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Friday, November 5th, 2010

19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

The 19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition will take place in Berlin Germany (Conference: 6-10 June 2011 – Exhibition: 6-9 June 2011). The Technical Programme is coordinated by the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre. For over 30 years now, the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (European BC&E) has combined a very renowned international Scientific Conference

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Leica CEO Jürgen Dold Cautiously Optimistic About Economic Recovery

While the weather didn’t quite comply for attendees hoping to get some sunny warmth during their trip here to the Leica Geosystems user conference, held Oct. 25 through 28, few could say Leica didn’t pack plenty of content into the four-day event. Hosted by Leica Geosystems senior VP of strategic marketing Geoff Jacobs, the conference’s

Friday, November 5th, 2010

France – Mapping the Coastline with Litto3D

IGN and the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department of the Navy (SHOM) have developed the program Litto3D which maps continuously the coastal land and marine extension immediately. Read More

Friday, November 5th, 2010

Vue 9 for CG Professionals now shipping

Vue 9 is the most efficient and advanced solution for creating, animating and rendering natural 3D environments. It offers a high-end 3D scenery solution for SFX studios, animators, illustrators, architects, matte painters and CG professionals. It is strongly focused on power, productivity and inter-operability with existing toolkits. Vue 9 naturally integrates and extends all major 3D applications

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Ontario Government Gives Green Light to Solar Power Projects

Earlier today, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure announced changes to the Ontario micro Feed-in Tariff (FIT) program, the program guaranteeing the price paid to renewable energy generators. The proposed changes are designed to address the backlog of microFIT applications, and to ensure Ontario builds a strong solar manufacturing sector, and electricity ratepayers are protected

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Mentor Graphics Announces FloTHERM Software with Industry’s First Thermal Analysis Bottleneck

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced industry-first capabilities in the next generation of its FloTHERM® 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for electronics cooling applications. The patent-pending technology in the FloTHERM software provides Bottleneck (Bn) and Shortcut (Sc) fields so that, for the first time, engineers can now identify where heat flow congestion occurs in the electronic

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

New Alibre Design 2011 3D Design Software Now Available for Review

The new Alibre Design 2011, the easiest, lowest cost, highest value 3D design software on the market, is now available for review at www.alibre.com. Please tell me if you’d like to try it out and we’ll send you a review download code. Priced thousands less than competitors, starting at only $99 for Personal Edition (PE), $699 for

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

EU Guidelines for Public Administrations Purchasing Software

The European Union has published excellent, very practical guidelines to support government agencies purchase software. While it is specifically targeted at purchasing Open Source Software, by its own admission, most of the discussion is valid for purchasing Proprietary Software too. The key message that it describes in business terms, is the importance of using Open

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Job Opportunities Related to Environment and Research

In case you want to make an Open Vacancy Announcement (related to Soils), please send the Vacancy Description in PDF format to Panos Panagos.  The Vacancies which are going to expire first are on the top of the list (Date: 04-Nov-10 ) Read More

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

Guidelines for Mapping Areas at Risk of Landslides in Europe

This publication presents the results of a meeting of experts from a number of national geological surveys, research institutes and universities in Europe, held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy on 23-24 October 2007, with the main aim to discuss and draft guidelines for mapping areas at risk of landslides in Europe.