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Thursday, October 6th, 2011
 Citizens can help track climate change by noting the timing of aspen leaf changes and other plant and animal species and logging onto the USA National Phenology Network and recording their findings.
Go to USA National Phenology Network and click on “Nature’s Notebook”
Phenology is the study of the seasonal life-cycle events in plants and animals. Phenology has been shown to be a key indicator of climate change. Data collected is used to track how climate change impacts forests, through fire, insects and disease.
Another
reason to view the aspens: Santa Fe New Mexican, Monday, October 3, 2011
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
The “smart collar” — in development in academia and intended for commercial production in the next few years, use a combination of global positioning technology and accelerometers for measuring an animal’s metabolic inner life in leaping, running or sleeping.
The smart collar measures how animals move and eat and live their lives — and could fundamentally transform how wild populations are managed, and imagined, biologists and wildlife managers say.
‘Smart Collar’ in the Works to Manage Wildlife Better August 29, 2011, The New York Times (registration required)
Tags: GPS, smart collar, wildlife
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
EveryBlock is a new news data site to follow neighborhood news and connect with your neighbors in 16 U.S. cities.
News included can come from data such as public records like crime reports, to neighbor discussions, to photos people have taken in your neighborhood.
http://www.everyblock.com/
Tags: Everyblock, neighborhood, ZIP Code
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Friday, July 1st, 2011
Los Alamos National Laboratory and a New Mexico aerial technology firm on Thursday deployed a cutting-edge surveillance systemnormally used to help U.S. conventional military forces in combat for a peaceful purpose: helping Las Conchas fire evacuees see an up-to-date view of their homes.
A higher resolution version of the system, known as Angel Fire, was developed by LANL and the Air Force Research Laboratory for the Department of Defense. It’s described as a surveillance camera for a city-sized area, complete with instant replay and the ability to zoom in to see, for example, someone planting an improvised explosive device.
(more…)
Tags: Google Earth, LANL, New Mexico, Transparent Sky
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
I read your article about Universal geocoding.
Universal
Geocoding NAC Assigns Unique Codes to Every Location on Earth
I was wondering how this would apply to a deeply populated area with homes duplexes and High-rises. As you understand it, would there be a geocode for each address or living space or would it be a general geocode for the city block or building? What ever additional information you might have would greatly be
appreciated.
Thank you
Ron
Forwarded to NAC Geographic Products for response:
Usually, a Universal Address contains the information of the horizontal
location only. For a building, it’s the location of the entrance. However,
as we discussed on http://nacgeo.com/nacsite/documents/postal.asp, for
simplifying automatic mail sorting purpose, it allows residents of a
building to add a third string to represent the room number, such as
NAC: 8CRB Q90H UNIT208
so that the OCR software can sort the mail into the final mail box. The
locally defined third string must contain vowel character(s) (A, E, I, O, U
or Y) to distinguish it from a standard altitude string which does not have
any vowel.
Best regards,
Xinhang Shen
NAC Geographic Products Inc.
Tags: NAC, universal geocoding
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
In response to media headlines about the presence of
pharmaceuticals in drinking water, professors from the University of
Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a
website, “<http://faculty.virginia.edu/vpharmacalc/>V-PharmaCalc,”
that allows Virginians to view estimated concentrations of various
prescription and generic drugs present in their local wastewater –
before it is treated and released to the environment. – from press release
According to Ph.D., P.E., LEED Green Associate, for each wastewater treatment plant, the address was obtained from a listing of treatment plants provided by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ). From that list, the latitude/longitude of each treatment plant was then determined.
When a user enters their zipcode, there is a default latitude/longitude for
that zipcode (as evidenced if you go to Google Maps and just enter a zip
code, it defaults to a certain point). From that specific zip code
latitude/longitude coordinate, the website then links to the wastewater
treatment plant that is closest.
Tags: applied science, drinking water, pharmaceuticals, University of Virginia
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Citizens can help track climate change by noting the timing of aspen leaf changes and other plant and animal species and logging onto the USA National Phenology Network and recording their findings.
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