Imperial Valley News Center
Energy Department Announces Second Round of Midwest Entrepreneurship Program to Drive Technology Innovation
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- Written by Green Liver
Washington, DC - The Energy Department today announced the opening of the application period for innovators to join the second cohort of Chain Reaction Innovations (CRI) at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). CRI, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs, embeds top technical talent with ANL to perform early-stage research and development (R&D) that may lead to the launch of energy or manufacturing businesses in the future. DOE’s Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Programs address critical gaps in human capital development by providing stipends and institutional homes where talented postdoctoral scientific innovators can become first-time entrepreneurs.
U.S.-EU Satellite Data Arrangement Aids in Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma Efforts
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- Written by IVN
Washington, DC - U.S. cooperation with the European Commission, facilitated by the Department of State, allowed for rapid activation of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) over the Texas and Louisiana coasts affected by Category-4 Hurricane Harvey, the largest recorded rainstorms ever to hit the contiguous United States. This service has provided local, state, and federal disaster managers with free, real-time, all-weather radar satellite images of the affected areas; we are grateful to our European partners, including the European Space Agency and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, for their assistance during this challenging time.
NIST, Industry Partner Aim to Develop 'Quantum Pascal' Standard Into Real-World Device
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- Written by Ben Stein - NIST
Washington, DC - In our everyday lives, pressure can mean a looming work deadline, a final exam, or bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. In scientific terms, pressure is a physical quantity that's important for many things, including car tires, blood circulation and breathing, semiconductor manufacturing of high-speed computer chips, and the weather.
Social Security Matters - Survivor's Benefits and the RIB LIM
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- Written by Russell Gloor - AMAC
Washington, DC - Ask Rusty - Survivor's Benefits and the RIB LIM (benefit limit):
San Diego Zoo Global’s Online Conservation Project
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- Written by Imperial Valley News
San Diego, California - It’s a win for conservation this month, after researchers revealed that more than 4,000 online volunteers have completed more than two years of conservation work in the span of only two months. The volunteers are taking part in a giraffe tracking project through San Diego Zoo Global’s crowdsourcing conservation website WildwatchKenya.org, which launched in June. Since then, volunteers have made more than 1 million classifications and retired almost 100,000 individual images from motion-activated trail cameras in Kenya—providing researchers with enough data to allow them to explore "giraffe hotspots" (areas that are showing high volumes of giraffe activity), as well as identifying areas with no signs of giraffes. Conservationists said they are happy with the site launch, but a lot more work still needs to be done—and Wildwatch Kenya is expected to become even more valuable moving forward.
Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia's Statement on DACA Repeal
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- Written by IVN
Sacramento, California - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) has released the following statement regarding President Trump’s decision to terminate the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program:
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