"Page 2" - Scientific Topics of Interest

Update: New!   Reef 'sun shield' trials show promise to prevent coral bleaching (Media Release, Great Barrier Reef Foundation ; 27 March 2018) https://www.barrierreef.org/latest/news/reef-sun-shield-trials-show-promise-to-prevent-coral-bleaching Videos: Coral Bleaching Caught on Camera  ( Queensland University of Technology/WSJ; August 16, 2016) Coral Bleaching Animation - HHMI BioInteractive Video (November 4, 2014)

US taps NCAR Technology for New Water Resources Forecasts [ University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR) - National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); August 16, 2016] http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/122342/us-taps-ncar-technology-for-new-water-resources-forecasts Websites: WRF-Hydro Modeling System [ NCAR-UCAR Research Applications Laboratory (RAL) ] https://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc .  ( CUAHSI ) https://www.cuahsi.org/

An Emergent Clean Energy Field:  Virtual Power Plants ( Climate Action Programme - UNEP ; August 15, 2016) http://www.climateactionprogramme.org/news/an_emergent_clean_energy_field_virtual_power_plants?utm_source=Feeds&utm_campaign=News&utm_medium=rss Virtual Power Plants get Around Solar Power's Intermittency Problem (Richard MARTIN, MIT Technology Review ; June 14, 2016) https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601695/virtual-power-plants-get-around-solar-powers-intermittency-problem/ Virtual Power Plants:  A New Model for Renewables Integration (Tilde BAYAR, Renewable Energy World ; September 30, 2013) http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/print/volume-16/issue-5/solar-energy/virtual-power-plants-a-new-model-for-renewables-integration.html Video:  Learn Where Energy Comes From (National Grid; 3BL Media ) Video: Learn Where Energy Comes From | National Grid from 3BL Media on Vimeo .

Perseid Lore:  The Legend and Science Behind the Epic Meteor Shower (Joe RAO, Space.com; August 11, 2016) http://www.space.com/33706-perseid-meteor-shower-legend-science.html N. B.:   Aforementioned article provides link to the SLOOH Community Observatory  website for live webcast viewing of this annual August astronomical event. Selected Publications: The Perseid Meteor Shower ( HUGHES , 1995) http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995EM%26P...68...31H/0000032.000.html Meteorites and meteors ( PICKERING , 1919) http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1919PA.....27..203P/0000203.000.html

Website: Earth Overshoot Day 2016 http://www.overshootday.org/

Ancient Babylonians Astronomers used Calculus to find Jupiter 1,400 years before Europeans (Stuart GARY, ABC News Australia ; January 28, 2016) http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-29/ancient-babylonian-text-earliest-use-of-calculus-for-astronomy/7121548 What is Algebra? (Robert COOLMAN, LiveScience ; March 26, 2015) http://www.livescience.com/50258-algebra.html Who Invented Zero? (Jessie SZALAY, LiveScience ; June 28, 2013) http://www.livescience.com/27853-who-invented-zero.html Selected Research: Ptolemy's Longitudes and Eratosthenes' Measurement of the Earth's Circumference (RUSSO, 2013) http://msp.org/memocs/2013/1-1/memocs-v1-n1-p04-p.pdf A Tutorial History of Least Squares with Applications to Astronomy and Geodesy (NIEVERGELT, 2000) http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0377042700003435/1-s2.0-S0377042700003435-main.pdf?_tid=fb591512-57e9-11e6-b46b-00000aacb361&acdnat=1470057493_013b43b973b3d3bc272e89f9fd89657d The Growth of an Empirical Cartography in Hel...