He has built a station, and not just one, but probably the most impressive station, called SMEAR II (Station for Measuring Ecosystem - Atmosphere Relationships), in the boreal forests of Finland showing how a rounded set
of environmental measurements can be obtained.
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.
Not exact matches
Saildrone's fleet
of sailboats — which are outfitted with dozens
of sensors,
measurement tools, and cameras — can capture data on fish and wildlife populations,
environmental health, ocean temperatures, weather, and climate change.
We've added to the mix a
measurement of each company's
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance.
Most Provocative: Andrew Jones with «9 Reasons NOT to Plant a Church in 2012» «The
measurement criteria
of the church planting project, focusing on numbers
of attenders and momentum
of new church launch, is too narrow, too shallow, un-holistic and ignores more vital measurable signs
of a transformed society in its various spheres (economic,
environmental, social, impact outside the church environment, etc).»
In addition, in December Emerson agreed to acquire Cooper - Atkins, a manufacturer
of temperature management and
environmental measurement devices and wireless monitoring solutions for foodservice and other industries.
Dr Susanne Shultz, the senior author from the School
of Earth and
Environmental Sciences (SEES) at Manchester, explains: «Faecal hormone
measurements are easy to collect without disturbing the animals and provide a window into the chronic stress animals are experiencing.
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.
The study, published online today in
Environmental Science & Technology, provides the most comprehensive set yet
of direct
measurements of emissions from the distribution system and, with a series
of partner studies, is helping to determine the natural gas industry's contribution to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and to global warming.
And all
measurements will be standardized to allow rigorous comparison
of the effects
of big
environmental problems on different eco-regions.
From the start, I was responsible for a laboratory that ran a number
of different analytical systems, had to train students in
environmental measurement, and came to lead and work in a number
of national and international projects.
Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments
of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard
Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an
environmental economist at the Norwegian University
of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author
of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.
«We didn't believe the
measurements at first, and spent about a year just convincing ourselves that they were accurate,» said lead author Laurence Yeung, an assistant professor
of Earth,
environmental and planetary sciences at Rice University.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling
of large 20th - century eruptions, annual
measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record
of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions
of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height
of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.
They are impossible places to access from below, and usually invisible on the ground, so it's a fantastic illustration
of the value
of satellite
measurements for identifying and understanding
environmental change.»
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.
They compared isotope
measurements on the silica skeletons
of diatoms, which store
environmental signals from the ocean's surface, with isotope signals from radiolarians, which live in deeper water layers.
These techniques minimize the effects
of environmental noise and allow us to make much more sensitive temperature
measurements.»
In this study, the researchers, in collaboration with Cranfield University and the Scottish Universities
Environmental Research Centre (SUERC), used acoustic thermometry to make the
measurement by building an acoustic resonator and making amazingly precise
measurements of the speed
of sound in argon gas.
In the new paper, published in the journal
Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety
of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes
of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric
measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.
A urine sample taken during pregnancy allowed
measurement of biomarkers for exposure to phenols in the CDC Atlanta
Environmental Health Laboratory for US biosurveillance programmes.
The measuring spheres are not only ideal for microbiological culture and process development in the laboratory, but could also be used in drug production,
environmental measurement or screening in the field
of medicine.
«Finally, as
environmental factors that affect the susceptibility, triggering and progression
of ALS remain largely unknown, we contend future studies are needed to evaluate longitudinal trends in exposure
measurements, assess newer and nonpersistent chemicals, consider pathogenic mechanisms, and assess phenotypic variations,» the study conclude.
I confess, I don't normally keep an eye out for the latest publications in the Journal
of Environmental Radioactivity, but one recent paper on radioxenon
measurements is
of particular interest.This paper, as it turns out, is by one
of the leading researchers in radioxenon testing, who happens to be a former professor and advisor
of mine at The University
of Texas at Austin.
For cattle, 22 years and more than 36,000 fecal
measurements suggest that plants on U.S. grazing lands have grown poorer in protein, ecologist Joseph Craine
of Jonah Ventures, in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues reported April 10 in
Environmental Research Letters.
Apart from continuous
measurements over years at different daytimes and locations, the scientists also studied vertical distribution
of dust pollution in cooperation with colleagues
of the Atmospheric
Environmental Research Division
of KIT's Institute
of Meteorology and Climate Research and the Institute
of Regional Science
of KIT.
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.
In August a study conducted by the Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences in Colorado revealed that ozone
measurements have stopped declining over the midlatitudes
of the Northern and Southern hemispheres, where the bulk
of the world's population resides.
Because
of the effects
of heavy metal pollution on
environmental and human health,
measurement is critical — both in determining current levels and in documenting historical levels.
The final
measurement in the Chesapeake will come in October following surveys by the Chesapeake Bay Program's partners from the Maryland Department
of Natural Resources and the Virginia Department
of Environmental Quality.
User Facility: The SEM, XPS, and EDX
measurements were performed in EMSL, a national scientific user facility sponsored by the DOE Office
of Science's Office
of Biological and
Environmental Research and located at PNNL.
Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the Department
of Energy's Office
of Biological and
Environmental Research as part
of the Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, and Atmospheric Systems Research program.
While the current study does not answer the question
of which process is primarily responsible, it is nonetheless hugely important because it provides the most accurate
measurement yet
of how much
environmental quenching has occurred in the early Universe.
Mike Alexander, Alex Laskin, Yuri Desyaterik, and John Ortega, who work at DOE's
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) at PNNL and Xiao - ying Yu
of PNNL's Atmospheric Science and Global Change Division, collected an extensive set
of measurements of aerosol mass, size distribution, composition, and particle morphology using an array
of in - situ techniques and aerosol sampling approaches.
«Being able to compare
measurements made using completely different techniques will provide researchers an improved understanding
of how soil might gain or lose carbon as
environmental conditions change,» said Bond - Lamberty.
A new airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) system will be built to enable future interdisciplinary ecological and
environmental research involving optical
measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and rivers.
Measurement of economic value
of environmental protection.
The laboratory is also a qualified member
of IAEA's ALMERA (Analytical Laboratories for the
Measurement of Environmental Radioactivity) network.
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.
Metagenomics and metaproteomics extend these
measurements to a comprehensive description
of the organisms in an
environmental sample, such as in a bucket
of ocean water or in a soil sample.
There's no satellite in space that's capable
of directly measuring ocean acidity, but an international team
of scientists writing in the journal
Environmental Science & Technology described last week how satellite
measurements of sea surface temperatures, salinity and plankton activity could be combined and used to estimate pH.
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.
In this outdoor game, players try to uncover the source
of a toxic spill by interviewing virtual characters and conducting large - scale simulated
environmental measurements.
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measurements.
Hilton Worldwide is the first major multi-brand hospitality company to make sustainability
measurement a brand standard and recently earned ISO 9001 and 14001 certifications for quality and
environmental management - one
of the largest volume certifications awarded for commercial buildings.
Mel Bochner would join his own interest in numerical systems with the
environmental expansiveness
of Morris in works like
Measurement Room (1969).
Our newest discussion course, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual, explores how businessess and organizations incorporate
environmental and social responsibility to redefine their
measurements of success, and asks readers how those lessons might be applied within their own organizations.
This science will build a knowledge pool so that eventually there will be a credible basis for the
measurement of environmental impact.