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On Feb. 23, 2016, the Environmental Film Festival traveled to Totness, Coronie. U.S. Ambassador Ned Nolan welcomed students from Tata Colin School to the festival. It was the first time the film festival has gone to Coronie, and Ambassador Nolan's first visit to the district, as well. We all enjoyed it, despite the rain!
Polar bear encountered during a research trip to western Fram Strait. Fram Strait is the strait between the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland Sea at about 80 N. These bears are all standing on sea ice several hundred kilometers from the coast of Greenland. I took these photos from the deck of a research ship.
Because any given morning can present a gift of such beauty that we can work our whole lives to protect for future generations and maybe we'll have deserved it.
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General, met with HE Mr. Xie Zhenhua, China’s Special Climate Envoy and HE Mr. Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of Ecology and Environment, during a bilateral meeting at the COP26 Climate Change Conference 2021, Glasgow, Scottish Event Campus, Scotland. 5 November 2021. Joining the DG in this meeting are Wei Huang, IAEA Director, Division of Planning, Information and Knowledge Management, Department of Nuclear Energy and Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director General.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Poor infrastructure and the lack of an operational budget is a severe constraint on the Ministry of Environment’s ability to regulate natural resource management.
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Bureau de service environnemental, RDC
Les infrastructures misérables et l'absence de budget opérationnel empêchent le Ministère de l'environnement de réguler et de gérer l'exploitation des ressources naturelles.
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For further information go tohttp://www.unep.org/disastersandconflicts/
Bush track at the edge of Lawry Plunkett Reserve. On the right is a giant Strelitzia, an exotic species. These edges, between bush and urban areas, require constant monitoring and maintenance.
Species from clams to the vaquita porpoise have been greatly depleted since damming and diversions cut the flow of the river through the 20th century. More at dotDolphinFind
Environment Canada's water quality laboratory is located at the entrance to the Université de Moncton, The four flags are those of Canada, New Brunswick, Acadie, and the university.
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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The Chenango River flows past downtown Binghamton, N.Y., on Oct. 8, 2020. Large storms in 2006 and 2011 led to many property owners in the city to participate in a buyout program to improve the city's resilience to flooding. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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France, Amiens, 2022-01-21. Photograph by Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas. As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the Minister for Ecological Transition is hosting her European counterparts from January 20 to 22, 2022 in Amiens for an informal meeting of the ministers in charge of the Environment and an informal meeting of the ministers in charge of Energy. Barbara Pompili, Minister for Ecological Transition, receives the Energy Ministers. Sandor Gaastra (L), Director General for Climate and Energy Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Change.
France, Amiens, 2022-01-21. Photographie par Xose Bouzas / Hans Lucas. Dans le cadre de la Presidence francaise du Conseil de l Union europeenne, la ministre de la Transition ecologique, accueille ses homologues europeens du 20 au 22 janvier 2022 a Amiens pour une reunion informelle des ministres charges de l Environnement et une reunion informelle des ministres charges de l Energie. Barbara Pompili, ministre de la Transition ecologique, recoit les ministres de l Energie. Sandor Gaastra (G), Directeur general du climat et de l energie Ministere des affaires economiques et du changement climatique.
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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Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m 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
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
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Northern Resource Consulting contacted Fondriest Environmental and NexSens Technology to monitor turbidity during and after their maintenance dredging project on the Ice Harbor Dam and ports in Lewiston, ID and Clarkson, WA. The dredged material was dumped at a disposal site to create a fish habitat.
PHOTO BY BENEDICT CUPID
Professor John Agard, Professor of Tropical Island Ecology and Head of the UWI Department of Life Sciences,at Dr Agard's Professorial Inaugural Lecture, held on Thursday 25th February at 5.30 p.m. at the Learning Resource Centre, UWI St. Augustine.
Dr. John B. R. Agard 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
A legal challenge is underway in the NSW Land and Environment court over the state approval of the Shenhua coal mine proposed for development at Breeza on the Liverpool Plains.
The Upper Mooki Landcare group from the Liverpool Plains region will argue that the Shenhua Watermark mine approval failed to properly consider, as required by law, whether the open cut coal mine would place a viable local population of koalas, a threatened species, at risk of extinction.
If the mine proceeds it will bulldoze 847 hectares of koala habitat, displacing an estimated 262 koalas.
Background on legal case: edonsw.org.au/upper_mooki_landcare_group_v_shenhua_and_th...
Background on issue generally: www.nature.org.au/media/172052/final-report-koalas-shenhu...
Martha Shimkin, deputy director of the Chesapeake Bay Program. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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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photography: April Sims
model: Amber Twigg
hair/make-up: Amber Twigg
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Holly May of the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay fishes from Goose Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, at Meadowkirk at Delta Farm in Loudoun County, Va., on May 3, 2018. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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This Sutherland Shire series are photographs taken since moving back here to live (February, 2102) and re-discovering the area... re-visiting the familiar and exploring areas I was not familiar with while growing up here.
This grouping were taken in July 2012 at the beautiful Como Pleasure Grounds (www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Recreation/Parks/Como_Plea...), where you can find the Blackfish Cafe & Grill (www.blackfishcafeandgrill.com.au/) and the Como Swimming Complex (www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Recreation/Leisure_Centres...). You can also take in a short walk past the historic Como Hotel (www.thecomo.com.au/) :: Scylla Bay Reserve (www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Recreation/Sport/Sports_Fi...) :: and the charming Como Marina (www.facebook.com/comomarina).
The Como Pleasure Grounds overlook the Georges River and surrounding bushland and offer a playground, BBQ's and picnic areas as well as a walking track and bike loop. The Grounds are situated next to the Marina where you can hire a boat or eat at the cafe or Thai Rim Nam restaurant. The access point to the Como to Oatley Bridge walk is located here as well. Opposite the Pleasure Grounds is Scylla Bay Reserve, incorporating the Oval which hosts rugby and cricket, there are also tennis courts as well as a boat ramp and wharf close by. The historic Como hotel looks down over Scylla Bay, they have a brasserie and cater to functions in the Scylla Bay Room. The Como Markets are also held close to here, in the grounds of the Como Public School on the 2nd Sunday of each month. There is definitely enough here to make a day of it. There are so many areas of natural beauty in the Shire and lots of great things to do and see which makes it well worth a visit.
The reason they are linked to my pinch river profile is because they will inevitably feed into my work at some stage in some way or another, but for now can just be enjoyed as images of the Shire that captured my attention and inspired my creativity.
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What happened to the natural gas resources in the Beaufort Sea?
The LP Gas gets transported from Alberta all the way up to Inuvik to be stored in these tanks. Makes you wonder how economical this venture is.
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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Until the 1950s, trams rattled down this cutting to Balmoral Beach. Once overgrown and inaccessible, the cutting now forms part of a walking track that features natural bushland and heritage items.
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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