Geography students at VIU learn about their world
applications in a dedicated, state-of-the-art lab. Interpreting aerial photographs, satellite images, and topographic maps are an integral part of ...
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to explain what I did for ten years, I'd say, "Do you know Google Maps?" And they say, "Yes." Because before Google Maps ...
17000 Species in the Great Smoky Mountains. And Counting.
, Italian for “slow walker.”) But they are among the hardiest life forms on the planet. They depend on fluids for survival, which they extract from plant cells and smaller organisms by piercing the walls with tiny fang-like stylets and sucking out the contents with their tubular mouths. When there aren’t fluid sources around, they do something remarkable: They shut down their bodies in a process scientists call cryptobiosis. Curling up into a tiny ball, and filling their cells with a protective, synthesized sugar called trehalose, tardigrades can reduce their metabolic activity by about 99.99 percent. When they next encounter moisture, they can come back to life in just a few hours. Tardigrades have been resuscitated from dried moss that had been sitting in a museum for more than 100 years.
Just as dazzling as their endurance is their range. They have been found 20,000 feet up in the Himalayas, and 13,000 feet down in the ocean, in polar seas and equatorial dunes. And, not surprisingly, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With its abundance of mosses and lichens, and its 55 to 85 inches of rain a year (depending on elevation), the park is a tardigrade’s paradise. But if it is easy to assume a widespread and persistent tardigrade population, it has until recently been hard to know much about them. Unlike the park’s real bears, whose population is closely tracked, its little water bears went unstudied for decades.
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A Survey Of Moon Maps Since the 17th Century
Previous mapping efforts have only included the parts we can see, but the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched at the same time as LCROSS, is already providing GPS-quality topographical data for regions of the moon that Johann Hevelius and his ...
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17000 Species in the Great Smoky Mountains. And Counting. The screen shows dozens of tiny maps of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with the park's familiar topography in blue, spattered by blobs of red and yellow. Each map documents one species of bird or tree. “And so one of the things we're working ... |
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46 New APIs: Amazon SNS, YouSendIt and Free Music National Map Viewer API: REST & SOAP webservices for the USGS National Map Viewer. Uses ArcGIS to display data views for areas within the United States. Options include local government units, weather, structures, transportation resources, ... |
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LUNA GOLD CORP. : Reports Operational And Financial Results For The Three And ... A topographic survey was also completed. The Nova Vida east extension soil sampling program was completed and samples are at the assay laboratory. Geologic mapping was also conducted. Nova Vida is a large low-grade gold-in-soil anomaly associated with ... |
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MPs debate Cost of Motor Insurance All these facts weigh heavily against the argument that the demographic or topographical factors in Northern Ireland justify the increasing cost of insurance. Those factors are difficult to relate to the draconian rise in the cost of insurance premiums ... |
