So big name architects have been falling over themselves to get this gig, probably the highest profile project on earth for the next two years or so (groundbreaking anticipated early 2012).
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More importantly, its temperature record has since been broadly validated and corroborated, not least by the Berkeley Earth project.
The Future Earth project in which UNESCO is a partner will be launched at a side event during the Forum.
Officially unveiled in July, the flood defence pumps are part of a project that included earth embankments and a series of sluice gates.
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The Rapyuta database is part of the European Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.
It's a question that one academic grouping, the Earth System Governance Project, has spent a decade researching.
That belief was sustained by means of faked statistics and, in the 1950s, by the success of the earth-orbiting Sputnik project.
Dr Amy Mainzer, principal investigator on the Neowise (Near-Earth Wise observations) project at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) in California, said that "estimating the ages and origins of the asteroids should help us to correlate events on Earth and impact craters on the Moon with what is going on in the Solar System".
The project collects what it says are Google Earth images of the locations of drone strikes.
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IncREO - Increasing Resilience through Earth Observation is a collaborative project under the call FP7-SPACE-2012-1 in support of emergency response management and risk-preparedness.
Earth recently settled with its partners in the project, accepting the return of most of its investment, apparently interest-free, over the next couple of years.
"The problem with satellites is, we can't see through the ice sheet with satellites, " said Robin Bell, a scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory who also is involved in the project.
Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth gave "conditional support" to the project but said not enough had been done to protect the coast, while Surfers Against Sewage feared it could reduce wave height by 22%.
"There's a huge synergy there, in astronomers trying to find the influence of dark matter by mapping stars and galaxies and large structures in the universe, and particle physicists trying to discover the source of that influence of dark matter through subatomic particles here on Earth, " said Jason Kalirai, deputy project scientist for the telescope at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth has given "conditional support" to the project but said not enough has been done to protect the coast.
Haggis lent his name to nearly any cause that espoused peace and justice: the Earth Communications Office, the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, the Center for the Advancement of Non-Violence.
At Iowa State he scored a research gig studying rare earth magnets at nearby Ames Laboratory, famed for its work on the Manhattan Project.
The project is part of a broader trend: Innovative consumer hits, like the iPhone, Google Earth, Second Life, and the Wii remotes and accessories, are increasingly put to unexpected -- and often unauthorized -- uses by outside researchers and tinkerers.
In their project, users stand on the board, which is placed before a large-screen projection of Google Earth.
Although the nature of the optic gunk remains unknown, project managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory suspect volatile materials coming from the spacecraft after it departed Earth in February 1999.
As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.
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