The GEO and some 80 leading scientific institutes, intergovernmental organizations and national ministries have joined forces to start building a global Biodiversity Observation Network for monitoring and assessing the world’s species and ecosystems in order to prevent their further destruction.
Some Computer Science Issues in Creating a Sustainable World
Among the biggest challenges the world faces today are the climate crisis and the broader issues of environmental sustainability raised in books such as Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking, 2004). Part of the solution to this problem depends on climate science, breakthrough technologies, and policy changes.
Call for nominations to the NOAA – David Johnson Award for Outstanding Innovative Use of Earth Observation Satellite Data
The NOAA – David Johnson Award is presented by the National Space Club in honor of the first administrator of what was to become the NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS).
A Brief History Of Radio – Echo Sounding Of Ice
The application of radio-echo sounding (RES) to thickness measurements of glacial and sheet ice has been demonstrated since the early 1960s. The concept for this approach can be traced to 1933 at Admiral Byrd’s base, Little America, Antarctica where the first indication that snow and ice are transparent to high frequency radio signal was observed.
NASA's Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications: Integrating Earth Observations
There are advantages and disadvantages to reanalyses for climate study. The main advantages are that global Earth observations (disparate distributions in space and time) are assimilated leading to uniformly gridded and globally available data. Reanalyses also combine many different types of observations into a single analysis.
NASA’s Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications: Integrating Earth Observations
There are advantages and disadvantages to reanalyses for climate study. The main advantages are that global Earth observations (disparate distributions in space and time) are assimilated leading to uniformly gridded and globally available data. Reanalyses also combine many different types of observations into a single analysis.
Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
We all hear about global this and global that, what to recycle or not, and who should be responsible. This is almost non-stop from every sort of media available, which becomes mind numbing and, in a huge sense, scary. With all the information our there, Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods caught my attention.
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program, in coordination with the Office of
Science and Technology Policy and Council on Environmental Quality, has prepared a draft report on climate change that is open for public comment through August 14, 2008.