Ocean Depths Reveal Hot Secrets
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In August 2008, the UK will launch a hot mission into one of the world's deepest and unexplored volcanic ridges - a region known as the Cayman Trough. The trough lies between the Cayman Islands and Jamaica in the Caribbean Sea. (Dallas Morning News) Related: UK National Oceanographic Centre, Southhampton.
Global Warming's Fish-Sex Effect
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Global Warming's Fish-Sex Effect - ... a rise in water temperature of just 1.5 degrees Celsius can change the male-to-female ratio from 1:1 to 3:1 ... What makes these findings especially troubling, of course, is that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that ocean-water temperatures are likely to rise by 1.5 degrees over the course of this century — and they may even go up a few degrees more. A small increase in water temperature among sensitive fish like the South American pejerrey can result in a population that is 98% male. (TIME in partnership with CNN)
GEF-IWCAM GIS Training Workshop
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The GEF-IWCAM Project held a three-day (9-12 July) GIS training workshop in Cienfuegos, Cuba. It was organised by CEHI and UNEP/CEP RCU and eighteen persons from 12 of the 13 countries that participate in the GEF-IWCAM Project attended. The BRT/IWCAM GIS Specialist and members of the GEF-IWCAM Project Coordinating Unit, CEHI and UNEP-CEP served as facilitators. The Cienfuegos watershed is the area of interest of the GEF-IWCAM Demonstration Project in Cuba. Update: Final Report
GIS models, the ArcGIS-based N-SPECT modelling tool and Open Source GIS Software were the main features of the workshop. The workshop was inspired and informed by previous work with N-SPECT, advice by the IWCAM Regional Technical Advisory Group (RTAG) and the ongoing discussions of the IWCAM GIS Working Group.
GEF-IWCAM Trinidad & Tobago Prepares Government Ministries to Monitor Environmental Changes
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The Global Environment Facility funded Integrating Watershed and Coastal Areas Management Programme for Small Caribbean Islands States (GEF-IWCAM) Trinidad and Tobago Demonstration Project partnered with the Central Statistical Office (CSO) in the Ministry of Housing, Planning, and the Environment in Trinidad to host a one-day environmental indicators workshop for Government Ministries in Trinidad and Tobago.
The theme of the workshop was Environmental Indicators: What are they and how to use them, was held on the Monday 14th July 2008 at the Kapok Hotel, St. Clair, Trinidad.
Eighteen government ministries were represented at the workshop which was organized by the T&T Demonstration Project-Manager Sandra Timothy and CSO Senior Statistician- Mr. Stephen Cockburn. The meeting was chaired by Willard Phillips of the UNDP and Mr. Clement – Director of Statistics delivered the feature remarks. The workshop was ably facilitated by Dr. Sherry Heileman, GEF-IWCAM consultant.
The aim of the workshop was to strengthen ministries capacity to develop and recognize basic environmental indicators to be used to improve their data collection and monitoring systems.
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