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Transforming Earthquake Detection?

Sat, 2012-02-25 11:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Linton Wells

sciencemag.org - January 20, 2012

Earthquakes are a collective experience. Citizens have long participated in earthquake science through the reporting, collection, and analysis of individual experiences. The value of citizen-generated status reports was clear after the 1995 Kobe, Japan, earthquake (1). Today's communications infrastructure has taken citizen engagement to a new level: Earthquake-related Twitter messages can outrun the shaking (2), Internet traffic detects earthquakes (3–7) and maps the distribution of shaking in minutes (8–10), and accelerometers in consumer electronic devices record seismic waveforms (11–16). What are we learning from this flood of data, and what are the limitations? How do we harness these new capabilities for scientific discovery, and what is the role of education?

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A Nano Method to Clean Polluted Water

Sat, 2012-02-25 10:28 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

Homeland Security News Wire - February 21, 2012

Decontaminating polluted waste water costs millions, but a new discovery by scientists at the University of Brighton could result in huge savings as well as delivering safer, cleaner water

Decontaminating polluted waste water costs millions, but a new discovery by scientists at the University of Brighton could result in huge savings as well as delivering safer, cleaner water.

The research, recently published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition, represents a significant shift in scientists’ understanding of chemistry. Mercury is a serious contaminant so this breakthrough could save millions of pounds.

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Civil Society Initiative Relevant to HADR Communication

Sat, 2012-02-25 10:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

This initiative related to HADR illustrates how NGOs are working to fill the gaps in government planning and response.

internews.org

During humanitarian disasters people affected by the unfolding tragedy need more than physical necessities. They also have an urgent need for information. In the aftermath of a crisis, from earthquakes, to armed conflicts, survival can depend on knowing the answers to essential questions.

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One Billion Smartphones by 2016, Says Forrester

Fri, 2012-02-17 22:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

by Zack Whittaker - zdnet.com - February 13, 2012

Summary: A new Forrester research report sees over 1 billion smartphones being used by 2016, while app store spending increases and ‘bring your own’ device becomes the norm.

In a world where already you cannot travel on the subway without someone flipping out their cellphone, or stand at a Starbucks without someone yapping away on their iPhone, imagine what’ll happen with 1 billion smartphones out there?

Forrester seems to think so. Analysts at Forrester believe that by 2016 — only four years away, and in time for the following Olympics — there could be as many as 1 billion smartphones on the planet. This isn’t to say that everyone will have two or more smartphones, that is.

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More Dolphins Stranded on Cape Cod

Tue, 2012-02-07 18:24 — Jphl

More Dolphins  on  Cape Cod Stranded: the  Count 129!

Video  Viewable on Youtube Click on link or View from Article

More Dolphins are predicted to come ashore. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

that manages the dolphin rescue is very concerned.  The large numbers of group strandings

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Humanitarian Use of Drones

Tue, 2012-02-07 11:01 — mdmcdonald
Submitted by Alister Macintyre
Several thousand UAVs return to USA from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there's talk about how they can be constructively re-purposed.  This outfit wants to use them for medical purposes.
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US RIO+2.0 Conference at Stanford

Fri, 2012-02-03 08:59 — mdmcdonald

If you have an interest in joining the US RIO+2.0 conference on sustainability remotely, go to:

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"Closing Time: Assessing the Iranian Threat to the Strait of Hormuz"

Fri, 2012-02-03 08:26 — mdmcdonald

 

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Reframing Resilience

Sat, 2012-01-28 13:48 — mdmcdonald

 


First, there is great value in a systems approach as a heuristic for understanding interlocked social-ecological-technological processes, and in analysis across multiple scales. Yet we need to move beyond both systems as portrayed in resilience thinking, and the focus on actors in work on vulnerability, to analyse networks and relationships, as well as to attend to the diverse framings, narratives, imaginations and discourses that different actors bring to bear.

 

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http://resilienturbanism.tumblr.com/post/7573475902/reframing-resilience

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