Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The population of the Netherlands has grown in the northern central belt and around other urban centres but is shrinking in some border areas, the national statistics office CBS said on Monday. The population has grown by 269,000 or 1.6% since 2005, the CBS said. The population of Utrecht has grown by 30,000 and Amsterdam
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Outwardly, it looked like just another big space launch — and those happen about once a week, from spaceports all around the world. But Friday’s blast-off of a rocket, carrying a Chinese GPS-style navigation satellite, from the Xi Chang Satellite Launch Center was different. It set a record for successful Chinese launches in one year:
Monday, December 27th, 2010
From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic’s Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre’s (DLR) radar satellite is one of the few that can direct its view over this glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains. Researchers can use these
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The go-ahead has been given for Moray Council’s proposed Elgin Flood Protection Scheme which will help protect homes and businesses in the town from the risk of flooding from the River Lossie. Roseanna Cunningham, Minister for Environment and Climate Change, announced today that the scheme has been confirmed with modifications as recommended in the report of
Monday, December 27th, 2010
LEAP, the Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System, is a widely-used software tool for energy policy analysis and climate change mitigation assessment developed at the Stockholm Environment Institute. LEAP has been adopted by hundreds of organizations in more than 150 countries worldwide. Its users include government agencies, academics, non-governmental organizations, consulting companies, and energy utilities.
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Dartmouth College is installing a Spinwave Systems mesh network based on Spinwave sensors to monitor and manage its heating, cooling and electrical systems across the campus, the company announced today. The Spinwave system encompasses more than 200 pulse counters to transmit data every 15 minutes from meters in 125 college buildings spread out over 250 acres on the Dartmouth campus
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it has started commercial operation of eco-friendly full-size electric buses on the Mt. Namsan circular routes as of December 21. It is the first time in the world that electronic buses have been put into commercial operations. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The latest version is required for all UK & ROI Building Regulations projects. The latest version is required for all UK & ROI Building Regulations projects. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Predicability is coordinating the WCRP Climate-system Historical Forecast Project. This is a multi-model and multi-institutional experimental framework for sub-seasonal to decadal complete physical climate system prediction. The ‘complete physical climate system’ implies contributions from the atmosphere, oceans, land surface cryosphere and atmospheric composition in producing regional and sub-seasonal
Monday, December 27th, 2010
This is an early ‘heads up’ on two posts at CASA to be advertised in the New Year. CASA, home of Digital Urban, is expanding and we are looking for two lecturers to teach on our MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation course. In short, we are looking for highly skilled and motivated individuals with
