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[Nanowerk Nanotechnology Spotlight] New 3-year study into impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems: The multi-disciplinary team will bring together 19 researchers from the public and private sectors, including leading biologists, chemists, lawyers and engineers from seven universities, three National Research Council institutes, the National Institute for Nanotechnology, Environment Canada, the Government of Alberta, VIVE Nano, Golder Associates and HydroQual Laboratories.

[Signs of the Future] Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on ...: A team of Canadian scientists and engineers, led by the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, will collaborate on a $3.39 million, three-year study to assess the potential effects of nanoparticles in specific water environments.

[University of Waterloo - The Daily Bulletin] Tuesday January 13, 2009: “Over the next four years, Dixon will be leading 20 professors and their teams from seven universities and Environment Canada (including 10 profs from UW) in a bid to develop more sustainable solutions to the problem of oil sands byproducts. They are monitoring contaminant levels and effects on aquatic organisms in waters near mining operations.

[Latest nanotechnology companies, products, news...] The good and bad of nanotechnology: "This is almost zero." By comparison, thousands of papers are written every year on creating and using nanoparticles. University of Alberta biologist Greg Goss is hoping to change that.

[Climate Crisis Coalition - Daily News] Weekend Summary: “The first in a series of nuclear power plants planned for the oil-rich tar sands of Western Canada should be operating by 2016, the head of the project said Thursday. The Energy Alberta Corporation says it wants to place a C$5.5 .

[2020 Science] Control at the nanoscale: Smallness, strangeness and sophistication: One solution is convert the individual silver atoms into charged ions that can be dissolved in liquids and incorporated into other substances.  As its the ionic form of silver that is most harmful to microbes, this makes a lot of sense.  But ionic silver isn’t that easy to use either.  Say you have a silk scarf or a wound dressing you want to imbue with antimicrobial properties.  Getting those silver ions in there without changing the physical feel and nature of the material is a tough challenge.

[Schedule of Biotechnology Conferences and Meetings] Biotechnology Conference Schedule: May 2009-2010: Canada, Alberta, Calgary. Window on Tomorrow - Advancements in Science & Medicine in Neuromuscular Conditions.

[The Dominion: All Stories] Questioning Climate Politics: Denis Rancourt says the “global ...: The problem is being caused by the establishment of permanent cantonments on either side of the Saltoro ridge, the daily heavy air traffic to advance camps (up to Indra Col post), the cutting and melting of glacial ice through the application of chemical, daily dumping of more than a ton of chemicals, metals, organic and human waste, daily leakages from 2000 gallons of kerosene oil from 250 km plastic pipeline laid by India throughout the glacier. The unprecedented increase in the flow of the Nubra River, emerging from the Siachen Glaciers further supports the melting process.

[The Energy Blog] The Energy Blog: PEM Fuel Cells: So each of the electrodes is coated on one side with a catalyst layer that speeds up the reaction of oxygen and hydrogen. The catalyst is a material which makes the reactions at the electrodes occur more rapidly, but which in itself does not participate in the reactions.

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Peak Oil ”” A Wish-Fulfillment ...: If I would have started off with oil sand deposits, it would have been highly likely that we’d be hip deep in discussions of water availability in Alberta and British Columbia. Juggling water availability issues in a thread like this is not my cup of tea so, even though I think that the availability issues will be solved enough that we’ll never even get to F-T in the real world, F-T is useful because it’s simple and doesn’t have any show stoppers that can be practically argued.

[2020 Science] Nanoscale control: Leveraging biology: Rethinking science and technology for the 21st century is a series of blogs drawing on a recent lecture given at the James Martin School in Oxford.  This is a bit of an experiment””the serialization of a lecture, and a prelude to a more formal academic paper.  But hopefully it will be both interesting and useful.  I’ll be posting a “rethinking science and technology” blog every week or so, interspersed with the usual eclectic mix of stuff you’ve come to expect from 2020science.

[Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose] Three speeches : Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose: These nanoparticles are incorporated into other materials that bestow on them useful properties.  Silver nanoparticles, for instance, are found in food-preparation equipment.  Titanium dioxide, ground into nanoparticles, are used in sunscreens and cosmetics.  Carbon nanotubes have been embedded in materials like plastics for a long time now.

[The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future] The Oil Drum | DrumBeat: August 3, 2007: It's time for Alberta to rebrand itself, to become the "BP" of Canada by moving "beyond petroleum" and on to bio-products, and aiming to be known as a total energy producer with a significant stake in both renewable and non-renewable resources.

[Hear Ye! Hear Ye!] Hear Ye! Hear Ye! » Blog Archive » Of scholars and bonds: Twelve western states in the U.S. have hunting seasons on sandhills, along with two Canadian provinces. Furthermore, there is some subsistence hunting in Mexico and Russia, as well as in some areas in Asia.

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