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SkyTruth, a nonprofit environmental monitoring group, has just launched a real-time alert system that uses remote sensing and digital mapping to track pollution events in the United States. The SkyTruth Alerts system shows air and water pollution, toxic spills and other incidents on an interactive Google Maps mashup, with details on the time of the [...]
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The work of the European Environment Agency to collect and disseminate the environmental details of their 32 member countries goes well beyond the typical mandate due to the vision and sense of urgency that the executive director Jacqueline McGlade provides. Not only is the agency sharing their data openly and transparently, they’re providing a framework [...]
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The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) has been in planning for more than a decade, with development of instruments and observatory designs being laid out for a network across the United States in distinct eco-regions. While the organization has been formulating plans for transformational science research at continental scale, the mission has only just been [...]
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New Zealand-based Trifecta Global Infrastructure Solutions has developed the Waiora (meaning pure water in Maori) Earth Monitoring Software to integrate environmental sensors, web mapping and data processing for real-time maps and models of water contamination. The tool allows users to monitor and analyze such things as the dispersion of pollutants in groundwater, monitoring aquifer storage [...]
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Philadelphia University is one of the latest universities to embrace project-based learning and transdisciplinary approaches with a new college dedicated to Design, Engineering and Commerce. The integrative education at the new school will open in the spring of 2013. From the press release: The College of Design, Engineering and Commerce offers an integrated curriculum that [...]
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The proposed $6Billion Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project, which would spread 1,000 wind turbines over a 125-square-mile ranch made up of public and private lands, is using a high degree of sensors to monitor wildlife and impact. The Power Company of Wyoming (a subsidiary of Denver-based Anschutz Corp.) is using GPS to tag [...]
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The Forum on Earth Observations V will convene in Washington, D.C. on June 14, with the theme, “Creating a National Strategy for Environmental Intelligence.” The forum defines environmental intelligence as, “the result of a critical supply chain that begins with science and observations – ground sensors, ocean buoys, stream gauges, satellites, etc. – and ends [...]
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Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time is a full length documentary of the conservationist that is now being presented in screenings around the country before being shown on public television in early 2012. The film documents the life of the author and conservationist with a focus on land ethics ideas [...]
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The New Brunswick wetlands mapping tool controversy came to close on Friday after Environment Minister Blaney announced changes to the wetlands policy, including the removal of the predictive wetlands layer from the province’s online mapping system. The department’s approach to enforcing the policy was widely criticized because a new parameter classified a far greater area [...]
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Reports from the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have centered on themes of climate change, population growth, and limited resources. POPULATION: The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, “with almost all of the [...]
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