Sentences with phrase «included environmental measurements»

Relevant coursework included Environmental Measurements, Environmental Soil Science, Wetland Delineation and Function, Environmental Hydrology, Landscape Ecology and Planning, Air Quality Assessment, GIS, Geochemistry, Engineering Geology, and Geology Groundwater.

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For more than a decade these Earth - observing satellites have provided some of the first environmental measurements on a global scale, including large - scale changes in the mass of polar ice.

Our instrumentation included measurements of all major forms of mercury in all environmental compartments, including the atmosphere, snow, rain, plants, lichen, mosses, and tundra soils and permafrost.

Diving deeper into the complex puzzle of mass strandings, the team decided to expand their analysis and include additional oceanographic and atmospheric data sets from NASA's Earth science missions, including Terra, the Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - view Sensor — or SeaWIFS, for short — and Global Precipitation Measurement, as well as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, or GOES, mission.

A new study suggests that most people inhale substantially more organic contaminants, including cancer - causing benzene, than is indicated by standard environmental risk assessments based on outdoor measurements.

We provide leadership and expertise to major programs within the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, the Atmospheric System Research program, and DOE's climate modeling programs.

Criticisms of the species area relationship include incorrect measurements being obtained due to the use of non-standardised units, inaccurate species numbers, incorrect meaurements / over-generalisation of taxon and environmental components of the equation.

Under Mr. Fleming's direction, the Center for Policy, Planning, and Environment maintains an extensive laboratory of environmental measurement and monitoring instrumentation, including a quick - response capability to support all aspects of transportation - related environmental measurements.

The data - gathering and environmental monitoring capabilities of the FishPi may include temperature readings (air and sea), salinity and pH measurements, barometric monitoring, light levels, and more, with some of the data or images being relayed in real - time.

3.3.2 In practice, there are many possible sources of uncertainty in a measurement, including: a) incomplete definition of the measurand; b) imperfect reaIization of the definition of the measurand; c) nonrepresentative sampling — the sample measured may not represent the defined measurand; d) inadequate knowledge of the effects of environmental conditions on the measurement or imperfect measurement of environmental conditions; e) personal bias in reading analogue instruments; f) finite instrument resolution or discrimination threshold; g) inexact values of measurement standards and reference materials; h) inexact values of constants and other parameters obtained from external

«(B) make available to the Secretary options and recommendations for the program as a whole and on offset methodologies for each practice type that should be considered under regulations promulgated pursuant to section 504 of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, including methodologies to address the issues of additionality, activity baselines, measurement, leakage, including the application of sector specific leakage factors, uncertainty, permanence, and environmental integrity;

The researchers compared the GNSS - R satellite measurements with data from other sources, including tropical cyclone best track data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Centers for Environmental Information; two climate reanalysis products; and a spaceborne scatterometer, a tool that uses microwave radar to measure winds near the surface of the ocean.

Environmental variables estimated over larger spatial and temporal scales included the upwelling index (UI) for 48 ° N, 125 ° W (http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov), an indicator of upwelling strength based on wind stress measurements, as well as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO, http://jisao.washington.edu/pdo/PDO.latest), a composite indicator of ocean temperature anomalies [33], seawater temperature from Buoy 46041 ∼ 50 km to the southwest from Tatoosh (www.ndbc.noaa.gov), and remote sensing of chl a (SeaWiFS, AquaModis).

Both of these sets of activities leverage our extensive experience with observational programs — including technical direction of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility and the ARM Aerial Facility, and management of the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)-- coupled with expertise in instrument design and deployment.

Measuring a building's environmental performance is sensible, assuming stakeholders, including tenants and owners, can agree with and understand metrics and measurement protocols.

This allows application developers to create user experiences that include indoor navigation, 3D mapping, physical space measurement, environmental recognition, augmented reality, and windows into a virtual world.