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AAAS Annual Meeting, Vancouver, 16-20 February 2012
16 February 2012, Soils, Forests and Agriculture, JRC - IES
16 February 2012, Soils, Forests and Agriculture, JRC - IES
JRC IES will chair a session on Soil during the AAAS Annual Meeting, which will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from the 16th to 20th of February 2012.
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25 January 2012, Geoinformation, SYKE
25 January 2012, Geoinformation, SYKE
Lake monitoring is currently mainly based on on-site sampling and laboratory analysis of samples. In lake-rich regions, however, only a small proportion of lakes can be monitored using conventional methods. Kari Kallio, Senior Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), has investigated how the remote sensing of lakes from satellites or aircraft can improve the spatial and temporal representativeness of monitoring for his doctoral thesis.
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Largest seabird alters their foraging due to climate change
12 January 2012, Marine, UFZ
12 January 2012, Marine, UFZ
Wandering albatrosses have altered their foraging due to changes in wind fields in the southern hemisphere during the last decades. Since winds have increased in intensity and moved to the south, the flight speed of albatrosses increased and they spend less time foraging. As a consequence, breeding success has improved and birds have gained 1 kilogram.
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Ecotech & Tools Conference: Environmental & Integrated Assessment of Complex Systems, Montpellier, 30 November - 2 December 2011
30 November 2011, Environmental Technologies, PEER
30 November 2011, Environmental Technologies, PEER
The Ecotech & Tools Conference, jointly organised by PEER, the Consortium of the European IRSES project “ECOTOOL" and the Consortium of the Interreg IV project “Ecotech-Sudoe”, will take place from the 30th of November to the 2nd of December 2011 at SupAgro Campus in Montpellier, France.
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