Environment
- Arctic Tipping Points- #7: Can The Arctic Recover?
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Arctic Tipping Points- #7: Can The Arctic Recover? In Arctic Tipping Points- #6: Are We There Yet? I attempted to show that there are multiple feedback mechanisms which are capable of causing a composite positive feedback effect in which Arctic sea ice on ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 24 2010 - 7:00am
- Sodium provides important signal to plants
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Sodium chloride or for that matter largely sodium acts as signal to activate various metabolic pathways in plants including response to stress. Human brain also has some kind of Sodium balance i.e. loss of electrolytes causes loss of memory and one goes to ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 2 2010 - 7:48pm
- Can elicitors induce transcription regulation
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Can elicitors like Chitosan elicite the same response as the stress signals in plants. How one can relate both the phenomenon. Do stress induced proteins also have a role in signal transduction ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 23 2010 - 1:35pm
- How do plants communicate
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How do plants perceive environmental stress? Biotic and abiotic stress induces plant response and before" dying" different levels of resistance is shown and finally plants are overcome with stress depending their level of genetic composition, env ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jun 24 2010 - 11:46pm
- ESA's Living Planet gathering
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ESA and friends are celebrating the success of the Living Planet program in Bergen Norway this week. It cannot be described as anything but a success actually, with a number of new advanced and innovative Earth observation satellites in orbit performing no ...
Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Jun 28 2010 - 5:21pm
- Arctic Ice July 2010
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Arctic Ice July 2010 In about a week the National Snow and Ice Data Center- NSIDC- will be publishing its analysis of June's sea ice. I expect them to report another record loss of sea ice. My prediction for July is that Arctic sea ice loss will acc ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 9 2010 - 6:36am
- Satellites and Sea Ice
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Satellites are being used to look at practically everything you can think of. Well, maybe not. But if you take a single subject like ice, it is amazing how many ways you can look at it with a surprisingly large number of satellites. A random visit to a ses ...
Blog Post - Bente Lilja Bye - Jun 29 2010 - 7:20pm
- Understanding Ice
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Understanding Ice Ice is just frozen water, right? Wrong! Now you will perhaps inquire with astonishment how it is possible that ice, which is the most brittle and fragile of substances, can flow in the glacier like a viscous mass; and you may perhaps be ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 2 2010 - 1:42pm
- MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists- #4
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MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists- #4 This is part #4 of a brief explanation of the NASA/GSFC MODIS Rapid Response System- Rapidfire- together with a Howto for citizen scientists. The first part was MODIS Rapidfire For Citizen Scientists- #1 In this ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 9 2010 - 3:41pm
- Will Jaipur and Ajmer survie for next 50 years or will become like Mohanjadaro and Harappa
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Rajasthan Patrika has reported that there is water for 3 to 4 days left for Jaipur and Ajmer. What will happen then. Will Jaipur and Ajmer survive for another 50 years or 5 years if no water is left. All dams of Rajasthan drying up. One must see what is wr ...
Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Jul 15 2010 - 2:13pm
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