A world-leading glaciologist visiting New Zealand says scientists are fast running out of time to fully understand dramatic changes under way in climate change’s sleeping giant: Antarctica. Professor Eric Rignot, based at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will this week give a free talk in Wellington , outlining growing concerns scientists have about the frozen continent and pressing the urgent case for action on climate change today.
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NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland Ice loss
Washington, Feb 10 : Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland’s ice sheet is melting from below. Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenlands west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and subsequent sea level rise.
Dell EMC Reveals U.S. Disty Changes: Ingram Gets EMC Back; Arrow,…
Dell EMC has restored Ingram Micro’s EMC relationship in the United States and extended Dell’s heritage server and networking products in the U.S. to Arrow, Avnet and Carahsoft. Ingram Micro still employs a lot of the talent that drove the Irvine, Calif.-based distributor’s success with EMC before it severed ties with Ingram in April 2015, according to Kirk Robinson, Ingram Micro’s senior vice president of go-to-market.
For driverless cars, a moral dilemma: Who lives or dies?
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are asking human drivers worldwide how they’d handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles. BOSTON – Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail.
Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. (BOOT) Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “Boot Barn Holdings, Inc. operates as a lifestyle retail chain devoted to western and work-related footwear, apparel and accessories. The company’s products include boots, denim, western shirts, cowboy hats, belts and belt buckles, and western-style jewellery and accessories; and rugged footwear, outerwear, overalls, denims, and shirts, as well as safety-toe boots, and flame-resistant and high-visibility clothing.
UCI Introduces iRain Smartphone App
Climate researchers and weather forecasters get their rain data from a network of precipitation-sensing satellites that orbit Earth. iRain, a new mobile phone app developed by engineers at the University of California, Irvine puts the same precision rainfall information into the pockets of the public.