ENTERPRISE â Search and Rescue team members from Wallowa, Union, Baker and Umatilla counties honed their skills in the Salt Creek Summit area of Wallowa County.
About 60 SAR volunteers and instructors from the four counties participated June 24-27 in the multi-day training, which was hosted by Wallowa County Search and Rescue volunteers.
âOur numbers were down a little from what we expected, but itâs a little late in the season,â Paige Sully, the event coordinator for WCSAR, said. âBut all in all I think it was great.â
Training included swiftwater rescue, tactical fast tracking, advanced incident command, hasty-team and K-9 land searches, rescuing injured hikers from remote locations and coordination with Civil Air Patrol aircraft.
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Without the app, mapping reefs usually involves high amounts of data and low-quality photos, which lead to slow analysis. Eight per cent of the ocean floor is mapped out, said Ved Chirayath, an earth scientist with Nasa who leads the team, at the same photo resolution as terrestrial land.
“The key questions of where is the coral, how healthy is it, and how is it changing over time – that has to be answered by somebody, in the past, having to go through the mapping data and manually classifying those corals,” Chirayath said.
Corals get their bright colors from algae within them. When corals live under stress, they expel the algae and turn pale white, leaving them starving but not dead, yet.
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
The Berryville School District is going green mostly.
The Berryville Board of Education on Feb. 22 voted unanimously to enter into a 20-year agreement with North Little Rock-based Todays Power Inc., to provide solar power to district facilities.
Were really excited about that, district superintendent Owen Powell said. Its been a long time coming. Weve been in planning and negotiating this for 2 1/2 to three years, so to finalize that contract and to be able to get moving forward with it is exciting.
Owen Powell
Powell said the agreement will cost the district nothing but space for the solar panels, which are expected to produce up to 80 percent of the electric power used by the district.
Aimee Bronfeld, Center for Health and Wellbeing
Jan. 26, 2021 2 p.m.
As Heather Howard, a lecturer in public affairs, was planning for her fall course “Health Care for Vulnerable Populations in the U.S.,” she considered not one but two pandemics. And she knew she had to retool the course, which she has taught since 2018, to seize the moment.
“Students were hungry to bring these issues into the classroom,” said Heather Howard, a lecturer in public affairs, who is also the director of State Health and Value Strategies with Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing.
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“We had two pandemics converging: COVID-19 and the reckoning with racial injustice,” said Howard, who is also the director of State Health and Value Strategies with Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing (CHW). “Students were hungry to bring these issues into the classroom.”