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Harly Durbin talks to attendees of the Thompson Research Center Field Day, which took place Tuesday, Sept. 24, in Spickard.
Photo by Logan Jackson | © 2019 - Curators of the University of Missouri
Une journée d'échange et de présentations autour des thèmes de recherche qui nous tiennent à coeur, dédiée aux partenaires qui nous soutiennent.
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The Black Beacon, or Orfordness Rotating Wireless Beacon, was built in 1928 to house an experimental rotating-loop navigation beacon. Although publicised as being for maritime purposes, this was intended as a homing navigation system for miliatary aircraft.
Day trip to Orford Ness and Orford Castle
Orford Ness is a vegetated shingle spit, approximately 10 miles long; it is separated from the medieval port of Orford by the River Alde.
Prior to the C20 Orford Ness was a rarely visited place; the main economic activity was animal grazing on reclaimed marsh land. In 1915 the Armament and Experimental Flight of the Royal Flying Corps (later known formally as the Aircraft Armament and Gunnery Experimental Establishment) established a flying field on King’s Marshes to the west of the ditch, now known as the Airfield Marshes, serviced by a range of ancillary buildings arranged along a single track known since 1993 as ‘The Street’, on which ran a narrow-gauge light railway which led back to the jetty. Its main areas of investigation were the evaluation and suitability of aircraft, machine guns and gun sights, bomb sights, night flying and navigation, and a huge range of research projects to solve technical difficulties encountered in action. From 1924 the airfield was re-occupied as a satellite station of the Airplane and Armament Experimental Establishment based at Martlesham Heath. During their tenure, a number of structures were constructed on Orford Beach. Due to its remoteness one of the main activities at Orford Ness was the investigation of bomb ballistics; the study of the flight of objects moving under their own momentum and the force of gravity. Other experimental work continued into the inter-war period on Orford Ness. In 1935, a small experimental radar team arrived and conducted experiments that were critical in proving the value of this technology, turning the theory into a practical air defence system. Between 1953 and 1971, the spit was occupied by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Its primary task was environmental testing to simulate the conditions that nuclear weapons and their components might experience during trials and in service use. Here science and high politics merged, with investigations that were crucial to the credibility of the United Kingdom’s nuclear deterrent forces, the cornerstone of Cold War defence policy...
...With the introduction of the WE177 and the Polaris system, there was relatively little new work in prospect and in April 1969 the decision was announced to close Orford Ness and to move many of its functions to Aldermaston. The last trial took place on 9 June 1971and the establishment closed on Friday 1 October 1971. On 24 July 1972 Orford Ness formally passed from AWRE to No.2 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit of the RAF. In the following decades they worked to clear the range of unexploded munitions and brought other munitions on to the spit for destruction. This work ceased about 1986, although many unexploded munitions still remain on Orford Ness, and some limited work may have carried on here until the early 1990s. Following negotiations with the Ministry of Defence, the National Trust acquired Orford Ness in 1993.
[HistoricEngland.org]
WebLab-Deusto is a multidisciplinary research team aiming to increase the experiential learning by the use and development of remote laboratories. To this end, several laboratories are offered for free through the Internet, the underlying software is available under an Open Source license and equipment can be duplicated. More info: www.weblab.deusto.es
me and kav took our speech bubble to glasgow metropolitan college and our old tutor allowed us to talk to the class about their experiences with careers scotland.
As part of Undergraduate Research Week, the Cockrell School of Engineering hosted its annual research poster competition on April 9, 2014.
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oScientific Research was moderated by Dr. Ehab Abouheif. It was decided that the main problem facing the advancement of Scientific Research in the Middle East were the availability of funding. However, in order to solve this problem, the benefits of scientific research must be integrated into the culture of the community. Therefore, there must be scientific and political freedom given to all scientists and educators. Furthermore, from a young age, school curriculums must be reformed in order to promote critical thinking as well as instil pride and appreciation for science. Additionally, in order to encourage scientists to continue contributing, agencies that appreciate the outcome of scientific research must provide job opportunities, good facilities and job security. There also needs to be an uncorrupted merit-based promotion system that will undoubtedly encourage hard work and dedication by all involved parties.
Une journée d'échange et de présentations autour des thèmes de recherche qui nous tiennent à coeur, dédiée aux partenaires qui nous soutiennent.
© photo MINES ParisTech - T. Vaerman
Simple Beginnings Ceremony for new VUMC doctoral students (a.k.a. White Coat Ceremony).Susan Wente, Ph.D..School of Medicine.Vanderbilt University Medical Center..photo: Anne Rayner; VU
A delegation of researchers from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) visited WorldFish on 31 October 2022 to learn best practices for using fish as a research model as well as explore potential areas of collaboration to work on in the future. Photo by Sean Lee Kuan Shern.
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Trying to get some work done on presentations and papers that I am writing this fall. I had some much needed help from Cosmo and Wanda today....so if I am late with my deadlines....I hope this is a good reason.
9 November 2018, London, UK
Nearly 300 experts working to address the complex illegal wildlife trade (IWT) issue worldwide joined us to discuss how we can collaborate and address research gaps to ensure the best evidence is informing action and policy (www.illegalwildlifetrade.net/iwt18event). A large delegation of the Evidence to Action organisers and presenters were then invited to attend the UK government’s London Conference on the Illegal Wildlife Trade 2018 to further represent research and help close the divide between evidence and policy. A summary of the research evidence on the trade’s scale, impacts and complexity, the remaining evidence gaps and how we can move forward efficiently following the events, can be found in the Briefing Note (osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/35ndz/).
Steering Committee
- E.J. Milner-Gulland, Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, University of Oxford
- Laure Cugnière, Oxford Martin Programme on the Illegal Wildlife Trade, University of Oxford
- Rosaleen Duffy, BIOSEC, University of Sheffield
- David Robert, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, University of Kent
- Jacob Phelps, Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster
- Paul De Ornellas, Zoological Society of London
- Matthew Lowton, Zoological Society of London
Photo credit: Jonathan Perugia / Gaia Visual
This my long overdue update to my first "Strobist and a Laptop" image, tried to do something a little different this time around, any feed back is greatly appreciated.
Lighting Info: 1 flash above cam with grid , silver reflector directly below cam, and my two Pringles Can snoots left and right with flashes at 1/8th & 1/16th, joining in on the fun..(-:
Seen at her home port of Leith
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