#Saturas Successfully Conducts Field trials of Embedded Stem Water Sensor The field tests were conducted on peach and citrus trees at the Hula Valley Orchards Experimental Farm.
The results were consistent with the stem water potential measurement using manual measurement tools and successfully demonstrated continuous measurement of the water status in the tree.
Based on the research of Dr. Moshe Meron Saturas has developed a miniature stem water potential (SWP) sensor that is embedded in the trunks of trees vines and plants.
SWP is recognized a scientifically highly accurate parameter for determining water status in crops but today SWP can only be measured in a labor-intensive procedure.
The Saturas sensor provides accurate information for optimized irrigation to reduce water consumption with no stress to the plants and increases fruit production and quality.
The Saturas sensing system tailors irrigation to the crop's real-time water needs resulting in more efficient water use
The sounder high-spectral resolution infrared technology measures the three-dimensional structure of atmospheric temperatures, water vapor and trace gases.
Leo Laughlin, a Phd student from the University EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Communications, together with MSC student Chunqing Zhang, supervisors Professor Mark Beach and Dr Kevin Morris,
Mark Beach, Professor of Radio Systems Engineering commented: n addition to EPSRC investment in Doctoral Training Centres at Bristol, we have also been awarded equipment funding.
Electrical balance duplexing for small form factor realization of in-band full duplex by Leo Laughlin, Mark A. Beach, Kevin A. Morris,
Optimum single antenna full duplex using hybrid junctions by Leo Laughlin, Mark A. Beach, Kevin A. Morris and John L. Haine in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas
#Portable, Autonomous Device Analyzes Trace elements in Water, Air and Upper Atmosphere Researchers from Arizona State university School of Earth and Space exploration have combined their sensors,
allows researchers to do things such as detect microbes in water, soil and the upper atmosphere. The machine,
the technology was intended originally for deployment on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle platform as part of a project to map the dynamic microbial diversity in the world oceans.
After four years of development and millions of dollars from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, the instrument is now operational.
It is being used at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project to detect microbial contaminants in water more rapidly,
with better accuracy and lower limits of detection. The device employs emulsion droplet technology, which means that the aqueous sample comes into the instrument
lander or orbiter to seek out extant DNA in the water on Mars, the oceans of Europa,
pressure and water vapor similar to data collected by weather balloons but on a global scale using a technique called GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO).
Planetiq's microsatellite constellation, with an initial set of 12 satellites launching in 2016 and 2017, will deliver over 8 million observations per day of temperature, pressure and water vapor,
"The Earth's atmosphere is sampled radically under at present especially over the oceans which cover 70%of the Earth's surface.
and catches the pill in their hand, explains Carney, of Larchmont, New york. According to Heaney, of Oyster Bay, New york,
In the new procedure, the patient's breast will be placed in a warm water bath between an ultrasound transmitter and receiver.
In the summer of 2013, a plane carried Tan over the Straits of Malacca to Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, the largest palm-oil production region in Indonesia.
smoke can whip east across the Straits of Malacca and into both Singapore and Kuala lumpur (the capital of nearby Malaysia) collectively home to about seven million people.
a British Channel Islands-registered concern that aims to broaden internet access to the underserved. More than 600 satellites will initially be launched,
"The fact that we used patient-derived human pluripotent stem cells in our work represents a sea change in the field,
water or other spaces that are causes for health concerns. And it could aid in the detection of chemical weapons.
see these new additions to life On earth as a sign that the accepted tree of life a division into the three domains of eukaryotes,
and they decided to collect samples from groundwater at a remediation site in Rifle, Colorado..
and are used often to purify water. Colleagues at the Department of energy Joint Genome Institute shotgun-sequenced the DNA of all the microbes in the filtered sample,
the eukaryotes, or organisms that have nuclei in their cells. Within the eukaryotes there are about 35 animal phyla the Phylum chordata includes humans and all other vertebrates 12 plant phyla and a few fungi.
The microscopic bacterial domain has been much fuzzier because some organisms detected widely in the environment fail to grow in culture like other bacteria.
probing not only the acidic pools in abandoned mines and the contaminated groundwater at the Superfund cleanup site in Colorado,
with one end that was water-loving or hydrophilic and one that was water-fearing or hydrophobic.
A mixture of these molecules self-assembled into a vesicle, much like the coalescing of oil droplets in water,
with the hydrophobic ends pointing inward and the hydrophilic ends pointing outward. The result was millions of bubble-like structures, each 100 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
which involves shuttling tiny drops of water around on a series of small electrodes that looks like a miniature checkerboard.
and how that process can go wrong. he fact that we used patient-derived human pluripotent stem cells in our work represents a sea change in the field,
The new microneedle patch Microhyala is dissolvable in water. The tiny needles are made of hyaluronic acid,
Georgia Institute of technology Study Coating the inside of glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures,
Capillary action draws water and other liquids into confined spaces such as tubes, straws, wicks and paper towels,
. But a chance observation by researchers at the Georgia Institute of technology will cause a recalculation of those predictions for conditions in which hydrogel films line the tubes carrying water-based liquids. ather than moving according to conventional expectations,
water-based liquids slip to a new location in the tube, get stuck, then slip again
the water propagates at a nearly constant speed into the hydrogel-coated capillary. This was very different from
When the opening of a thin glass tube is exposed to a droplet of water, the liquid begins to flow into the tube, pulled by a combination of surface tension in the liquid and adhesion between the liquid and the walls of the tube.
Leading the way is a meniscus, a curved surface of the water at the leading edge of the water column.
Water entering a tube coated on the inside with a dry hydrogel film must first wet the film
but with discrete steps in which the water meniscus first sticks and its motion remains arrested
This tick-slipprocess forces the water to move into the tube in a step-by-step motion. The flow rate measured by the researchers in the coated tube is three orders of magnitude less than the flow rate in an uncoated tube.
said Fedorov. hough there is some swelling of the hydrogel upon contact with water, the change in the tube diameter is negligible due to the small thickness of the hydrogel layer.
Water absorption by the hydrogels occurs only when the materials remain below a specific transition temperature.
the materials no longer absorb water, eliminating the tick-slipphenomenon in the microtubes and allowing them to behave like ordinary tubes.
This ability to turn the stick-slip behavior on and off with temperature could provide a new way to control the flow of water-based liquid in microfluidic devices,
John Burnett writes for West Hawaii Today that Iselle damage to Big Island ag crops is estimated at $53 million.
KITV video news clip illustrates the devastation on the Island ag community. As officials assess the damage inflicted by Iselle,
it evident the Big Island agriculture industry has sustained a severe blow. Richard Ha, president of Hamakua Springs Country Farms
farmers could find ways to use water, seed, and fertilizer more efficiently, lowering their costs enough to more than pay for the technology investment
Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones which help farmers, like Keith Larrabee, make effective decisions.
but the tides are said shifting Michael W. Macleod-Ball, acting director of the American Civil liberties Union Washington legislative office, told The New york times. or the first time,
or doused in water and will still work. Practically, the Foldscope can help doctors correctly diagnose deadly diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis,
Recently, Prakash also developed a computer than runs on water droplets. The droplets are suspended in a magnetic field
#Ruptured pipeline spills 79k litres of oil along California coast A broken pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons (79,500 litres) of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday,
Authorities responding to reports of a foul smell near Refugio State Beach around noon found an 800-metre slick already formed in the ocean, Santa barbara County Fire Capt.
and into a storm drain that empties into the ocean. The pipeline was shut off about three hours later but by then the slick stretched 45 metres into the water.
The 60-centimetre pipeline is owned by Plains All American Pipeline, which said it shut down the flow of oil
and the culvert carrying the oil to the ocean was blocked.""Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred
Boats from the nonprofit collective Clean Seas also were providing help but were having trouble
because so much of the oil was so close to the shore, Coast guard spokeswoman Jennifer Williams said.
About 3, 200 litres of oil have been recovered from the water, Williams said. The accident occurred on the same stretch of coastline as a 1969 spill that at the time was the largest ever in U s. waters
and is credited for giving rise to the American environmental movement. Several hundred thousand gallons spilled from a blowout on an oil platform
It was surpassed later in size by 1989's Exxon valdez spill off Alaska and the 2010 Gulf oil spill off Louisiana.
and small amounts of tar and seepage regularly show up on beaches. The spill is largest in years
#California oil spill 5 times bigger than first estimated A broken pipeline spilled 21,000 gallons (79,500 litres) of crude oil into the ocean before it was shut off Tuesday,
Authorities responding to reports of a foul smell near Refugio State Beach around noon found an 800-metre slick already formed in the ocean, Santa barbara County Fire Capt.
and into a storm drain that empties into the ocean. The pipeline was shut off about three hours later but by then the slick stretched 45 metres into the water.
The 60-centimetre pipeline is owned by Plains All American Pipeline, which said it shut down the flow of oil
and the culvert carrying the oil to the ocean was blocked.""Plains deeply regrets this release has occurred
Boats from the nonprofit collective Clean Seas also were providing help but were having trouble
because so much of the oil was so close to the shore, Coast guard spokeswoman Jennifer Williams said.
About 3, 200 litres of oil have been recovered from the water, Williams said. The accident occurred on the same stretch of coastline as a 1969 spill that at the time was the largest ever in U s. waters
and is credited for giving rise to the American environmental movement. Several hundred thousand gallons spilled from a blowout on an oil platform
It was surpassed later in size by 1989's Exxon valdez spill off Alaska and the 2010 Gulf oil spill off Louisiana.
and small amounts of tar and seepage regularly show up on beaches. The spill is largest in years
and oleophobic paint that repels both water and oil, preventing the car from getting dirty.
It been proven effective against road spray, sleet, standing water, and even clumsy painters, providing an umbrella-like layer of protection to the LEAF paint job.
Even the most efficient car washes use hundreds of gallons of water to clean a single vehicle.
and insulated with concrete to prevent any leakage from entering local groundwater. Bacteria that naturally occur within cowsdigestive tracts are added to the manure,
and then recycled so local farmers can use it to water their crops. The by-product that remains at the end of the process,
president and CEO of GE Power & Water. he question is not whether to start down this path it about knowing how to get the most out of your digital transformation.
water comes throughn your basements, in a parking garage. Secondly, if this water gets to the steel reinforcementsn concrete we have all these steel rebarsf they corrode, the structure collapses.
It has taken Jonkers and his team three years to produce this self-healing prototype, needing to overcome the most obvious obstacle:
when water enters the concrete cracks. Once released, the bacteria consume the calcium lactate, causing a chemical reaction that creates limestone,
if the concrete cracks and water gets in. Concrete is extremely alkaline and the ealingbacteria must wait dormant for years before being activated by water.
Jonkers chose bacillus bacteria for the job, because they thrive in alkaline conditions and produce spores that can survive for decades without food
water enters and open the capsules. The bacteria then germinate, multiply and feed on the lactate,
Doubtless, some historical controversiesike the fights over the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta oil sands to the US Gulf coast extensive petroleum infrastructureill remain,
Norsepower trials confirm fuel savings of 2. 6 percent using a single small Rotor Sail on a route in the North sea.
MS Estraden operates in a continuous service between The netherlands and the UK, sailing through the North sea windy corridors at speeds of 16 knots.
#Weirdest Biofuel Ever Powers Strangest Car Ever The folks at Columbia University have come up with a loating enginethat runs on evaporating water
Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
it could one day produce electricity from giant floating power generators that sit on bays or reservoirs,
or from huge rotating machines akin to wind turbines that sit above water The team is already predicting that a scaled-up version,
#Biomimicry Wave Energy Device Ready To Leave The Nest A new bio-inspired method of harvesting energy from the ocean has completed its shakedown on land,
Called biowave, the wave energy device won be venturing too far Port Fairy in Australia is as far as it going
Biowave first crossed Cleantechnica radar back in 2008, when we compared the new wave energy concept to kelp.
The Biowave wave energy device was inspired by the way that kelp sways and pivots with the movement of ocean swell waves.
The biowave actually gives you a twofer of potential and kinetic wave energy harvesting. It consists of an array of floats that rise and fall with the up and down-down surface motion of swells,
The eventual goal is to have entire farms of biowave devices like beds of kelp linked together.
and the generator cranks electricity into an undersea cable for transmission to the shore. To pare down maintenance costs,
when extreme seas threaten to damage the equipment, the biowave floats are designed to collapse automatically onto the safety of the sea floor.
To get a feel for what going to happen when the device is deployed later this year, you can catch the biowave in action on Vimeo.
Wave energy is a bit of a risky venture now that offshore wind energy is taking off, but the pursuit is worth it.
and in the case of biowave, no profile at all. That provides much more flexibility for site selection than offshore wind turbines
The biowave project is supported partly by the Australian Renewable energy Agency (ARENA) and the government of Victoria.
because the newer reserves cost more to develop, such as deep sea oil. They may get cheaper through market shifts,
drill in the deep ocean, buy an oil tanker or develop a coalmine. They can play on the edges, like shale gas, oil trading or mineral exploration,
#Google street view Now Monitors Urban Air pollution Wee come to rely on Google street view for everything from roads to hiking paths to coral reefs,
This fall, the partnership will take its next step by expanding mapping efforts to the San francisco bay Area
and Applied sciences (SEAS) and a co-lead author. Lewis is also a core faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.
#Lasers have turned this metal super hydrophobic The ability to repel water has so many potential uses.
since water can't cling long enough to evaporate and leave behind residue; and it can prevent ice from forming.
and repels water. The material is much more slippery than Teflon, with the added benefit that the structures are part of the material
You also don't have to tip the surface for the water to roll off, like you do with Teflon."
the water actually gets bounced off. Then it lands on the surface again, gets bounced off again,
As the water bounces on the surface of the material, it will pick up and carry away with it any dust,
where water can be scarce and therefore precious. It could help clean, for instance, latrines with a minimum of water wastage."
"In these regions, collecting rain water is vital and using super-hydrophobic materials could increase the efficiency without the need to use large funnels with high-pitched angles to prevent water from sticking to the surface,
"Guo said.""A second application could be creating latrines that are cleaner and healthier to use."
"Yet another application could be the development of solar thermal collectors, which absorb solar energy in the form of heat and light,
which the researchers joined up to create a new molecule where one end was water-loving
and the other was water-fearing. These molecules self-assembled into a vesicle within which researchers inserted a core of solid insulin and enzymes,
which makes the water-loving NI molecules become water-fearing. Ultimately, this causes the vesicles to fall apart,
can simply be swallowed with water and although the price has not been announced, it's likely to be much cheaper than a pacemaker.
but does have a cargo bay similar to that of a pickup truck, which is just large enough to carry a small satellite.
The technology could be applied to large NASA data centers such as the Physical oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center,
which makes NASA's ocean and climate data accessible and meaningful. Memex would make PDF documents more easily searchable
The flight ended with a planned plunge into the ocean. The Waverider traveled more than 230 miles in six minutes
and water enters them, the water'awakens'the bacteria. Once active, the bacteria'eat'the calcium lactate
and secrete limestone which closes the cracks. A stock image of a pot hole is shown m
So within the eukaryotes, the Phylum chordata includes humans and all other vertebrates. Many microbes that grow in the natural world,
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
These new phyla were found from just one site using samples of groundwater in Colorado
rivers, oceans and even deep underground around the world. It comes after the same group of scientists identified nine new groups of Archaea,
Kingii emergency wristband inflates to save wearers from drowning Everyone knows it possible to drown in even shallow and calm waters,
which can pull a wearer towards the water surface. The wristband is said to be suitable for activities including swimming,
I developed Kingii as a way to promote the importance of water safety and, hopefully, end this type of tragedy once and for all,
In five transparent biospheres anchored to the bottom of the sea, strawberries, basil, beans, garlic and lettuce are being grown.
The plants are kept hydrated by drips of water condensing on the inner walls of the biospheres,
has been installed in the Bay of Noli, in Savona, Italy. he main target of this project is to create alternative sources of plant production in areas where environmental conditions make it extremely difficult to grow crops through conventional farming,
including lack of fresh water, fertile soils, and extreme temperature changes, said a spokesman for the project. e are trying to find an alternative and economically viable technology enabling efficient production.
'The fact that we used patient-derived human pluripotent stem cells in our work represents a sea change in the field,
Professor Axel van de Walle, an engineer at Brown University, Rhode island, who led the research,
Instead, you think about the goal of the movement want to pick up that cup of water, for example, said Caltec professor Richard Andersen. o in this trial,
when tensions are high over Chinese territorial claims in the South china sea. China has denied involvement. It was the second computer break-in in less than a year at the OPM, the federal government's personnel office.
and conserve groundwater currently being lost to evaporation and create a new water supply for some 400,000 people and businesses.
The alliance of more than 135 local business groups voted at its May 19 board meeting to support the Cadiz Valley Water conservation, Recovery and Storage Project, a public-private partnership with the Santa Margarita Water District,
000-acre property in California eastern Mojave desert, the Cadiz Water project will be carried out by public water providers that serve more than 1 million customers in six Southern California counties.
Three Valleys Municipal water District, Golden state Water company, Suburban Water systems and Cal Water Services Company have executed already agreements with the Company that will enable them to provide water from the Project to Los angeles County businesses and residents
including terms related to how water will be transported to the project participants s
#France First to Introduce Mandatory Carbon Reporting for Investors Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors in France will be required to disclose how they are managing climate change risks.
#Partnerships Critical to Solving Nationwide Water Issues We have a problem. A water problem. Our sources in the United states are in real danger,
and conditions are more likely to worsen before they get better. Many factors are contributing to this current reality.
and residents are now being asked to reduce their water consumption by 25 percent. Scientists are saying that it would take 11 trillion gallons of water to pull the state out of this crippling drought.
Colorado has been faced with catastrophic wildfires that adversely impact its watersheds due to dramatic changes in weather patterns and precipitation.
The water that we use to wash our clothes clean our bodies and stay hydrated is at risk.
Put simply, water is a critical resource that must be saved. Our families, our communities and our businesses depend on this precious commodity.
bringing awareness and change to water challenges our communities face is not only timely but necessary.
some 4 million residents are reliant on water that is sourced 300 miles to the north, originating from the Mammoth Lakes Basin in central California Inyo National forest.
In this time of significant drought and water scarcity, the function and efficiency of this watershed is of the utmost importance.
A partnership with Caltrout will work to improve the ecological health of the Mammoth Lakes Basin
and neighboring communities who rely on the Cache la Poudre River watershed as their water source. The neighboring forests surrounding Fort Collins catch
and filter the water. Thus, if the forests are harmed, so too is the water supply in this community.
For companies that require water to produce their products supporting water conservation initiatives outside of your company walls reinforce efforts being made inside to preserve this precious commodity throughout the production process.
For example, Anheuser-busch US breweries have reduced water consumption by 47 percent in the last 10 years and by 22 percent in the last five years.
and conserve water is by supporting the global efforts of Water. org. Around the world, women and children spend an astonishing 140 million hours per day collecting water.
This year on World Environment Day, Anheuser-busch employees in Fort Collins, Los angeles and across the United states will honor these water journeys
and take a 15-minute alk for Water, which equals a water-equivalent donation that will help support a family of five with water for five years
and provide funding to Water. org, a global organization that increases water access and quality around the world.
World Environment Day is an opportune time to discuss water conservation, showcase how wee working to reduce water use
and how we identify and amplify strategic partnerships to further the cause, but it also requires constant focus and attention.
We strive to make water conservation efforts prevalent in our operations on a daily basis. A resource this precious cannot be preserved nor can access be maintained
#New aluminum air battery could blow past lithium-ion runs on water As battery technologies go,
and be refilled with normal water. How an aluminum-air battery works First, some basics. The problem with battery technology isn
we can build batteries that blow traditional lithium-ion out of the water. Keep in mind that the chart below is exponential,
it not clear that fresh water is as effective an aqueous solution as saltwater (meaning there might be need specific for one particular kind of solution.
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