Friday, November 25th, 2011
Our most important source for knowledge about past life is the fossil record. But how exact is it in telling us about the history of life? According to a new study in Science the evolution of marine life over the last 500 million years has been strongly influenced by sea level changes and ocean chemistry and despite its incompleteness, the fossil
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Products for 3D Enthusiasts are handled by Cornucopia3D, the community division of e-on software. Full product descriptions, download and purchase information for Vue Pioneer, Vue 3D SuperHero, Vue Theme-Packs and Vue 10 Frontier are available directly at www.cornucopia3d.com.
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
“The recent sea ice decline … appears to be unprecedented,” said Christian Zdanowicz, a glaciologist at Natural Resources Canada, who co-led the study and is a co-author of the paper published Wednesday online in Nature. “We kind of have to conclude that there’s a strong chance that there’s a human influence embedded in that signal.” Read
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The City of Whitehorse maintained separate databases for financial and asset information with some GIS data stored on a few computer desktops. Extracting mapping data was manually intensive and limited to a few users. Pacific Alliance developed an ESRI platform interface to access financial and asset data sets; it was designed with ArcGIS for Microsoft Silverlight. Integrated
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The Board of Directors of the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) has issued the GISCI position on the GIS profession in relation to other geospatial professions. The position states in part: The GIS Certification Institute contends that state regulation of the many and varied tasks performed by GIS Professionals would be counterproductive. Instead of state regulation, we
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
With the software distribution segment of Infotech Enterprises and the viewer segment of DataCAD, the two strongest former European distribution partners of two well-known viewer solutions merge to one powerful development partner. K2D will use the combined experience of the two viewer specialists to promote the development of the CAD Viewer Kubotek KeyView. Synergies, decades
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Wetlands International will be present at the upcoming climate talks in Durban (28 November – 9 December). This global NGO will show the important role that wetlands can play to adapt to climate change, with specific attention for wetlands in the dry and vulnerable parts of Africa. Wetlands International also continues its call for incentives
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
There is still time to be a part of the global gathering of LIDAR professionals when they meet in Salzburg, Austria in less than 7 days. The European LiDAR Mapping Forum is being held from 29 – 30th November 2011 and will combine a technical conference of over 40 papers presented by Internationally recognised speakers and an
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
The National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) is seeking post-doctoral candidates on the simulation of N2O emissions from cropland in France with the agro-ecosystem model CERES-EGC, and its calibration and validation using measurements from a network of experimental sites.
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
Society has long learned to accept fire as one of the many risks to life and property that simply must be effectively managed. Improved fire detection and protection systems, tougher construction codes, more extensive safety standards and more sensitive planning have all helped reduce the threat over recent years. But better ways still need to be found, not only
