together the worlds of visual art, music, and ecological activism.

Combined with ideas stemming from the social sphere such as ecological protests and utopian scientific experiments, this project takes an approach that links to current theoretical developments in the areas of cultural identity, models for communities and social and political activism.

A website (www.whatismissing.net) acts as a nexus for the project, creating an ecological history of the planet and inviting people to share something they have personally witnessed diminish significantly or disappear from the natural world.

His «Color Theory Stick» (2000), a garishly painted tree trunk stripped of most of its branches, might be mistaken for an art - school design project, a whine of ecological outrage or postmodernist ridicule of the Arte Povera of Giuseppe Penone or Giovanni Anselmo.

Since 1970 Ukeles has been the non-salaried Artist in Residence for New York City's Sanitation Department, where she builds and orchestrates public projects that explore the social and ecological issues of waste management.

Prior to joining the museum, her most recent curatorial projects have included The Land Mark Show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, looking at ecological perspectives by artists located in the Western United States; and Yesterday's Future at the Orange County Great Park Gallery, examining the City of Irvine's idealized master plan of a university and city encapsulated in architect William Pereira's design of UCI's campus.

This project was sited specifically on the shore of Lac Nord of Izadia Ecological Park in Anglet, France for La Littorale # 6, Biennale Internationale D'Art Contemporain Anglet - Côte Basque curated by Paul Ardenne.

Well - known for her «living sculptures» which she calls «biosculptures,» the work of ecological artist Jackie Brookner is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary effort to create water remediation art projects that are public in nature - reclaiming wetlands, rivers, streams and stormwater runoff into revitalized environments - and bringing to awareness the gift of life that water brings.

Using special luminous and ecological paint called ELI («eco light inside» — ecological powder which is modified into a gelcoat thatcovers the furniture) that Papadopoulos created especially for the project, the sideboard is produced by Italian design company Ennerzero and will be on display at the SOHO gallery in Milan for the «dEMOsign» exhibition.

In this context of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism, the Asian Cairns project fights for the construction of an urban multifunctional, multicultural and ecological pole.

«IAI will be heading a team working on the ecological task of waste management - what can be done with by - products of aircraft manufacturing that can not be simply discarded,» said Arnold Nathan, director of R&D; for the engineering division of IAI, who heads a team that is currently working on 85 projects in conjunction with the EU.

«In the project Solar Poland you will find farms that are committed to the production of fine foods (organic and traditional) as well as to taking a caring attitude to the environment, through maximizing the economic and ecological use of renewable energy sources in their homes and businesses... By staying at a Solar Poland farmhouse you will play your part in supporting a clean and green future — helping to make Polish countryside an even more pleasant environment for us and for future generations.»

Although warming of only 1.5 degrees would result in much less harm to the climate than 2 degrees, it's possible that the ecological damage caused by the negative emissions projects needed to get there may exceed the benefits, at least for some.

Architype director, Ben Humphries said: «We have worked hard to maintain a rigorous ecological approach while navigating the complex site constraints and we are delighted to have received planning permission for this groundbreaking project.

The Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic project at the National Snow and Ice Data Center is pleased to announce the release of a website focused on the cultural and ecological significance of the northern Bering Sea....

Although the Biological Review Team acknowledged «there is ample evidence that bearded seals have adapted successfully many times to both large and rapid ecological changes» they argued «history is not, on its own, an assurance that bearded seals can adapt to the changes projected for the foreseeable future.»

The Fall 2017 issue of Witness the Arctic includes news about the NSF Vision for Research Support and Logistics at Summit Stations; Arctic Social Science research on Alaska Native Elderly health; Sea Ice Prediction Network activities; the Study of Environmental Arctic Change program's syntheses and communication efforts; a workshop on relationships between research and Alaskan Indigenous communities; the newly - released map for the Agreement to Enhance International Arctic Scientific Cooperation; an international workshop on maritime traffic in the Bering Strait; IARPC and the Polar Research Board activities; the 2017 Joint Science Education Project, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, RoberProject, international activities at IASC, the Year of Polar Prediction project, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Roberproject, and the Greenland Ecological Monitoring Program; recent ARCUS activities; and comments from ARCUS Executive Director, Robert Rich.

The implications of these projected changes are briefly discussed for physical, social, economic, and ecological systems, and the ICLEI Canada climate adaptation planning methodology is described.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is part of an Arctic - focused project partnership: the National Science Foundation Arctic Data Center which encompasses the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at U.C. Santa Barbara, DataONE at the University of New Mexico, and NCEI at NOAA.

Policy decisions made during this window are likely to result in changes to Earth's climate system measured in millennia rather than human lifespans, with associated socioeconomic and ecological impacts that will exacerbate the risks and damages to society and ecosystems that are projected for the twenty - first century and propagate into the future for many thousands of years.