Examples: Sensors to sniff potential chemical weapons will improve industrial processes and environmental monitoring.
For example, Vaisala, an environmental monitoring and analytics company based in Boulder, Colo.
It could, for instance, be particularly useful in environmental monitoring of smokestacks and car exhausts.
The Marine Environmental Monitoring network says there have been rare instances of dead seals being found in west Wales rivers.
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The 115kg spacecraft, built for the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, will be used for environmental monitoring in the Asian country.
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The Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center said high pollutions were also recorded in others parts of China, including Tianjin and Hebei province.
Expect that to change over the next few years as the U.S. and other governments scale up investments in the environmental monitoring systems and data infrastructure assets.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy WIPP, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
The results of the proposed project should contribute to improve capacity building in environmental monitoring, to assess the extent of contamination in specific regions, to raise environmental awareness among local population and to improve or amend environmental legislation in African countries.
Coordinate with national and international geoscience authorities and policy makers on research, technology transfer and public awareness raising programmes on the use of remote sensing for environmental monitoring, geohazard mitigation, georesource modeling, transboundary geoscience map integration, geoengineering, climate change and environmental geology.
Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy's WIPP site, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.
"A dust-devil looks essentially like what you would expect from the movies - a tiny tornado that is lifting dust, " explained Manuel de la Torre Juarez of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a scientist on the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (Rems) instrument.
During the first 12 weeks after Curiosity landed in an area named Gale Crater, an international team of researchers analyzed data from more than 20 atmospheric events with at least one characteristic of a whirlwind recorded by the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument.
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Platypus LLC build autonomous robotic airboats that can be deployed for a wide range of usages including environmental data and monitoring hard-to-reach spots after natural disasters like flooding.
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Fox claimed it was monitoring the environmental situation at the beach regularly.
Not one real is allocated for deforestation but there are six programmes for environmental conservation, zoning, monitoring land use and recuperation of degraded areas, intensifying their use where appropriate.
Scottish Natural Heritage will conduct scientific monitoring to assess the environmental impact of the beavers.
The former Labour cabinet minister said the process was capable of causing environmental risks, but with careful monitoring these may be overcome.
Finally, crossbench peer Baroness Coussins asked the government whether its discussions with the President of Colombia during his visit included monitoring human rights and environmental impacts of British and other multi-national corporations engaged in mining activities in Colombia.
In 2010, Prince Charles launched the International Sustainability Unit (ISU), a charity focused on monitoring and facilitating consensus on environmental management issues.
Its members obsessively track biometric, behavioral and environmental information with smartphone apps and body-monitoring devices, and perform experiments on themselves to try to improve their lives.
Such networks are already revolutionizing inventory control and fleet management, and are set to play a growing role in key social sectors like healthcare, through e-health applications, education, through remote learning and teacher training, and environmental management through applications like smart grids, monitoring systems and smart buildings.
Netatmo allows users to contribute to its Urban Weather Program, creating a wider network for weather data monitoring and pooling to help meteorologists, environmental activists, scientists and people living in urban environments gain a better understanding of the city climate landscape.
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The first job is for the environmental assistant and the gas checker to walk through the tunnels monitoring ventilation and air quality.
Environmental health officers from Blaenau Gwent council told the meeting that monitoring suggested air pollution was not at a critical level, but this would continue.
The Environment Agency in the West Midlands tweeted it had been monitoring the local brooks and that it had not found any environmental impact from the fire so far.
The data used came from a daily monitoring of pollution levels recorded from 2007 through 2009, as collected by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Nowhere in the peer-reviewed studies or monitoring programs of the past 30 years is there persuasive evidence of health or environmental problems stemming from genetically engineered seeds or crops.
For over 20 years now, the Foundation has provided thousands of grants to schools and environmental organizations that promote hands-on environmental education such as gardens in schools, recycling programs, restoring wetlands, planting trees, and testing and monitoring water quality.
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