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Toolbox for tagging sensitive data in life science research

Environmental News Bits

From climate change to global pandemics, the world is facing major environmental and health-related challenges that are driving life science research institutions to pool their data and digital resources in search of solutions.

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Some Research Notes on Using Geo-Tagged Cell Phone Data to Study Urban Economics Questions

Environmental and Urban Economics

Several excellent urban economics research teams have access to U.S Geotagged data provide researchers with a spatial and temporal high frequency database to know where each person spends her day. geocoded cell phone data. Since I am not part of any of these teams, I will use this blog post to offer them some unsolicited advice.

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Perspective | Giant Catch in the Mekong Reveals Mysteries of Biodiversity Hot Spot

Circle of Blue

The stingray was tagged with a tracking device and returned to the Mekong River, where its movements are informing conservation planning. The research project with which I’m involved is trying to change that. In June 2022, fishers in Cambodia caught a giant freshwater stingray weighing 661 pounds (300 kilos).

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Michigan Can Transition to 100-Percent Renewable Energy by 2035, Save Lives, and Create Jobs

Union of Concerned Scientists

Plus, we’ve been spared the devastating experiences associated with that price tag: Late nights in the emergency room. Family members lost too soon.

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Endangered seabird shows surprising individual flexibility to adapt to climate change

Environmental News Bits

New research finds that individual behavioural flexibility and not evolutionary selection is driving the northward shift of Balearic shearwaters. The findings were revealed through a decade-long study which tagged individual birds. Read the full story from the University of Oxford.

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‘Smart bandage’ may help solve a major problem when treating chronic wounds

Frontiers

A person’s leg wrapped in bandage (not the smart bandage from this research). In the future, by changing the geometry and materials in the bandage, the researchers may be able to fine tune it to suit different types of wounds. REPUBLISHING GUIDELINES : Open access and sharing research is part of Frontiers’ mission.

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Tracking endangered bats across Indiana forests

Environmental News Bits

New research published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management is the result of painstaking work which involved catching, radio tagging and tracking endangered Indiana bats and threatened northern long-eared bats. Read the full story at Earth.com. Read more →

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