Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Monday, December 22, 2014
8th International Conference on Remediation and Management of Contamined Sediments
Conference Highlights
Monday, January 12
·
Plenary
Session, with feature speaker Anthony C. Janetos (Boston University), “The
National Climate Change Assessment: Climate Change Impacts in the United States
and Beyond.”
Tuesday-Thursday, January 13-15
·
4 panel discussions
·
Multiple networking opportunities: daily continental breakfasts,
lunches, and poster receptions.
·
Closing Roundtable Forum—“The Billion-Dollar Question: Can Urban Master
Planning Help Resolve the Cost/Benefit Impasse at Large Contaminated Sediment
Sites?”
See the Daily Schedule for a quick, 2-page overview of the
sessions and panels scheduled each day. The Technical
Program lists the title, authors, and scheduled speaker for each
presentation and the scope and panelists for each panel.
The technical program was developed after an
extensive, multi-level review by the Program Committee and the session chairs of more than 500
abstracts received in response to the Call for Abstracts.
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
[Off Topic] -- 10 Compromisos por una Pesca Responsable y Sostenible
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences, Pacific Grove, California, USA
In 1994,
the Geological Society of America hosted the Penrose Conference, “From the
Inside and the Outside: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History of the
Earth Sciences.” The focus of that meeting was on how practicing scientists
(“insiders”) and professional historians (“outsiders”) approached research in
our field. Twenty years later, it is fitting to ask where we stand presently on
fundamental questions about scholarly inquiry into the development of the
geosciences...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Sea ice update: 2014 Arctic winter maximum, Antarctic summer minimum [NOAA News]
It’s finally here! Yesterday, scientists from the
National Snow and Ice Data Center announcedthe ultimate sign of spring: Arctic
sea ice reached its winter peak on March 21, 2014, and the annual melt season
is underway.
This winter’s maximum sea ice extent in the Arctic was
14.91 million square kilometers (5.76 million square miles), making it the
fifth smallest winter maximum since satellite records began in 1979.
Meanwhile, Southern Hemisphere sea ice reached its
annual low point on February 23, 2014. This year’s summer minimum extent was
3.54 million square km (1.37 million square mi), which was the fourth largest
in the satellite record.
Global warming due to rising atmospheric
concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is having different
impacts on sea ice patterns in the Arctic versus the Antarctic. The Arctic is
experiencing declines in ice cover in nearly all areas and all seasons, with
especially large losses in summer.
In the Antarctic, sea ice trends are more variable.
Over the Southern Ocean as a whole, sea ice extent has increased by a small
amount on an annual basis, with decreases in some basins and increases in
others and changes in some seasons but not others.
For more on differences between our planet’s two “ends
of the Earth” see our Polar Oppositesfeature article.
Globes by Dan Pisut, based on data provided by the
National Snow and Ice Data and available from NOAA View.
Photo Credit:
NOAA View
NSIDC
NOAA Climate.gov
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