Some describe it as "CSI Wakefield" but, unlike its fictional television counterpart, the white coats and impressive array of scientific equipment found around every corner at the Regional Police Forensic and Scientific Support Building are very real - and so are the criminals they are hoping to catch.
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During the workshop, participants will be informed on how, through a regional network of scientific institutes, NEAMTWS can now detect earthquakes or submarine landslides that can generate a tsunami.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001), UNESCO prepares in cooperation with the Catholic University of Leuven a regional meeting for Europe and a scientific colloquium on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels, from 13 to 15 December 2011.
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The regional meeting aims to promote the Convention and its scientific standards among UNESCO Member States.
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In this regard, the ministers acknowledge the continuous support and encouragement provided by UNESCO for the creation and development of scientific collaborative networks in fields of high regional importance.
Mike was a pioneer in the study of groundwater as an archive of past climate change and his research provided seminal scientific advances on controls on water quality in regional aquifers, recharge over time and space.
UNESCO-IOC is pledging to coordinate a global and regional assessment of capacity development needs in the field of marine scientific research and ocean observation in developing nations and SIDS, leading to the formulation and implementation of a global capacity development strategy to fill identified gaps.
The major aim is the development of endogenous national and regional research capacities in the biological sciences and biotechnology in keeping with rapid scientific advances.
The States Parties are encouraged to integrate the protection of the cultural and natural heritage into regional planning programmes, set up staff and services at their sites, undertake scientific and technical conservation research and adopt measures which give this heritage a function in the day-to-day life of the community.
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