July 16, 2009
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Monitoring & Testing Newsletter July 16, 2009 |
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Tracking trash
What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or `disposable` razors? A team of MIT researchers have announced a major project called Trash Track, which aims to get people thinking about what they throw away. Trash Track relies on the development of special electronic tags that will track different types of waste on their journey through the disposal systems of New York and Seattle. The project will monitor the patterns and costs of urban disposal and create awareness of the impact of ... |
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Soil climate monitoring in Antarctica
Antarctica, the coldest place on earth, has an area of about 14 million sq. km. About 98% of the continent is covered by ice, which averages about 2100 m thick. This vast ice sheet contains the earth’s largest fresh water reserve. Of the ice-free ground, only 0.3% is available for soils to form. Currently there are seven soil climate stations in Antarctica, which monitor a range of ambient atmospheric parameters, and soil moisture and temperature. A group of researchers with USDA-NRCS and other organizations describe in the latest issue of Soil Survey Horizons how the Natural Resources ... |
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