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Southwest Research Institute

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Name: Southwest Research Institute

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Southwest Research Institute: An SwRI-led remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaskan wetlands

-- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Life Science Weekly -- A team of geoscientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using newly available remote-sensing technology has achieved unprecedented detail in quantifying subtle, long-period changes ... [Published NewsRX - May 20 2013]

Entities: Southwest Research Institute, Permafrost, Degradation

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Corning Inc

SAE International Honors Four with Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award

- Four automotive engineering professionals were honored with the SAE International Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award. The group received the award during the Awards Ceremony at the SAE 2013 World Congress.The award recognizes individuals ... [Published Automotive Engineering Online - May 15 2013]

Entities: Timothy V Johnson, Southwest Research Institute, Corning Inc

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Scientists see evidence of deep lakes on Mars

Eroded channels and chasms from catastrophic floods between martian basins are the strongest evidence yet that there were once large, deep bodies of water on early Mars, according to a new study using the latest imagery and topographic data.The outflow ... [Published NBCNews.com - May 10 2013]

Entities: Ground Water, Erosion, Southwest Research Institute, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

SAE International Announces 2013 Class of SAE Fellows

- 21 engineers and scientists from industry and academia now have the prestigious SAE International status of “SAE Fellow.”SAE Fellowship status is the highest grade of membership bestowed by SAE International. It recognizes outstanding engineering and ... [Published Automotive Engineering Online - May 07 2013]

Entities: Mechanical Engineering, Vehicle Safety, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 2 reports

NASA

SwRI scientist named chairman of NASA advisory committee

Southwest Research Institute’s David J. McComas has been appointed to serve on the NASA Advisory Council as well as chair the NAC Science Committee.McComas is the assistant vice president of the space science and engineering division. The council advises ... [Published San Antonio Business Journal - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: NASA, Southwest Research Institute, Charles Bolden, David J, Aeronautics

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Furniture Flame Retardant Ban Proposed in New York

Photo Credit: Southwest Research Institute ALBANY, NY - New York joins the growing list of states looking to ban the use of chemical flame retardants in residential upholstered furniture.Introduced earlier this month by New York State Assemblyman Robert ... [Published Woodworking Magazine - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Chemical, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Toxic, Southwest Research Institute, neurotoxic

First reported Apr 18 2013 - Updated Apr 18 2013 - 1 reports

Southwest Research Institute

Remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaskan wetlands

ScienceDaily: A team of geoscientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) using newly available remote-sensing technology has achieved unprecedented detail in quantifying subtle, long-period changes in the water levels of shallow lakes and ponds ... [Published Water Conserve: News - Apr 18 2013]

Entities: Permafrost, Degradation, Southwest Research Institute

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Airships: A New Horizon for Science

California Institute of TechnologyPasadena, CA 91125Team LeadsIn recent years, aerospace has seen a revival in airship technology. As of yet, scientists have not capitalized on what could be an ideal platform for various types of instruments with a wide ... [Published Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: New Horizon Group Ltd, Southwest Research Institute, Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Northrop Grumman Corporation

First reported Apr 04 2013 - Updated Apr 05 2013 - 1 reports

Scientists to Io: Your volcanoes are in the wrong place

This five-frame sequence of images from NASA's New Horizons mission captures the giant plume from Io's Tvashtar volcano. Snapped by the probe's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) as the spacecraft flew past Jupiter in 2007, this first-ever movie ... [Published PhysOrg.com - Apr 04 2013]

Entities: Volcano, Plume, New Horizons Worldwide Inc, Jupiter

First reported Mar 21 2013 - Updated Mar 21 2013 - 1 reports

Local scientists contribute to Jupiter mission

Decades of research and development have helped scientists at the Southwest Research Institute contribute technology for a mission to Jupiter.“Space exploration is sort of a luxury item, but it’s such a huge payoff in knowledge and that's what we’re in ... [Published KSAT 12 - Mar 21 2013]

Entities: Jupiter, Michael Davis, Spectrograph, Southwest Research Institute, Solar System

First reported Feb 28 2013 - Updated Mar 01 2013 - 1 reports

SwRI-CSF Co-Sponsored 2013 Next-Generation Suborbital Space Research and Education Conference Announces Business Wire

BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Participants in the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC-2013), to be held June 3-5 in Broomfield, outside Boulder, Colo., will have a chance to visit local aerospace facilities, attend a NASA-led workshop, ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Feb 28 2013]

Entities: Southwest Research Institute, Education, Space Travel, NASA, Broomfield (United States)

First reported Feb 06 2013 - Updated Feb 07 2013 - 2 reports

IBEX’s Giant Interstellar “Ribbon” Explained

A new study using data from NASA ‘s Interstellar Boundary Explorer ( IBEX ) mission has put forth an explanation for an interstellar “ribbon” of energetic neutral atoms. The ribbon confounded researchers in 2009 when IBEX was able to map the interstellar ... [Published WebProNews - Feb 06 2013]

Entities: Magnetic Field, Heliosphere, David McComas, hypothesis, Interstellar Boundary Explorer

Quotes

The SwRI-funded study was published under the title, "Multi-temporal image analysis of historical aerial photographs and recent satellite imagery reveals evolution of water body surface area and polygonal terrain morphology in Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska" by Necsoiu, Dinwiddie, Walter, Larsen, and Stothoff in the journal Environmental Research Letters

Southwest Research Institute: An SwRI-led remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degradation ... [Published NewsRX - May 20 2013]

"In our view, we're carrying on a pretty proud tradition" Sirangelo said

Dream Chaser leaves Louisville for critical tests in California [Published Boulder Daily Camera - May 15 2013]

..."There is the analogy of the Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington State" which were carved by very short-lived, catastrophic floods. "Those are pretty small in comparison to the five-kilometer-deep channels on Mars."

Scientists see evidence of deep lakes on Mars [Published NBCNews.com - May 10 2013]

...industry grows, it’s important to foster a dialogue on intelligent transportation to generate space for innovation to develop," said Scott Belcher. "We expect the Leadership Circle to play a key role in influencing the national debate around how to use technology to address our nation’s transportation challenges."

Airbiquity Joins Industry Leaders at the First Meeting of the ITS America Leadership Circle [Published Business Wire - May 01 2013]

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Southwest Research Institute: An SwRI-led remot... [Published NewsRX - May 20 2013]
Dream Chaser leaves Louisville for critical tes... [Published Boulder Daily Camera - May 15 2013]
SAE International Honors Four with Lloyd L. Wit... [Published Automotive Engineering Online - May 15 2013]
Scientists see evidence of deep lakes on Mars [Published NBCNews.com - May 10 2013]
SAE International Announces 2013 Class of SAE F... [Published Automotive Engineering Online - May 07 2013]
Airbiquity Joins Industry Leaders at the First ... [Published Business Wire - May 01 2013]
This date in science: Pluto gets a name [Published EarthSky - May 01 2013]
SwRI scientist named chairman of NASA advisory ... [Published San Antonio Business Journal - Apr 30 2013]
SwRI’s McComas to Chair NASA Advisory Council’s... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Apr 30 2013]
Furniture Flame Retardant Ban Proposed in New York [Published Woodworking Magazine - Apr 29 2013]
Bold Balloon Mission Targets 'Comet Of Century' [Published Huffington Post - Apr 27 2013]
Scientists to Eye Potential 'Comet of the Centu... [Published The Oregon Herald - Apr 26 2013]
The visual comets of 2013 (6) [Published The Guardian Nigeria - Apr 25 2013]
The Arctic This Week: 13 Apr 2013 - 19 Apr 2013 [Published The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar S ... - Apr 22 2013]
U.S. Patents Awarded to Inventors in Texas (Apr... [Published Equities.com - Apr 20 2013]
NACE Announces 2013 Industry Achievement Award ... [Published Metal Finishing - Apr 19 2013]
Remote-sensing study quantifies permafrost degr... [Published Water Conserve: News - Apr 18 2013]
An SwRI-led Remote-Sensing Study Quantifies Per... [Published Business Wire - Apr 18 2013]
Airships: A New Horizon for Science [Published Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Apr 17 2013]
Can Anyone Pay To Name An Exoplanet? It's Compl... [Published Popular Science - Apr 16 2013]
Volcanoes on Io puzzle scientists [Published SEN - Apr 14 2013]
2013 SAE$ Technical Paper Spotlight [Published Delphi - Apr 13 2013]
NASA Selects 2013 Carl Sagan Fellows [Published SpaceRef - Apr 09 2013]
Ioâs Volcanoes are in the Wrong Place [Published Universe Today - Apr 05 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Manufacturing - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Energy - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Science - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published Business Wire Science: Science News - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published Business Wire Energy News - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published Business Wire Manufacturing News - Apr 04 2013]

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This date in science: Pluto gets a name [Published EarthSky - May 01 2013] May 1, 1930 . On this date, 11-year-old Venetia Burney in Oxford, England received £5 for her clever suggestion of the name Pluto for then the solar system’s outermost and newest planet. Clyde W. Tombaugh – an assistant at the Lowell Observatory ...
The Arctic This Week: 13 Apr 2013 - 19 Apr 2013 [Published The Arctic Institute - Center for Circumpolar S ... - Apr 22 2013] By Tom Fries , Kevin Casey & Maura Farrell The Arctic This Week 2013:16Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here . Thanks for joining us this week! We hope you find TATW useful and fun to read. If you find TATW valuable, please spread the word. We’re ...
Buried flood channels discovered on Mars [Published SlashGear - Mar 09 2013] Scientists have discovered some buried channels on Mars that show signs of flooding on the planet. The flood channels were discovered near Mars’s equator along a region called Elysium Planitia, one of the youngest volcanic region on the planet. The ...
SwRI launches HEDGE-III; high-efficiency gasoli... [Published Green Car Congress - Mar 08 2013] HEDGE-III will investigate solutions to the primary barriers to high efficiency in gasoline engines. Source: SwRI. Click to enlarge. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has launched its third cooperative research program aimed at developing a high-efficiency ...
New Steps Toward Driving Autonomy [Published Pike Research - Feb 19 2013] Autonomous driving has crept back into the headlines again after important announcements at CES and NAIAS : At CES, Toyota displayed its Lexus Advanced Active Safety Research Vehicle , which has similar equipment to Google’s autonomous Prius. Toyota ...

Press Releases

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Airbiquity Joins Industry Leaders at the First ... [Published Business Wire - May 01 2013]
An SwRI-led Remote-Sensing Study Quantifies Per... [Published Business Wire - Apr 18 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Manufacturing - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Energy - Apr 04 2013]
SwRI Receives 2013 NACE International Distingui... [Published EON Science - Apr 04 2013]