Monday, February 7th, 2011
A new Nordic Centre of Excellence on Climate Change Effects on Marine Ecosystems and Resource Economics will be established, and will be led from the University of Oslo. CEES’s Professor Nils Chr. Stenseth will be the PI and Carl Folke at the Stockholm Resilience Centre as the co-PI. Funding is scheduled to begin in 2011 and will be
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
As part of their Public Mapping Project, Dr. Michael P. McDonald of George Mason University and Dr. Micah Altman, Senior Research Scientist at Harvard University Institute for Quantitative Social Science, have teamed up with Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, to develop District Builder (http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software), an open source, web-based redistricting application.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The Equator Initiative is a partnership that brings together the UN, governments, civil society, businesses, and grassroots organizations to build the capacity and raise the profile of local efforts to reduce poverty through the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
In 2011 Shtokman Development AG intends to widen cooperation with Arkhangelsk oblast and involve leading regional industrial companies in the Shtokman project. Chief Executive Officer of Shtokman Development AG Alexey Zagorovsky and Governor of Arkhangelsk Oblast Ilya Mikhalchuk had a working meeting on the 31st of January at the Company’s Moscow office. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
David Thompson could be the world’s most accomplished geographer having mapped more ground than anyone else. Included in his extensive travels is the first record of a European to pass by the Revelstoke area on September 12, 1811. The Revelstoke Museum and Archives will commemorate this bicentennial with displays and events this summer. Read More
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
The National Geographical Institute (IGN) and the company recently Archividéo sign a co-publishing agreement major in the 3D world by creating Territoire3D service, service online access to computer 3D SaaS (software as a service) modeling all cities and villages in mainland France and overseas. This service will allow users to move in a world very realistic virtual; the Internet sites that incorporate this model
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
The Amazon River has fallen to its lowest level in decades, leaving scores of towns and cities along its length, and those of its tributaries, stranded as water levels either fall too low for safe navigation by boat, or evaporate entirely. Rivers such as the Rio Negro, which flows into the Amazon, have dried up
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
ST-Ericsson is launching the world’s smallest receiver to be able to see both GPS and GLONASS positioning satellites, enabling mobile devices to deliver much faster and much more reliable location-based services. Compared to GPS-only solutions, the combination of GLONASS and GPS technology dramatically improves positioning accuracy in dense “urban canyon environments”, where tall buildings can
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
Jena Instrument has entered into an agreement with Vexcel Imaging GmbH, a Microsoft® company, to distribute its UltraCam line of photogrammetric digital aerial cameras in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Under the terms of the agreement, Jena Instrument, one of the Russian geospatial leaders, will act as an authorized distributor in Russia
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
EU backing for zero-energy buildings has given the German construction industry a boost. As materials become less expensive, the passive house, a German invention, is likely to become a more common sight. The German government wants to reduce the energy demand for heating by 20 percent by 2020. From that year on, all new buildings
