Environmental Monitoring

Beat the Heat--Effective Cooling Strategies For Today’s Datacenters

submit42u — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:21:05 -0600

Learn how rack cooling and environmental measures helps administrators to overcome potential issues with technology advancements, including datacenter heat caused by high-density computers.

Who needs environmental monitoring?

harminka — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:04:57 -0500

We monitor the stock market, the weather, our blood pressure. Yet environmental monitoring is often criticized as being unscientific, expensive, and wasteful. Scientists argue that environmental monitoring is a crucial part of science in the review, "Who needs environmental monitoring""Â Gary Lovett (Institute of Ecosystem Studies) and colleagues from several universities and US government offices contributed to the review.

Gold nanoparticles help detect a toxic metal -mercury

harminka — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:11:46 -0500

With gold nanoparticles, DNA and some smart chemistry as their tools, scientists at Northwestern University have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot environmental monitoring of bodies of water, such as rivers, streams, lakes and oceans, to evaluate their safety as food and drinking water sources.

Study shows promise of genomics in environmental monitoring

Nymphadora — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 23:31:31 -0600