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• European flood risk projects launched: http://bit.ly/cN6862 #
• "#risk-taking leads not to a loss of #control but to the opposite." http://bit.ly/9W11qk – despite the #uncertainty involved! #
• recent #extremes ( 0.2% #probability )of discharges in Tennessee Rivers: http://bit.ly/a1dYT3 #
• RT @Bill_Romanos: only indirectly water related, but crazy: the first synthetic living cell createdhttp://bit.ly/967XOJ #
• FREAK Shots: The Oil Sands: Photographs of Canada's oil sands. http://bit.ly/9Mv0Cu (via @freakonomics) #

European Conference on Applied Climatology EMS Annual Meeting Zurich, Switzerland

Particularly, there is a session on “Data mapping, spatial interpolation and GIS modelling, Reference climatologies” MC3/AW13

http://www.iwa2010montreal.org/

The Monster Oil Spill

from Zina Saunders

6th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management

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23 – 25 May 2011

Riverside, California, USA

Conference Topics Water management and planning Waste water treatment and management Water markets, policies and contracts The right to water Urban water management Water quality Pollution control Irrigation problems River basin management Hydrological modelling Flood risk Decision support systems Remediation and renaturalisation Climate change and water resources Governance and monitoring Waste water treatment and re-use Regional and geo-politics of water Water resources and economics Water ecology Sanitation Wetlands Extreme events Hydraulic engineering

• international #soil #moisture network has been created: http://bit.ly/9J7QMl #

Oil continuous to gush out of the leakage in the pipes below the exploded drill-rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Here are some links I came across:

• a photo gallery;
• various GIS resources, including links to shapefiles;
• the google earth blog links tovarious kml files and georeferenced images;
• google has its own site devoted to the spill;
• there is a grassroots mapping project going on;
• and of course, Paul Krugman has his thoughts.

updated Sunday; May 16, 2010:

• a Valdez reporter on the gushing oil
• drilling for oil is more risky than it used to be
• “Naming the Unspeakable” is Cosmic Variance’s post on the spill

updated Friday; May 21, 2010: * here’s an interactive oil-spil map by ESRI

The volcano EYJAFJALLAJÖKULL on iceland keeps spewing, and the aviation business across Europe at its will. Here is a great timelapse video (via kwerfeldein.de)

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

update Sunday; May 16, 2010:

here are some awesome photos of the eruption together with northern lights in the background

update Sunday; May 23, 2010

• VectorOne asks where is the GPS data to support the existence and/or location of the ash cloud
• Explanation on MSN why ash clouds are dangerous

• Engineering bacteria for environmental cleanup http://j.mp/9A5x44 (via @modernscientist) #
• at the #NUPUS meeting http://www.nupus.uni-stuttgart.de/ #

• Gates Fdn. CEO calls for more efficient water use. http://tinyurl.com/2fnry84 (via @WaterWired) #
• Imagery from Gulf of Mexico oil spill now in Google Earth. Turn on "Paces of Interest" & look for an icon in the Gulf. (via @googleearth) #