Planning the Infrastructure for US Academic Ocean Observation and Exploration over the Next Two Decades—An NSF Perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-7
Author(s):  
Michael Reeve ◽  
E.R. Dolly Dieter ◽  
Alexander Shor ◽  
Holly Smith
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Future Science ◽  
Oceanographic Research ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government ◽  
Ocean Observations

NSF has been involved in the design and construction of vessels that support academic oceanographic research as well as in their maintenance and operation since the sixties. As we look to the future, the academic fleet will face new challenges set by the evolving research agendas of that community. Rapid changes in technology and the drive to make continuous global ocean observations will have a significant impact on the fleet. Developing a long-range fleet plan, taking into account future science and federal budgetary trends, can help keep the community, the government and the fleet on course for the future.

scholarly journals Rancang Bangun Gelang Locator Pasien Terkonfirmasi Covid-19 dengan Metode Haversine sebagai Pengidentifikasian Pelanggaran Zona Aman Isolasi Mandiri Menggunakan Komunikasi Lora (Long Range)

eLEKTRIKA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ahmad Afan Maulana ◽  
Riza Alfita ◽  
Achmad Fiqhi Ibadillah
Keyword(s):  
Long Range ◽  
Safe Zone ◽  
Time Limit ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government ◽  
At Home

<p><em>Positive cases of COVID-19 continue to grow rapidly. This prompted the government to make new rules in the form of various types of health protocols. One of them is the implementation of the self-isolation protocol for confirmed COVID-19 patients. Self-isolation is a rule that requires confirmed patients to stay at home until the specified time limit to break the chain of COVID-19 development. However, it is suggested and as a rule that there are still many ODP and PDP who still violate the rules of self-isolation from the government. The ODP and PDP still roam freely without thinking about the impacts and risks to their surroundings. With the departure of confirmed patients, the risk of developing COVID-19 becomes greater. </em><em>In this study, a confirmed patient locator bracelet was made that can map the position of the patient based on latitude and longitude. The latitude and longitude data from the bracelet is sent to the gateway by LoRa communication. LoRa communication is also used to minimize the dimensions of the bracelet. In addition to mapping the location of the patients, by applying the Heversine method this system is able to identify when a safe zone violation occurs in the form of a change in the color of the marker. In the future, it is hoped that this system will be able to handle the problem of developing COVID-19 caused by confirmed patients who still violate the self-isolation protocol.</em></p>

scholarly journals Is Computational Oceanography Coming of Age?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Thomas W. N. Haine ◽  
Renske Gelderloos ◽  
Miguel A. Jimenez-Urias ◽  
Ali H. Siddiqui ◽  
Gerard Lemson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Field Measurements ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
The Past ◽  
Oceanographic Research ◽  
Physical Phenomena ◽  
Ocean Observations

AbstractComputational Oceanography is the study of ocean phenomena by numerical simulation, especially dynamical and physical phenomena. Progress in information technology has driven exponential growth in the number of global ocean observations and the fidelity of numerical simulations of the ocean in the past few decades. The growth has been exponentially faster for ocean simulations, however. We argue that this faster growth is shifting the importance of field measurements and numerical simulations for oceanographic research. It is leading to the maturation of Computational Oceanography as a branch of marine science on par with observational oceanography. One implication is that ultra-resolved ocean simulations are only loosely constrained by observations. Another implication is that barriers to analyzing the output of such simulations should be removed. Although some specific limits and challenges exist, many opportunities are identified for the future of Computational Oceanography. Most important is the prospect of hybrid computational and observational approaches to advance understanding of the ocean.

Understanding Entrepreneurial University

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Entrepreneurial University ◽  
Entrepreneurial Skills ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Current Context ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Demographic Shifts

Universities globally are facing new challenges and rapid changes like the increased pace of technological progress, demographic shifts, reduced funding, new skills requirement, competition, etc. These challenges and changes call for academic revolution in universities. This implies a need to make these organizations more entrepreneurial in their thinking and approaches, hence the term entrepreneurial universities. Further, they are expected to create the future by educating those to whom the future belongs and by generating the ideas and discoveries that can transform the present and build a better world. In the current context, educating those to whom the future belongs means providing them with solid knowledge and entrepreneurial skills for coping with future challenges, generating ideas and innovations and transferring them to build a better world. Adopting a qualitative approach with an in-depth literature review, the aim is to understand the entrepreneurial university and its role, and to provide a framework for their development in emerging economies.

Graubündens Wald im Fokus | Focus on the Grisons forest

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (7) ◽  
pp. 195-200
Author(s):  
Reto Hefti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Form Part ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Government

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

The Argo Project: Global Ocean Observations for Understanding and Prediction of Climate Variability

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean H. Roemmich ◽  
Russ E. Davis ◽  
Stephen C. Riser ◽  
W. B. Owens ◽  
Robert L. Molinari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Ocean Observations ◽  
Argo Project

Een Duits netwerk bij de voorbereiding van de Militärverwaltung in België (1939-1940)

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-305
Author(s):  
Etienne Verhoeyen
Keyword(s):  
Study Groups ◽  
Study Group ◽  
Student Group ◽  
German Army ◽  
The Future ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
The Government ◽  
Set Up ◽  
First World ◽  
Preparatory Work

Nadat Hitler in oktober 1939 beslist had een aanval in het Westen te ondernemen, werden in Keulen twee studiegroepen opgericht, die het toekomstig bezettingsregime van België en Nederland moesten voorbereiden. Er was een studiecommissie die geleid werd door de toekomstige leider van het Duits Militair Bestuur in België, Regierungspräsident Reeder, en daarnaast bestond een geheime studiegroep die de Sondergruppe Student werd genoemd. Deze bijdrage belicht het voorbereidend werk van de leden van deze studiegroep op het gebied van handel, industrie, recht, Volkstum en cultuur in België. De groep legde een grote belangstelling voor de Flamenfrage aan de dag en trok daarbij lessen uit de ervaringen met de bezetting van België tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Ofschoon er van diverse zijden in Duitsland werd op aangestuurd, hebben zowel de 'commissie Reeder' als de Sondergruppe de wederinvoering van de bestuurlijke scheiding van het Vlaams en Franstalig landsgedeelte, één van de 'verworvenheden' van het Vlaams activisme uit 1914-18, beslist afgewezen. De bijdrage laat ook de tegenstellingen zien die in Duitsland bestonden op het gebied van de beïnvloeding (ten voordele van Duitsland) in de te bezetten gebieden. ________ A German network in the preparation of the Militärverwaltung (Army administration) in Belgium (1939-1940)After Hitler had decided in October 1939 to carry out an attack on the West, two study groups were set up in Cologne in order to prepare the future occupational regime of Belgium and the Netherlands.  The future leader of the German Army Administration in Belgium, President of the Government Reeder chaired the study group, and in addition there was a secret study group called the Sondergruppe Student (Special Student Group).This contribution illuminates the preparatory work of the members of this study group in the area of trade, industry, law, Volkstum (nationality) and culture in Belgium. The group demonstrated a lot of interest in the Flamenfrage (Flemish question) and in doing so drew lessons from the experience of the occupation of Belgium during the First World War.Although people from various quarters in Germany aimed for the reintroduction of the governmental separation between  the Flemish and French speaking parts of the country, one of the 'achievements' of Flemish activism from the period of 1914-1918, both the 'Reeder committee' and the 'Sondergruppe' definitely dismissed it. This contribution also demonstrates the contradictions present in Germany in the area of influencing the territories to be occupied (in favour of Germany).

Politics and the Future of ECOSOC

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 564-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman J. Padelford
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Social Cooperation ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The United Nations

Economic and social cooperation through the United Nations seems destined to face new challenges and alternatives in the coming years as a result of the changed composition of the United Nations membership, the increased bargaining power of the African, Asian, and other states seeking economic and technical assistance, and the precedent of UN operations in the Congo.

scholarly journals Envisioning Climate Change Adaptation Futures Using Storytelling Workshops

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6630
Author(s):  
Rachel Harcourt ◽  
Wändi Bruine de Bruin ◽  
Suraje Dessai ◽  
Andrea Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
The West ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Rebel Groups ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Government

Engaging people in preparing for inevitable climate change may help them to improve their own safety and contribute to local and national adaptation objectives. However, existing research shows that individual engagement with adaptation is low. One contributing factor to this might be that public discourses on climate change often seems dominated by overly negative and seemingly pre-determined visions of the future. Futures thinking intends to counter this by re-presenting the future as choice contingent and inclusive of other possible and preferable outcomes. Here, we undertook storytelling workshops with participants from the West Yorkshire region of the U.K. They were asked to write fictional adaptation futures stories which: opened by detailing their imagined story world, moved to events that disrupted those worlds, provided a description of who responded and how and closed with outcomes and learnings from the experience. We found that many of the stories envisioned adaptation as a here-and-now phenomenon, and that good adaptation meant identifying and safeguarding things of most value. However, we also found notable differences as to whether the government, local community or rebel groups were imagined as leaders of the responsive actions, and as to whether good adaptation meant maintaining life as it had been before the disruptive events occurred or using the disruptive events as a catalyst for social change. We suggest that the creative futures storytelling method tested here could be gainfully applied to support adaptation planning across local, regional and national scales.

scholarly journals Introducing the Draft BioCode (2011)

Bionomina ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. HAWKSWORTH
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Systematics ◽  
Current System ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Electronic Publication ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Database Architecture ◽  
Bacteria And Fungi

As information on the world’s biota becomes increasingly integrated across different groups of organisms, from bacteria and fungi to animals and plants, there is a concomitant rising need for a consistent and harmonized approach to the regulation of scientific names. The BioCode initiative represents a concerted effort, by biologists intimately involved in the operation of the current system of separate codes, to devise a unified approach to the future naming of organisms of all kinds. This need has become pressing in view of common issues that the separate organismal codes now have to address, consequent on the rapid changes taking place in global informatics, database architecture, molecular systematics and ecology, and electronic publication.

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