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New Study Reveals How Sensitive U.S. East Coast Regions May Be to Ocean Acidification

By Guest PostApril 1, 2013Environmentacidic, acidic environment, bicarbonate, buffer capacity, carbon dioxide, carbon in ocean, carbonate, carbonic acid, changes in acidity, chemical survey, CO2, co2 levels, coastal ocean acidification, continental scale, coral, corpus christi, dic, dissolved co2, dissolved inorganic carbon, florida strait, galveston, georgia, glaciers, gulf of maine, gulf of mexico, influx of co2, labrador sea, melting sea ice, middle atlantic bight, Mississippi, ocean acidification, offshore, oysters, pteropods, rik wanninkhof, robert h byrne, ronald h brown, snails, texas, total alkalinity, tsung hung peng, university of georgia, us east coast, water ph, whoi, wie jen huang, wie jun cai, xinping hu, zhaohui aleck wang

A continental-scale chemical survey in the waters of the eastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico is helping researchers determine how distinct bodies of water will resist changes in acidity. The study, which measures varying levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other forms of carbon in the ocean, was conducted by scientists from 11 institutions across the U.S. and was published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography.

“Before now, we haven’t had a very clear picture of acidification status on the east coast of the U.S.,” says Zhaohui ‘Aleck’ Wang, the study’s lead author and a chemical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). “It’s important that we start to understand it, because increase in ocean acidity could deeply affect marine life along the coast and has important implications for people who rely on aquaculture and fisheries both commercially and recreationally.” (more…)

NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2012Environment3d, aircraft, aircraft operations, barataria bay, ben holt, bp, brent minchew, california, cathleen jones, coastline, corpus christi, data, deepwater horizon, disaster, dryden, earthquakes, environmental condition, environmental impact, environmental standpoint, facility, florida keys, forestry biomass, glaciers, gulf, gulf coast, gulfstream, imaging radar, institute, jet, laboratory, louisiana wetlands, marine, mechanical recovery, Mexico, millimeter, NASA, oil emulsion, oil slicks, oil spills, palmdale, pasadena, propulsion, radar imagery, radar system, remote sensing, seawater, sensitivity, shoreline, soil moisture, spill incidence, Technology, texas, uavsar, volcanoes

PASADENA, Calif. – Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have developed a method to use a specialized NASA 3-D imaging radar to characterize the oil in oil spills, such as the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The research can be used to improve response operations during future marine oil spills.

Caltech graduate student Brent Minchew and JPL researchers Cathleen Jones and Ben Holt analyzed NASA radar imagery collected over the main slick of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on June 22 and June 23, 2010. The data were acquired by the JPL-developed Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR) during the first of its three deployments over the spill area between June 2010 and July 2012. The UAVSAR was carried in a pod mounted beneath a NASA C-20A piloted aircraft, a version of the Gulfstream III business jet, based at NASA’s Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif. The researchers demonstrated, for the first time, that a radar system like UAVSAR can be used to characterize the oil within a slick, distinguishing very thin films like oil sheen from more damaging thick oil emulsions. (more…)

IBM Helps Corpus Christi Build a Smarter City

By Guest PostDecember 13, 2010Technologyairport, citizens, city, corpus christi, fire hydrants, geographic information system, gis, gulf of mexico, guru banavar, ibm, steve klepper, sustainability, texas, traffic engineering, traffic signals, wifi system

*Data analytics provides the city with actionable intelligence*

ARMONK, N.Y. – 13 Dec 2010: IBM today announced that it is working with the city of Corpus Christi, Texas to continuously improve efficiency and sustainability for the city’s more than 280,000 residents.

The city of Corpus Christi is applying IBM software to measure, monitor and improve the way it manages city water, roads, airport, parks, and utilities. With greater intelligence across its departments, the city can more quickly evaluate and respond to issues, anticipate and prevent problems, and improve the quality of life for its citizens. (more…)

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New Study Reveals How Sensitive U.S. East Coast Regions May Be to Ocean Acidification

NASA Radar Penetrates Thick, Thin of Gulf Oil Spill

IBM Helps Corpus Christi Build a Smarter City