Twenty Years Later, Still on the Job DOE-Sponsored Data Measurement Program Celebrates Anniversary

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Cropped image of Atmospheric Radiation measurementSometimes it just takes just a few people, a nagging problem and the persistence to solve it to make a huge difference in how the scientific community understands something as crucial to planet preservation as climate change. In this engaging story, freelance writer Lori Keesey tells how a small group of scientists convinced the U.S. Dept. of Energy to establish the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program in 1989.

A Global, Real-Time, Disaster and Environmental Monitoring System (GRDEMS) (Making critical information available to anybody who needs it)

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Image of Floods in Australia from AquaIn a time when natural disasters and environmental catastrophes strike with increasing severity and frequency, the need for geo-located, accessible, easy-to-use information is of the utmost importance. In this article, NASA’s John Bolton explains the ease with which such a system could be created.

An Earthzine interview with Zoran Stančič, Deputy Director General of the European Commission Directorate-General for Research

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Cropped image of Doctor Zoran StancicEarthzine presents Part 1 of an exclusive interview with Dr. Zoran Stančič. Dr. Stančič, Deputy Director General for research in the European Commission since 2004, brings a wealth of experience and insight into the EC’s support for GEOSS. Earthzine asks Dr. Stančič about the EC’s contribution to GEOSS and the benefits it brings to Europe.

New Disasters Earth Observation Monitoring Initiative in Canada: Assessment and Mitigation of Active Geohazard Sites

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Image of subsidence of the ground overlying the abandoned coal mine workings.The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) understands the tremendous role and value that space-based Earth Observation (EO) systems and information have regarding disaster management, mitigation, response and its environmental and socio-economic impacts and benefits. Security, which includes disaster and geohazard management, is one of the three pillars of the CSA EO strategy.

Halting Biodiversity Loss: An Earthzine Conversation with Kalemani Joseph Mulongoy

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Cropped image of Kalemani Joseph MulongoyFor perspective on biodiversity loss and the data management challenges facing the CBD, Earthzine contributor Peter Fairley interviewed Kalemani Joseph Mulongoy by telephone at the CBD Secretariat in Montreal. Since 1999, Mr. Mulongoy has served as Principal Officer in charge of the Secretariat’s Scientific, Technical and Technological Matters Division.

GEO Announces Free And Unrestricted Access To Full Landsat Archive

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Cropped image of a beech forest.Bucharest conference to strengthen environmental monitoring of planet Earth Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) will save lives, improve resource management, and track humanity’s impact on the environment Bucharest, 14 November 2008 – Some 300 officials from the Group on Earth Observations’ member governments and organizations are meeting here on 19 and 20 November to plan the next three-year phase in the construction of a new global monitoring network that will support science-based decision-making about environmental risks and opportunities.