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Ecosystems, Animal Adaptation and Climate Change
I made this video in my free time and out of my own knowledge. As you can probably tell I have a very high interest in this kind of thing, and I wish to further my career into this type of field. Please rate, or comment, I would appreciate it. Thank you :) From: Chanybaby121 Views: 31 1 ratings Time: 03:18 More in Pets & Animals

Ecosystem Change
051 - Ecosystems Change Paul Andersen explains how ecosystems change over time. He starts by explaining how global climate change will impacts ecosystems around the planet. He then discusses how continental drift created climatic changes that impacted mammal species. He finishes with a brief discussion of how local meteorological changes can impact local ecosystems. From: bozemanbiology Views: 223 12 ratings Time: 12:19 More in Education

The Tropical Data Hub: A Virtual Research Environment for Tropical Science Knowledge and Discovery
Tropical regions support some of the world\'s most diverse and unique ecosystems. However, these sensitive areas are under increasing pressures that significantly threaten their future sustainability. To help better manage tropical regions, a need exists for more informed environmental monitoring procedures. Currently, data is collected in disjoint repositories that are not visible or accessible for reuse. As data is not being publicized, there are missed opportunities for holistic discovery of trends that influence tropical ecosystems. This proposal presents the Tropical Data Hub as an e-research infrastructure to congregate significant tropical data sets for cross-domain analyses and knowledge discovery. The Hub serves as a focal point for the amalgamation of disparate data sources to facilitate data reuse, integration, searching, and correlation by environmental researchers and government departments for discovery and decision making. More suitable environmental management practices may then be devised via cross-disciplinary data that depicts a more accurate representation of the status. The system automates the data capture process and incorporates semantic technologies to provide knowledge discovery. We present two successful visualisation applications that demonstrate the Hub's capacity to enhance tropical environmental research. The first assesses land space use, and the second assesses potential impacts of climate change on global biodiversity. (By: Dr. Trina <b>...</b> From: CGPublishing Views: 51 1 ratings Time: 14:46 More in Education

Climate change in the European marine ecosystems - communication of scientific knowledge - CLAMER
Global warming is profoundly changing the seas and oceans that surrounds us. Scientists are urgently trying to present their findings to decision makers and the public alike. In this chapter: Dr. Grégroy Beaugrand - CNRS Laboratoire - Wimereux France; Dr. Simon Boxall - NOC Southampton - UK; Dr. John Pinnegar - CEFAS Lowestoft - UK Chapter 1 of the CLAMER Documentary 'Living with a warming ocean' a film by Jean-Yves Collet, a production of Océanopolis and COM ON PLANET, presented by the CLAMER project of the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission. From: VLIZoostende Views: 18 0 ratings Time: 04:43 More in Science & Technology

Ecosystems
047 - Ecosystems Paul Andersen explains how ecosystems interact with biotic and abiotic factors. He explains and gives examples of food chains and food webs. He shows how limiting factors eventually leads to logistic growth. Real data from Yellowstone Park is used to show how populations interact. He ends the podcast by showing how human impacts can eventually lead to changes within an ecosystem. From: bozemanbiology Views: 275 4 ratings Time: 14:05 More in Education

Dennis Ojima: Toll on the Commons: What have we taken and what will be the future costs?
For millennia, humans have harnessed common resources — atmosphere, water, land, and biotic resources — to enrich and nurture their well-being. Society now appropriates a large fraction of global primary productivity the land systems can provide. We produce more reactive nitrogen compounds than are produced naturally, and we have altered the atmospheric and ocean chemistry in ways that are affecting the earth system processes we depend upon. We are now faced with serious degradation of ecosystem services, and strategies are needed that will set a path toward sustainability and stewardship of social-ecological systems. Given our current knowledge of how ecosystems operate and how human activities have altered ecosystem services, we need to develop strategies that restore these ecosystem services. These strategies can be developed to reduce catastrophic collapse of social-ecological systems in ways that enhance system resilience and lead to sustainability of ecosystem services. A select set of strategies will be explored to deal with ecosystem resilience relative to security of energy, food, and water resources. From: ucsbbrenschool Views: 28 0 ratings Time: 59:31 More in Education

The Next Generation of NOAA (2011) [1080p]
NOAA's mission is central to many of today's greatest challenges. Climate change. Severe weather. Natural and human-induced disasters. Declining biodiversity. Ocean acidification. Threatened or degraded ocean and coastal resources. These challenges convey a common message: human health, prosperity, and well-being depend upon the health and resilience of coupled natural and social ecosystems. Managing this interdependence requires timely and usable information to make decisions and the science that underpins our knowledge of these systems. NOAA's mission of science, service, and stewardship is directed to a vision of the future where societies and their ecosystems are healthy and resilient in the face of sudden or prolonged change. credit: NOAA source: sos.noaa.gov From: djxatlanta Views: 228 5 ratings Time: 03:31 More in Science & Technology

CIA Archives: Environment Economy - Documentary Film (1971)
thefilmarchive.org A green economy is one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) (2010). A green economy is an economy or economic development model based on sustainable development and a knowledge of ecological economics. Its most distinguishing feature from prior economic regimes is direct valuation of natural capital and ecological services as having economics value (see The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity and Bank of Natural Capital) and a full cost accounting regime in which costs externalized onto society via ecosystems are reliably traced back to, and accounted for as liabilities of, the entity that does the harm or neglects an asset. "Green economics" is loosely defined as any theory of economics by which an economy is considered to be component of the ecosystem in which it resides (after Lynn Margulis). A holistic approach to the subject is typical, such that economic ideas are commingled with any number of other subjects, depending on the particular theorist. Proponents of feminism, postmodernism, the ecology movement, peace movement, Green politics, green anarchism and anti-globalization movement have used the term to describe very different ideas, all external to some equally ill-defined "mainstream" economics. The use of the term is further ambiguated by the political distinction of Green parties which are <b>...</b> From: thefilmarchived Views: 114 1 ratings Time: 10:16 More in Education

HFI Video: Object-Oriented User Experience (UX) with Dr. Eric Schaffer
UXE - The Relational Database of UX Objects with Dr. Eric Schaffer Transcript: Object-Oriented UX I remember working in the system development field as a user experience designer in the very early days and watching the software staff develop systems using just flat files. Everything was built into that single flat file. All the algorithms, all the statements to users. It was very inflexible, and it took a long time, and then there was a huge breakthrough. That breakthrough was when the software development community realized they could take the subroutines, make them separate, and have these objects that could be reused. These objects provided flexibility so when they had a new kind of problem they could easily adapt to it. That was a huge breakthrough for them. So why can't we do that in the UX field? In the UX field we have lots of objects. We work with different kinds of user profiles with different kinds of scenarios, in different kind of environments, with different kinds of artifacts, and different kinds of needs and opportunities. We work on multiple projects that impact multiple applications that we design. We follow standards using different kinds of methods. We have all of these different kinds of objects so why do we keep doing everything in a Powerpoint? What we could do is move away from that. Sure, we're still going to have presentations, but why can't most of our work be done in a set of objects and the presentation use those objects? Then we'll keep <b>...</b> From: HFIvideo Views: 288 0 ratings Time: 02:55 More in Science & Technology

Strategising for Innovation
To thrive in present and future competitive markets innovation leaders need to learn to leverage their firm's ecosystems to ensure corporate growth and renewal. Since the sources of innovation and their delivery are shifting more and more beyond the company boundaries, both executives from established technology-intensive companies and techno-entrepreneurs will now have to learn how to collaborate and develop their joint ecosystem even more in order to increase opportunity and results. Blending corporate with entrepreneurial innovation models, they now need to create future technology options and accelerate emerging businesses in collaborative partnerships amongst both the small and the large(r) ecosystem players. Added value for you and your business: You will leave the program equipped with the knowledge to adapt your technology and innovation strategies to fit this new ecosystem-oriented mind-set. You will draw lessons from the emergence and formation of technology in ecosystems as varied as mobile telecommunications, high-tech systems, materials and life sciences. You will have the opportunity to study how to unleash user- and technology-community creativity, as well as how to make collaboration in strategic partnerships between small and large science- and technology-based companies an outstanding success and competitive advantage. Unique approach This programme has arisen from market demand, as well as from a collaboration between two top European business schools <b>...</b> From: VlerickOfficialMedia Views: 132 0 ratings Time: 02:46 More in Education