Sentences with phrase «track oil spills»

Larger swarms of these robots could help to monitor the health of coral reefs, the movement of larvae in marine protected areas, harmful red tide blooms, and even track oil spills.

But no one had shown how to use the technology to map or track oil spills.

The idea is that groups of the drones could be rapidly sent to find a crashed aircraft, for example, or track an oil spill.

Not exact matches

Here's a fascinating use of a crowdsourcing technology called Ushahidi, originally developed to track election violence in Kenya: as the Times reports, a group called the Louisiana Bucket Brigade is employing the distributed reporting tool to let local citizens help track the fallout from the rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

State and federal inspectors have completed a second round of safety checks of train tracks and oil tanker cars in an effort to prevent derailments and spills of volatile crude from North Dakota's Bakken region.

The team found that frequencies near 200 kilohertz were best for tracking small oil droplets like those in the Deepwater Horizon spill.

Modern geographers and cartographers are involved in diverse projects: tracking fleets of vehicles or products, helping customers locate a Dunkin' Donuts, modeling environmental scenarios such as oil spills, and studying the spread of disease.

The findings, posted online in advance of publication in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, are part of an ongoing collaborative effort to track the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Gulf killifish populations in areas of Louisiana that received heavy amounts of oil.

The researchers have tracked the impact of the oil on killifish since the Deepwater Horizon spill occurred in April 2010.

The abundance of turtles in the vicinity of the oil spill was derived by forward - tracking particles from 35 major nesting beaches using knowledge of their population sizes, oceanic - stage durations, and survival rates.

Someday, RoboBees might track fast - changing events such as forest fires, oil spills or chemical plumes.

While playing, the power - ups found on the track are a shield, homing rockets, boosters, an oil spill, shock paddles and an Uzi that can knock players off their scooter.

There, students can find a section called «Running on Oil» and read a page that touts the industry's environmental track record — citing improvements mostly attributable to laws that the companies fought tooth and nail, by the way — but makes only vague references to spills or pollution.

On the surface, military drone aircraft could find and track patches of oil headed for shore as well as conduct surveillance over this now gigantic spill.

I e-mailed a batch of researchers and other experts tracking the aftermath of the gulf gusher and others who studied previous oil spills to get their sense of where things go from here.

Below you can explore an Oil Spill Crisis Map tracking all of the reports of problems related to the spreading slick.

Adrienne Esposito, Executive Director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, said, «Over the century, the oil and gas industry has amassed an injurious track record of oil spills and other environmental disasters, which have had significant, lasting impacts on our environment and public health.

But those databases don't specify the exact cause of each spill, and they don't track whether the pipeline carried dilbit or conventional crude oil at the time of the spill.

Rushing floodwaters loaded with heavy debris damaged oil and gas pipes and tanks, causing the two large spills that state and federal regulators were tracking Thursday.

As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.