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The Chesapeake Executive Council Meeting is held at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 11, 2022. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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From left to right:
Sergio Muñoz, Minister, Supreme Court of Justice of Chile (Access Rights)
Gustavo Ricardo Cinosi, Special Senior Advisor
Neil Parsan, Executive Secretary for Integral Development
(SEDI)
Date: February 12, 2016
Place: Washington, DC
Credit: Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Otsego Land Trust, based in Cooperstown, N.Y., holds a grand opening event for the public at Parslow Road Conservation Area in Hartwick, N.Y., on May 23, 2015. The 86-acre site was acquired by Otsego Land Trust in 2012 and is part of the organization's Blueway along Oaks Creek. The event featured a birding walk with Bob Donnelly of Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society and a wetlands/plant walk with Patrick Raney of Tioga County Soil and Water/Upper Susquehanna Coalition. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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canoeists checking the map, chowilla game reserve, river murray flood plain, south australia
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Standing Stone Creek flows through Alan Seeger Natural Area in Huntingdon County, Pa., on Oct. 7, 2020. An invasive insect, the hemlock woolly adelgid, has attacked eastern hemlock trees in the area, which holds a rare stand of old-growth trees. The hemlock woolly adelgid causes an infested tree to drop its needles, and stressed trees can eventually die from heat and drought. Active management in Pennsylvania includes chemical treatment and biocontrols—essentially predatory beetles that eat the invasive insect. Keeping a forest healthy—by safeguarding its soils, water quality and biodiversity—plays a huge part in keeping trees resilient to the invaders. (Photo by Will Parson/Cheapeake Bay Program)
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Recently planted trees that form part of a riparian forest buffer at Beecher Farm in Morris, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 2020. The Otsego County Soil & Water Conservation District has partnered with farmer Jim Beecher to obtain funding for projects ranging from manure storage to fencing and stream bank stabilization in order to address issues such as flooding and erosion. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A waterfall cascades before entering Brushy Run, a tributary of Seneca Creek in Pendleton County, W.Va., on April 21, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Air Controlled Environments,
861 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 1,
Thousand Oaks,CA,91360,USA,
Phone: (805) 830-5858,
Contact Person: Ronald Young,
Contact Email: ryoung@acenv.com,
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Fidan Manafova
Fidan Manafova is one of participants of the competition “Özün Yarat” (“Do It Yourself”), an initiative to encourage as many people as possible to take care of the environment.
The competition was held by the United Nations Development Programme under the EU-funded EU4Climate project in May last year. All citizens of Azerbaijan interested in innovative solutions to household waste upcycling were invited to apply.
When Fidan gave birth, she felt more moral responsibility towards the earth. While on maternity leave, she became interested in producing decorative items using reusable materials. She submitted several works to the contest, and one of them received an award in the category “The best wood handicraft.”
For more information:
EN:
euneighbourseast.eu/news/stories/is-this-household-waste-...
AZ: euneighbourseast.eu/az/news/stories/tullantilar-xeyr-inc
PHOTO BY BENEDICT CUPID
Members of the audience at Professor John Agard's Professorial Inaugural Lecture, held on Thursday 25th February at 5.30 p.m. at the Learning Resource Centre, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine.
Dr. John B. R. Agard is Professor of Tropical Island Ecology and Head of the UWI Department of Life Sciences, and has served internationally as Lead Author in the Fourth Assessment Report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Professor Agard’s lecture, which is titled “Environment in Development: From Plantation Economy, Biodiversity Loss and Global Warming, Towards Sustainable Development,” argued that the Plantation Economy Model of Caribbean economic structures and characteristics can be further elaborated by the inclusion of the environment as a provider of ecosystem services.
For full news release, click sta.uwi.edu/news/releases/release.asp?id=473
Madeira vine (Anredera cordifolia) is a noxious weed that must be controlled.
The vine has aerial tubers on the stem as well as underground tubers. To remove the plant it is best to dig out the tubers from the soil and collect all aerial tubers. If using herbicide scrape the stem with the back of a knife and paint undiluted glyphosate herbicide on the cut within 30 seconds.
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 1m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
Port Harcourt area, Rivers Sate, Nigeria.
This picture was taken during the harmattan season hence the misty outlook
Sporophytes rise from moss growing at Truxtun Park in Annapolis, Md., on April 21, 2019. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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I took this photo of a placard showing good and bad forms of energy at The People's Climate March, a global event that took place on September 21, 2014, and involved hundreds of thousands of people in 166 countries taking part in over 2,800 events calling for urgent, coordinated action on climate change. The trigger for the coordinated events around the world was the Climate Summit at the United Nations headquarters in New York, taking place on September 23, when 120 world leaders will be trying to create a new global climate treaty.
This photo was taken at the London event, which involved around 40,000 people, who marched from Temple on Victoria Embankment to Parliament Square. It was a largely sunny day, a very friendly atmosphere, and a powerful demonstration of widespread concern about the climate that is an important antidote to the cynical and well-funded climate change denial lobby, and the general indifference of politicians, who sometimes make positive noises about the environment, but are more generally in bed with the polluters -- and, in addition, find themselves unable to tell the truth to their electorates: that we urgently need to make the environment a priority, and that doing so has to involve curbing our own destructive appetites.
See the People's Climate March website here: peoplesclimate.org/
See the People's Climate March London website here: www.campaigncc.org/climatemarchlondon
See my website here: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
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Air Controlled Environments,
861 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Suite 1,
Thousand Oaks,CA,91360,USA,
Phone: (805) 830-5858,
Contact Person: Ronald Young,
Contact Email: ryoung@acenv.com,
Website: www.acenv.com/
Our Celebrating Sport Awards 2014 ceremony was held at Alexandra Palace on Monday 17 November.
We were joined by The Worship Mayor of Haringey - Cllr Kaushika Amin and Cllr McNamara (Cabinet Member for the Environment).
We were also very proud to welcome Ledley King as a special guest from the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation and Liz Johnson, Paralympic swimmer, who gave a rousing speech.
2014 winners:
- Coach of the Year - Karen Hills
- Volunteer of the Year - John Morris
- Junior Volunteer of the Year - Tequila Inico
- Haringey Sports Project of the Year - Pedal Power Cycling Club
- Club of the Year - Haringey Aquatics
- Sports Performer of the Year - Jeamie Tshikeva
- Disabled Sports Performer of the Year - Amariah Williams
- Junior Sports Performer of the Year - Lily Beckford
- Junior Team of the Year - Tottenham Hotspur Ladies FC - U 14's
- Disabled Team of the Year - Alexandra Park Inclusive Kwik Cricket Team
- Sporting School of the Year - Tetherdown Primary School
- Sportivate Project of the Year - Ducketts Common Basketball Project
Haringey Young Volunteers:
- Carolina De Freitas
- Michael Omojudi
- Surefel Aleymayheehu
- Anna Willis
- Petros Asogdam
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A loblolly pine tree is seen along a shoreline on the Indian River in Chesapeake, Va., on Dec. 16, 2019. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Kevin Graff and Pete Webb of the Baltimore Bird Club participate in the National Audubon Society's 117th annual Christmas Bird Count in Baltimore County, Md., on Dec. 31, 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Nancy Baker of Bradford County, Pa., is a forester, owner of a 163-acre forested property, and leader of Women and Their Woods. The program helps women forest owners—some who have outlived their husbands—learn how to manage their woods. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Trees planted by the Hopewell Tree Stewards grow at Riverside Park in Hopewell, Va., on June 20, 2022. The trees were planted to help absorb stormwater runoff from a nearby paved area before it reaches a stream leading to the Appomattox River. Erin Kelley, now leader of the fledging nonprofit, received training from Tree Stewards when it was a grant-funded program of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. In late April, the group hosted a Hopewell Family Arbor Day with over 200 attendees and 71 participating organizations, groups and businesses. “We have a lot of stormwater issues going on in the city of Hopewell,” said Kelley, who pointed out that trees do more than just soak up tens of thousands of gallons of water, like providing cooling shade to overheated city streets. “It saves power because it does that—makes it more beautiful, makes it more attractive to go to the park, so we planted a lot in our parks.” (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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A black-capped chickadee visits the home of Nancy Baker of Bradford County, Pa., on March 13, 2017. Baker is a forester, owner of a 163-acre forested property, and leader of Women and Their Woods. The program helps women forest owners—some who have outlived their husbands—learn how to manage their woods. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Goldenrod blooms on the eastern edge of Dolly Sods Wilderness, part of Monongahela National Forest in Grant County, W.Va., on Sept. 25, 2019. Dolly Sods includes part of the eastern edge of the Allegheny Plateau, which marks the Allegheny Front and the eastern continental divide—the boundary of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the headwaters of the North Fork of the South Branch Potomac River. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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At Magic Years we recognize the significance of the environment as the "third teacher". www.magicyears.ac.th/teaching-learning/educational-belief...
How you get orange juice during a drought from the semiarid Central Valley. Orange groves at the juncture of the Central Valley and the foothills of the Sierras.
For more photos from this trip see SF July 2014 on Ipernity.
Animal tracks are seen in snow on the frozen surface of Little Bull Run as it flows through Conway Robinson State Forest in Gainesville, Va., on Dec. 31, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Approximately 240 million of the world's poor that live in forested areas of developing countries depend on forests for their livelihoods. Forest and its products provide cash income, jobs, and consumption goods for poor families. Forestry provides formal and informal employment for an estimated 40-60 million people. The sector contributes in some developing countries more than eight per cent to GDP. Timber may be the most important forest product, but forests are also harvested for fruits, herbs and honey as well as for wild animals. Less visible but not less important are the ecosystems services forests provide – such as for the hydrological cycle. Nevertheless, global forest cover has dropped by at least 20% since pre-agricultural times. While forest area increased slightly in the past thirty years in industrial countries, it has declined by almost 10% in developing countries in the same time period. According to the Food and Agriculture organization deforestation causes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions, and reducing this is a high priority on the global agenda. The map is a part of a set, presenting different natural resources, with a focus on developing countries, and the use of natural resources for economic growth and poverty alleviation.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hugo Ahlenius, UNEP/GRID-Arendal