Monday, June 7th, 2010
The U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution today awarded its first “Innovation in Technology and ECR” Award to the MarineMap Consortium, a group that brings together partners from University of California, Santa Barbara, Ecotrust, and The Nature Conservancy. The Award was presented at the Institute’s ECR 2010 conference in Tucson, Arizona. MarineMap incorporates Google Earth
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Carbon dioxide emissions from agricultural activity in the United States can now be tracked with unprecedented resolution because of a method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Read More
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Geospatial experts from the world’s largest alliance of agricultural research centers will gather in Nairobi from June 8-12 to develop new strategies for using high-tech mapping and analysis to improve productivity and market access for smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
The New England Section ACSM and CALS are proud to present a GNSS Positioning Short Course offered on five consecutive Saturdays this summer starting on July 10, 2010 and ending on August 7, 2010. Each Saturday class begins at 8 am and ends at noon, and will be held at the University of Connecticut located
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
The five-year research project EURODITE, sponsored by the EU’s 6th Framework Programme, has investigated how knowledge is generated, developed and transferred within firms or organisations, and between firms or organisations in their regional and wider contexts. Read more in the publication Knowledge Dynamics, Regional Development and Public Policy from Eurodite http://www.nordregio.se/?vis=nyhet&id=7412
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Regional Trajectories to the Knowledge Economy – Nordic-European comparisons (REKENE) Focus on the ICT, KIBS, New Media and Food & Drink sectors. Conference 24-25 August, Stockholm, Sweden How can regions learn to benefit from knowledge dynamics? Nordregio Academy with partners invite you to a conference on harnessing knowledge dynamics in regional economic development, 24th and
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Many NGOs and development practitioners are hoping to increase their knowledge of project design and development in order to work successfully with community members in developing successful, sustainable forest conservation and restoration projects. In an effort to make our impact training courses internationally accessible, we have launched key courses inexpensively online on project design, adapting
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tactical Communications, provider of leading technology and services for emergency and disaster communications, today announced an agreement to distribute Surveylab’s Ike1000 series of geospatial field data collection tools in Texas. Texas-based municipal and federal public safety agencies are leveraging emerging GPS and GIS technologies to help measure, monitor, and manage their assets. “The advent of
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Under the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) programme, three grants were recently signed between the African Union Commission and the three Regional Implementation Centres (RICs) to implement services in support of the management of water, agricultural and environmental resources as well as land degradation and desertification mitigation, and natural habitat conservation.
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
The number of native fish and aquatic insects, especially those that are pollution sensitive, declines in urban and suburban streams at low levels of development — levels often considered protective for stream communities, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The USGS study examinee the effects of urbanization on algae, aquatic insects,
