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WMO develops new global satellite strategy to monitor climate change
The World Meteorological Organization is developing a new vision for using dozens of satellites to monitor climate change and weather. This strategy for an updated space-based Global Observing System will be discussed at a high-level WMO meeting, attended by the world’s space agencies, in New Orleans, USA, on 15–16 January. At least 16 geostationary and low-earth orbit satellites currently ...
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New Aurora family of nephelometers from Ecotech
Ecotech, total solution provider for environmental monitoring solutions, has today announced the release of the Aurora series, a new range of highly accurate, cost effective and user friendly integrating nephelometers. Comprising a choice of either single wavelength or a 3 wavelength instrument, the Aurora family delivers increased accuracy in studying particulates and their source of origin, ...
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Aurora Integrating Nephelometer – Backscatter capability
Ecotech is pleased to announce that backscatter measurements are now supplied standard for our Aurora 3000 Integrating Nephelometer. The Aurora Nephelometers are a series of instruments used for measuring the scattering of light (scattering coefficient) of aerosols in the atmosphere; this information is useful for determining the influence of atmospheric aerosols on the global radiation balance, ...
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Lab gas price bulletin April 2018
Helium supply is under pressure and labs are already struggling to secure their usual allocation. Since the Qatar embargo caused a helium supply shortage in June 2017 the U.S Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which controls around 50% of the global helium supply, has been allocating crude helium feedgas to helium refining facilities. As a result, some helium distributors are limiting supplies of ...
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SGX Sensortech acquires sensor business from e2v technologies plc
£15m transaction puts new company at forefront of sensor industry Newly-formed company SGX Sensortech Limited has acquired the instrumentation solutions business from e2v technologies plc, a global provider of high performance systems and equipment. The business that SGX Sensortech has acquired, comprises what was formerly known as: e2v scientific instruments, based in High ...
By Rayspec Ltd.
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NASA Continues Critical Survey of Antarctica`s Changing Ice
Scientists with NASA's Operation IceBridge airborne research campaign began the mission's third year of surveys this week over the changing ice of Antarctica. Researchers are flying a suite of scientific instruments on two planes from a base of operations in Punta Arenas, Chile: a DC-8 operated by NASA and a Gulfstream V (G-V) operated by the National Science Foundation and the National Center ...
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DOE Announces $29 Million for Ultramodern Data Analysis Tools
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (March 26) announced $29 million to develop new tools to analyze massive amounts of scientific information, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and advanced algorithms. All have the potential to reveal critical new insights and even new discoveries in research that can help tackle clean energy, climate, and national security challenges. "As ...
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DOE-sponsored Mississippi project hits 1m ton milestone for injected CO2
A large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project in Mississippi has become the fifth worldwide to reach the important milestone of more than 1 million tons injected. As a result, it is helping to both further carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a mitigation strategy for global climate change and move forward G-8 recommendations for launching 20 projects of this type internationally by 2010. ...
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LI-COR Offers New Tool for Mapping Soil CO2 Concentrations and Fluxes
Real-time mapping of soil CO2 concentrations and fluxes are recorded by an integrated CO2 mapping tool with GPS unit introduced by LI-COR Biosciences. The 8100-405 CO2 Mapping Kit allows researchers to take ground level CO2 concentration measurements and correlate spatial data with soil CO2 flux observations. As the need for monitoring greenhouse gases continues to ...
By LI-COR
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Woodlands revival adds new piece to carbon cycle puzzle
Despite continuing concern about the fate of iconic rainforests, new research shows that the world’s forests have stored away an extra 4 billion tonnes of carbon in the last dozen years and the total amount of woodland has increased worldwide since 2003. The encouraging news comes from Australian scientists, who report in Nature Climate Change that they used a new technique to analyse 20 ...
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2000-2009: The warmest decade
The decade 2000-2009 was the warmest since modern recordkeeping began, and 2009 was tied for the second warmest single year, a new analysis of global surface temperature shows. The analysis, conducted each year by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), an affiliate of the Earth Institute, also shows that in half the world--the Southern Hemisphere--2009 was the warmest year yet ...
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U.S. Climate Program Flawed, Threatened by Budget Cuts
WASHINGTON, DC, September 13, 2007 (ENS) - The Bush administration's climate research program has helped scientists clarify some basic facts about global warming, but has done little to provide much-needed information about how society might mitigate or adapt to the changing climate, a National Academy of Sciences committee said today. The independent panel warned that the progress of the ...
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Rising sea levels mean rising groundwater—and that spells trouble for coastal septic systems
Sea level rise and big storms are hammering coastal communities, causing increased flooding and land loss, saltwater intrusion, wetland loss/change, and impacts to local infrastructure. Communities along the coast often have their individual, onsite wastewater treatment systems, also called septic systems. In North Carolina alone, there are about 1 million homes with septic systems that ...
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NASA launches airborne study of Arctic atmosphere, air pollution
The recent decline of Arctic sea ice is one indication that this region is undergoing significant environmental changes related to climate warming. To investigate the atmosphere's role in this climate-sensitive region, NASA and its partners have begun the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The Arctic Research of the Composition of the ...
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DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation’s scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to ...
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NASA Releases Visual Tour of Earth`s Fires
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space since 2002. The visualizations show fire observations made by the MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS, instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites. NASA maintains a comprehensive research program using satellites, aircraft and ground ...
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NASA`s NPP Satellite Completes Comprehensive Testing
The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual satellite and all five scientific instruments at Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp's production and test facility in Boulder, Colo. During the four-week NPP Compatibility Test 4 (NCT4), ...
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Department of Energy Announces $110 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $110 million for diverse small businesses in 27 states. Many of the 87 projects are focused on developing advanced scientific instruments for conducting climate research and developing advanced materials as well as technologies for clean energy conversion and storage. American small business plays a critical role in ...
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Dozens of new satellites planned to monitor climate
An international strategy for deployment of dozens of new satellites to help scientists better understand global warming got a boost on Wednesday as the world's space and meteorological agencies gave their support to the World Meteorological Organization proposal at a high-level space conference. Approval came at the end of the two day meeting last week in New Orleans, Louisiana attended by top ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Adds Greater Sensitivity to its Simple Solution for Mercury Monitoring
FRANKLIN, Mass. (May 9, 2007) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, offers coal-fired power plants the Mercury Freedom System™, a mercury monitoring solution with a simplicity of design that results in maximum ease of use and maintenance, lower installation and operating costs, high reliability, and lower space requirements. In addition, the system is available ...
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