Instead of subsidizing fossil fuels, what if we switched to funding solar instead? (more)
I often look at the CV’s of researchers whose careers I admire to get a sense of their trajectory, and to build a rough road map of goals and objectives. How many papers do I want to put out in order to be as competitive as possible for a particular kind of job? How much grant money does the average faculty member generally pull in before tenure? I generally think it’s better to compete with yourself rather than with others, and I would prefer to be driven by good questions and careful science than aggressive CV-building. But I do find it useful to see the range of development of scientists through time (especially in terms of research themes and the kinds of papers published at different career stages).
Over at The Professor Is In (an incredible resource even if you have an amazing advisor and mentors, like me), a commenter on…
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“Everyone thinks of Arctic climate change as this remote phenomenon that has little effect on our everyday lives,” said Cornell University’s Charles H. Greene. “But what goes on in the Arctic remotely forces our weather patterns here.”
‘Arctic wildcard stacking the deck in favor of more severe winter outbreaks‘
By Summit Voice
SUMMIT COUNTY — Evidence continues to mount that melting Arctic ice is having a significant effect in the mid-latitudes, where most people live, and it’s not something that’s going to take decades to develop.
Instead, researchers say, the warming of the high latitudes has decreased a historic pressure gradient at the boundary of the high- and mid latitudes. Basically, the pressure difference has decreased, and that is having a fundamental effect on the way the jet stream moves from west to east in the northern hemisphere.
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Comunicado de Prensa
Varias organizaciones políticas y comunitarias denunciaron en la tarde de hoy miércoles lo que consideran ha sido un proceso judicial injusto y atropellado por parte del juez Javier Varela Rivera del Centro Judicial de Ponce contra las 6 personas arrestadas el pasado 15 de diciembre en el Valle de Santa Isabel, donde la empresa Pattern Energy instala 44 molinos de viento.
Entre las denuncias expresadas, plantearon que el juez Varela Rivera violentó el derecho de los imputados a un proceso judicial rápido. Como cuestión de hecho, la vista preliminar en su fondo comenzó el pasado 31 de mayo, 110 días después de concluida la vista de causa. Las reglas de procedimiento criminal establecen que la vista preliminar tiene que verse en un término no mayor de 60 días.
Además de no garantizar el derecho a un proceso judicial rápido, el juez Varela Rivera adjudicó la culpabilidad de…
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Astonishing algae bloom found in ArcticClipped from: http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/63906-astonishing-algae-bloom-found-in-arctic |
by Kate Taylor
NASA scientists say they’ve made a discovery in the Arctic Ocean ‘as dramatic and unexpected as finding a rainforest in the middle of a desert’.
When its Icescape expedition punched through three-foot thick sea ice, the team found waters richer in the microscopic marine plants known as phytoplankton than any other ocean region on Earth.
The expedition explored Arctic waters in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas along Alaska’s western and northern coasts onboard a US Coast Guard icebreaker.
"Part of NASA’s mission is pioneering scientific discovery, and this is like finding the Amazon rainforest in the middle of the Mojave Desert," says Paula Bontempi, NASA’s ocean biology and biogeochemistry program manager in Washington.
"We embarked on Icescape to validate our satellite ocean-observing data in an area of the Earth that is very difficult to…
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“Water does not just save lives in the short term – it is also a cornerstone for delivering economic growth and helping countries to work their way out of poverty,” he said.
“This is why UK aid will give an additional 15 million people access to clean water by 2015 and supporting a number of programmes, like this one, to help the world’s poorest countries harness the full potential of their water resources.”
The technology has other potential benefits. It will allow scientists to compile a real time database of how much water is being used across the continent. Greater predictability of breakdowns could also help drive down the cost of repairs.
This issue is near and dear to my heart. I live in the Llanos Tuna area of Cabo Rojo where we do not get Choice or PRT (Claro) internet. We use HughesNet, a satellite-based internet service, but it does not meet our needs, and is too expensive. We have tried various cell phone-based approaches (Open-Mobile, Claro, Centenial) but we do not get good reception. Not only that, the cell-phone approaches are slow and do not provide unlimited data downloading, as do Choice and PRT. HughesNet allows us only 425 Mbytes per day, which we exceed frequently. Downloading movies is out of the question. If we exceed the amount then we are basically shut down for 24 hours!! We do get some restore tokens each month, but if we use them up we have to pay $7 for additional restore tokens. Every night before I go to bed I pray that someone will bring decent internet to my neighborhood. I will now focus my prayers on the success of the Puerto Rico’s Broadband Strategic Plan. 🙂
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