Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The 2011 Scientific Program of IUGG includes three categories of symposia and a number of workshops on a wide range of geophysical themes. These include:
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Istanbul branch of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) International Center for Private Sector in Development was opened on Friday. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Turkish State Minister Cevdet Yilmaz said Istanbul in a sense became a center...
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
The devastation following the 8.9m earthquake in Japan and, closer to home, last month's lethal quake in Christchurch has many asking what science is actually doing to find a way of forewarning of major earthquakes. Read More
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that jolted northeast Japan was caused by a tectonic upheaval that created offshore faults stretching for hundreds of kilometers from Iwate Prefecture to Ibaraki, seismologists said Saturday. Satoko Oki of the University of Tokyo's...
Friday, March 11th, 2011
A recent study by Geoscience Australia scientists has integrated and modelled geoscientific datasets to generate a weathering intensity index for the Australian continent. Weathering intensity is a fundamental characteristic of the regolith, the often discontinuous and highly...
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
On April 15 within the V International Conference “Remote sensing – the synergy of high technologies” Sovzond Company (Russia), MDA (Canada) and Kongsberg Spacetec (Norway) will organize a series of theme seminars on radar data application. Nowadays there...
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011
You are cordially invited to attend the 7th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE7), which will be held in Perth, Australia, from 23-25 August 2011. Digital Earth is a global initiative as virtual representation of...
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Satellite pictures showing the extent of Libya’s refugee problem have emerged. The GeoEye-1images reveal a mass of people at the Ras Ajdir crossing at Libya’s border with Tunisia. But they only indicate scale, not detail. The satellite pictures taken on...
