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The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), pictured at the bottom, and the Latching End Effector (LEE), pictured at the top, are integrated into the unpressurized SpaceX Dragon truck June 2, 2018, at the SpaceX facility on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The payloads will be carried to the International Space Station on SpaceX's 15th Commercial Resupply Services mission. ECOSTRESS will measure the temperature of plants and use that information to better understand how much water plants need and how they respond to stress. The Canadian Space Agency is supplying LEE for the Canadarm2 as a spare to replace a failed unit removed by astronauts during a spacewalk in 2017. Each end of the Canadarm2 robotic arm has an identical LEE, which acts like a "hand" to grapple payloads and visiting cargo spaceships. Photo credit: SpaceX
Inland water systems are permanent water bodies inland from the coastal zone and areas whose properties and use are dominated by the permanent, seasonal, or intermittent occurrence of flooded conditions. Inland waters include rivers, lakes, floodplains, reservoirs, wetlands, and inland saline systems.
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we were reading "the ecosystem of a fallen tree" and decided to check out these, cut yes, but still dead logs for inhabitants
Maya brought her trusty magnifying glass and watched the ants
they were hoping to find a chipmunk with acorns in a burrow as seen in the book :D
but we did locate our 2 Oak Trees after I asked them where a chipmunk might find an acorn
This April, the United States will assume chairmanship of the Arctic Council for a two-year term. Since the last U.S. chairmanship fifteen years ago, the Arctic has changed dramatically. Melting sea ice has impacted indigenous communities as well as wildlife in significant ways. New Arctic transportation corridors have opened and new prospects for offshore oil and gas development have emerged. The region’s growing strategic, economic, and environmental importance has made U.S. policy toward the Arctic more of a priority than ever before. Recent statements from the White House have emphasized the opportunity for the United States to lead in global efforts to mitigate climate change impacts in the region, govern resources responsibly, and protect Arctic ecosystems and inhabitants.
On March 12, the Energy Security and Climate Initiative (ESCI) at Brookings will host Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., the U.S. special representative for the Arctic, for a keynote address on the future of U.S. policy for the region. Deputy Director for Foreign Policy at Brookings Bruce Jones will provide introductory remarks, and ESCI Senior Fellow Charles Ebinger will moderate the discussion and audience Q&A. ©Paul Morigi Photography
Avec le temp , ils sont devenu très important pour Moi , autant pour leur santé que pour leur beauté, je les adore. Photo prise par Steve Troletti
The San Pedro riparian area, containing about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, was designated by Congress as a National Conservation Area on November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the Southwest.
Many recreational opportunities are available within the NCA. Murray Springs Clovis Site, a significant archaeological site contains an undisturbed stratigraphic record of the past 40,000 years. Excavations were conducted by the University of Arizona from 1966 to 1971. People first arrived in this area 11,000 years ago. They belonged to what we now call the Clovis Culture and were the earliest known people to have inhabited North America. Named after the distinctive and beautifully crafted Clovis spear points they made, they were expert hunters of the large mammals of the last Ice Age. An interpretive trail leads visitors through the site. From Sierra Vista, take State Highway 90 east 6 miles to Monson Road. Turn left, and go about 1.2 miles to the signed turnoff to Murray Springs. The access road is located on the right.
The Spanish Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate is the most intact remaining example of a once-extensive network of similar presidios. These fortresses marked the northern extension of New Spain into the New World. Only a stone foundation and a few remaining adobe wall remnants mark the location of an isolated and dangerous military station. From Fairbank on Highway 82, drive approximately 2 miles west on Highway 82, turn right on the Kellar Ranch Road and travel approximately 3 miles to the trailhead. Hike about 2 miles to the ruins and interpretive displays.
The San Pedro House, located 9 miles east of Sierra Vista on State Highway 90, is a popular trailhead for birdwatchers, hikers, and mountain bikers. The Friends of San Pedro operate a bookstore and information center.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.
Aambyvalley Rd.,Lonavala,Mah.,India
enemy at the gates!!
endemic to Western Ghats of Maharashtra and Karnataka.
The species is widely distributed and is for the time being considered Least Concern although it is closer to being Near Threatened.(IUCN)
Digital Marketing Ecosystem - mapped
I have been thinking a lot recently about getting the different teams with some responsibility for digital activity to work together more closely. It's clear that the different activities - SEO, content, PR, social, display, PPC, market research and customer service, all impact on each other and can have positive feedbacks if planned correctly. For example, a well-planned piece of content can boost organic search traffic your website, serve as a destination and 'reason to click' for display ads, convert visitors into leads, increase the relevance (reducing cost) for your paid search, drive shares and likes on social networks - resulting in 'free' traffic, and garner inbound links which result in further improved organic search rankings.
I was looking for some kind of diagram or map that would bring it all together and I came across this from Dave Fleet davefleet.com/2010/01/2010-social-media-marketing-ecosystem/ - brilliant and visionary thinking - though I found it a little complicated on the eye and hard to explain to internal stakeholders. So I had my own stab at my own version, and mapped onto it the types of activities each of the flows consists of, hopefully adding some value to Dave's original in the process.
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The maple trees have held onto their color longer than usual this year. The dead trees in the foreground are green ash killed by the emerald ash borer. Vast amounts of ash of been killed in this area, almost totally wiping out the ash from the ecosystem. Iosco County, Michigan.
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This lake was really something! The vegetation in the water gave it such depth, and the algae was like nothing I'd ever seen before- turquoise! It was rather smelly, though! The ducks, egrets and anhingas didn't seem to mind, and once I saw all the living going on around it, I didn't, either! Quite the ecosystem!
www.intersectionconsulting.comThe promise of social media is Social Business Design – the use of tools and technology, not as the endgame, but rather as a means of aligning social media and business strategy.
A social culture shift has the power to elevate your organization by facilitating: Internal/external connectivity; The need to deeply understand your audience (the precursor to community development); A collaborative approach to managing your brand
World River’s Day founder and BCIT Rivers Institute Chair Emeritus Mark Angelo is joined by 15 three-year olds as he releases 20,000 tiny chum salmon into Burnaby’s Guichon Creek.
This special chum juvenile salmon “seeding” is tribute to the health of the creek as well as an investment in its future. A local daycare participated in this exciting event and learned about all the wildlife Guichon Creek supports.
40 years ago the creek was nothing more than a drainage ditch, but with the support of Mark Angelo, BCIT, and many government partners and NGO’s, it has been gradually restored to a thriving ecosystem.
As BCIT moves forward on plans to daylight the remainder of Guichon Creek, the released salmon will be making their way to the Fraser River. Perhaps by the time the local daycare children (and Mark Angelo’s grandson) are in elementary school, they’ll be able to return to the creek once again to see their salmon spawn.
This particular cat didn't seem to mind a few close-ups on the bottom of the spring run. While not as predominant as the Longnoses, or the invasive Tilapia, there are a lot of these in the run.
Blue Springs State Park
Orange City, Volusia County Florida, USA
Olympus OM-D E-M5
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PT-EP08 Underwater Housing,
PPO-EP01 Lens Port
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This water is gathered in a storm drainage ditch in a neighborhood in Hampstead, NC on May 29th, 2016. The moist, humid conditions in this region allow these small ecosystems to emerge in human populated communities. This manmade habitat provides the necessary resources for many organisms including the visible algae, and tiny fish. As the algae absorbs the sun’s radiation in the photosynthesis process, the fish are provided plenty of oxygen to oxygenate their blood. I believe these minnow-like fish are Eastern Mosquitofish, which are highly adaptive fish that can tolerate harsh conditions such as high salinity, and pH levels that would kill other species of fish. In some areas, they are considered an invasive species and have negatively impacted ecosystems due to their large consumption of mosquito larvae. This species of fish also reproduces very quickly and experiences a lot of intraspecies competition as the population density increases.
This shorebird is a common West Coat migrant, but surprisingly rare in the interior Yukon Southern Lake region. This one was especially obliging at Marsh Lake on 23 May 2015.
Both male and female walrus possess the same impressive and distinctive tusks, which can grow up to 1m long. A male Walrus can weigh up to 1500kg and stretch 3.5m in length. Around Svalbard, Walruses reside year-round and it is home to around 2,000 animals. Walruses survive under narrow ecological conditions: They require shallow water in coastal areas for feeding, thick sea-ice to support their weight and haul-out areas, where they can rest while out of the water. Sea ice melt means that thick ice is not nearby the shoreline, making the migration from ice to shore longer, and causing Walruses to go ashore to rest instead of staying on the ice.
This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Peter Prokosch
Fossil Butte National Monument
Fossil Butte National Monument is a United States National Monument managed by the National Park Service, located 15 miles (24 km) west of Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States. It centers on an extraordinary assemblage of Eocene Epoch (56 to 34 million years ago) animal and plant fossils associated with Fossil Lake—the smallest lake of the three great lakes which were then present in what are now Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. The other two lakes were Lake Gosiute and Lake Uinta. Fossil Butte National Monument was established as a national monument on October 23, 1972.
Fossil Butte National Monument preserves the best paleontological record of Cenozoic aquatic communities in North America and possibly the world, within the 50-million-year-old Green River Formation — the ancient lake bed. Fossils preserved — including fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals — suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when the sediments accumulated, over about a 2 million-year period.
During the Eocene this portion of Wyoming was a sub-tropical lake ecosystem. The Green River Lake System contained three ancient lakes, Fossil Lake, Lake Gosiute, and Lake Uinta. These lakes covered parts of southwest Wyoming, northeast Utah and northwestern Colorado. Fossil Butte is a remnant of the deposits from Fossil Lake. Fossil Lake was 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 km) long from north to south and 20 miles (32 km) wide. Over the two million years that it existed, the lake varied in length and width.
Fossil Buttes National Monument contains only 13 square miles (8,198 acres (33,180,000 m2)) of the 900-square-mile (595,200 acres (2.409×109 m2)) ancient lake. The ancient lake sediments that form the primary fossil digs is referred to as the Green River Formation. In addition to this fossil-bearing strata, a large portion of the Wasatch Formation, river and stream sediments, is within the national monument. The Wasatch Formation represents the shoreline ecosystem around the lake and contains fossil teeth and bone fragments of Eocene mammals. Among these are early primates and horses.
I don't have an allegiance with them , but they do work well together.
Strobist
SpeedLight threw softbox to the left
Aambyvalley Rd.,OFF Lonavala,Mah.,India
earlier a subspecies of A. substrigilis now raised to species level by Melichar et al 2018.
Red-headed Woodpecker (RHWO) with acorn at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, where they have been thriving and commonly staying the winter with good acorn crops. Look closely and you can see the antenna of a radio transmitter backpack. This individual’s migration was being tracked.
The red king crab is native to the Okhotsk and Japan Seas, the Bering Sea, and the northern Pacific Ocean, where it is an important economic resource. In Alaskan waters, red king crabs have historically been the second most valuable species to fishermen after salmon, although since the 1980s overharvesting has led to the closure of some areas to fishing. The king crab also has an invasive distribution in the Barents Sea. Since its introduction in the 1960s, the population has increased steadily and expanded its range, which now spans from Sørøya, Norway in the west and Kolguev Island, Russia in the east, and to about 72° north. Given the current state of knowledge on the impacts of red king crab on native benthic communities and fishes, it is difficult to draw any precise conclusions on the threat caused to the Barents Sea ecosystem and impact on native benthic communities.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Riccardo Pravettoni
The San Pedro riparian area, containing about 40 miles of the upper San Pedro River, was designated by Congress as a National Conservation Area on November 18, 1988. The primary purpose for the designation is to protect and enhance the desert riparian ecosystem, a rare remnant of what was once an extensive network of similar riparian systems throughout the Southwest.
Many recreational opportunities are available within the NCA. Murray Springs Clovis Site, a significant archaeological site contains an undisturbed stratigraphic record of the past 40,000 years. Excavations were conducted by the University of Arizona from 1966 to 1971. People first arrived in this area 11,000 years ago. They belonged to what we now call the Clovis Culture and were the earliest known people to have inhabited North America. Named after the distinctive and beautifully crafted Clovis spear points they made, they were expert hunters of the large mammals of the last Ice Age. An interpretive trail leads visitors through the site. From Sierra Vista, take State Highway 90 east 6 miles to Monson Road. Turn left, and go about 1.2 miles to the signed turnoff to Murray Springs. The access road is located on the right.
The Spanish Presidio Santa Cruz de Terrenate is the most intact remaining example of a once-extensive network of similar presidios. These fortresses marked the northern extension of New Spain into the New World. Only a stone foundation and a few remaining adobe wall remnants mark the location of an isolated and dangerous military station. From Fairbank on Highway 82, drive approximately 2 miles west on Highway 82, turn right on the Kellar Ranch Road and travel approximately 3 miles to the trailhead. Hike about 2 miles to the ruins and interpretive displays.
The San Pedro House, located 9 miles east of Sierra Vista on State Highway 90, is a popular trailhead for birdwatchers, hikers, and mountain bikers. The Friends of San Pedro operate a bookstore and information center.
Photo by Bob Wick, BLM.