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
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
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. has announced that Hydro-Quebec Distribution has accepted proposals for the purchase of energy from the 24 MW Saint-Damase and 24 MW Val-Eo wind projects. The Saint-Damase project is expected to consist of 12 2 MW Enercon Canada Inc. E-82 wind turbines. Construction of the project is scheduled to begin in early
Monday, December 20th, 2010
200 years ago – on 13 February 1810 – introduced the “level-Instruction in Prussia. This date marks the beginning of the systematic quantitative hydrology in Germany. The condition for a targeted use of the waters of the state and its management was created. 200 years of Hydrology in Germany: this anniversary, the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
TECTERRA announced today the opening of a new Call For Proposals (CFP) providing an ongoing opportunity of geomatics commercialization funding for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in Canada. There will be several application review dates announced throughout the coming year, with the first being January 20, 2011. TECTERRA’s industry funding program enables and supports the development
Sunday, December 19th, 2010
Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network has announced a $3-million pilot project to allow private businesses to access its blazingly fast 100-gigabit optical network. The network, which was first announced in October, has been offered only to Canadian researchers so far. It offers Internet connection speeds thousands of times faster than today’s consumers have access to.
Monday, December 13th, 2010
The rehabilitation and upgrade of the Agus and Pulangi hydroelectric power facilities will cost around P3 billion, an official said. “The rehabilitation work needed to put up an additional 100 to 200 megawatts will cost around P2 billion. If we would like to add or uprate some of the facilities, for instance Pulangi, which will
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Mr. Michael Engelskirchen, GTZ Transport Advisor, was invited to make a presentation about the Rea Vaya BRT system in Johannesburg as a best practice example for the implementation of BRT in African cities. The presentation was held in the Public Transport, Modal Choice and integration session on 5th October 2010 and was attended by more
Sunday, December 12th, 2010
A key policy issue in a national and European context is where does and should public money go and how can it be best used to influence the geography of growth? For the project ‘Secondary cities in Europe: Performance, Policies and Prospects’ the key question to answer is: ‘Are the benefits of a centralised urban system
