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World’s Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized

By Guest PostMay 10, 2013Nature, Sciencecarnegie institution, data set, desert laboratory, digital format, dynamics, forrest shreve, gis technology, gps, helen raichle, janice bowers, larry venable, long term data, map, national science foundation, photographs, plant monitoring program, plants on tumamoc, raymond m turner, rhythm, robert h webb, science of ecology, society, sonoran desert, susana rodriguez buritica, tucson, tumamoc hill, U.S. Geological Survey, ua, university of arizona, usgs, volney spalding, Washington

Data from the research plots on Tumamoc Hill reveal changes in the Sonoran Desert and have been important to key advances in the science of ecology.

Researchers at the University of Arizona’s Tumamoc Hill have digitized 106 years of growth data on individual plants, making the information available for study by people all over the world.

Knowing how plants respond to changing conditions over many decades provides new insights into how ecosystems behave. (more…)

Advancing the Digital Humanities

By Guest PostNovember 4, 2012Educationafrican american literature, arizona, aurasma application, bryan carter, cable television, culture, devices, digital format, digital humanities, internet, ipads, iphones, jeremy patrick gesuale, ken mcallister, mobile network, music, o2, online course, phone calls, smartphone, social media, surfing, Technology, telegraph, uk, university, voicethreads, web

Bryan Carter, a UA assistant professor of Africana studies, is among faculty members in the arts and humanities more readily employing consumer-based technologies in educational, creative, interdisciplinary and engaging ways.

Take a guess – what are the most common uses for devices like smartphones?

Earlier this year, the UK-based mobile network O2 reported that, on average, people use their smartphones to access the Internet, communicate via social media and listen to music. Other popular uses, as explained by an article in The Telegraph, include playing games and making phone calls. (more…)

Monster.com’s New Book Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2010TechnologyAmazon, amazon.com, blackberry, digital format, doug hardy, kindle store, monster.com, russ grandinetti, s&p 500 index, six fundamentals, six fundamentals to building a lifelong career, Technology, times bestsellers, whispersync

*“Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career” is Available Exclusively as an E-Book in the Kindle Store for Download in Under 60 Seconds*

SEATTLE, Aug 09, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) – Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Monster.com has released the book “Six Fundamentals to Building a Lifelong Career” exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

The book, which is currently only available in digital format, will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year and priced at $7.99.

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World’s Longest-Running Plant Monitoring Program Now Digitized

Advancing the Digital Humanities

Monster.com’s New Book Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store