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Otherwise known as IMETS and FBANS, incident meteorologists and fire behavior specialists play a key role in large fire management. The specialists provide information that helps with key decision making.
Weather is one of the primary factors that influences fire behavior in addition to other factors like fuel conditions and topography. IMETs track weather data such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction. This information helps inform fire managers who work to develop effective fire suppression strategies & tactics.
The effort doesn’t stop with one-way information sharing; firefighters also track weather data in specific areas of the fire perimeter and provide this information back to the IMET. This helps the IMET truth data from a variety of sources alongside the site-specific information provided by ground personnel.
The FBAN takes the information that the IMET collects and interprets it to predict how the fire will behave. Providing fire behavior information helps firefighters prepare for and adjust to changing conditions. This helps keep firefighters safe while informing fire management leaders in implementing site-specific strategies based on values at risk, such as homes, private property, timber and cultural resources.
This pose folks is what we came upon when we spotted him in the pine habitat. He displayed like this for what seemed quite a long time, without moving a single muscle, even my friend Jake thought it was very unusual behavior, anyway thank you for the visit and have a great day and weekend.
VA’s annual Brain Trust summit offers platform for innovations in brain health and head trauma
From a software platform for traumatic brain injury to a virtual reality device that assists Veterans with behavioral health issues, 15 competitors pitched a diversity of ideas during demo day at the Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion summit, hosted by VA on May 18 in Boston. The annual two-day event assembled more than 350 invited participants from the federal government, private industry, professional sports, medical research, caregivers and Veteran communities to collaborate and advance discussions around the prevention and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and concussion. “We have an unbelievable opportunity to accelerate the speed of change,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho, CEO of Optum Military and Veterans Group, to the 15 industry and academic innovators who had come to pitch their ideas on TBI and head trauma to a panel of judges. “Today, the impossible gets challenged.”After reviewing a series of short presentations from competitors, the judges selected three winners: The Daptly Display, a gesture and voice-controlled assistant for the home or office; Save a Warrior: A peer-to-peer, archetypal approach for healing combat trauma and moral injury; and Recovery Acceleration Program for mild TBI by King-Devick Technologies. The winners will have the potential opportunity to implement and deploy their innovations with VA. “We feel incredibly honored to be selected as a winner of the VA Innovation awards, which will further our opportunity to provide services to our Veterans,” said Steve Devick, CEO of King-Devick Technologies, who explained how his project would help Veterans impacted by TBI. “The King-Devick technologies innovations are related to the fact that eye movements and vision are responsible for approximately 55 percent of brain function. “As a result, implementing our recovery acceleration program by involving these pathways leads to faster concussions and TBI recovery when used with standard remediation. Additionally, caregivers can measure defects in eye movements, which may lead to dosage changes in chronic degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease. ” During the event, VA officials announced key partnerships with several influential organizations, including: Amazon, which donated 100 Echo devices with Alexa voice service to VA’s Assistive Technology Labs to help meet the needs of Veterans; Cohen Veterans Bioscience, which is coordinating efforts with VA to integrate data across dozens of labs to facilitate breakthroughs in trauma-related disorders; Booz Allen Hamilton; Comcast; Concussion Legacy Foundation; GE; IBM; Infinite Hero Foundation; Johnson & Johnson; Optum; Outward Bound; PenFed Foundation, Philips; the Warrior Care Network and the National Institutes of Health, which is co-hosting a ‘State of the Science’ workshop in 2018 that will focus on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative diseases. (By Paula Paige. VA photo/ Robert Turtil)
Forests in the fall at Baskett Wildlife Research and Education Center.
Baskett Wildlife Research and Education Center is used for studying wildlife management and behavior, forestry and resource measurement. A long-term program to document tree canopy climate is currently underway. Data from Baskett has been used in more than 125 research publications. It is located in an ecologically important transitional zone on the Ozark border region of south-central Missouri.
Photo by Kyle Spradley | © MU College of Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources
Act local: Raymond De Young and Tom Princen enjoy a conversation at Cafe Verde, part of the people’s food co-op in ann arbor. The two assistant professors teamed up to co-edit a book due out in the spring of 2012 titled "The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift."
Read the full article at stewards.snre.umich.edu/article/living-local
I have seen Anna's hummingbirds as far south as Arizona and as far north as Vancouver, BC. They are the most commonly seen hummingbirds in the San Francisco Bay area.
Climate Action Day observed
Drawing attention on the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to a scientifically determined safe level of 350 ppm, the International Day of Climate Action was observed in the country yesterday.
Different social and environmental organisations held different programmes in the city and across the country to mark the day.
With the slogan of "Change Behavior, Not Climate," Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust) organised a colourful rally from National Museum to TSC of Dhaka University with participation of a large number of children from different parts of the city.
Prottyasa Madok Birodhi Sangathan, Nirapad Development Foundation, Nature Loving People (NLP), Green Voice, Swabhumi, Safe Bangladesh, and other environmental organisations, participated the rally with banners and festoons inscribed different slogans including 'Save the balance of climate and save the environment' and 'Save the coastal people'.
The rally was addressed, among others, by Ibnul Syed Rana, chairman of Nirapad Development Foundation, Syed Saiful Alam Suvan, programme officer of WBB Trust, Humaoun Kabir Somuon, Syeda Ananya Rahman, Mohammad Alamgir and Maruf Ahmed.
The speakers said that the temperatures are rising and storms are worsening due to the whimsical behaviour of human beings. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising day by day and due to the reason Bangladesh is likely to go underwater within a short peroiod, As a result, a large number of coastal people of the country will be homeless, they added.
They also said that the climate changes are going to worsen because people are burning fossil fuels - diesel, petrol, natural gas and coal - at rapid rates. So the future generations are now under threat.
They stressed on the importance of changing behaviour to balance the climate to raise attention to the 350 ppm target for reducing climate change.
Syed Saiful Alam
shovan1209@yahoo.com
This is the roof of BSB, which is about 1000 W. Harrison St. in Chicago. All the behavioral science classes are held here (psychology, sociology, criminal justice...). You know the building was weird from the inside, now here's the outside.
This is taken from the top of University Hall through their tinted windows.
Julian Jamison, senior behavioral economist of the Global INsights Initiative at The World Bank, networks with Carnegie Mellon University students interested in behavioral economics.
Students and faculty in CMU’s Department of Social and Decision Science meet weekly to discuss ideas and their current work.
CMU's Saurabh Bhargava (left) moderates a discussion on how governments are using behavioral science with participants from The Lab @ DC and World Bank.
Climate Action Day observed
Drawing attention on the need to reduce carbon in the atmosphere to a scientifically determined safe level of 350 ppm, the International Day of Climate Action was observed in the country yesterday.
Different social and environmental organisations held different programmes in the city and across the country to mark the day.
With the slogan of "Change Behavior, Not Climate," Work for a Better Bangladesh (WBB Trust) organised a colourful rally from National Museum to TSC of Dhaka University with participation of a large number of children from different parts of the city.
Prottyasa Madok Birodhi Sangathan, Nirapad Development Foundation, Nature Loving People (NLP), Green Voice, Swabhumi, Safe Bangladesh, and other environmental organisations, participated the rally with banners and festoons inscribed different slogans including 'Save the balance of climate and save the environment' and 'Save the coastal people'.
The rally was addressed, among others, by Ibnul Syed Rana, chairman of Nirapad Development Foundation, Syed Saiful Alam Suvan, programme officer of WBB Trust, Humaoun Kabir Somuon, Syeda Ananya Rahman, Mohammad Alamgir and Maruf Ahmed.
The speakers said that the temperatures are rising and storms are worsening due to the whimsical behaviour of human beings. Ice is melting and sea levels are rising day by day and due to the reason Bangladesh is likely to go underwater within a short peroiod, As a result, a large number of coastal people of the country will be homeless, they added.
They also said that the climate changes are going to worsen because people are burning fossil fuels - diesel, petrol, natural gas and coal - at rapid rates. So the future generations are now under threat.
They stressed on the importance of changing behaviour to balance the climate to raise attention to the 350 ppm target for reducing climate change.
Syed Saiful Alam
shovan1209@yahoo.com
www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15255050/21/2
Cover art is Weightless, by Trenton Lloyd Blanchette, an artist living with epilepsy.