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In “Fruitcake in Space,” Gravy producer Bronwen Wyatt explores a bizarre footnote in the annals of human space travel. In 1968, a scientist at a military research facility developed a very unusual recipe: a nutritionally-fortified fruitcake designed as an emergency ration for astronauts. It might be easy to dismiss this fruitcake, but we're here to argue that it's part of a larger story—one that takes us from the early days of NASA's space program to our current quest for Mars. Wyatt investigates the importance of safe preservation techniques in space, how NASA determines what food astronauts will actually eat, and why fruitcake actually makes perfect sense as an emergency ration.   In an archival interview from 1966, dietician Mary Klicka at the Natick Laboratory Army Research, Development, and Engineering Center points to the unique challenges of preparing acceptable menus for long-term space travel. Wyatt speaks to Vickie Kloeris, who managed NASA's food systems for nearly thirty years from the laboratory at Johnson Space Center in Houston, and Jennifer Levasseur, a curator specializing in food at the Air and Space Museum. Finally, retired astronaut Cady Coleman shares her perspective on dining in orbit. Coleman, who volunteered for the role of "food czar" on the International Space Station, tells how food becomes a form of currency and a tool for building camaraderie among astronauts.   Kloeris, Levasseur, and Coleman emphasize that dining space is about more than the mechanical function of obtaining enough calories to survive. Even in the most barren environments, our cultural drive to bond over food is a connection to our lives on earth and part of what makes us human. The selection and preparation of food—work that is often dismissed as inconsequential domestic labor—is a crucial part of the success of any mission in space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guests: Dr. Robert Kroutil, Expert Chemist and EPA data expert for the past 20 years, EPA Whistleblower and Former EPA Contractor,  Lesley Pacey, Environmental Investigator, Government Accountability Project (GAP), supporting, protecting and litigating on behalf of Whistleblowers for more than 40 years. Discussions covers the heroic testimony and back story of the East Palestine chemical and toxic regional disaster by a former EPA contractor turned EPA Whistleblower. Dr. Kroutil shares the EPA decision to turn off the plane's toxic infrared chemical censors and to take only pictures of the contaminated creeks with toxic highly dangerous fumes. Instead of 300 minutes daily starting the first day, which was the EPA standard protocol, they took only 8 minutes total on the 4th day... BIO of Dr. Kroutil: Dr. Robert Kroutil is a nationally recognized expert in the field of passive infrared chemical detection to address homeland security issues and climate issues.  He has over 34 years experience within the Department of Defense assigned to the Edgewood Research and Development and Engineering Center, Edgewood, Md.  After 2000, he supported the Department of Defense Joint Staff (J3-Operations). Dr Kroutil has also worked for the Department of Energy Los Alamos National Laboratory for nine years on homeland security matters.  Work in private industry included employment with the Dynamac Corporation supporting the ASPECT project which is currently the Nation's only airborne emergency response chemical and radiological detection system.  He is currently a senior scientist for Kalman and Company, Inc which is based in Virginia Beach, Virginia.  Dr. Kroutil is the author and coauthor of over 28 open literature publications, 70 invited scientific national or international conferences, 1 U.S. Patent, and 2 book chapters that address homeland security issues.  He has developed advanced software analysis tools for detecting environmental chemical species in the atmosphere. Dr. Kroutil was the leading research scientist and program manager for Project SAFEGUARD which was a development project of the Department of Defence Chemical and Biological Defense Program.  In that position, he led a team to develop advanced technology for defense and homeland security in a skunk works environment.  He also developed policy to address chemical and radiological issues that are of critical importance to homeland security. Dr.Kroutil is a native of Oklahoma and graduated with a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Oklahoma State University.  He was a graduate from Yukon High School, Yukon, Oklahoma.  Dr. Kroutil is married and lives in Santa Fe ,NM. Sponsors: TotalWellFit.com, an online boutique started by Jen to serve up high-quality health and wellness products. Sweeties on the Creek - Scrumptious homemade ice cream, sweet treats and fun gifts for young and old. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Ian Peterman on the Conscious Design podcast as he sits down with Todd Beyreuther, Director of Product at Mercer Mass Timber. They dive into the revolutionary world of mass timber, exploring its role in sustainable construction and the innovative approaches Mercer is taking to redefine the industry. Todd shares insights into the company's origins, its strategic expansions, and the impact of their products on reducing carbon footprints. The conversation also covers the challenges and future of mass timber in the architectural and construction landscapes, offering a glimpse into the potential for more sustainable urban development. Link mentioned: Tallest Full-scale Building Ever Constructed - https://today.ucsd.edu/story/engineers-shake-tallest-full-scale-building-ever-constructed-on-uc-san-diego-earthquake-simulator  Notable Moments: 00:44 The Origins and Expansion of Mercer Mass Timber 01:59 Sustainable Product Development 04:04 Exploring the Future of Prefabrication and Modular Construction 06:32 Navigating Standards and Regulations in Timber Construction 09:25 Innovating with Mass Timber: From Design to Implementation 14:56 The Role of Mass Timber in Urban Development and Housing 27:31 The Future of Mass Timber and Sustainable Construction About Todd Beyreuther Todd Beyreuther has been with Mercer Mass Timber as its Director of Product for two years. Todd has 23+ years of experience in structural engineering practice, academic research, and mass timber product development. He is an Adjunct Research Professor at WSU Composite Materials and Engineering Center. About Mercer Mass Timber Mercer Mass Timber (MMT) is a low-carbon advanced manufacturer of bio-based building materials that empowers communities worldwide to build beautiful, zero-carbon timber buildings. As the largest manufacturer of mass timber in North America, MMT's people, resources, and technology combine to create built environments that inspire and enable builders, developers, and designers to forge greener, more equitable communities. MMT is backed by Mercer International, one of the world's largest market pulp producers. Learn more about Todd Beyreuther and Mercer Mass Timber: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddbeyreuther/  https://mercermasstimber.com/  Download chapter 1 free: https://www.petermanfirm.com/conscious-design-chapter-1-free-download/ Want to be a guest? Visit: https://bit.ly/3BetCkf Want to work with us? Connect with Peterman Firm: https://www.petermanfirm.com/connect/ Find us online: YouTube Channel: http://bit.ly/3sG7VEi Blog: https://bit.ly/3kltV6s Conscious Design Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KNMN9BT Join our Newsletter: https://bit.ly/2U8IlMS Hosted by: Ian Peterman Creative Director: Sara Clark Social Media: Jacqueline Sagun Visit our website: https://www.petermanfirm.com/ We created this content so creative entrepreneurs like you can integrate social and environmental responsibility into your brand's DNA through Conscious Design. Ian Peterman, a leading expert in Conscious Design, hosts the Conscious Design podcast and is the co-author of the book Conscious Design. If you enjoy our content, please support us by subscribing and sharing our episodes!

The three post-1980 generation crew members of the Shenzhou XVIII mission said on Wednesday that their similar professional backgrounds and mutual trust will help them complete all the objectives set for the mission.2024年2月24日，神舟18号的三名80后航天员表示，他们相似的专业背景和相互信任将有助于他们完成任务所设定的所有目标。The Long March 2F rocket carrying the astronauts aboard the Shen­zhou XVIII spacecraft is set to lift off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China at 8:59 pm on Thursday, Lin Xi­qiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency and spokesman for the mission, said during a news conference on Wednesday at the launch center.24日，在酒泉卫星发射中心举行的新闻发布会上，中国载人航天工程副主任、任务发言人林西强表示，长征2F运载火箭将于25日晚8点59分在中国西北部的酒泉卫星发射中心发射，搭载神舟18号航天员。The crew members are Senior Colonel Ye Guangfu, who is the mission commander, Colonel Li Cong and Colonel Li Guangsu. Ye was also a crew member of the Shen­zhou XIII mission that returned in April 2022, while Li Cong and Li Guangsu will be making their first spaceflight.神州18号的机组成员是叶光富、李聪、李广苏，叶光富担任指令长。叶光富是2022年4月返回的神舟13号任务的机组成员，而李聪和李光肃将进行他们首飞。Ye, 43, said that unlike his first mission, which was full of excitement because it fulfilled his dream of becoming an astronaut, this trip will require him to bear greater responsibility as mission commander.43岁的叶光富表示，他对神州13号的任务充满了兴奋，因为它实现了他成为一名宇航员的梦想；与之不同，神州18号任务将要求他作为任务指挥官承担更大的责任。Nonetheless, Ye said while meeting the media at the launch center on Wednesday, "Every mission to space is a new start."尽管如此，叶光富在发射中心会见媒体时表示，“每一次太空任务都是一个新的开始。”"Besides recovering, I also had to return to training in the past two years. And the structure of the space station is new to me and more complicated to operate. Also, leading a team is another new challenge," he added.“在过去的两年里，除了恢复我并没有放弃训练。空间站的结构对我来说是新的，操作起来更复杂。此外，领导一个团队是另一个新的挑战。”。All of the crew members were trained as pilots in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and share other similarities in age and experience, said Li Cong, who is 34.34岁的李聪说，所有机组人员都在中国人民解放军空军接受过飞行员训练，在年龄和经验上都有相似之处。"To ensure the smooth running of the space station with complicated operation systems, all the operations must be precise, and the mutual trust of the crew members is required," he said.“为了确保操作系统复杂的空间站的顺利运行，所有的操作都必须精确，并且需要机组人员的相互信任。”Li Guangsu, who is 36, will be responsible for conducting experiments in space. He said he is looking forward to experiencing life in weightless conditions.36岁的李光肃将负责进行太空实验。他说，他期待着体验失重状态下的生活。"Besides work, I also want to take a good look at the beautiful blue planet and our country. Furthermore, I want to see if the stars do twinkle, for my child," he added.“除了工作，我还想好好看看这个美丽的蓝色星球和我们的国家。此外，我还想为我的孩子看看星星是否会闪烁。”Lin, the China Manned Space Agency deputy director, said the main objectives set for the mission include the handover of the space station from the Shenzhou XVII crew and carrying out a series of experiments and missions during the new crew's six-month stay.中国载人航天总局副局长林西强表示，这次任务的主要目标包括从神舟17号机组人员手中移交空间站，并在新机组人员六个月的停留期间进行一系列实验和任务。According to the plan, the Shenzhou XVIII crew members will return to the Dongfeng landing site in late October.根据计划，神舟18号机组人员将在10月下旬返回东风着陆点。During the mission, the country's first in-orbit aquatic ecological research project will be carried out. Using goldfish algae and zebrafish to establish a self-cycling aquatic ecosystem in orbit, the aim of the project is to make a breakthrough in the cultivation of vertebrates in space, Lin said.在执行任务期间，神州18号将开展我国首个在轨水生生态研究项目。利用金鱼藻和斑马鱼在轨道上建立一个自循环的水生生态系统，该项目的目的是在太空中培育脊椎动物方面取得突破。Cang Huaixing, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, said the experiment could help people build aquatic ecosystems and food-producing systems in space in the future.中国科学院空间利用技术与工程中心的研究员仓怀兴表示，这项实验可以帮助人们在未来的太空中建立水生生态系统和粮食生产系统。Besides continuing to recruit and train Chinese astronauts for upcoming space and lunar missions, China will also promote the participation of foreign astronauts and space tourists in flights to the space station, Lin said, adding that China is confident that its space station will welcome more new members from different backgrounds in the near future.林西强表示，除了继续为即将到来的太空和月球任务招募和培训中国宇航员外，中国还将促进外国宇航员和太空游客参与空间站的飞行。中国有信心在不久的将来，它的空间站将欢迎更多来自不同背景的新成员。Lin also said that China's crewed lunar exploration program is progressing smoothly, with the development of major component systems, such as the Long March 10 carrier rocket, the crewed spacecraft Mengzhou, the lunar lander Lanyue and the lunar landing suit, having been completed, with prototype production and tests being carried out.中国载人探月工程进展顺利，长征十号运载火箭、载人飞船“梦舟”号、月球着陆器“揽月”号和登月服等主要组成系统的研制已经完成，样机生产和测试正在进行中。In 2023, crewed lunar exploration was approved by the central government for launch and implementation, with the aim of landing Chinese on the moon by 2030.2023年，中央政府批准了载人探月计划的启动和实施，目标是到2030年实现中国人登月。The plan is to launch two carrier rockets to send a crewed spacecraft and a lunar lander into lunar orbit. The spacecraft and lunar lander will dock with each other, after which the astronauts will enter the lander, Lin said.该计划是发射两枚运载火箭，将载人飞船和月球着陆器送入月球轨道。飞船和月球着陆器将相互对接，之后宇航员将进入着陆器。lunar lander登月飞行器lunar orbit绕月轨道

In this episode, I sat down with Aaron Weller, the Leader of HP's Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE), focused on providing technical solutions for privacy engineering across HP's global operations. Throughout our conversation, we discuss: what motivated HP's leadership to stand up a CoE for Privacy Engineering; Aaron's approach to staffing the CoE; how a CoE's can shift privacy left in a large, matrixed organization like HP's; and, how to leverage the CoE to proactively manage privacy risk.Aaron emphasizes the importance of understanding an organization's strategy when creating a CoE and shares his methods for gathering data to inform the center's roadmap and team building. He also highlights the great impact that a Center of Excellence can offer and gives advice for implementing one in your organization. We touch on the main challenges in privacy engineering today and the value of designing user-friendly privacy experiences. In addition, Aaron provides his perspective on selecting the right combination of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for anonymity, how to go about implementing PETs, and the role that AI governance plays in his work. Topics Covered: Aaron's deep privacy and consulting background and how he ended up leading HP's Privacy Engineering Center of Excellence The definition of a "Center of Excellence" (CoE) and how a Privacy Engineering CoE can drive value for an organization and shift privacy leftWhat motivates a company like HP to launch a CoE for Privacy Engineering and what it's reporting line should beAaron's approach to creating a Privacy Engineering CoE roadmap; his strategy for staffing this CoE; and the skills & abilities that he soughtHow HP's Privacy Engineering CoE works with the business to advise on, and select, the right PETs for each business use caseWhy it's essential to know the privacy guarantees that your organization wants to assert before selecting the right PETs to get you thereLessons Learned from setting up a Privacy Engineering CoE and how to get executive sponsorshipThe amount of time that Privacy teams have had to work on AI issues over the past year, and advice on preventing burnoutAaron's hypothesis about the value of getting an early handle on governance over the adoption of innovative technologiesThe importance of being open to continuous learning in the field of privacy engineering Guest Info: Connect with Aaron on LinkedInLearn about HP's Privacy Engineering Center of ExcellenceReview the OWASP Machine Learning Security Top 10Review the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications Privado.ai Privacy assurance at the speed of product development. Get instant visibility w/ privacy code scans.TRU Staffing Partners Top privacy talent - when you need it, where you need it.Shifting Privacy Left Media Where privacy engineers gather, share, & learnDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Copyright © 2022 - 2024 Principled LLC. All rights reserved.

Despite the recent snowfall and chilly temperatures, the possibility of persistent dry conditions remains. This insight comes from Shane Hubbard, a research scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He sheds light on the influence of the ongoing El Niño event on weather patterns in the lower 48.

The ongoing El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean, particularly off the coast of South America, is causing record-setting warm winters in Wisconsin, leading to lower snowfall totals and drier conditions. Shane Hubbard, research scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison, is closely monitoring the situation as this El Niño event is considered one of the strongest in history. "The impacts of El Niño are evident in Wisconsin, with warmer conditions persisting from November through December and into mid-January," explains Hubbard. "This event is likely to be one of the top five El Niño events, and historically, we often see a transition from El Niño to La Niña conditions." Three consecutive La Niñas have been observed, with a high likelihood of another occurring next winter. This pattern of alternating between El Niño and La Niña conditions is common after a particularly strong El Niño event. Wisconsin has already experienced a significant decrease in snowfall, with southern regions approximately 17 inches below normal and even higher deficits in northern areas. The state is bracing for a cool down towards the end of January, but Hubbard says there is still potential for extended dry conditions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2024 could be an exciting year for Wisconsin agriculture with the new transportation opportunities provided through the Port of Milwaukee.  Pam Jahnke made a visit to the site where The DeLong Company has invested millions to get Wisconsin agricultural products rolling worldwide.  She talks with The Delong Company's export specialist, Brandon Bickham, about the hot spots for Wisconsin goods, and how ag products move overall across the Midwest to the world marketplace.Today Wisconsinites are facing some snowy weather.  While many consider it a challenge/pain, farmers look at it as moisture.  Charitee Seebecker talks to Shane Hubbard, researcher at the the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison.  He explains why this moisture is welcome, since parts of the state are still facing a deficit.  He also explains how hurricane's impact Wisconsin's weather.John Hineberg, market advisor with Total Farm Marketing in West Bend, joins Pam Jahnke to talk about lackluster exports impacting the new year markets. The World Ag Supply Demand report is out this week, and it could be a market mover. Winter weather is moving across the U.S. and also influencing what's happening with not only cattle movement, but cattle markets.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The goal of the OSUCCC – James Center for Cancer Engineering is simple. “We're not trying to engineer cancer; we're using engineering processes and principles to better diagnose and cure cancer,” said Matthew Ringel, MD, co-director of the Center along with Jonathan Song, PhD. The Center is a collaborative effort between the James, the College of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences and several other colleges across Ohio State. “We're taking advantage of the incredible people we have here at Ohio State,” said Ringel, a thyroid cancer specialist who also leads the James Department of Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics. “We have 56 members right now … and a core group is moving soon to the new Pelotonia Research Center (on Kenny Road).” There are numerous connections between cancer science and engineering. Developing the MRI technology used to diagnose cancer is a great example, Ringel said. The Center's areas of focus include imaging technology, creating and studying cancer tissue structures, using data analytics and artificial intelligence to better diagnose patients, and nanotechnology to deliver treatment more precisely and effectively. The Center's metastasis on a chip program is led by Aleksandar Skardal, PhD. Cancer cells are placed on “chips” and then researchers study how they metastasize and spread throughout the body. “This increases the discovery of the pathways that regulate the metastasis process as well as determining the drugs that may impact this,” Ringel explained. This process will ultimately be utilized for individual patients to better analyze and treat their specific cancer mutations “and is a great example of personalized care,” Ringel said. Another of the center's program's utilizes bio printing. “This is led by Dr. VanKoevering in our head and neck cancer department,” Ringel said. “For example, we can CT scan the jaw of a patient and then bio print an exact replica of [the portion of the jaw removed during surgery]. That bio-printed material then goes into the patient rather than a pre-made product that may not be the exact size.” Artificial intelligence programs can analyze groups of digital pathology images, or an individual patient's pathology “and assist our pathologists to help them better see patterns to give a better diagnosis and better predict outcomes,” Ringel said. Nanotechnology is being utilized to create microscopic structures that “can carry what we call cargo directly to the cancer cells,” Ringel said. “The goal is to better treat the cancer and minimize the side effects.”

Today is Monday, November 6. Here are some of the latest headlines from the Fargo, North Dakota area.  InForum Minute is produced by Forum Communications and brought to you by reporters from The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead and WDAY TV. For more news from throughout the day, visit InForum.com.

In this episode, we learn about the innovations and partnerships of HCC Northwest's Engineering Center of Excellence. Guests: Susan Thompson, Program Director Engineering and STEM Initiatives COE Engineering Jeffrey Stear, MS, PE Engineering/STEM Program Director COE Engineering June E. Keller, MS, PE Interim Dean, COE Engineering Web Links: hccs.edu/northwest hccs.edu/engineering   #engineering #innovation #stem #urbangarden #fooddesert

He's played for every team in the NHL. Meet the man behind the tunes at Maple Leafs home games  Guest: Jimmy Holmstrom, organist, Toronto Maple Leafs Wrexham FC delivers a soccer storybook ending for Ryan Reynolds  Guest: Maxine Hughes, journalist, Wrexham FC supporter, Welsh translator, on the FX Series “Welcome to Wrexham” Why humans have always been under the weather Guest: Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History, Oxford University, author of The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Why are the Northern Lights lighting up skies so far south  Guest: Scott Lidstrom, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison WaterTok - the viral trend of spicing up plain old water Guest: Tonya Spanglo, WaterTok creator on TikTok

Weather is such a big factor in when you can get out in the field to plant and how that crop is going to look come harvest. That's why Mid-West Farm Report called on an expert who can explain what weather patterns agriculture is watching that will determine how the growing season will start in 2023. Shane Hubbard is a research scientist at the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison. He starts with La Nina – the weather pattern we're in today, and explains how this pattern will play a role in the spring.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In der aktuellen Podcast-Folge erfahren wir mehr über das Google Safety Engineering Center und die Privacy Sandbox Initiative, die unter anderem die Basis für die entscheidenden Themen der Online-Sicherheit und des Datenschutzes bei Google schaffen.

Daniel Barel is the Chief Executive Officer of REE. Key topics in this conversation include: How Daniel's background in game theory has helped him shape the value REE aims to provide The design philosophy behind the REEcorner Why partnering with an existing platform provider can be cheaper and more effective than starting from square one The most promising applications for electrified and automated vehicles Links: Show notes: http://brandonbartneck.com/futureofmobility/DanielBarel https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielbarel/?originalSubdomain=il https://twitter.com/dbarel https://ree.auto/ Daniel's Bio: Daniel Barel has been the Chief Executive Officer of REE since 2013. Mr. Barel is a serial entrepreneur who founded several startups in the fields of medical devices, cyber security, and software applications. He co-founded SpecterX, an Israeli data management company in 2017 and has served as the chairman since 2019. Between 2007 and 2013, Mr. Barel served as Chief Executive Officer of CAUTES International, a boutique business consulting firm in Hong Kong that he founded in 2007. He previously served as chairman of WOOOF, a social networking platform he founded in 2012. Mr. Barel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Business Administration from the Hebrew University. About REE: REE (Nasdaq: REE) is an automotive technology leader whose mission is to empower companies to build any size or shape of electric or autonomous vehicle – from Class 1 through Class 6 – for any application and any target market. REE aims to serve as the underpinning on top of which EVs and AVs will be built and envisions a future where EVs and AVs will be 'Powered by REE'. REE's revolutionary technology – the REEcorner™ – packs critical vehicle components (steering, braking, suspension, powertrain and control) into a single compact module positioned between the chassis and the wheel, enabling REE to build the industry's flattest EV platforms with more room for passengers, cargo and batteries. REE uses x-by-wire technology for fully independent control of driving, braking and steering functions. REE's EV platforms afford complete freedom of design, enabling auto-manufacturers, OEMs, delivery & logistic fleets, Mobility-as-a-Service providers and new mobility players to design mission-specific EVs and AVs based on their exact business requirements and significantly reduce their time-to-market, lower TCO and meet zero-carbon regulations. Headquartered in Herzliya, Israel, REE has an Engineering Center in Coventry, UK, and Texas, U.S., ​​as well as subsidiaries including Japan and Germany. REE's unique CapEx-light manufacturing model leverages Tier-1 partners' existing production lines; the company's extensive partner ecosystem encompasses leading names including Hino Motors (truck arm of Toyota), Hitachi America, Magna International, JB Poindexter, Navya and American Axle & Manufacturing to provide a full turnkey solution. Future of Mobility: The Future of Mobility podcast is focused on the development and implementation of safe, sustainable, effective, and accessible mobility solutions, with a spotlight on the people and technology advancing these fields. Edison Manufacturing: At Edison Manufacturing, our specialty is building and assembling highly complex mobility products in annual quantities of ten to tens of thousands utilizing an agile, robust, and capital-light approach.

Dr. Eric Fretz, a Faculty Lecturer at the University of Michigan, leads this panel in a conversation related to barriers for veterans in the pursuit of post secondary education. Ryan Pavel – CEO of Warrior Scholar ProgramR.J. Jenkins –  Curriculum Designer at Columbia University Center for Veteran Transition and Integration Dr. Linda Euto – Associate Director | Research and Evaluation | Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University DR. ERIC FRETZ – GUEST HOST ON VETERANS RADIO From www.umich.edu … Eric Fretz is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a faculty lecturer who creates and delivers classes across campus (Psychology, Innovate Blue Entrepreneurship, School of Education, College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship). In addition to classes from the 100 to 600 level, he also delivers academic readiness classes for Student Veterans at U-M and other institutions locally and nationwide. The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University published an article in 2020 stating “post-secondary education is the top resource needed by most veterans.” They also published interesting statistics in 2019 as follows: Students using GI Bill benefits are more likely to be enrolled full time, with 10% of students enrolling in certificate programs,27% enrolling in associate's programs,43% enrolling in bachelor's programs, and20% enrolling in graduate programs.

Tonight on Perpetual Notion Machine host Emily Morris talks with Sanjay Limaye. Sanjay is a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center who studies what […] The post The Clouds of Venus and their Extremophile Residents appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

At Waste Management 2022 in Phoenix, DOE Environmental Management Chief of Staff Mike Nartker announced that the EM cleanup map had shrunk to 15 sites with the completion of cleanup at Brookhaven National Laboratory. That's down dramatically from the original 107 sites when EM was formed in 1989.  How much do we know about the 15 sites remaining to be cleaned up?  Some like Hanford, Oak Ridge and Savannah River are high-profile and high-budget. We hear a lot about them. Others are lower profile. Today, the Gone Fission Nuclear Report podcast shines the spotlight on one of those--the Energy Technology Engineering Center in Ventura, California.  Plus get the latest news from the Environmental Management program.

If terms like “NDA,” “IP,” and “Patent” have you uttering "Oofda", this episode is for you.   Legal jargon like this is prominent in the tech space, and knowing when (and if) you need protection can be confusing. In this episode, Tim Bornholdt chats with dynamic business attorney Susan Markey about when and where NDAs and patents play a role in protecting intellectual property.   **SHOW LINKS**   USPTO.gov Fundamentals for Entrepreneurs | https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/inventors-entrepreneurs-resources    University of Michigan College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship Video Series | https://cfe.umich.edu/entrepreneurial-basics-video-series-launched/    World Intellectual Property Organization | https://www.wipo.int/portal/en/index.html    Maslon LLP | https://www.maslon.com/  Connect with Susan Markey on LinkedIn |  https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-markey/   Rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts | https://constantvariables.co/review    Connect with The Jed Mahonis Group on LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/company/the-jed-mahonis-group    Show notes | https://constantvariables.co   Chat with The Jed Mahonis Group about your app dev questions | https://jmg.mn   Are you an iOS, Android or Rails developer? Connect with us | careers@jmg.mn 

Dr. Linda Schadler is the Dean of The College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Vermont (UVM). She has a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied the micromechanical behavior of fiber and polymer composites and a B.S. in Material Science from Cornell University. Dr. Schadler has many publications and academic awards. She is an outdoor enthusiast and has two grown children.Episode NotesDr. Linda Schadler shares her experiences becoming a dean and running the College of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences at UVM. She is incredibly accomplished and driven, and also talks about how her and her husband have always had a policy of family first.She talks about material science and what got her interested in materials science and academia. She shares some really fantastic and fun sounding projects during her career and how being in the groove with her students is the funnest part of her job. Music used in the podcast: Higher Up, Silverman Sound StudioAcronyms, Definitions, and Fact CheckProvost is a senior administrative officer in certain colleges and universities.The Molecularium Project is an informal science education project of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Molecularium Project introduces young audiences to the world of atoms and molecules using character driven stories, immersive animation, interactive games and activities, and state of the art molecular visualizations. Rensselaer's three principal scientist and educators behind the project are Linda Schadler, Richard W. Siegel, and Shekhar Garde. The Molecularium Project began as an outreach project of Rensselaer's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center. To realize the productions, the scientists employed the creative team Nanotoon Entertainment, led by writer and director V. Owen Bush, and writer/producer Kurt Przybilla. The Molecularium Project is funded by Rensselaer, the National Science Foundation, and New York State.In 2002, Dr. Schadler and Dr. Garde produced a seven-minute pilot show for the local planetarium called “Molecularium” for the Digistar II Planetarium system. It introduces children to the concepts of atoms and molecules from small molecules like H2O to larger molecules like polymers. (wikipedia)The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. (wikipedia)University of Vermont (UVM) - Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. Today, UVM is a top research university of a perfect size, large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet small enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship across all levels of study, from bachelor's to M.D. programs. (https://www.uvm.edu)

Kanok Boriboonsomsin is a Research Engineer at the University of California, Riverside in the College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology. Kanok is part of a group that assessed the readiness of different classes of off-highway equipment to move from internal combustion engines to electric battery packs as their primary energy sources – given the real-world power demands of these vehicles and the state of the art of current battery technologies – and we invited him into our forum to learn more about this research and what it might mean for the future of fluid power-driven and actuated vehicles. Learn more about the featured research: https://nfpahub.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-CRC-RWEW_v1.1.pdf  Contact Kanok: kanok@cert.ucr.edu Connect with the host Eric Lanke at elanke@nfpa.com or on Twitter @ericlanke

Morten Winther is a lead UX designer originally from Denmark but now in the Bay Area. He approaches design strategically and strives to ensure the future doesn't turn into a Sci-Fi dystopia. Morten's worked as a UX consultant and collaborated with organizations like Amazon, Absolut Vodka, and the Danish government, and he's currently shaping the future of mobility at Volkswagen Group Innovation.In this episode, we talked about:Things to consider to become a sustainable lead design companyResearch and Development designMorten's role in VW Group Innovation Center CaliforniaCreating bold new ideas - sort of mobility and automotive for the Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini, Bugatti and Porsche brands.Voice designCreative confidence & imposter syndromeMorten's mentorship life at ADPlistWhat is a good design?And MUCH MORE!Links and Resources:https://www.linkedin.com/in/mowinther/https://mortenwinther.dk/Best Interface is No Interface - https://amzn.to/3F19IdjErika Hall, Mule Design: https://muledesign.com/blog

Dale Throneberry introduces a guest host, Dr. Eric Fretz, and his entrepreneurial champion guests as follows: Kristin Gapske, Director of Entrepreneurial Center at Washtenaw Community College.   https://www.wccnet.edu/succeed/entrepreneurship-center/Matt Sherwood, VBOC for Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.  www.vetbizcentral.orgJulie Cowie, Michigan Veteran Entrepreneurs, Grand Valley State University www.gvsu.edu/mve Michael Hyacinthe, Michigan Veteran Entrepreneurs, Grand Valley State University Eric Fretz is a graduate of the University of Michigan and a faculty lecturer who creates and delivers classes across campus (Psychology, Innovate Blue Entrepreneurship, School of Education, College of Engineering Center for Entrepreneurship). In addition to classes from the 100 to 600 level, he also delivers academic readiness classes for Student Veterans at U-M and other institutions locally and nationwide.

In this Earth Day edition of the Perpetual Notion Machine, we head to a remote part of the globe, Antarctica. Our guests include Matthew Lazzara, meteorologist at the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center & the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison, and also department chair of Physical Sciences at Madison College, and Ethan Koudelka, student […] The post Antarctica, Icebergs, and Climate appeared first on WORT 89.9 FM.

A conversation with Braden Ishaug, the new Engineering Director for Amphenol Aerospace in Sidney, NY.  Braden has been with Amphenol for almost 10 years and spent the last three years in Pasadena running the AMAO Design Engineering Center.  We talk about the excitement of the challenge before him of coming up to speed on so many product lines.  We talk about the experience of starting up the Engineering Center and all of the roles he needed to fulfill while he was there.  We talk about his time at Alden and working in the medical devices industry.  We talk about being born and raised in Minnesota, and we judge his selections for desert island music, book, and movie.  This is The Interface. Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed. For The Interface podcast guest inquiries and suggestions: send an email to ccappello@amphenol-aao.com or send a LinkedIn message to https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjcappello

Jacquelynn Garofano, Ph.D., is program manager of the prestigious Margaret Ingels Engineering Development Program at Raytheon Technologies, a two-year, entry-level leadership development program for top engineering talent. In this role, she is committed to cultivating a diverse technical workforce and leading the next generation of engineers who will redefine the future of aerospace and defense. Research Scientist Dr. Garofano began her career as a research scientist at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) in 2011. Leveraging her materials engineering expertise, she solved technical challenges, provided failure investigation, and developed innovative technologies for the company’s aerospace and building industries. She has 11 technical publications to her credit, including the Applied Physics Letters, the Journal of Materials Science, the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, and Additive Manufacturing, and holds two U.S. patents. Trailblazer As a self-proclaimed STEMinist, an active member of SWE, and a first-generation university student, Dr. Garofano is driven to empower and inspire women to pursue careers in engineering by sharing her journey. During her graduate studies, she was appointed education and outreach coordinator for the Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena, a National Science Foundation-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Southern Connecticut State University, and Yale, broadening her reach in STEM advocacy. Dr. Garofano is also a community leader, past Chair of United Way Women United®, and presently a board director for the Girl Scouts of Connecticut, serving on the diversity, equity and inclusion committee. She is greatly involved in her local community, where she attends career fairs, outreach events to promote STEM literacy, and conferences to speak as an advocate for women in STEM, serving as a role model for the young women in attendance.Mentor, She has been named one of Connecticut’s Women of Innovation® twice. First, as the recipient of the Collegian Innovation and Leadership Award in 2011 and, most recently, as a finalist in the Large Business Innovation and Leadership category for 2020. She was also named to the 2013 and 2015 40 Under 40 lists by Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Business Journal, respectively, for professional excellence and leadership. She was recognized as the 2018 The Future is NOW awardee by the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund for her work to advance women and girls in STEM. Most recently, Dr. Garofano was awarded the 2020 Petit Family Foundation Women in Science Leadership Award, which “recognizes a woman working in STEM who is a leader in her field, and who makes a significant effort to support other women and encourage girls’ interests in STEM.” She also is a recipient of the 2020 Spark Award for the Society of Women Engineers – her first national recognition – “for fostering long-term mentorship grounded in mutual empowerment; and for positivity and motivational drive that spurs others, especially women, to pursue success on their own terms.”Education Dr. Garofano earned her B.S. in physics with honors from Southern Connecticut State University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Connecticut. A Connecticut native, she and her husband spend most of the fall and winter months hunting waterfowl.

Specifically their focus will be on precision agriculture and internet connect devices for both tree crops and row crops.

Interview with Prof. Patrick Vora (recorded 2020-09-16) Patrick Vora is Associate Professor and the director of the quantum science and engineering center at George Mason University. Patricks research interests are focused on studying quantum materials in particular 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures using various methods of optical spectroscopy. Vora Lab at GMU: https://vlab.physics.gmu.edu/ Vora Lab on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HitItWithLight Quantum Science and Engineering Center at GMU: https://qsec.gmu.edu/ SCIENCE OFF CAMERA PODCAST Anchor: https://anchor.fm/science-off-camera/ Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/2XCqCfz Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dx1nRn Google: https://bit.ly/2BC5mOw TELEDYNE PRINCETON INSTRUMENTS ONLINE Web: https://www.princetoninstruments.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Princeton_Inst LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/princeton-instruments Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/princetoninstruments Welcome to Science Off Camera, brought to you by Teledyne Princeton Instruments and Teledyne Photometrics, hosted by Dr. Matthew Kose-Dunn and Sebastian Remi. On this podcast you will find conversations with scientists and industry leaders in scientific imaging and spectroscopy.

Robert Holmes, president of Spectrum Weather and Specialty Insurance, returns to The Snow Magazine Podcast to discuss the importance of knowing your true numbers when it comes to snowfall totals, and how this directly impacts the bottom line. A frequent Snow Magazine contributor, Robert Holmes began his career as a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Space Science and Engineering Center, studying the weather of Antarctica. During his time there, he earned awards from the National Science Foundation and the US Navy and, in 1999, had an Antarctic geographical feature, Holmes Ridge, named in his honor by the United States Geological Survey. After 10 years, Holmes left academia and joined a hedge-fund-owned weather derivatives trading business. In 2008, he created a weather insurance agency designed to facilitate the sale of weather-based policies. Three years later, he founded his own brokerage, Spectrum Weather and Specialty Insurance. The Snow Magazine Podcast is hosted by Snow Magazine Editor Mike Zawacki and is supported by the Accredited Snow Contractor's Association (ASCA). With education certification that gives you a measurable competitive advantage, a discounted insurance program, networking events, and opportunities to be a part of a legislative effort that is forever changing the professional snow contractor industry, your ASCA membership never stops working for you. For more business management content focused on the professional snow and ice management industry, check out Snow Magazine Online.

In this episode, Ali Cinar joins Monica Westley to discuss his research and how he became interested in studying type 1 diabetes. Professor Cinar's research activities are concentrated in three areas: complex adaptive agent-based systems, modeling, simulation and control of biomedical systems, and supervision of manufacturing process operations. 

Ninety-four percent of Wisconsinites live in an area that meets all federal air quality standards. Fifty short years ago, that wasn't necessarily the case. The first Earth Day in 1970 paved the way for a couple of landmark environmental initiatives, including the signing of the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act is widely considered one of the most comprehensive and successful pieces of legislation ever signed into law. We continue to benefit from it today. The act has achieved tremendous reductions in air pollution, protecting public health and saving lives, while allowing for economic growth and development. To learn a bit more about what the Clean Air Act is and its impact on the reduction of air pollution throughout Wisconsin, we sat down with leading air quality experts Gail Good and Brad Pierce. Gail Good is the Director of the Air Management program at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and a co-chair for the National Association of Clean Air Agencies (NACAA) Emissions and Modeling Committee. Brad Pierce is the Principal Investigator of RAQMS (Real-time Air Quality Modeling System) and Director of the Space, Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.  Learn more about air quality in Wisconsin at https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/AirQuality/index.asp Download the Wisconsin Air Quality Monitoring App for Android devices here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.envitech.Wisconsin Download the Wisconsin Air Quality Monitoring App for Apple devices here: https://www.apple.com/lae/ios/app-store/--------------------------------------TRANSCRIPTAnnouncer: [00:00:00] Welcome to Wisconsin DNR's Wild Wisconsin - Off The Record podcast. Information straight from the source.Katie Grant: [00:00:11] Welcome back to another episode of Wild Wisconsin - Off The Record. I'm your host DNR's digital media coordinator, Katie Grant. The first Earth Day was a turning point for environmentalism in our country. The awareness it braised resulted in real changes, including the creation of the environmental protection agency and the signing of the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts.Without these acts, there were few things in place to limit pollution. As a state, Wisconsin has made major progress in the last 50 years when it comes to air quality. To help us celebrate Clean Air Month and the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act, we wanted to learn a bit more about how the air was in Wisconsin in 1970, how it is today and how you can help us keep the air clean for the future.On today's episode, we sat down with Gail Good and Brad Pierce. Gail is the director of the air management program here at the DNR. In addition to her work for the DNR, she is a co-chair for the National Association of Clean Air Agencies' emissions and modeling committee. Brad is the director of the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW -Madison.He has more than 25 years of experience in the design, development, and execution of global atmospheric models. Since 2001, he has been the principal investigator of the real-time air quality monitoring system, which has been used globally since 2012 to make real-time air quality predictions. Sit back and listen in to learn more about air quality in Wisconsin and hear the answers to questions you asked about it on Instagram.  Gail Good: [00:01:53] My name is Gail good. I'm the director of the Air management program here at DNR. Brad Pierce: [00:01:58] And I'm Brad Pierce. I'm the director of the Space Science and Engineering Center at UW-Madison. And I'm an atmospheric scientist. Katie Grant: [00:02:07] Fantastic. So we are here today to talk about the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act.  So what is the Clean Air Act? Gail Good: [00:02:16] The Clean Air Act is one of the most successful pieces of federal legislation that's ever been enacted. You mentioned it was put into place 50 years ago, and that's, that's true actually at the end of this year, right on December 31st, 1970. So when the Clean Air Act was signed into existence, it's gone through several amendments. Clean Air Act, um, was designed really to, uh, cut down on air pollution while growing the economy.And the benefit of that, the cutdown and air pollution is that it's actually saved lives over the 50 years it's been in existence. Katie Grant: [00:02:49] Fantastic. Was it just for Wisconsin or is it a federal thing that covers every state? Gail Good: [00:02:55] The Clean Air Act is a federal piece of legislation, so it does indeed cover every state.Katie Grant: [00:03:00] When it was enacted, what did it initially mean for residents of Wisconsin and I guess the entire country.Brad Pierce: [00:03:07] From personal experience? Katie Grant: [00:03:08] Yeah! Brad Pierce: [00:03:09] So I remember driving, I grew up in Minneapolis and we had family out East. I remember driving through Gary, Indiana on the way out East in the, in the early seventies and you could smell Gary, Indiana at that point, and it was very polluted.And now when you drive through Gary, Indiana, it doesn't smell like pollution anymore and the air much better. So, you know, that's from personal experience. Seeing that change dramatically over the, over my lifetime is pretty amazing. Gail Good: [00:03:41] Yeah, when the act was first put in place in the seventies it really gave us the ability to begin to study air pollution and its effects and how much it was kind of impacting people and of the world around them.And then over time, it's given us the ability to, you know, write permits for sources and just understand air quality issues in even more detail. Katie Grant: [00:04:03] What does it mean for us today? Because it's still in place now. Yes. So what, what does it mean for us today? What, what, might we see that we wouldn't see if we didn't have the Clean Air Act today.Gail Good: [00:04:15] So we're we implement the federal Clean Air Act here, um, in the air program at DNR. Um, we basically, what happens is through that act, EPA sets requirements and boundaries and things that we can do and implement here. So we're doing that here in the program. And then, um, we work within those boundaries to implement the act still today.So it's very much a part of what we're doing now in the air program. Katie Grant: [00:04:41] And you had mentioned seeing the change in Indiana, but what has changed about Wisconsin's air quality in the last 50 years, and how might people who aren't scientists notice a difference here in our state? Brad Pierce: [00:04:55] So I think it's a little. I do kind of global air quality. So for me it's a little easier to talk about it on maybe, for the United States as a whole. And if I look back on, uh, when I used to work at NASA, we were doing work with satellite data that was measuring the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere. So the particulates. And that's very relevant for the Clean Air Act because one of the, one of the, uh, pollutants that's, that is regulated as PM 2.5 which are small particulates.And as recently as 2000, 2003 when we looked at aerosols over the entire United States, we saw all sorts of heavy aerosol loading in the Ohio river Valley in the Southeastern US, and that would often get transported up into the, into Wisconsin.  We don't see that anymore. So much of that aerosol loading, uh, that was in the atmosphere frequently is pretty much gone now.And that is from the Clean Air Act and the, the, uh, reductions in the, uh, the sulfur dioxide emissions coming out of power plants. Katie Grant: [00:06:11] Okay. And you had mentioned PM 2.5 what is that? Brad Pierce: [00:06:15] So PM 2.5 stands for particulate matter, which is small particles like dust that you can see, uh, blowing through the air, but smaller than 2.5 microns.So those are very small. Those are smaller than the dust particles that you can see in the sunlight when you see dust floating in the air. And those are particularly relevant because they can, when you inhale, those, those can get deep inside your lungs and then have adverse health impacts. Katie Grant: [00:06:47] Okay. Gail Good: [00:06:47] Sometimes we call PM two-five "fine particles", so you may have heard that term before too.And um, that's, fine particles, that's really a success story here in Wisconsin. We did used to have areas of the state, um, in the Southeast part of the state that we called "non-attainment" for PM 2.5 or fine particles. And what that means is that they aren't meeting the federal PM 2.5 standards. We don't have PM two-five non-attainment areas in the state anymore.Um, through successful regulation, through cutting emissions, um, we've been able to see those areas that were previously not meeting the standard, now meeting the standards. So that's good news and you know, part of the success of how the act works is it really allows you to regulate, set those boundaries, set those requirements, and see real reductions in emissions that lead to reductions and measured concentrations of these pollutants.Katie Grant: [00:07:37] Yeah. Are there, you mentioned that it was. Fine particles, correct. Is, is there any other kinder is, is PM 2.5 really what the only thing that we're watching for?Gail Good: [00:07:48] No, we also measure PM 10 in the state, so that would be particulate matter with a diameter of 10 microns or less. Um, we also have at times measured what's called total suspended particulate, um, or particles that are even larger in size.  We're primarily primarily now focused on, um, PM 2.5 because of the health impacts that it can have. Katie Grant: [00:08:09] Fabulous.Brad Pierce: [00:08:10] And then there's also some of the other pollutants that are regulated are ozone. So that's the other side of the coin, that the Clean Air Act controls ozone abundances as well through controlling different emissions.Katie Grant: [00:08:23] Does all of Wisconsin meet those federal standards today? And if not, what is the DNR doing to change that? Gail Good: [00:08:30] That's a good question. So 94% of the population of our state lives in an area that's meeting all federal standards. But we do have some areas of the state that we do consider non-attainment that aren't meeting all of the federal standards.Um, Brad actually just referenced, um, the pollutant that has been a persistent concern for us in Wisconsin. That's ozone. We do have some ozone non-attainment areas along our lakeshore, which is where we have historically seen these ozone non-attainment areas. That's really due to, um, the unique kind of meteorology, um, that can occur in that area.And then the geography along the lakeshore as well. So, um, and also, um, besides the meteorology and geography, we're really subject to a lot of transported pollution from areas out of state. So, um, if you can imagine a nice summer day where you have southerly winds. So winds coming up from the South pulling some of the pollution that may be formed, another, or being admitted in other areas, um, up over our lakeshore. During the day on a nice hot, sunny day, you take these... ozone is not directly emitted to, we should say, it's actually formed from a reaction between nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds. Um, a nice sunny day, those kind of cook in the sunlight out over the lake. And then, um, if you've ever been, um, kind of visiting the lakeshore on one of those summer days, you might've noticed that the breeze picks up later in the afternoon often.So that ozone that's formed out over the lake then gets carried onto the lakeshore, um, with that lake breeze. That's why we tend to see some higher concentrations of ozone along our lakeshore and have historically had a persistent non-attainment issue there. Katie Grant: [00:10:19] How does Wisconsin compare to other States in implementing the Clean Air Act? Are we, we're, we're doing the best,  right? We're, we're awesome. Gail Good: [00:10:29] Of course, we are! Different States implement the act in different ways. Um, some states, um, are, um, implementing it, very implementing the act very directly. We're what's called a "state implementation plan" state. We are able to work within the boundaries of the Clean Air Act and the requirements that EPA has, um, to, to write our own rules so that we're able to implement them in the ways that we need to, to, to meet the requirements of the act. So little bit of a difference. Um, but everybody is really implementing, um, the Clean Air Act in the way that EPA requires them to.Brad Pierce: [00:11:06] I can chime in on that too. I've, I've worked with, uh, regulatory agencies in California. Uh, I've worked with them in Texas. I've worked with them in the mid-Atlantic states and in Long Island and New York state, and I've worked with Wisconsin. And so, uh, Wisconsin is the only place where I've been able to actually participate in a field campaign to try and understand exactly that ozone problem that we have along the western shore of Lake Michigan.So I'd say Wisconsin is, is one of those, uh, areas that is really going out of its way to try and address the, uh, the exceedances that it has and understand them better. Katie Grant: [00:11:46] That's what we like to hear. Wisconsin is always the best. Gail Good: [00:11:49] Right? And you did ask what we're doing, um, to, to try and address some of our issues. So maybe we can spend a few minutes talking about that because there are a lot of things that we do to try to address our ozone issues. Brad mentioned one, um, we have done and, and actively participated in it and engaged with a lot of our partners like Brad at the UW, um, to try and understand the issue.Um, you can't, uh, solve an issue until you can kind of measure it and, and then, um, and understand it. And so we've spent a lot of time, um, doing just that. We also, um, we work with an organization called LADCO or  Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium. They're a really important partner for us in working through some of the technical details that help us understand and define our ozone problem, um, so that we can work toward resolution.It also gives us a forum to engage with other states. Um, so I did mention that, you know, we are responsible for some of our air pollution, but there's a portion of it that, um, really is being transported to us from out of state. So working through LADCO gives us a forum to work with those other states to address some of those issues. That's just a few of the things that we're doing. And Brad, maybe you want to expand a little bit on some of the more specifics of some of the study that we've done.Brad Pierce: [00:13:07] So, yeah, we conducted, uh, the Lake Michigan ozone study, uh, in 2017. There actually was an earlier Lake Michigan ozone study that was mostly coordinated by the Wisconsin DNR. And, uh, as, as Gail mentioned, what's happening in terms of the ozone chemistry is happening out over the lake, so we don't have monitors, so that we can measure what's happening. So you need some unique ways to look at what's going on over the lake. The first Lake Michigan ozone study had aircraft that did profiles out over the lake and over land to try and get some idea uh, of, of what was going on, so we actually have, uh, measurement of the concentration of aerosols and ozone and its precursors, uh, right over the lake. We sort of took that and, and broadened the scope of the measurement. So we not only had aircraft that were doing profiles, so we know what the vertical distribution of ozone and other pollutants are, but also doing mapping, uh, so that we can actually see maps of that, uh, ozone precursor concentrations out over the lake, on land, and relate that to the, to the unique transport that's going on in in the area the unique meteorology. We also had a number of different ground-based measurements that were all along the shore, beginning in Schiller park, uh, in Chicago, right outside of Chicago O'hare, and moving all the way along up the western shore up to Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and made those measurements continuously during May and June of 2017. Um, and also had some additional enhanced measurements at one site in Illinois. So again, in partnership with LADCO and the, the Illinois Department of Environmental Quality, uh, we had a site there, uh, and we had a site up in Sheboygan where we were able to look at very detailed chemistry and meteorology in those regions.So we're, we're in the process of, of analyzing that data now beginning to publish, uh, results of that. Uh, we're at Wisconsin at Madison. We're taking that a step further right now and trying to use those measurements to help improve our ability to model, to forecast the meteorology that's associated with these ozone enhancement events.And we're working with the Wisconsin DNR and the Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium, uh, in a project funded by NASA to try and build the best modeling platform so that we can capture that unique meteorology and then use that to better understand how to control emissions to reduce those sort of, in the future.Katie Grant: [00:16:02] Yeah. It sounds like we know a lot, but there's still a lot for us to learn. Brad Pierce: [00:16:07] Yes. Katie Grant: [00:16:08] Yeah. Gail Good: [00:16:09] Yeah. We're, I think we have a relatively unique situation here. Um, there are other shoreline areas that experienced something similar, um, like we do where we're seeing elevated concentrations of ozone along the shoreline.But I think there are some uniquenesses to Wisconsin and in particular, this side of Lake Michigan that we're still working to understand. And then Brad talked a little bit about, you know, how to determine what's happening over water. And I think that's an area that we're still really trying to understand a little better. Um, you know, what really goes on to with those pollutants as they're over water. Katie Grant: [00:16:49] Yeah. So we opened up on Instagram and let everyone know that we were going to be doing this episode and asked what sort of questions do our followers have about air quality and just the air in general in Wisconsin. So here's a couple of those questions:Does Wisconsin require vehicle emission testing? Why or why not? Gail Good: [00:17:11] Yes. There are some parts of our state that do require vehicle emission testing. Um, those areas are, um, in Kenosha County, Milwaukee County, Ozaukee. We're seeing Sheboygan, Washington, and Waukesha counties. Um, the reason that we do that, um, is that these are areas that have historically, uh, violated the ozone standard.They were historically non-attainment areas. Um, some of them still are, um, and some of them aren't. But when an area is not attaining a standard for some time, when it does eventually attain a standard and we're able to re-designate that area, we want to be able to maintain that good air quality in that area.So, um, even some of those counties that are not at this point, um, non-attainment, those requirements are in place to make sure that that area can maintain that good air quality and not be in a situation where they're violating a standard again. Brad Pierce: [00:18:07] Yeah, and I think simply put, part of the reason we've seen such reductions in emissions over the last 50 years is, is kind of twofold. One, we put scrubbers on power plants and that reduced both, uh, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide emissions, and we put catalytic converters in cars, and if those catalytic converters aren't functioning properly, then we're back where we were in 1970. So those, uh, the, the emissions testing is to make sure that the technology that's been developed and put in place to reduce emissions is still functioning right.Katie Grant: [00:18:46] Yeah. Makes sense. You've kind of alluded to this already, but why does Door County have some of the worst air quality in Wisconsin at times? Gail Good: [00:18:54] Yeah, that's a really good and interesting question. Um, so I mentioned that the lakeshore areas are where we tend to see our higher concentrations of ozone. Door County, right, is, um, up at the you know, tip of that Door peninsula and, um, there aren't a lot of sources of air pollution there, so you might not expect to see high concentrations of ozone there. Um, like you might expect to see in some other parts of the state that do have some more of those, um, typical kind of emissions sources.Door County is interesting though. I mentioned, um, earlier that, um, some of the ozone issue, um, is, is really caused by transported pollution from, from out of our state. And also, um, on those nice summer days where you have that southerly wind. So sometimes if you were able, we, we do actually provide air quality information to the public.So you can kind of see how the monitors that we have along the lakeshore that are measuring air quality, you can see how they change over the course of a day. And so sometimes what you see, if you can kind of imagine that southerly wind coming up along lakeshore, transporting that pollution, cooking over the lake and kind of working its way up the lakeshore, what we'll see is, um kind of the, the, you'll see the concentrations increase over the day from South to North, and so then eventually towards the end of the day as that southerly wind has kind of helped push that pollution up along the lakeshore, you'll see Door County and the monitor that's there at Newport State Park,  you'll see that monitor show an elevated concentration of ozone, often towards the end of the day. That southerly wind has just worked, has helped push the pollution up to that point. Katie Grant: [00:20:32] How big of a difference is there in air quality between the Northern part of the state and the Southern part of the state?Gail Good: [00:20:39] Um, well, that depends on what type of pollution you're talking about. Um, there is a difference. We talked about PM to five a little bit earlier and what that is, we do see differences in PM 2.5 concentrations. As you look from North to South, um, the Southern part of this. State, and especially the Southeast part of the state tends to be more heavily populated, so you have more vehicles.Um, and you also have more industry relatively, you know, relative to the Northern part of the state, um, down South. So we do tend to see higher concentrations of fine particles in the Southern part of the state compared to the Northern part of the state.Katie Grant: [00:21:16] What types of jobs are available with the DNR involving air quality?Gail Good: [00:21:20] We have lots of jobs. We, um, actually we, um, have about at any given time, between 110 and about 120 people working in the air program, so working on air quality issues. Katie Grant: [00:21:32] Throughout the state or just here in Madison?Gail Good: [00:21:34] Throughout the state. Um, we've got probably about 40% of the program working here in Madison and about 60% of the state, um, working around the state.Um, we have people here that are, um, obviously monitoring the air quality. We've talked about that a lot here. Um, so we. We do have a fair number of people who work around the state to make sure that those monitors are operating correctly and that they're doing what they need to do, um, to record concentrations so the public can understand what's going on with their air quality any given day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.Um, we also have people here who do a lot of policy work. I mentioned that, that the act, you know, we're, we're really implementing federal requirements here. So we have a lot of policy folks who look at what those federal requirements are, keep track of changes that are being made at the federal level and work on how we're going to implement those throughout the state.We do write permits for our sources around the state as well. So we have, um, a lot of engineers working in the program who, um, write permits to make sure that people understand, um, what they have, what they need to do to be able to comply with different standards. Um, we have compliance inspectors who go out and work with the sources to make sure they understand the requirements of their permit and to make sure that they understand how to operate their equipment, um, and, and how to remain in compliance with the standards and with their permit. And then, you know, finally, we've got to make sure that we have people who can, um, we've got to have funds basically to do our work.So we, we rely heavily on, um revenue, kind of that we're bringing in from the sources. Um, and then also we rely on federal grants, um, to do our work as well. So we need people to help us do that, um, also in the program. So really a range of jobs. Katie Grant: [00:23:25] Yeah. Brad Pierce: [00:23:25] And meteorologists to help forecast our quality.Gail Good: [00:23:28] We do have a meteorologist on staff. Thanks Brad. Katie Grant: [00:23:33] I always get emails from him at, as soon as I leave the office, I get the email, Hey, we're going to have to issue an alert tonight. And I'm like, I just got home. Well, just got home. Gail Good: [00:23:45] We're always out there and making sure that air quality is good for people. We want people to know what's going on with their air quality. And our meteorologist is a critical part of that. Um, and the work that we do to make sure the public's informed about what's going on with their air. Katie Grant: [00:23:59] Yeah. Brad Pierce: [00:24:00] That's another good example of how Wisconsin collaborates with all the states within the great lakes area, because those meteorologists get together Monday, Wednesday, Friday during the, uh, the ozone season in particular to say, what's the outlook here?And they're working together, uh, across, you know, from various different states to get the best idea of what's happening. Katie Grant: [00:24:24] Yeah. So. What is the protocol here in Wisconsin, uh, for responding to air quality events like the Northern Metals fire in Minnesota?Gail Good: [00:24:36] I'm really glad you're asking that because that's actually a place where our meteorologist is, is really critical as well.Um, our, our, um, staff meteorologist is constantly, um, watching what's going on, um, and looking for situations like fires that may become impactful to our state. So our meteorologist is looking at maps, collaborating with other forecasters across the state to understand what's going on, whether it be something that's happening in Canada or Minnesota, as you mentioned.Um, and, in looking at satellite imagery and lots of other different tools to understand if we might be impacted by wildfire smoke here in Wisconsin. Another important tool that we have to identify, um, smoke events or wildfire events is our monitoring network. Uh, we talked about PM 2.5 and when we do see wildfires that are impacting our state, um, if that, if that wildfire smoke is making it down towards the ground level we will see that in our monitors and we will record higher concentrations of PM two-five. So the meteorologists and the monitoring folks are working together to keep an eye on situations like that. And then we do try to use a variety of means to get information out to the public.Our air quality mapping is available any time. Um, uh, you can go and take a look at your air quality, um, through the web at any time. We do also try to utilize social media, um, when we're seeing events to really spread the word that, Hey, if you're seeing kind of hazy air today, um, we are being impacted by smoke and we're seeing that on our monitors.And you know, a person may want to keep track of, of that, um, to make sure that, you know, if the levels of smoke are getting kind of elevated and we're recording higher concentrations, um, certain individuals may just want to be aware of that to be careful about being outdoors at that time. Katie Grant: [00:26:28] Yeah. From your research perspective. Um, do events like that mean anything for you? Is it, uh, an opportunity to explore this more?Brad Pierce: [00:26:37] So the event you were first referring to is a factory fire. Katie Grant: [00:26:42] Okay. Brad Pierce: [00:26:42] And I guess the other part of that is the, the local air quality management works with the EPA to make sure there, if there is any toxic pollutants.So not just the, not just the ozone and the PM 2.5 but, but toxics that monitors are deployed in the vicinity of, of that incident so that the public is. So that that ambient air is monitored and looking for any toxic release. So I think that was a big part of that deployment. The fires, the wildfires in general are something that that, as a researcher, I'm very interested in. And it's really, as I said earlier, we used to be concerned about regional haze events because of sulfate aerosols. And those are largely, those don't happen as much now, but as you know, fires in the Western US and often in the Southeastern US are now quite prevalent. And so we do look at those very carefully. And again, we use satellite measurements. Cause in some cases these are large enough plumes that you can track them across the country and out over the Atlantic ocean. So that's an area that we're researching quite a bit right now. Katie Grant: [00:27:55] Yeah. Gail Good: [00:27:56] Yeah. So really it does really depend on the type of fire that we're looking at in terms of the response that we might have and how much the program might get involved in it looking at that. There's certainly been other types of, um, fires at, you know, at sources where we've been concerned about, um, one pollutant or, or another. Um, and, and we would get involved in that in a variety of ways. It's usually in providing some technical assistance to folks like EPA who, um, do more response monitoring, um, for different toxics and helping kind of analyze the data and, um, just informing the public where we need to.Katie Grant: [00:28:29] Does pollution here ever get trapped close to the ground? Like it does in Salt Lake City? Why or why not? Gail Good: [00:28:35] It does. Um, that typically happens in something called a Temperature Inversion. So that's normally, um, if you could kind of imagine yourself at ground level and then kind of traveling up through the atmosphere, you would expect the temperature to get colder as you moved from the ground up.Sometimes though, um in a temperature inversion the temperature actually might, um, actually rise as you go up. And so, um, oftentimes we'll see these in the winter where you have, um, from the ground to a certain level, the temperature is going down, but then there's a spot where the temperature starts to go back up.And that's called a Temperature Inversion. It kind of acts as like a lid, if you will. Um, and can trap pollutants. That is what you're referring to in Salt Lake City. That does happen, and it can happen here as well.Brad Pierce: [00:29:22] It's that temperature inversion out over Lake Michigan that leads to the trapping of those pollutants and some of the ozone enhancements along the shore, and that's something that happens in the springtime when the water's cold and you get this a colder Marine boundary layer.Katie Grant: [00:29:40] Okay. What can residents do to help further improve the air quality here in Wisconsin? Gail Good: [00:29:47] Thanks for asking. There's a lot that people can do to learn about their air quality and take action. Um, I mentioned earlier that we offer, um, access to our monitor data all the time through our website. That's a really great place to kind of learn about air quality, learn what's going on with your air that day and stay informed.Um, we also do offer some mobile applications for that too, so you can go, whether you're Google or, um or Apple, you can go to wherever you go to get your apps and look for Wisconsin AQM and, um, download an application that can help you really stay informed about what's going on with your air quality throughout the day.There's also actions that anyone can take. Um, we do have a page on our website called, um,  "Do a little, Save a lot" and it really helps people understand that they can do small things that can be very impactful to their air quality. So it might be things like considering a different type of lawnmower or, um, really working to make sure that you're using your vehicle most efficiently.Your, Brad mentioned catalytic converters, and you know, getting your car checked out and making sure that it's working to its optimal function. There are lots of different things that people can do to, to really make a big impact on their air quality.Brad Pierce: [00:31:03] Ride your bike. Take a walk, instead of driving in the car. Gail Good: [00:31:07] Yeah, good one.Katie Grant: [00:31:09] So those little things really do make that big of a difference. Gail Good: [00:31:12] They can, especially when we're talking about things like mobile sources or vehicles, those are really impactful. So riding your bike is a great way to get exercise and to really reduce emissions from, from your vehicle. You have zero emissions if you're riding your bike.So let's, yeah, absolutely. Those things add up.Katie Grant: [00:31:29] You've been listening to Wild Wisconsin, a podcast brought to you by the Wisconsin DNR. Still have questions about air quality in our state. Send those questions to DNR podcast@wisconsin.gov and we'll work with Gail, Brad, and the rest of the air team here at the DNR to get you answers.For more great content, be sure to subscribe to Wild Wisconsin wherever you get your podcasts. Leave us a review or tell us how you'd like to hear from on a future episode. Thanks for listening.

Michael Steep has been at the forefront of technology for the last 30 years. He is the author of the newly released book, “First Light of Day: A Cautionary Tale of Our Future”, and the founder and executive director of Stanford University School of Engineering's Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities Program. In his current role, Mike has built a bridge between Stanford's disruptive technologies labs and 30 corporate partners—including Amazon, Cushman & Wakefield, Hitachi, Visa —to create new opportunities for innovation and monetization. In addition to his work at Stanford, Mike is an Adjunct Professor of Digital Business at the Imperial College London, and serves on the Smart Cities Board of London advising commercial clients on the impact of emerging technology in their industries. Earlier, Mike held management positions for the world-renown tech research firm, PARC (formerly Xerox PARC), and for tech giants including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Apple. In the process, he has witnessed first-hand some of the greatest technological breakthroughs and transformations and worked with companies such as BMW, Google, P&G, L'Oreal, AirBus Amazon, Cushman & Wakefield, Hitachi, and Visa, to develop disruptive technologies for new lines of business. A frequent keynote speaker, Mike is an active venture investor in disruptive technologies. He earned his MBA from the University of Virginia, and his BA from the University of Pennsylvania. What you'll learn about in this episode: How disruptive technology is growing at an exponential rate, but few people know how to transform disruptive technology into opportunity What led Mike to found Stanford's Engineering Center for Disruptive Technology and Digital Cities Why the culture of most large technology companies is what kills innovation as they continue to reward mediocrity How to change the culture starting at the top The three things that serve as major roadblocks to innovation Why it is so powerful to not have any preconceived notions of what you cannot do Why the Maverick Model doesn't work when you are trying to change a culture How much time you should spend networking When you network, why it is important to identify both navigators and experts and how to leverage them How to create value for others when you are networking and need help from them Additional resources: First Light of Day: A Cautionary Tale of Our Future by Mike Steep: https://www.mikesteep.com/first-light-of-day Website: https://gpc.stanford.edu/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesteep/ Twitter: @MichaelJTSteep Twitter: @GPCStanford

Jordan Gerth from the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies Space Science and Engineering Center discusses how 5G could disrupt weather forecasting. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carolinaweather/message

A growing number of agencies are dusting off old procurement rules that lie outside the Federal Acquisition Regulation. These so-called other transaction authorities are perfectly legal. For more detail, Ben McMartin, chief of the acquisition management office at the Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

The U.S. Army has a legacy of autonomous vehicle design, development, and testing, and this is a big benefit to civilian automobile manufacturing. Here, at the Detroit Arsenal, engineers like Bernie Theisen are hard at work at the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, or TARDEC. We welcomed Bernie for this episode of Driven’s Mobility Moments Podcast. Learn more about how Detroit is the region leading the world in mobility by visiting detroitdriven.us. Sign up for our newsletter while you're there.

Themen heute:    Beleuchtung am Fahrrad   ///   Magna und Altran gründen gemeinsames Engineering Center in Marokko 1. Die Tage werden kürzer und wer viel mit dem Rad unterwegs ist, fährt immer häufiger im Dunklen. Fahrradfahrer sollten daher jetzt die Beleuchtung ihres Gefährts checken, empfiehlt man bei der D.A.S. Rechtsschutz Leistungs-GmbH. Sie sollte vollständig und funktionstüchtig sein. Vorgeschrieben sind vorn ein weißer Scheinwerfer und ein weißer Rückstrahler. Hinten muss es ein rotes Rücklicht und einen roten Rückstrahler geben. Übrigens: Seit Juni 2017 sind nicht nur Fahrradbeleuchtungen mit Dynamo, sondern auch solche mit Batterie oder Akku zulässig. Die Dynamopflicht ist also passé. Die Beleuchtung einschließlich Energiequelle darf abnehmbar sein. Ohne sie zu fahren, ist allerdings nur bei hellem Tageslicht erlaubt. Auch rote Rückleuchten mit Bremslichtfunktion und weiße Frontlampen mit Tagfahrlicht- und Fernlichtfunktion sind erlaubt. Allerdings darf die Beleuchtung andere Verkehrsteilnehmer nicht blenden. Unzulässig sind blinkende Leuchten. Zur Pflichtausstattung eines Fahrrads gehören auch Reflektoren vorn und hinten an den Pedalen. Um von der Seite gut zu sehen zu sein, müssen Fahrräder entweder je zwei gelbe Speichenreflektoren am Vorder- und Hinterrad oder weiße Reflexstreifen an den Reifen oder Felgen haben. Nicht vorgeschrieben, aber empfehlenswert sind reflektierende Kragen, Gurte oder Westen, die sich Fahrradfahrer bei schlechten Sichtverhältnissen umhängen können. 2. In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich Marokko zu einem wettbewerbsfähigen, exportorientierten Produktionsstandort für internationale Automobilhersteller entwickelt. Das Joint Venture zwischen Magna und Altran Technologies SA schafft eine neue Ressource für Ingenieursdienstleistungen im Bereich Fahrzeugtechnik. Die Magna-Gruppe für Gesamtfahrzeugentwicklung und -produktion und der weltweit führende Anbieter von Forschungs- und Entwicklungsdienstleistungen Altran halten jeweils 50 Prozent an dem Gemeinschaftsunternehmen. Unter dem Namen MG2 bündelt das Joint Venture mit Sitz in Casablanca, Marokko das Gesamtfahrzeug-Know-how und die Prozesskompetenz von Magna mit den Stärken von Altran als lokal etabliertem Partner. Zunächst werden rund 500 Ingenieure aus beiden Unternehmen dort für das Joint Venture tätig sein.  „Durch das Joint Venture mit Altran kann Magna seine Wettbewerbsposition stärken, da wir nun auch in Marokko erstklassige Entwicklungsdienstleistungen anbieten können. Die Verfügbarkeit von umfassenden Engineering-Know-how, die Nähe zu Europa und die wachsende Präsenz machen Marokko zu einem idealen Standort für dieses neue Engineering Center“, sagte man bei Magna Steyr.   Diesen Beitrag können Sie nachhören oder downloaden unter:

Almost a year ago to the day of this recording, the University of Illinois announced the opening of the $15.6 million NSF-funded Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Professor Nadya Mason as the center’s director. The goal of the center is to build highly interdisciplinary teams of researchers and students. One of the rock star physicists on the Illinois campus, she specializes in condensed matter physics.

172.000 Mitarbeiter arbeiten weltweit für Magna, einen der weltweit größten Automobilzulieferer mit 340 Produktionsstätten, 93 Produktentwicklungs-, Engineering- und Vertriebszentren in 28 Ländern. Eines dieser Engineering- Center liegt in Niederösterreich nicht weit von der deutschen Grenze entfernt. Und genau da haben wir uns mal umgeschaut! Darum geht es diesmal!Wer aus Deutschland kommend in Richtung Wien fährt und auf Höhe von Linz einen Abstecher nach St. Valentin macht, der kommt eventuell auch an einem Gebäude vorbei, dass einem der weltweit größten Automobilzulieferer gehört. Magna. Dass vor dem Gebäude eine größere Anzahl von Traktoren zu sehen ist, hat mich verwundert. Also habe ich Peter Seidl, Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing von Magna Powertrain gefragt, ob Magna jetzt unter die Traktorenhersteller gegangen ist:   Peter Seidl: Nein, sind wir nicht, aber wir sind der Besitzer des Gesamtareals hier. Dieses Werksgelände in St. Valentin hat alles zusammen ca. 260 Hektar mit angrenzender Landwirtschaft, die wir aber nicht selbst betreiben, sondern die verpachtet ist an Bauern hier im Umland.  Wir haben auch ein sehr großes Testgelände hier, wo wir unsere Fahrzeuge sowohl on Road, als auch off Road – wie man heute zu neudeutsch sagt – testen. Ursprünglich von der Steyr-Daimler-Puch als Standort für Schlepper, Ladewagen und Frontlader betrieben, wurde das Werk – nach der Übernahme durch Magna – zu einem Engineering-Standort für Magna Powertrain, zum Engineering Center Steyr (ECS).  Peter Seidl:    Also wir machen hier in St. Valentin sehr vieles, was Hardware-Engineering ist für die Magna Powertrain. Wir haben hier auch die entsprechenden Testequipments zur Verfügung, sei es Motorprüfstände, sei es Chassisprüfstände, seien es Getriebeprüfstände, Rollenprüfstand – wir haben sogar einen Höhenprüfstand hier, wir haben einen Thermalprüfstand hier, so dass wir faktisch alles, was am Fahrzeug oder im Powertrainbereich an Tests benötigt wird, hier durchführen können. Das bereits angesprochene Testgelände steht dem Engineering Center Steyr natürlich in nichts nach.  Es liegt unmittelbar neben dem Engineering Center und umfasst rund 40ha Fläche. Asphalt- und Schlechtwegstrecken sowie bis zu  7km lange, unbefestigte Geländestrecken mit variierenden Steigungen sind ideal für die Nutzfahrzeug-Erprobung. Doch nicht nur Nutzfahrzeuge kann man dort auf den unbefestigten Wegen hervorragend erproben, sondern natürlich auch sonstige Off-Road-Fahrzeuge. Für „normale“ Pkw bieten sich natürlich eher die Asphaltstrecken an, die aber auch eine Herausforderung für das jeweilige Fahrzeug darstellen können. Eines kann man jedenfalls mit ziemlicher Sicherheit festhalten. Die fast 800 Mitarbeiter im Engineering Center Steyr von Magna Powertrain werden auch in Zukunft sicher nicht unter Langeweile leiden. Denn es gibt noch viel zu entwickeln und zu testen!      Diesen Beitrag können Sie nachhören oder downloaden unter:

Hurricane Harvey is one of the worst disasters ever seen in Texas. A new analysis from the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center has determined that Harvey is a 1-in-1,000-year flood event The section of Southeast Texas  that has been affected is equivalent in size to New Jersey. The past week many people have been assisting the Texans and the world watches and prays for all of those who have lost their lives, homes and more.  President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived on the scene late last week and social media erupted. This time is was not the President but the First Lady who was being scrutinized.  Why did she choose to wear heels to visit Texas after Hurricane Harvey's aftermath.  The F words team battles it out this week. What's the big deal? Is it a big deal on what someone wears? We would love to hear from you. Let us know what side you're on. As well, the F words team does want everyone to be aware that this will take many years and decades to fix what has happened in Texas with the floods and Hurricane. So how can you help? There are may organizations. We have listed a few here and please add to the list.  American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey2 Salvation Army: https://give.salvationarmyusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=27651&mfc_pref=T&27651.donation=form1 Houston Food Bank: http://www.houstonpress.com/restaurants/texas-food-banks-mobilize-for-hurricane-harvey-how-you-can-help-9735249 Austin Pets Alive: https://www.austinpetsalive.org/donate/ Portlight: Relief for people with disabilities http://www.portlight.org/hurricane-harvey-announcement.html Airbnb is helping to find homes for displaced people: https://www.airbnb.com/disaster/hurricaneharveyevacuees​   thanks for listening this week @taylor_kaye @natashankpr  @mantella_a

Hurricane Harvey is one of the worst disasters ever seen in Texas. A new analysis from the University of Wisconsin's Space Science and Engineering Center has determined that Harvey is a 1-in-1,000-year flood event The section of Southeast Texas  that has been affected is equivalent in size to New Jersey. The past week many people have been assisting the Texans and the world watches and prays for all of those who have lost their lives, homes and more.  President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrived on the scene late last week and social media erupted. This time is was not the President but the First Lady who was being scrutinized.  Why did she choose to wear heels to visit Texas after Hurricane Harvey's aftermath.  The F words team battles it out this week. What's the big deal? Is it a big deal on what someone wears? We would love to hear from you. Let us know what side you're on. As well, the F words team does want everyone to be aware that this will take many years and decades to fix what has happened in Texas with the floods and Hurricane. So how can you help? There are may organizations. We have listed a few here and please add to the list.  American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org/hp/harvey2 Salvation Army: https://give.salvationarmyusa.org/site/Donation2?df_id=27651&mfc_pref=T&27651.donation=form1 Houston Food Bank: http://www.houstonpress.com/restaurants/texas-food-banks-mobilize-for-hurricane-harvey-how-you-can-help-9735249 Austin Pets Alive: https://www.austinpetsalive.org/donate/ Portlight: Relief for people with disabilities http://www.portlight.org/hurricane-harvey-announcement.html Airbnb is helping to find homes for displaced people: https://www.airbnb.com/disaster/hurricaneharveyevacuees​   thanks for listening this week @taylor_kaye @natashankpr  @mantella_a

How do you teach ethics to engineering students? Guests Dr. Beccy Hambright and Richard Burgess talk about their experience tackling that question, particularly when it comes to students in K-12. They share their history at the Texas Tech University College of Engineering, where they supported students and teachers in engineering and engineering ethics. Hambright ran the Texas STEM Center until 2012, and Burgess teaches engineering ethics classes to students. Hambright and Burgess then discuss the importance of ethics in the field, pedagogical techniques for K-12, the importance of diversity, and project-based learning in class. Mentioned in this episode: • Murdough Center for Engineering Professionalism at Texas Tech University: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/murdoughcenter/index.php • National Institute for Engineering Ethics: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/murdoughcenter/center/niee/ • Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System: http://tinyurl.com/o82q6ah • Texas STEM Center Coalition: http://www.txstem.org/ • Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering: http://www.tame.org/ • Contact info for Richard Burgess: richard.burgess@ttu.edu • Contact info for Dr. Beccy Hambright: beccy.hambright@ttu.edu • The Buck Institute: https://www.bie.org/ • National Academy of Engineering Center for Engineering Ethics and Society: https://www.nae.edu/26187.aspx Our closing music is from "Late for School" by Bleeptor, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0. Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net. The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com. Check out the book and ebook “Engineer's Guide to Improv and Art Games” by Pius Wong, on Amazon, Kindle, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook, and other retailers: http://www.pioslabs.com/improv4design.html

CES 2016 It's that time of year again, the time when hordes of people descend on Las Vegas, Nevada to get a glimpse of all the new technology manufacturers are showing off. Last year over 170,000 people attended. This year, there will be two less. With one HT Guy in Seattle, we weren't able to attend in person. But luckily many of our peers were, so we get to sift through their highlights without having to walk for miles through countless booths and crowds to see everything. Samsung, Philips and others bring Dolby Atmos Soundbars Samsung introduced a soundbar (HW-K950) that will attempt to create a Dolby Atmos experience using a wireless speakers. The system includes a soundbar with three forward facing speakers and two pointed towards the ceiling. The system uses wireless surround speakers that also include Atmos speakers. Finally, there is a wireless subwoofer that gets you a 5.1.4 Dolby Atmos system with only four speaker enclosures.  No pricing or ship date was announced. Philips is also shipping a Dolby Atmos Soundbar. Called the Philips Fidelio soundbar it includes 18 drivers, including two upward-firing speaker modules. Angled tweeters create a wide soundfield. Total output is 400 watts, including 8-inch 220-watt wireless subwoofer. Other features include Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 decoding, dedicated center-channel speaker, two HDMI 1.4a inputs, HDMI audio return channel, and optical and coaxial inputs. no pricing was announced. Samsung's Family Hub Is A Fridge Of The Future Among the reasons why this is deemed a smart home technology of the future is it touts 21.5-inch 1080p monitor outside and few cameras and sensors within so you will know what is inside the refrigerator without the need to open its door or view the interior of the fridge remotely on your smartphone. This is specifically advantageous if you are in a grocery store but do not know what particular foods to buy. You can tag expiration dates on refrigerator items so you use them before you lose them. The giant screen is more than just a peek inside the box, you can use it as a family message board, sync your family calendar to it, shop for groceries or surf the web for recipes. It has speakers, so you can listen to music, and we assume the web interface would allow you to get to Netflix or YouTube as well, but we don't know for sure. LG Annouced Premium LCD-Based Super UHD, 8K TVs LG announced a premium line of UHD TVs (UH9500, UH8500 and UH7700). According to LG, they will all be brighter, better contrast ratios, and include a wider color gamut and HDR. LG will also introduce their first 8K TV, the 98 UH9800. For reference, Sharp's 8K screen goes for close to $130,000! According to LG the UH9500 and UH8500 increase the color gamut to approximately 90% of the Digital Cinema Initiative (DCI) P3 color space. LG is also claiming high quality sound from the UH9500 due to a Harman Kardon speaker system. Pricing was not available LG's rollable OLED display LG is showing the 30R 18-inch rollable display. They claim the display can be "rolled-up like a newspaper." They have been showing flexible OLED for a couple years, so how this display improves on concepts we saw in 2014 and 2015 isn't obvious, but we expect it to have better resolution and perhaps some built-in electronics for use as an actual television/monitor. The benefit of a rollable display in a consumer environment is pretty obvious. As TVs get to be rediculously large, transporting them, getting them in the door, etc. will become very difficult. If the screens could be rolled up, then just tacked up on a wall once you get them home, it could make 100” screens in every home a reality. Not to mention video walls that can turn into faux-windows ala Total Recall would be pretty sweet. Simple Control Adds Amazon Echo Integration Simple Control announced that its popular iOS apps for control of AV gear and smart home devices have been certified by Amazon for use with their Amazon Echo product. Amazon Echo includes Alexa, a cloud-based voice service that can be used to give commands to Simple Control. Once Simple Control is paired with Amazon Echo, users can control the home environment simply by speaking commands to Alexa, such as "Alexa, tell Simple Control to turn on the TV in the kitchen." The Simple Control and Simple System apps operate thousands of devices like TVs, cable and satellite boxes, receivers, Blu-ray players, lights, switches, thermostats and more. Ford A Ford Mustang you can order online with free shipping for Amazon Prime members? No, but the automotive company is partnering with Amazon to let you control your smart home from your car through Ford's Sync Connect and AppLink services and Amazon's Echo home-automation hub and Alexa voice-concierge service. Beyond Amazon, Ford announced it plans to work with the Wink smart home platform to provide similar levels of voice commanded functionality straight from your driver's seat. HARMAN's Mark Levinson® Previews № 519 Audio Player: High-Resolution Wired and Wireless Streaming, Network, Disc and Digital Inputs HARMAN International Industries previewed the forthcoming Mark Levinson № 519 Audio Player, an ultra high-end source component designed to accommodate every digital audio format. The № 519 was designed to be the heart of high-performance audio systems, with the ability to play back virtually any audio format from streaming music services to networked storage, to CD to high-resolution digital inputs and even Bluetooth® wireless. In addition, it includes high-performance headphone connectivity and integrated digital volume control allowing it to serve as a fully integrated digital music source. Designed and engineered at HARMAN's Engineering Center of Excellence in Shelton, CT, USA, the № 519 provides a full compliment of wired and wireless digital audio inputs and as well as an integrated slot-loading CD player, making it a truly universal digital audio playback device. The integrated high-resolution DAC receives its nine digital inputs including USB asynchronous streaming and mass storage, Gigabit Ethernet, Balanced, Optical, Coaxial, as well as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless featuring aptX® technology for maximum resolution. The Mark Levinson № 519 offers high-resolution digital decoding up to 24-bit, 192kHz from PCM and double-speed DSD. Its DAC incorporates an ESS Sabre32 Reference converter for superlative musical accuracy with exceptional resolution and dynamic range. The Mark Levinson № 519 Digital Player will be available in July 2016. No official pricing at this time but the buzz on the street is that it will run about $8,000. UHD Alliance Defines Premium 4K Ultra HD Experience The UHD Alliance (UHDA) has defined performance criteria that Ultra HD TVs and content must meet to deliver what the group calls a premium 4K experience. The association also introduced a logo that will appear on certified content to guarantee a premium experience for consumers. The Ultra HD Premium logo is reserved for products and content that comply with minimum requirements for resolution, bit depth, high dynamic range (HDR), peak luminance, black levels, and wide color gamut. The UHD Alliance said its technical specifications "prioritize image quality and recommend support for next-generation audio.” Home Kit Kwikset  announced the launch of its first HomeKit-compatible product, the Kwikset Premis. Available in 2016, no pricing announced. iDevices - Introduced their Socket, Wall Switch, Dimmer Switch and Wall Outlet. The socket allows standard light bulbs to be used with homekit. The wall switch/dimmer and outlet bring Home Kit support to your lights and devices in your home. The new HomeKit accessories will be released throughout 2016, but pricing was not disclosed Honeywell announced the Lyric Round™ Wi-Fi Thermostat Second Generation is available for pre-order $250. Hunter Fan Company announced new Wi-Fi & Apple HomeKit-Enabled Celing Fans. Named Symphony and Signal the Symphony's MSRP is $329 and  Signal's MSRP is $379. Both fans will be available spring 2016 UHD Players Samsung announced that the UB-K8500 is available for pre-order right now, and will sell for $400. Panasonic unveiled its Blu-ray player which it promised will be available in the US this year. A similar player was introduced in Japan in November which retails for roughly $3,300 USD. No word on pricing for the US version. Philips will introduce a player that supports the optional Dolby Vision HDR technology LG and Sony did not introduce UHD players.

A quadcopter that is also a plane, chasing storms (and other things) with disposable UAV's, using UAV's in place of satellites, and a tiny town that wants to pay you to shoot down drones. The News: Whaddaya get when you cross a quadcopter with a plane? The HQ UAV For take-offs, landings and hovering, the Latitude Engineering HQ utilizes four horizontally-mounted propellers – just like a regular quadcopter. These are each driven by an individual electric motor, all four of which receive their power from two 5-cell 11,000 milliamp-hour lithium-polymer battery packs. Cheap, Disposable Drones Are the New Storm Chasers Some environments are simply hazardous for flying: wildfires and volcanic eruptions are examples. These are perfect opportunities for drones to provide the kind of observation you'd like to avoid with a manned aircraft. The DataHawk from the Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles at the University of Colorado Boulder is to be used to measure Arctic Ocean ice melt. This will actually be flown to a spot on the ocean, then float like a buoy and drop sensors into the water to make measurements. The University of Queensland in Australia designed a $50 plane made from biodegradable paper. The electronics are printed directly onto the body of the plane, which has small voice-coil actuators for steering. The Samara prototype, also from the University of Queensland, falls slowly and transmits data by radio, and works like a Maple seed. Solar-powered Solara UAV could stay aloft for years The Titan Aerospace has designed the Solara UAV to stay aloft for 5 years at 65,000 feet as an “atmospheric satellite.” These have solar cell covered wings over 160 feet across. Colo. ordinance would OK shooting down drones and FAA Warns Colorado Town Against Drone Hunting Deer Trail, Colorado, population 559, want you to shoot down drones and the License is only $25.00. Shoot down a drone and you' would earn a $100 bounty. Not all residents agree, and citizens get to vote on the proposal in October. The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the U.S. airspace and has issued a statement warning people that shooting drones could result in fines and prosecutions.  

In critical spawning and overwintering habitat for salmonids Hwan studies the effects of temporal stream fragmentation across three organizational levels of ecology: population, community, and ecosystem levels.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:01:00] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Jason won a third year phd student in the Carlson lab, which is [00:01:30] part of the environmental science policy and Management Department of the College of natural resources. Professor Stephanie Carlson directs the lab and she is a fish ecologist. Jason is researching the effects of summertimes stream drying on fish ecology in the John West fork, a creek in Marin county. The John West fork is the spawning grounds for two varieties of salmon the summer of 2011 Woolmark the third year of his research on this stream. [00:02:00] His research will continue for two and possibly three more years. This interview is prerecorded and edited. Speaker 4: Jason, welcome to spectrum. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Wanted to ask if you could, uh, give us a brief overview of your research and add in there how it's being funded. My research is looking at the effects of low summer flow on juvenile steelhead, on the insect communities out in the stream and [00:02:30] on certain ecosystem processes such as Algal production and leaf decomposition. And it's currently being funded by, mostly by my, by my guiding professor, Stephanie Carlson. And I also have some funding from our department and the division within our department. All right. We get out a sperm wildlife grant, which helps fund the research. And also I'm currently on an NSF graduate research fellowship. Described the, the general [00:03:00] area of the site that you chose. Sort of put it in context of where it is. So my study say, uh, the John West work is in point Reyes national seashore, which is about an hour north of Berkeley in a national park in and surrounded by some state parks. Speaker 4: Also. Can you explain the watershed and the area that you're working, how it all interrelates to the watershed? So I'm, I'm working in the Lagunitas watershed. I'm working [00:03:30] in a creek that is a tributary of a tributary of a creek to the lock Anitas to log in neatest creek and log Anitas creek flows into Tomas Bay in point rays. The creek that I'm working in is a little different in that there are only two species of fish up there. Both our salt Monets, there are still head and coho salmon. This is because it's not that the creek went dry, completely dry one year and there's, there [00:04:00] was a culvert that was put in place and other fish species weren't able to recolonize the creek, but someone had adults can jump over the barrier. And so they were able to recolonize the creek and they're actually jumping through the culvert. Speaker 4: Yeah. And through this culvert and swimming up swimming into the two John West work. And what's the drop on the culvert like from, from the the bottom lip to the dead of the bid. Lower part [00:04:30] of the creek. It's about four feet. Four feet drop-off. Yeah. So that's quite a leap for the salmon. Yeah. And so with this study, what is it that you're trying to learn? That is not already known. So I'm basically trying to look at the effects of low flow and my study is really looking at what the affects are at a really fine scale. So I'm tracking, uh, juvenile steel head growth, movement and survival and I'm tracking them on a weekly basis. So [00:05:00] it's pretty fine scale monitoring, which is something that hasn't really been been carried out before. And the low-flow period is when, uh, the low, the low flow start after the last records. Speaker 4: And as the, as a temperature gets warmer, the stream starts to dry and it pretty much lasts throughout the summer until the first rains of the following year. Are you collaborating with other people on your project? Not directly with my lab mates on [00:05:30] my project. Sometimes they might come out and help me, but for the most part I've been working alone with the help of some undergraduates. There are certain side projects that we collaborate on. Um, there's also a person who is working with me from, uh, from a different department. He's not really working on my project, but, uh, something that's related to my project out on my field site. It mean it helps both of you? Yeah, definitely. And is that going to have some bearing is his, his [00:06:00] work or her work and I have some impact on your results. It definitely is connected. It is connected to, I'm more at the temperature and looking at how stratification and pull temperature stratification in pools might affect fish behavior. Speaker 4: So where, where they kind of hang out in the pool. So that's something that could definitely help us fold into your report. Yeah, exactly. So in doing your research [00:06:30] and working in the field as opposed to, uh, if you're working in the field and the lab, how much time do you spend in the field and in the lab? Um, when I'm out during the summer, uh, during my field season, it's a pretty big chunk of it. About 80 to 85% is probably spent in the field and the remainder is spent in the lab. Um, but once the summer is over and on, the field season is over. Most of the time is spent in the lab, um, [00:07:00] crunching data, processing samples and stuff like that. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 2: you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. Today we're talking with Jason Juan about his research into summertime streaming drying its effect on Fish CollagenSpeaker 5: [00:07:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 4: And so was there fish breeding going on in this part of the Stream? I would assume that that's the reason they're up there. Yeah. So one of the adults jump up into the stream. They breed typically during the winter when the rains, they come back with the rains [00:08:00] and they breed and the eggs hatch and spring. And then I kind of track the juveniles once they get to a large enough size to be able to monitor to them. So as you start to go up in the early spring, you're seeing lots of of small fish. Yeah. And it's so the fish that have spawned, have they left then or are do some stay? Yeah, but most of them have left. They're too large to stay in some of these pools. So most of them leave and with the Coho that or [00:08:30] they die right after they breed because they just breed once and they die. Speaker 4: But with the, with the steelhead, they're able to breed multiple times. And Are you tracking it all that mortality of the coho that are coming up and breeding? No, but the park service is definitely keeping track of adults, adult spawners they go up every winter and quantify the amount of a salmon reds, which are the nests that someone is build. And they also try to [00:09:00] keep track of how many fish, adult fish that they see. Talk about the insects in the fish in the same context of the frequency. So with, with the insects, um, it's, it's a pretty disturbing method to go and collect them. So we try not to collect them too frequently. We recollect them once at the beginning of the summer and again at the end of the summer. So we don't want to disturb the habitat too much that we have to kind of dig in [00:09:30] to the stream and it just disrupts, disrupts things a lot. Speaker 4: So we try to keep the frequency down and with the fish, um, we go out again, it's similar to to the insects that's we have to go and shock them and which as you can imagine, um, is quite stressful to the fish. So we shock them once in the beginning, beginning of the summer and we place pit tags into them, um, which allows us to monitor them across [00:10:00] the summer without having to actually handle them. Also, while we, um, capture them during the first event, we weigh them and measure them. And then during the late season capture event, we weigh them and measure them again and we're able to identify which the fish that were tagged, we were able to determine their growth rates and their survival. In addition, we can monitor them using the pet tags. We have a, a [00:10:30] handheld antenna that we take out and we just place it over the stream and we're able to find out where they're located or, and also if they're other still alive. Speaker 4: So that happens pretty much once a week. So the pet tag is like a radio. Gotcha. Yeah, it's an audio id, tariff id similar to what is found in a for pets, the microchips that they use for pets. And then you can also measure the mortality with that as well I guess if, yeah, so we go [00:11:00] out and we try to track their movement and also if we find a pit tag, we just kind of disturb the area around, uh, around the tag lightly. And if, if the tag isn't moving, then we kind of can surmise that there has been a mortality event that that occurred. Do you remove the fish or the die or now it's pretty hard to find them because we don't track them every day. So, so things happen [00:11:30] within the week and sometimes we kind of look around for the tag but it's pretty hard to find the tag. Speaker 4: But if we do come across any fish we do, we do take you back to the lab. Any dead Fisher and they are often tagged or have they not? Some of them are just untagged. We try to tag as many fish that we can capture at that are a certain size. They to be a certain size and size for them. So we do try to capture and tag every fish that is of [00:12:00] a certain size, but whether we do within that period of time that you can do the, that you're doing the tagging because you try to limit that. Yeah. How long is that period? What do you do? I've tried to do it all in a week. Three to four days. The tagging, the taking takes about three to four days. The caption and taking. And what's that like in terms of a process? Is it, is it you and a bunch of people doing it together? Speaker 4: Yeah. Take a little group out. Yeah, we actually took a group out, um, and we actually stayed out there for the three, three or four days. We wanted to get an early start [00:12:30] in the day and it takes about an hour to get, get out there each day. So we just decided to stay out there and it's actually quite fun. Um, most, most people really everybody volunteers to do to do like fish capturing. They're like, oh yeah, I want to do that. It's something that the interns really enjoyed. So is that time that you're in the creek, are you actually standing in the creek? So I, yeah, I actually get into the creek and I have a, an electrical Fisher and I move through the creek, [00:13:00] shocking the fish and there are a couple of them matters beside me on the scoop up any fish that had been shocked and we placed them into a bucket and then from there we kind of weigh them and measure them after, after all the fish have been captured for a certain pool. So you do this pool by Paul? Yeah, exactly. Speaker 5: You [00:13:30] are listening to spectrum on KLX Berkeley. We're talking with Jason y about his researching the summertime scream drying and its effect. Speaker 4: So Jason, how did you get interested in science when you were in high school, say or college? [00:14:00] I've always kind of really been interested in science as a kid. I really enjoyed reading science textbooks and it was as one of my favorite subjects and I just decided to stick with it. And I, I majored as a, as a biology student. And what about it appealed to you when you were young? It was like, it was the investigative process, [00:14:30] I guess that that appealed to me. It was just something that you can go out and observe and I really like that, that you can, you can actually just go out and see how nature works. And I was really fascinated by that. So biology was sort of the entree and then as you went through high school, College, yeah, I majored in biology and I really enjoyed my ecology class, just getting up out [00:15:00] there and I wasn't too keen on the molecular side of biology, but the ecological part aspect of it was really fun to get out there and observe things. And, and so it was it field work then that led you to streams? Yeah, I actually worked as a, as an undergraduate. I worked with a professor of mine and he would take me out into streams in southern California and it was quite a great experience for me. And what sort of work and studies research [00:15:30] was he doing? He was, he was doing, uh, population, uh, studies of endangered and threatened fish in southern California. Speaker 4: So when you're in the lab, what sort of data are you gathering? So for instance, with the leaf litter bags and the Algo production, um, when we come back from the field we have to process those samples. So we deploy tiles and we have to scrape off the LG from the tiles. And then we [00:16:00] have to run an analysis to quantify chlorophyll production. With the leaflet or bags that we set out, we bring them back and we, we way leaves in them and quantify how much leaf litter mass has been lost across time. What is it about the algae that you want to know in the river? With both the algae and the leaf litter, we want to see how the stream drying effects say Algal PR productivity or leaf litter decomposition. So we want [00:16:30] to see how much, how much Algo productivity there is in the early part of the summer when or when the stream is still pretty connected. Speaker 4: And then again, we want to track that change over time to see how productivity changes as the string gets dry and dry and with the leaf decomposition, same thing, seeing it over the, over the time, yeah. We want to see how decomposition rates change as the stream gets dryer and with that we're finding that decomposition rates slowed down quite a bit. [00:17:00] As the stream dries, there's less microbial activity, less insect funner to shut up the leaves. Are there other key data points that you're collecting out of the stream? Yes. I'm trying to measure the volume of water in the creek. Mostly the volume of water in between the pools of the fast flowing portions called riffles. I tried to measure how much water is in these portions and I go out pretty much every week and measure the dimensions [00:17:30] of the riffles and I'm able to get volume on every week and I'm able to quantify how this volume gets smaller and smaller every week. Eventually these, these pools are isolated and there's no more flow exactly. Between pools. Yeah. The, the riffles just most of them completely dry up by the end of summer. Speaker 3: And so the fish are then isolated in these, yeah, they're isolated. Speaker 4: The there aren't able to move among the different pools Speaker 3: at this point. Is it too soon in your study to, to [00:18:00] reflect on what you might conclude? Well, I'm, Speaker 4: I'm already seeing some pretty drastic inter-annual variation and precipitation in the area. So as I mentioned earlier, 2009 was a very dry and that was your first year? Yeah, 2009 was a very dry year, so I noticed that there was quite a bit of a mortality for the fishes. Uh, this past year, 2010 and during that summer was a lot wetter. There was a lot more habitat for the fish. A survival was a lot higher. So [00:18:30] Marty seen, uh, some significant results in terms of inter annual variation and how more extreme temperatures and extreme dry might influence the fish population. Speaker 3: Is there any part of water quality that you're measuring? Speaker 4: Temperature and a dissolved oxygen levels? Not In terms of pollution really, but a temperature and dissolved oxygen are are really key for [00:19:00] some almond species in particular, they require cool temperatures that are pretty well oxygenated. Speaker 3: The information that you're getting from your study will have an impact on other streams and creek management potentially. Yeah, that's, that's my hope Speaker 4: is that especially in certain areas where water withdrawals occur and there needs to be a certain amount of a water, hopefully our findings can maybe influence these areas where water withdrawals occur in the [00:19:30] stream comes even more dry than they typically should naturally. Speaker 3: Jason, thanks very much for coming in and talking about your research. Yes. Speaker 6: Oh, Speaker 7: [inaudible].Speaker 3: A regular feature of spectrum is dimension. [00:20:00] A few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Joining me this week to bring you the calendar is Rick Karnofsky. Speaker 8: In 1848 gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada mountains luring people by the thousands to California. Join Ranger Tammy on Saturday, August 13th from 11 to noon to find out how this event changed the San Francisco Bay forever at the Bay model visitors center in Sausalito. This is a free event on Saturday August 13th at 4:30 PM Christopher de Carlo [00:20:30] will present how to be a really good pain in the ass. A critical thinkers guide to asking the right questions at Kelly's Irish pub, five 30 Jackson Street, San Francisco visit. Reason for reason.org for more info. That's r. E a s o n, the number four R e a. S. O. N. Dot. O. R. G. Speaker 3: The science at Kow lecture series for August will be presented by Dr Willie Michaelson and is entitled nanotechnology, Enabling Environmental Monitoring. [00:21:00] Dr Michelson is the executive director of the center of Integrated Nano Mechanical Systems known as coin's, a nanoscale science and Engineering Center headquartered at UC Berkeley dedicated to enabling and realizing novel environmental monitoring applications using nanotechnology. The date of the lecture is Saturday, August 20th at 11:00 AM in the genetics and plant biology building room. 100 Speaker 8: August 17th center night takes [00:21:30] place at the rickshaw. Stop. One 55 [inaudible] street at Van Ness in San Francisco from seven 30 to 10:00 PM at this $8 old age of show you'll hear talks about winery building, a virtual reality chocolate factory and neutrophils, one of the first immune cells to reach infection sites. Be there and be square. Visit SF dot [inaudible] Dot Com that's SF dot n e r, d an ite.com Speaker 8: nightlife takes place Thursday nights from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the California [00:22:00] Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is 21 and over and pictures music, cocktails and exhibits centered around a theme. In addition, the regular exhibits such as the rainforest and planetarium will be open. August 25th nightlife is on dinosaurs. Paleo lab will present a fossil shone till featuring trilobytes Coprolites, Aka fossilized dyno poop and other amazing fines that are 65 to 500 million years old. Check out additional specimens from the academy's research collections and at dyno burlesque. Show [00:22:30] the planetarium will feature cosmic collisions, a fulldome show depicting the hypersonic impacts that drive the evolution of the universe, including a recreation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Clearing the way for mammals like us to thrive admission is $12 for more info and for tickets, visit www.cal academy.org that's www dot c a l a c a d e m y dot o r g Speaker 3: [00:23:00] and now several news stories. This item from the inside science news service scientists battle the dramatic declines of honeybee colonies with targeted breeding. There are a handful of pests and diseases that individually and in combination are causing unprecedented mortality in [00:23:30] honeybee colonies in Europe and North America. Serious efforts are being made to find solutions that can eradicate the pests and diseases. While the search for a solution continues. Researchers in Canada and the United States are attempting to bees that are resistant to Mites and viruses that attack bee colonies. The breeding process exposes the Queens to high levels of what is termed disease pressure. According to Rob Curie, professor of entomology [00:24:00] at the University of Manitoba. The survivors are then bred next season and so on. Seven generations have been bred so far. We are looking for bees that are resistant to mites and with a greater tolerance to viruses because they appear to be the two main factors behind colony loss. Speaker 3: QRI said and added breeding attribute pursued by the Canadian breeders is the ability to withstand the brutal North American winters. Curious said [00:24:30] that normally only 46% of the species known as European honeybees survive the Canadian winter, but the newest generations have a 75% survival rate. The total losses from managed honeybee colonies in the United States were 30% from all causes for the 2010 2011 winter according to the annual survey conducted by the US Department of Agriculture and the apiary inspectors of America. [00:25:00] This is roughly similar to the losses reported in similar surveys done in the four previous years. This story from Metta page today, lab grown trickier implanted in patient June 9th, 2011 at the Karolinska University Hospital in hunting, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Paolo Macchiarini implanted the first ever bio artificial trachea grown on a synthetic [00:25:30] substrate using the patient's own stem cells. The patient was a 36 year old cancer patient for this procedure. Dr Macchiarini and his colleagues collected stem cells from the patient who had late stage tracheal cancer since no suitable donor windpipe was available. The researchers used a nano composite tracheal scaffold designed and built by Alexander Se Follian Phd of the University College London. [00:26:00] They seated the polymer model with auto Lucas stem cells. These are blood forming stem cells and grew them for two days in a bioreactor. Dr Mk Jadine says there's no room for rejection because of the cells are the patient's own. Thus, there is no need for him to be on immuno suppressive drugs. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:26:30] occurred during the show is pointless on a David Kearns album, folk and acoustic made available for creative Commons license 3.0 attribution [inaudible] mm editing assistance provided by Judith White Marceline production assistance provided by [00:27:00] Karnofsky [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear if you have comments or questions, please send them to us via email address. Is Spectrum. K A l s yahoo.com Speaker 5: [00:27:30] genius at this same time. [inaudible] Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:28:00] [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In critical spawning and overwintering habitat for salmonids Hwan studies the effects of temporal stream fragmentation across three organizational levels of ecology: population, community, and ecosystem levels.TranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible].Speaker 1: [00:01:00] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hi, my name is Brad Swift. I'm the host of today's show. Our interview is with Jason won a third year phd student in the Carlson lab, which is [00:01:30] part of the environmental science policy and Management Department of the College of natural resources. Professor Stephanie Carlson directs the lab and she is a fish ecologist. Jason is researching the effects of summertimes stream drying on fish ecology in the John West fork, a creek in Marin county. The John West fork is the spawning grounds for two varieties of salmon the summer of 2011 Woolmark the third year of his research on this stream. [00:02:00] His research will continue for two and possibly three more years. This interview is prerecorded and edited. Speaker 4: Jason, welcome to spectrum. Thanks for coming in. Thank you. Wanted to ask if you could, uh, give us a brief overview of your research and add in there how it's being funded. My research is looking at the effects of low summer flow on juvenile steelhead, on the insect communities out in the stream and [00:02:30] on certain ecosystem processes such as Algal production and leaf decomposition. And it's currently being funded by, mostly by my, by my guiding professor, Stephanie Carlson. And I also have some funding from our department and the division within our department. All right. We get out a sperm wildlife grant, which helps fund the research. And also I'm currently on an NSF graduate research fellowship. Described the, the general [00:03:00] area of the site that you chose. Sort of put it in context of where it is. So my study say, uh, the John West work is in point Reyes national seashore, which is about an hour north of Berkeley in a national park in and surrounded by some state parks. Speaker 4: Also. Can you explain the watershed and the area that you're working, how it all interrelates to the watershed? So I'm, I'm working in the Lagunitas watershed. I'm working [00:03:30] in a creek that is a tributary of a tributary of a creek to the lock Anitas to log in neatest creek and log Anitas creek flows into Tomas Bay in point rays. The creek that I'm working in is a little different in that there are only two species of fish up there. Both our salt Monets, there are still head and coho salmon. This is because it's not that the creek went dry, completely dry one year and there's, there [00:04:00] was a culvert that was put in place and other fish species weren't able to recolonize the creek, but someone had adults can jump over the barrier. And so they were able to recolonize the creek and they're actually jumping through the culvert. Speaker 4: Yeah. And through this culvert and swimming up swimming into the two John West work. And what's the drop on the culvert like from, from the the bottom lip to the dead of the bid. Lower part [00:04:30] of the creek. It's about four feet. Four feet drop-off. Yeah. So that's quite a leap for the salmon. Yeah. And so with this study, what is it that you're trying to learn? That is not already known. So I'm basically trying to look at the effects of low flow and my study is really looking at what the affects are at a really fine scale. So I'm tracking, uh, juvenile steel head growth, movement and survival and I'm tracking them on a weekly basis. So [00:05:00] it's pretty fine scale monitoring, which is something that hasn't really been been carried out before. And the low-flow period is when, uh, the low, the low flow start after the last records. Speaker 4: And as the, as a temperature gets warmer, the stream starts to dry and it pretty much lasts throughout the summer until the first rains of the following year. Are you collaborating with other people on your project? Not directly with my lab mates on [00:05:30] my project. Sometimes they might come out and help me, but for the most part I've been working alone with the help of some undergraduates. There are certain side projects that we collaborate on. Um, there's also a person who is working with me from, uh, from a different department. He's not really working on my project, but, uh, something that's related to my project out on my field site. It mean it helps both of you? Yeah, definitely. And is that going to have some bearing is his, his [00:06:00] work or her work and I have some impact on your results. It definitely is connected. It is connected to, I'm more at the temperature and looking at how stratification and pull temperature stratification in pools might affect fish behavior. Speaker 4: So where, where they kind of hang out in the pool. So that's something that could definitely help us fold into your report. Yeah, exactly. So in doing your research [00:06:30] and working in the field as opposed to, uh, if you're working in the field and the lab, how much time do you spend in the field and in the lab? Um, when I'm out during the summer, uh, during my field season, it's a pretty big chunk of it. About 80 to 85% is probably spent in the field and the remainder is spent in the lab. Um, but once the summer is over and on, the field season is over. Most of the time is spent in the lab, um, [00:07:00] crunching data, processing samples and stuff like that. Speaker 5: [inaudible]Speaker 2: you're listening to spectrum on KALX Berkeley. Today we're talking with Jason Juan about his research into summertime streaming drying its effect on Fish CollagenSpeaker 5: [00:07:30] [inaudible]. Speaker 4: And so was there fish breeding going on in this part of the Stream? I would assume that that's the reason they're up there. Yeah. So one of the adults jump up into the stream. They breed typically during the winter when the rains, they come back with the rains [00:08:00] and they breed and the eggs hatch and spring. And then I kind of track the juveniles once they get to a large enough size to be able to monitor to them. So as you start to go up in the early spring, you're seeing lots of of small fish. Yeah. And it's so the fish that have spawned, have they left then or are do some stay? Yeah, but most of them have left. They're too large to stay in some of these pools. So most of them leave and with the Coho that or [00:08:30] they die right after they breed because they just breed once and they die. Speaker 4: But with the, with the steelhead, they're able to breed multiple times. And Are you tracking it all that mortality of the coho that are coming up and breeding? No, but the park service is definitely keeping track of adults, adult spawners they go up every winter and quantify the amount of a salmon reds, which are the nests that someone is build. And they also try to [00:09:00] keep track of how many fish, adult fish that they see. Talk about the insects in the fish in the same context of the frequency. So with, with the insects, um, it's, it's a pretty disturbing method to go and collect them. So we try not to collect them too frequently. We recollect them once at the beginning of the summer and again at the end of the summer. So we don't want to disturb the habitat too much that we have to kind of dig in [00:09:30] to the stream and it just disrupts, disrupts things a lot. Speaker 4: So we try to keep the frequency down and with the fish, um, we go out again, it's similar to to the insects that's we have to go and shock them and which as you can imagine, um, is quite stressful to the fish. So we shock them once in the beginning, beginning of the summer and we place pit tags into them, um, which allows us to monitor them across [00:10:00] the summer without having to actually handle them. Also, while we, um, capture them during the first event, we weigh them and measure them. And then during the late season capture event, we weigh them and measure them again and we're able to identify which the fish that were tagged, we were able to determine their growth rates and their survival. In addition, we can monitor them using the pet tags. We have a, a [00:10:30] handheld antenna that we take out and we just place it over the stream and we're able to find out where they're located or, and also if they're other still alive. Speaker 4: So that happens pretty much once a week. So the pet tag is like a radio. Gotcha. Yeah, it's an audio id, tariff id similar to what is found in a for pets, the microchips that they use for pets. And then you can also measure the mortality with that as well I guess if, yeah, so we go [00:11:00] out and we try to track their movement and also if we find a pit tag, we just kind of disturb the area around, uh, around the tag lightly. And if, if the tag isn't moving, then we kind of can surmise that there has been a mortality event that that occurred. Do you remove the fish or the die or now it's pretty hard to find them because we don't track them every day. So, so things happen [00:11:30] within the week and sometimes we kind of look around for the tag but it's pretty hard to find the tag. Speaker 4: But if we do come across any fish we do, we do take you back to the lab. Any dead Fisher and they are often tagged or have they not? Some of them are just untagged. We try to tag as many fish that we can capture at that are a certain size. They to be a certain size and size for them. So we do try to capture and tag every fish that is of [00:12:00] a certain size, but whether we do within that period of time that you can do the, that you're doing the tagging because you try to limit that. Yeah. How long is that period? What do you do? I've tried to do it all in a week. Three to four days. The tagging, the taking takes about three to four days. The caption and taking. And what's that like in terms of a process? Is it, is it you and a bunch of people doing it together? Speaker 4: Yeah. Take a little group out. Yeah, we actually took a group out, um, and we actually stayed out there for the three, three or four days. We wanted to get an early start [00:12:30] in the day and it takes about an hour to get, get out there each day. So we just decided to stay out there and it's actually quite fun. Um, most, most people really everybody volunteers to do to do like fish capturing. They're like, oh yeah, I want to do that. It's something that the interns really enjoyed. So is that time that you're in the creek, are you actually standing in the creek? So I, yeah, I actually get into the creek and I have a, an electrical Fisher and I move through the creek, [00:13:00] shocking the fish and there are a couple of them matters beside me on the scoop up any fish that had been shocked and we placed them into a bucket and then from there we kind of weigh them and measure them after, after all the fish have been captured for a certain pool. So you do this pool by Paul? Yeah, exactly. Speaker 5: You [00:13:30] are listening to spectrum on KLX Berkeley. We're talking with Jason y about his researching the summertime scream drying and its effect. Speaker 4: So Jason, how did you get interested in science when you were in high school, say or college? [00:14:00] I've always kind of really been interested in science as a kid. I really enjoyed reading science textbooks and it was as one of my favorite subjects and I just decided to stick with it. And I, I majored as a, as a biology student. And what about it appealed to you when you were young? It was like, it was the investigative process, [00:14:30] I guess that that appealed to me. It was just something that you can go out and observe and I really like that, that you can, you can actually just go out and see how nature works. And I was really fascinated by that. So biology was sort of the entree and then as you went through high school, College, yeah, I majored in biology and I really enjoyed my ecology class, just getting up out [00:15:00] there and I wasn't too keen on the molecular side of biology, but the ecological part aspect of it was really fun to get out there and observe things. And, and so it was it field work then that led you to streams? Yeah, I actually worked as a, as an undergraduate. I worked with a professor of mine and he would take me out into streams in southern California and it was quite a great experience for me. And what sort of work and studies research [00:15:30] was he doing? He was, he was doing, uh, population, uh, studies of endangered and threatened fish in southern California. Speaker 4: So when you're in the lab, what sort of data are you gathering? So for instance, with the leaf litter bags and the Algo production, um, when we come back from the field we have to process those samples. So we deploy tiles and we have to scrape off the LG from the tiles. And then we [00:16:00] have to run an analysis to quantify chlorophyll production. With the leaflet or bags that we set out, we bring them back and we, we way leaves in them and quantify how much leaf litter mass has been lost across time. What is it about the algae that you want to know in the river? With both the algae and the leaf litter, we want to see how the stream drying effects say Algal PR productivity or leaf litter decomposition. So we want [00:16:30] to see how much, how much Algo productivity there is in the early part of the summer when or when the stream is still pretty connected. Speaker 4: And then again, we want to track that change over time to see how productivity changes as the string gets dry and dry and with the leaf decomposition, same thing, seeing it over the, over the time, yeah. We want to see how decomposition rates change as the stream gets dryer and with that we're finding that decomposition rates slowed down quite a bit. [00:17:00] As the stream dries, there's less microbial activity, less insect funner to shut up the leaves. Are there other key data points that you're collecting out of the stream? Yes. I'm trying to measure the volume of water in the creek. Mostly the volume of water in between the pools of the fast flowing portions called riffles. I tried to measure how much water is in these portions and I go out pretty much every week and measure the dimensions [00:17:30] of the riffles and I'm able to get volume on every week and I'm able to quantify how this volume gets smaller and smaller every week. Eventually these, these pools are isolated and there's no more flow exactly. Between pools. Yeah. The, the riffles just most of them completely dry up by the end of summer. Speaker 3: And so the fish are then isolated in these, yeah, they're isolated. Speaker 4: The there aren't able to move among the different pools Speaker 3: at this point. Is it too soon in your study to, to [00:18:00] reflect on what you might conclude? Well, I'm, Speaker 4: I'm already seeing some pretty drastic inter-annual variation and precipitation in the area. So as I mentioned earlier, 2009 was a very dry and that was your first year? Yeah, 2009 was a very dry year, so I noticed that there was quite a bit of a mortality for the fishes. Uh, this past year, 2010 and during that summer was a lot wetter. There was a lot more habitat for the fish. A survival was a lot higher. So [00:18:30] Marty seen, uh, some significant results in terms of inter annual variation and how more extreme temperatures and extreme dry might influence the fish population. Speaker 3: Is there any part of water quality that you're measuring? Speaker 4: Temperature and a dissolved oxygen levels? Not In terms of pollution really, but a temperature and dissolved oxygen are are really key for [00:19:00] some almond species in particular, they require cool temperatures that are pretty well oxygenated. Speaker 3: The information that you're getting from your study will have an impact on other streams and creek management potentially. Yeah, that's, that's my hope Speaker 4: is that especially in certain areas where water withdrawals occur and there needs to be a certain amount of a water, hopefully our findings can maybe influence these areas where water withdrawals occur in the [00:19:30] stream comes even more dry than they typically should naturally. Speaker 3: Jason, thanks very much for coming in and talking about your research. Yes. Speaker 6: Oh, Speaker 7: [inaudible].Speaker 3: A regular feature of spectrum is dimension. [00:20:00] A few of the science and technology events happening locally over the next few weeks. Joining me this week to bring you the calendar is Rick Karnofsky. Speaker 8: In 1848 gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada mountains luring people by the thousands to California. Join Ranger Tammy on Saturday, August 13th from 11 to noon to find out how this event changed the San Francisco Bay forever at the Bay model visitors center in Sausalito. This is a free event on Saturday August 13th at 4:30 PM Christopher de Carlo [00:20:30] will present how to be a really good pain in the ass. A critical thinkers guide to asking the right questions at Kelly's Irish pub, five 30 Jackson Street, San Francisco visit. Reason for reason.org for more info. That's r. E a s o n, the number four R e a. S. O. N. Dot. O. R. G. Speaker 3: The science at Kow lecture series for August will be presented by Dr Willie Michaelson and is entitled nanotechnology, Enabling Environmental Monitoring. [00:21:00] Dr Michelson is the executive director of the center of Integrated Nano Mechanical Systems known as coin's, a nanoscale science and Engineering Center headquartered at UC Berkeley dedicated to enabling and realizing novel environmental monitoring applications using nanotechnology. The date of the lecture is Saturday, August 20th at 11:00 AM in the genetics and plant biology building room. 100 Speaker 8: August 17th center night takes [00:21:30] place at the rickshaw. Stop. One 55 [inaudible] street at Van Ness in San Francisco from seven 30 to 10:00 PM at this $8 old age of show you'll hear talks about winery building, a virtual reality chocolate factory and neutrophils, one of the first immune cells to reach infection sites. Be there and be square. Visit SF dot [inaudible] Dot Com that's SF dot n e r, d an ite.com Speaker 8: nightlife takes place Thursday nights from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM at the California [00:22:00] Academy of Sciences in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. It is 21 and over and pictures music, cocktails and exhibits centered around a theme. In addition, the regular exhibits such as the rainforest and planetarium will be open. August 25th nightlife is on dinosaurs. Paleo lab will present a fossil shone till featuring trilobytes Coprolites, Aka fossilized dyno poop and other amazing fines that are 65 to 500 million years old. Check out additional specimens from the academy's research collections and at dyno burlesque. Show [00:22:30] the planetarium will feature cosmic collisions, a fulldome show depicting the hypersonic impacts that drive the evolution of the universe, including a recreation of the meteorite impact that hastened the end of the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Clearing the way for mammals like us to thrive admission is $12 for more info and for tickets, visit www.cal academy.org that's www dot c a l a c a d e m y dot o r g Speaker 3: [00:23:00] and now several news stories. This item from the inside science news service scientists battle the dramatic declines of honeybee colonies with targeted breeding. There are a handful of pests and diseases that individually and in combination are causing unprecedented mortality in [00:23:30] honeybee colonies in Europe and North America. Serious efforts are being made to find solutions that can eradicate the pests and diseases. While the search for a solution continues. Researchers in Canada and the United States are attempting to bees that are resistant to Mites and viruses that attack bee colonies. The breeding process exposes the Queens to high levels of what is termed disease pressure. According to Rob Curie, professor of entomology [00:24:00] at the University of Manitoba. The survivors are then bred next season and so on. Seven generations have been bred so far. We are looking for bees that are resistant to mites and with a greater tolerance to viruses because they appear to be the two main factors behind colony loss. Speaker 3: QRI said and added breeding attribute pursued by the Canadian breeders is the ability to withstand the brutal North American winters. Curious said [00:24:30] that normally only 46% of the species known as European honeybees survive the Canadian winter, but the newest generations have a 75% survival rate. The total losses from managed honeybee colonies in the United States were 30% from all causes for the 2010 2011 winter according to the annual survey conducted by the US Department of Agriculture and the apiary inspectors of America. [00:25:00] This is roughly similar to the losses reported in similar surveys done in the four previous years. This story from Metta page today, lab grown trickier implanted in patient June 9th, 2011 at the Karolinska University Hospital in hunting, Stockholm, Sweden. Dr Paolo Macchiarini implanted the first ever bio artificial trachea grown on a synthetic [00:25:30] substrate using the patient's own stem cells. The patient was a 36 year old cancer patient for this procedure. Dr Macchiarini and his colleagues collected stem cells from the patient who had late stage tracheal cancer since no suitable donor windpipe was available. The researchers used a nano composite tracheal scaffold designed and built by Alexander Se Follian Phd of the University College London. [00:26:00] They seated the polymer model with auto Lucas stem cells. These are blood forming stem cells and grew them for two days in a bioreactor. Dr Mk Jadine says there's no room for rejection because of the cells are the patient's own. Thus, there is no need for him to be on immuno suppressive drugs. Speaker 2: [inaudible] [00:26:30] occurred during the show is pointless on a David Kearns album, folk and acoustic made available for creative Commons license 3.0 attribution [inaudible] mm editing assistance provided by Judith White Marceline production assistance provided by [00:27:00] Karnofsky [inaudible]. Thank you for listening to spectrum. We are happy to hear if you have comments or questions, please send them to us via email address. Is Spectrum. K A l s yahoo.com Speaker 5: [00:27:30] genius at this same time. [inaudible] Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [00:28:00] [inaudible]. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mr. Gerald A. Darsch is the Director of the Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Feeding Directorate (CFD) at the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center, in Natick, Massachusetts and the Executive Secretary of the DoD Combat Feeding Research and Engineering Board. The mission of the CFD encompasses the total life cycle of combat rations, as well as field feeding systems for all Military Services. He holds a Master of Science degree in Food Science and Nutrition from Framingham State College and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Army Acquisition Corps and is certified in DOD Acquisition Level III Systems Planning, Research, Development, and Engineering - Systems Engineering. Mr. Darsch is currently the Chairman of NATO Research Task Group 154, “Nutrition Science and Food Standards for Military Operations.”

Students in Professor Theo Lotz's BFA Seminar class have a special assignment this semester...the soon-to-be-graduating seniors are completely in charge of putting on an off-campus art show. From finding a venue (the old Mini-Cooper showroom at Orange Avenue and Jefferson Street) to building display walls and promotion, the 20 students will showcase their work tonight at tomorrow at a show called Driven. It's free and open from 7-10pm April 3 & 4. Other UCF art events - Knights for the Arts features work by Rosen College students, Friday, April 3 from 7-10pm at the Engineering Center; and a Reception for Etta Jean Juge at the UCF Library, Friday, April 3 from 5-7pm. Her photography exhibit runs this month at the library - free parking is in Lot B-3. Find community art events at Red Chair Project.com

Lake Surface Temperature from Aqua/MODIS. UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, April 18, 2006.

Seasonal Satellite Imagery from MODIS. UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, February 26, 2003; April 23, 2003; September 5, 2003; October 10, 2004.

Landsat Images of Green Bay. UW-Madison Space Science and Engineering Center, June 25, 1979 and September 8, 2000.