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Greetings -- Space Warps is back! We’re so excited to launch a new Space Warps project -- Space Warps - ESA Euclid -- to find strong gravitational lenses in sky images from the ESA Euclid Space Telescope! Read on for more information from the team about the project. Find the needles in a haystack - spot the elusive hidden distant galaxies using the power of gravitational lensing in exquisite new Euclid data! Massive galaxies warp space-time, bending light rays so that we can see around them to even more distant galaxies. These gravitational lenses are super rare but in previous surveys you have already helped us find hundreds of new candidates. We're improving our analysis using your data, and finding even more interesting images - come and help us find more lenses! In this new project, we will be inspecting new high quality imaging data from the ESA Euclid Space Telescope in which many previously unknown strong lenses will be hiding. We can expect many new lenses, more than we have discovered before, to be revealed in this exceptional data. We are very excited to ask you for help to inspect the candidates. In this first batch, we have around 30,000 images to inspect. Given your success in the past, we think we can inspect all of these images in a week!  Can you help us reach our target of 150,000 classifications by next week and meet this challenge? We think you can! Join us and be a cosmic lens hunter! To get started, please visit: https://lnkd.in/eT6rsiSU   Please note: the Zooniverse platform will be offline for scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, November 20 from 4pm-10pm US Central Standard Time (2024-11-20 22:00 UTC to 2024-11-21 4:00 UTC). During this period, all projects and platform services will be inaccessible. We apologize for the inconvenience; this maintenance is necessary to make updates to platform infrastructure and improve long-term reliability and uptime. Please visit status.zooniverse.org for updates before and during the downtime period. For any additional questions, please email contact@zooniverse.org.   Good luck with this new project -- take care! Cliff & the Zooniverse Team

Try out Galaxy Zoo Tags - our new way to classify galaxies Hi all, We're testing out a new way to classify galaxies that we're calling Galaxy Zoo Tags! You can start classifying using this new system right now, or, If you'd like to read more about this, check out our recent blog post. Your opinion is very important to us, so any help testing out Galaxy Zoo Tags and reporting your feedback is greatly appreciated! Also, in case you missed it, we shared a blog post about a recently accepted paper that uses Galaxy Zoo data to investigate how supermassive black holes are fueled. You can check out the blog post here or the paper here. Thank you all and we look forward on hearing your thoughts on Galaxy Zoo Tags! https://lnkd.in/ejsrXhjb? The Galaxy Zoo team

Cosmic Disco: Help us characterize galaxy merger stages! Dear Galaxy Zoo Volunteers, We are launching a new project Cosmic Disco: Characterizing Galaxy Collisions!  Your previous efforts have helped classify the morphologies of millions of galaxies through various Galaxy Zoo campaigns! Among those several millions are colliding galaxies (aka galaxy mergers) that are experiencing a significant change in their morphology and physical nature. Previously you have answered questions about the presence of disturbed morphological features (e.g., major or minor disturbance). As the process of galaxy merging can take several millions to a billion years, the merging galaxies we observe present to us in a plethora of configurations depending on their merging stage. Identifying the stage of merging can help us better associate the impact of mergers to specific changes in the galaxy properties. An alternative approach is to use the disturbed morphological signatures (also called tidal features) as a proxy for merger staging. In this new project, you can help characterize galaxy mergers into objective categories. This will give unprecedented insights onto the role galaxy mergers play into shaping the Universe. Please join us at https://lnkd.in/e4xTtS39 Happy classifying!  Kameswara & the Cosmic Disco Team

Atmospheric modeling involves simulating the atmospheres of Earth and other planets or celestial bodies using computer algorithms. It's crucial for predicting weather, understanding climate change, and assessing air quality on Earth, while also helping us study atmospheres on planets like Mars or Venus. By solving problems like forecasting severe storms, tracking pollution, or predicting surface conditions on other planets, #atmosphericmodeling protects lives, guides #environmentalpolicies, and aids #spaceexploration. These models are key to advancing our understanding of Earth's future climate and the potential habitability of other worlds. Here's the hottest research in the atmospheric modeling topic on OiPub: 𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝘆𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴: 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗛𝘂𝗯𝗯𝗹𝗲/𝗪𝗙𝗖𝟯 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮 by Patricio E. Cubillos and Jasmina Blecic (2021) https://lnkd.in/gyAFKHCA 𝟮. 𝗘𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 by Tomohiro Oda, Rostyslav Bun et al. (2019) https://lnkd.in/gc_pPWG8 𝟯. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗼 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗶𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵? by M. E. Marlier , E. X. Bonilla and L. J. Mickley (2020) https://lnkd.in/gbxmTvtd See more on the atmospheric modeling topic at https://lnkd.in/gTp5Vqnt Interested in keeping up to date on this topic and others? Visit OiPub.com and follow Topics and Communities to keep up to date. #ResearchFeeds #AcademicPapers #StayUpdated #DiscoverMore #ResearchTools

Announcing Cosmic Cataclysms Happy 2025, Zooniverse! Thank you for all your help in 2024 - it's been an amazing year of discovery and community building. Here is a brief video with some 2024 highlights: https://lnkd.in/eVy9rps6  And now we are ready for more. To start the new year off with a bang, please join us for the launch of Cosmic Cataclysms! This new project asks volunteers to spot cosmic explosions in data from NASA’s TESS space telescope. This project is searching for the new types of fast explosions that occur in our Universe. The resulting data will be used to locate thousands of fast explosions in TESS data for follow-up analysis to identify what exploded. We ask you to classify images which are created for locations and times that an explosion-hunting algorithm has identified as interesting. Sometimes the algorithm is wrong, picking up junk and other real phenomena like asteroids which contaminate our sample. Since TESS has captured an enormous number of images over the last 6 years, covering the entire sky, the total number of candidates is more than this project’s team can classify. Your classifications will help researchers find the truly interesting and fast explosions hidden in TESS data. Join the search and give the project a try -- visit: https://lnkd.in/e7BUXbGy Happy classifying! Alisa & the Zooniverse Team

Science has always been about the new. The now. The next. It’s what propels us, feeding our questions and inspiring our work. The constant question and answer form a rhythm, a cadence, a story. Science is a story. A story of infinite possibilities. A story of continuous discoveries. A story of hopeful solutions. It’s the story of our journey; we create what’s next. What’s next for our community. What’s next for discoveries. What’s next for our planet. What’s Next for Science. Next week, American Geophysical Union-AGU24 returns to Washington, D.C. with the theme “What’s Next for Science.” We can’t wait to see you there! Be sure to visit Nicolas Venjean and McKenzie Woodman at Booth #421 to learn more about how the technical advances of Spectral Evolution’s UV-Vis-NIR field spectroradiometers provide a new standard of high-quality data to remote sensing scientists. McKenzie Woodman will also be presenting our abstract on the 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗜𝗥 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗣𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗦𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗕𝟮𝟮𝗙: Advances in Using Imaging Spectroscopy to Monitor Plant Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Across Scales 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲 & 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 10:20 – 11:50 EST 𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Hall D (Poster Hall); eLightning Theater 3 Learn More: https://lnkd.in/eJT_Y-2x #agu #science #spectroscopy #remotesensing #spectralresolution #spectroradiometers #NIR #climatescience #earthscience #soilscience

NASA Europa Clipper Science Media Teleconference: Oct. 13, 2024 FriendsofNASA.org: NASA hosted a media teleconference on October 13, 2024, to discuss the scientific objectives of the Europa Clipper mission. [Event starts at 2 minute, 37 second mark] Launch is slated for no earlier than 12:06 p.m. EDT on Monday, October 14, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.  Meteorologists are currently predicting a 95% chance of favorable weather conditions. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gPz3pJNS Teleconference participants include: • Gina DiBraccio, acting director, Planetary Science Division, NASA Headquarters • Robert Pappalardo, project scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL • Haje Korth, deputy project scientist, Europa Clipper, Applied Physics Laboratory  • Cynthia Phillips, project staff scientist, Europa Clipper, NASA JPL Beyond Earth, Jupiter’s moon Europa is considered one of the solar system’s most promising potentially habitable environments. After an approximately 1.8-billion-mile journey, Europa Clipper will enter orbit around Jupiter in April 2030, where the spacecraft will conduct a detailed survey of Europa to determine whether the icy world could have conditions suitable for life. Europa Clipper is the largest spacecraft NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. It carries a suite of nine instruments along with a gravity experiment that will investigate an ocean beneath Europa’s surface, which scientists believe contains twice as much liquid water as Earth’s oceans. Europa Clipper's science instruments include cameras, spectrometers, a magnetometer, and an ice-penetrating radar. These instruments will study Europa’s icy shell, the ocean beneath, and the composition of the gases in the moon’s atmosphere and surface geology, and provide insights into the moon’s potential habitability. The spacecraft also will carry a thermal instrument to pinpoint locations of warmer ice and any possible eruptions of water vapor. Strong evidence shows the ocean beneath Europa’s crust is twice the volume of all the Earth’s oceans combined. For more information on the mission, visit: https://europa.nasa.gov/ 'Dreaming of Europa' Posters and Wallpaper (phone and desktop) Full-size downloads: https://lnkd.in/gkMiuWFr Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Duration: 39 minutes Release Date: Oct. 13, 2024 NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory National Space Society Space Generation Advisory Council Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) #NASA #Astronomy #Space #Science #EuropaClipper #EuropaClipperSpacecraft #SpaceX #FalconHeavyRocket #Jupiter #Europa #Moon #Ocean #Astrobiology #Biosignatures #Habitability #Radiation #SolarSystem #SpaceExploration #JHUAPL #MSFC #GSFC #JPL #KSC #Spaceport #Florida #UnitedStates #STEM #Education #HD #Video

📢 Get to know AQUARIUS and our people! 💡 Today’s spotlight is on Data Management and Open Science Practices What is it? AQUARIUS has an open data policy, ensuring that all collected and generated data will be openly accessible and usable by the wider community. To achieve this, AQUARIUS will implement a targeted strategy for data management, to ensure that all data and metadata become part of leading European data infrastructures, feeding European and global initiatives.  In addition to its data sharing efforts, AQUARIUS will promote Open Science practices in line with the European Open Science Cloud, encouraging researchers to explore and make use of virtual research environments.   Key features of AQUARIUS Data Management and Open Science Practices include: 📊 Analysing data and knowledge gaps to inform the design and challenges of the transnational access funding calls. ✅ Optimising Open and FAIR Access to ensure that new data, data products, and scientific knowledge are readily accessible and usable. This maximises the impact of research investments and supports the goals of #MissionOcean. 👩🔬 Researchers involved in AQUARIUS projects will both benefit from and contribute to resources such as Copernicus, GEOSS, EMODnet, Blue Cloud and the European Digital Twin of the Ocean. 📖 Applying open science practices by analysing and valorising collected data in virtual research environments, which will be arranged in synergy with the Blue-Cloud 2026 project and using their D4Science VRE platform. Who is involved? MARIS is leading this work alongside partners: IFREMER, OGS, SMHI, MOI, HCMR, SSBE, CSIC, @EMBRC-ERIC, EMSO ERIC , NORCE, NIMRD, GeoEcoMar, MI, RBINS, IMR, CNR, ULiege, VLIZ, INGV, EMBL-EBI, IH, AWI, and IRD.  Why are we doing this?  AQUARIUS is committed to promoting global best practices in data management to drive innovation and scientific discovery across the marine and freshwater research communities. 🤝 The future is open data! Apply for our Funding Calls and be a part of it! European Research Executive Agency (REA) Horizon Europe MARIS B.V..V Ifremer OGS SMHI Seascape Belgium CSIC NORCE Norwegian Research Centre GeoEcoMar Marine Institute Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche ULiège - RISE VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute #EUGreenDeal #OpenData #OpenScience #FAIR #Apply #Science #Research #FundingCalls #Water

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UMN Professors Susan Wolf, JD, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences, and John Bischof, Director of Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio), are among authors of a new study, published in BioScience, proposing a plan that could safeguard Earth’s endangered biodiversity through storage on the Moon at extremely low temperature. The study led by the Smithsonian Institution outlines a roadmap for the creation of a lunar biorepository. The paper proposes an approach for governance, the types of biological material to be stored, and a plan for experiments to address challenges like radiation and microgravity. https://lnkd.in/gHum2mwc