The new dedicated PIXE set-up at the National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kåre Kemp ◽  
Peter Waahlin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Research ◽  
Set Up ◽  
National Environmental ◽  
Research Institute

scholarly journals Environmental Economic Research Has an Audience But Not a Sponsor: Discussion

1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kealy
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
National Environmental

There exists no mechanism for federal agencies, national laboratories, industry, and academic institutions to set a national environmental research agenda. Moreover, funding for social science research is inadequate for providing a sound scientific basis for making environmental policy. Despite this lack of leadership, it is quite possible to define an environmental economic research agenda that could lead to improved policies for protecting and managing the environment. The present paper makes some recommendations from an insider's viewpoint.

scholarly journals Shiing-Shen Chern. 26 October 1911 — 3 December 2004

2014 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Nigel J. Hitchin
Keyword(s):  
Differential Geometry ◽  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Theoretical Physics ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Common Currency ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
The Common ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Research Institute

Shiing-Shen Chern was a towering figure in mathematics, both for his contributions to differential geometry and as a source of inspiration and encouragement for all mathematicians, and particularly those in China. Born in the final year of the Qing dynasty, and educated at a time when China was only beginning to set up Western-style universities, he lived to preside over the 2002 International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing. He was a co-founder of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley and its first Director in 1981; he also set up the Nankai Institute for Mathematics in 1985. His contributions to differential geometry were of foundational importance for the global viewpoint that developed in the postwar years, and the mathematical tools he introduced are now the common currency in geometry, topology and even aspects of theoretical physics.

scholarly journals "INCREASING SCOPE OF RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION"

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Rakesh Kavach ◽  
Kiran Baderia ◽  
Alok Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
The West ◽  
Natural Properties ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
National Environmental

Environmental pollution is an occasional problem in which the difficulties of life for the bio-world including humans are increasing. Due to the qualitative degradation of the environmental elements, the natural properties of life-like elements such as air, water, soil, vegetation, etc. are getting diminished due to which the relationship between nature and organisms is deteriorating. It is well known that environmental pollution is a product of modernity. Although the phenomenon of pollution has been occurring even in ancient times, but nature was able to prevent it, due to which its outbreak was not as fierce as it is today. As the amount of pollution has exceeded the limits of nature today, its effect has started reaching near the crisis point. Environmental elements like water and air are losing their natural quality due to environmental pollution, the vegetation is getting destroyed, the nature of the weather is changing and human is getting trapped in the clutches of various diseases. It is detrimental to the bio-world, as it is oriented in the path of environmental degradation to ecological degradation. Scientists believe that if the same momentum of pollution continues for the next 50 years, a catastrophe can come. The Western Industrial Revolution has made man insensitive to such an extent that he is cutting the branch on which he is sitting. Some scientists of the developed countries have been forced to say that the progressive nations of the west are exporting pollution to poor developing countries.According to the National Environmental Research Institute, pollutants causing harmful changes in the natural environment are released from matter and energy releases in the form of wastes resulting from human activities. Pollutants that pollute the environment are placed in two groups on the basis of origin. Can be (a) natural pollutant and (b) man-made pollutant. पर्यावरण प्रदूषण एक ऐसी सामयिक समस्या है जिसमें मानव सहित जैव जगत् के लिए जीवन की कठिनाईयाँ बढ़ती जा रही हैं। पर्यावरण के तत्त्वों में गुणात्मक ह्रास के कारण जीवनदायी तत्त्व यथा वायु, जल, मृदा, वनस्पति आदि के नैसर्गिक गुण ह्रसमान होते जा रहे हैं जिससे प्रकृति और जीवों का आपसी सम्बन्ध बिगड़ता जा रहा है। यह सर्वज्ञात है कि पर्यावरण प्रदूषण आधुनिकता की देन है। वैसे प्रदूषण की घटना प्राचीनकाल में भी होती रही है लेकिन प्रकृति इसका निवारण करने में सक्षम थी, जिससे इसका प्रकोप उतना भयंकर नहीं था, जितना आज है। चूँकि आज प्रदूषण की मात्रा प्रकृति की सहनसीमा को लाँघ गई है फलतः इसका प्रभाव संकट बिन्दु के समीप पहुँचने लगा है। पर्यावरण प्रदूषण से जल और वायु जैसे जीवनदायी तत्त्व अपनी नैसर्गिक गुणवत्ता खोते जा रहे हैं, वनस्पतियाँ विनष्ट होती जा रही हैं, मौसम का स्वभाव बदल रहा है और मानव विविध बीमारियों के चंगुल में फँसता जा रहा है। यह जैव जगत् के लिए अपषकुन है, क्योंकि पर्यावरण ह्रास से पारिस्थितिकी विनाष के राह में उन्मुख है। वैज्ञानिकों का मानना है कि अगले 50 वर्षों तक यदि प्रदूषण की यही गति बनी रही तो महाप्रलय आ सकता है। पष्चिमी औद्योगिक क्रान्ति ने मनुष्य को इस हद तक संवेदनहीन बना दिया है कि वह जिस डाल पर बैठा है उसी को काट रहा है। विकसित देषों के कुछ वैज्ञानिक यह कहने के लिए बाध्य हुए हैं कि पष्चिम के प्रगतिषील राष्ट्र, प्रदूषण का निर्यात गरीब विकासषील देषों में कर रहे हैं।राष्ट्रीय पर्यावरण शोध संस्थान के अनुसार मनुष्य के क्रिया-कलापों से उत्पन्न अपषिष्टों के रूप में पदार्थ एवं उर्जा विमोचन से प्राकृतिक पर्यावरण में होने वाले हानिकारक परिवर्तनों को प्रदूषण कहा जाता है।पर्यावरण को प्रदूषित करने वाले प्रदूषकों को उत्पत्ति के आधार पर दो समूहों मेें रखा जा सकता है- (क) प्राकृतिक प्रदूषक तथा (ख) मानव निर्मित प्रदूषक।

Geophysics data management at the UK Polar Data Centre

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Fremand
Keyword(s):  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Geological Structure ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
Seabed Topography ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Uk

<p>The UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC, https://www.bas.ac.uk/data/uk-pdc/) is the focal point for Arctic and Antarctic environmental data management in the UK. Part of the Natural Environmental Research Council’s (NERC) and based at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the UK PDC coordinate the management of polar data from UK-funded research and support researchers in complying with national and international data legislation and policy.</p><p>Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of polar science, the datasets handled by the data centre are extremely diverse. Geophysics datasets include bathymetry, aerogravity, aeromagnetics and airborne radar depth soundings.  These data provide information about the seabed topography, the Earth’s geological structure and the ice thickness. The datasets are used in a large variety of scientific research and projects at BAS. For instance, the significant seabed multibeam coverage of the Southern Ocean enables BAS to be a major contributor to multiple international projects such as International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBCSO) and Seabed 2030. That is why, it is crucial for the UK Polar Data Centre (PDC) to develop robust procedures to manage these data.</p><p>In the last few months’, the procedures to preserve, archive and distribute all these data have been revised and updated to comply with the recommendations from the Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management (SCADM) and the requirements of CoreTrustSeal for a future certification. The goal is to develop standard ways to publish FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data and set up workflows for long-term preservation and access to UK PDC holdings.</p>

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