TCarta Plans Bathymetric Mapping Workshop for Jamaica
depth data from multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and use NASA ICESat-2 LiDAR data for validation. The resulting data sets will include water depth measurements at 10-meter resolution to an average depth of 20 meters.“The 2024 workshop will be led by hydrographers from TCarta’s Colorado and Jamaica offices,” said Goodrich. “We hope to hold similar SDB coastal mapping workshops in other Caribbean locations later this year and are actively seeking partnerships with hydrographic agencies in the region.&rdquo
System Built for Mars Operations Used for Offshore Methane Emissions Detection
.The TLDAS technology was first developed by NASA’s JPL to look for evidence of microbial life and was extremely sensitive to methane enhancements. It has since been adapted for use across the energy sector and has been validated by the Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Centre (METEC) in Colorado.Brendan Smith, SeekOps Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, said: “With political, environmental and social pressures building, oil and gas operators are searching for ways to effectively reduce methane emissions. This forward-thinking solution combines two cutting-edge pieces of technology
A Warm Ocean 'Blob' Is Causing Chile's Megadrought
recently seen in Syria."The fact that a swathe of warm water, even one spanning more than 8 million kilometers, could impact conditions thousands of kilometers away in Chile shows how broadly climate change will affect the planet, said ocean and climate scientist Dillon Amaya at the University of Colorado in Boulder."We need to be cognizant of the changes that are happening in global climate thousands of miles away," Amaya said. "It's all connected."(Reporting by Cassandra Garrison; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
NOAA Predicts Active Atlantic Hurricane Season
formation.Although the hurricane season officially begins on June 1 and continues through Nov. 30, tropical storms in May are not unusual.“In recent years, we’ve had quite a few storms form prior to June 1,” said Philip Klotzbach, who leads Atlantic hurricane season forecasting at Colorado State University. “Since 2015, we’ve had at least one named storm form prior to June 1 each year.”There have been 19 named storms in May since 1950, Klotzbach said.(Reporting by Erwin Seba, additional reporting by Liz Hampton; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama, Marguerita Choy and Andrew
David Kennedy Designated as Chair of US Arctic Research Commission
development.”Kennedy has over 50 years of experience and leadership in science, research, environmental management, and development of legislation and national initiatives. A native of Oskaloosa, Iowa, he received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of Northern Colorado, and then spent six years as a U.S. Air Force pilot based in Alaska. He subsequently worked at the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute in Fairbanks as the Research Facilities Director, and later the Director of the Spilled Oil Research Team focusing on Arctic pollution issues.This
TCarta Wins NOAA Grant to Enhance Satellite Derived BathymetryTech
for SDB image tasking or planning airborne LiDAR surveying, Goodrich added.In Phase II of the NOAA program, TCarta has shifted focus to SDB data processing and hydrographic analysis by developing new ways to improve confidence in the seafloor depth measurements derived from Alaskan imagery. The Colorado firm is creating workflows involving Artificial Intelligence to identify and minimize errors in SDB measurements, predict uncertainty and to integrate established hydrographic standards, thereby enhancing interoperability of SDB with other technologies.“By the start of summer 2022 collection
Gliders Probe Huge Iceberg's Impact on Penguin Island's Ecosystem
.“We are almost nannying these things, watching over them all the time,” Tarling said.Debate is ongoing over whether A68a’s initial split from the Antarctic ice shelf in 2017 was due to rising global temperatures.Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the University of Boulder in Colorado, is tracking satellite images of the berg’s decomposition.The ice appears to be disintegrating, “almost like it exploded” as the surrounding water exerts pressure, Scambos said, with a spongy layer forming that eventually becomes waterlogged and breaks off.Bergs that behave this
Op/Ed: An Antarctic Marine Protected Area is Long Overdue
biologist, wildlife conservation & science, Zoos Victoria, and a honorary research associate at BioSciences, University of Melbourne.Carolyn Hogg is a senior research manager at the University of Sydney.Cassandra Brooks is an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado Boulder.Justine Shaw is a conservation biologist at the University of Queensland.Melissa Cristina Márquez is a PhD candidate at Curtin University.(Source: The Conversation
Arctic Sea Ice Lows Mark a New Polar Climate Regime
in September 2012 after a late-season cyclonic storm broke up the remaining ice – is not much below what we see today.“We haven’t gone back at all to anything from 30 to 40 years ago,” said climatologist Julienne Stroeve at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. And as climate change continues, scientists say the sea ice is unlikely to recover to past levels.In fact, the long-frozen region is already shifting to an entirely new climate regime, marked by the escalating trends in ice melt, temperature rise and rainfall days, according to new research published
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