Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Geospatial technologies have evolved to become not only widely popular but necessary for those seeking to generate an economic advantage. Individuals, businesses and governments can all gain the benefits of location based applications. ‘Why ‘Where’ Matters: Understanding and Profiting from GPS, GIS and Remote Sensing’ is written so anyone can understand location-based tools and other geospatial
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. named Executive Vice President of Sales, Bertrand Sicot, its new CEO. Former CEO, Jeff Ray, has been promoted into a leadership role at Dassault Systèmes (DS) of France. Bertrand Sicot joined DS SolidWorks as Europe’s “second employee” in 1997 and has consistently improved worldwide distribution performance, revenue, profit, and global market
Friday, January 7th, 2011
As part of a unique public-private partnership, HOK is designing a new type of sustainable research development intended to leave a lasting legacy. HOK is working with Arlington-based Realty Appreciation Ltd. and the Texas A&M University System to design the Urban Living Laboratory, a 73-acre, 1.2 million-sq.-ft. mixed-use development that sits on a 240-acre parcel
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Europe should rely less on direct farming subsidies and reward farmers more for their environmental efforts and the other work they do to enhance the countryside, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said today. Read More
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Dassault Systèmes announced that it is the lead sponsor of the sixth annual EyesOn Design Awards competition to be held on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at the 2011 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS). Additionally, Dassault Systèmes vice president of Design Experience and head of the company’s Design Studio, Anne Asensio, will be serving her
Friday, January 7th, 2011
Dassault Systèmes announce the appointment of Jeff Ray as Executive Vice President, Geographic Operations, and member of the Dassault Systèmes executive committee. In this newly created position, Ray will oversee the company’s geographies in order to empower the Dassault Systèmes local teams to serve customers’ and partners’ growing needs and fully exploit the market growth
Friday, January 7th, 2011
The recent, record-setting retreat of Arctic sea ice in Canada and across the polar north has prompted separate research projects in Britain and the United States aimed at reconstructing the region’s historical ice record – from the 18th century age of sail to the dawn of the satellite era in the 1960s. Read More
Friday, January 7th, 2011
With our evolving OBIS database repository, users can identify biodiversity hotspots and large-scale ecological patterns, analyze dispersions of species over time and space, and plot species’ locations with temperature, salinity, and depth. To search the database, please select the “Search Data” option in the toolbar above. If you want to see overview maps of OBIS content and
Friday, January 7th, 2011
One of the important elements of our biogeographical information system is a standard list of geographical names (gazetteer). The MarBEF data management team has developed this geographical database and as new datasets and species lists come in, the additional geographical names are entered and matched within a hierarchical structure of place names. Read More
Friday, January 7th, 2011
MarBEF has provided uBio with access to a taxonomic list of ERMS records which makes them available within the uBio portal, NameBank, uBioRSS, LinkIt and other tools. This provides us with the means to selectively link uBio resources and services to ERMS. The uBio project who has its origins in the MBLWHOI Library in Woods
