News tagged with environmental engineer
Membrane filters are key to future of public water supply, scientists say
Apr 21, 2009 |
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As municipalities across the United States reduce their dependence on groundwater sources to mitigate environmental impacts like subsidence and flooding, there is a growing need for better purification processes to keep contaminants ...
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Air travelers offered way to ease guilt
Mar 02, 2007 |
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A Virginia non-profit group is one of a number of groups benefiting from travelers who feel guilty about environmental damage caused by jetliners.
Bioengineer Ray Wu dead at 79
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Feb 25, 2008 |
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Ray Wu, a biochemist and genetic engineer who led research into genetically modified crops and environmental stress, died in New York at the age of 79.
Nanomaterials May Have Large Environmental Footprint
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Environmental gains derived from the use of nanomaterials may be offset in part by the process used to manufacture them, according to research published in a special issue of the Journal of Industrial Ec ...
New RFID technology tracks and monitors nuclear materials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices have widely been used for tracking for years; recently, scientists from U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed ...
From microbes to hydrogen fuel
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Searching for an environmentally friendly way to produce cheap hydrogen as a fuel, researchers at Oregon State University are turning to microbes that have been doing the job for billions of years.
Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems
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Jul 06, 2009 |
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A team of Canadian scientists and engineers, led by the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, will collaborate on a $3.39 million, three-year study to assess the potential effects of nanoparticles ...
Italian inventor making paper from apples
Apr 01, 2007 |
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Italian inventor Alberto Volcan has created a type of paper made from apples and through regional funding has expanded to other office products as well.
Microbial cleaning of pollution is refined
Oct 19, 2005 |
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University of Massachusetts-Amherst scientists say strategies using microbes to clean polluted sites are becoming more refined due to gene sequencing.
Microbial societies do not like oligarchy
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Bacteria and humans tend to live in highly diverse and complex communities. Most interestingly, bacteria and humans appear to prefer to live in a democracy. This is the basic message of the paper entitled "Initial community ...
MU Engineers Designing Sensor System to Prevent Dam Failure
Nov 15, 2007 |
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As engineers all across America struggle to maintain the nation’s aging infrastructure, a University of Missouri-Columbia researcher is developing a way to prevent one type of disastrous dam failure.
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