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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Giant Magellan Telescope?
GMT and Extremely Large Telescopes
What is the GMT?
Q: What is the Giant Magellan Telescope?
A: The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be the first in a new class of Extremely Large Telescopes, capable of exploring the cosmos with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity. The GMT will peer back in time to shortly after the Big Bang, when the first stars, galaxies, and black holes formed. The GMT will leverage cutting-edge optics technology to combine seven giant mirrors to achieve 10 times the angular resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope in the infrared region of the spectrum. When it begins operations early in the next decade, GMT will embark on a mission of discovery to explore the origins of the chemical elements (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and others) that make up our planet and our bodies, the formation of the first stars to form in the Universe, and the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy. The GMT will also search distant exoplanets for signs of biological processes around other stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
Telescope Technology
Q: What are the breakthrough technologies developed for GMT?
A: The primary mirrors are the breakthrough technology for the GMT. They are the most challenging optics ever produced (in technical terms they are large, fast, off-axis aspherics). When coupled with the GMT adaptive optics (AO) system they will produce images sharper than those from the Hubble or Webb Space Telescopes.
Q: Which adaptive optics (AO) modes will be supported?
A: The GMT project is firmly committed to providing diffraction-limited observing modes in the first few years of operations. The primary mode of AO for the GMT is expected to be Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics (LTAO). Six sodium laser beacons will be used in conjunction with natural stars to produce nearly diffraction-limited images in the near- and mid-infrared over fields 30-90 arcseconds in diameter. The adaptive secondary mirror will act as the deformable mirror in the AO system. Additional deformable mirrors can be added to allow Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optics (MCAO), increasing the field of view and improving the uniformity of the images. During the design phase the project will explore costs and implementation strategies for this mode. The other principal AO modes are expected to be Ground-Layer Adaptive Optics (GLAO) and Extreme Adaptive Optics (ExAO). GLAO will provide 50-200% reductions in image size in the near infrared over large fields of view. This remains a developmental area and the project is working to characterize the low altitude turbulence at the site to estimate the expected gains from GLAO under various observing conditions. ExAO provides extremely high contrast over small fields of view, and is important to a number of key GMT science goals. We expect that ExAO will be developed for the second generation of GMT instruments. It is likely that high-contrast imaging will happen first in the mid-infrared, where there are both scientific and technical advantages, followed by an evolution to shorter wavelengths. On longer time scales the project will continue to examine other innovative AO modes, such as Multi-Object Adaptive Optics (MOAO) and other forms of deployable AO.
Q: What are the first generation instruments?
A: The GMT Board of Directors has decided on four instruments and one facility fiber optics positioning system. These range from very powerful multi-object spectrographs operating in the visible and the near-infrared, to high-resolution spectrometers and AO-fed imagers and spectrographs working in the near- and mid-infrared. These instruments are described on the GMT website at http://www.gmto.org/resources/#science-instruments. At first light we expect to have two instruments ready to be commissioned with the telescope. Once the telescope is commissioned, two more instruments plus the fiber optics positioner will be added. New instruments will be developed all the time; we would expect a new instrument every few years once the telescope is operational.
Q: What is the light collecting ability of the GMT compared to other telescopes?
A: When it is fully commissioned, the GMT will have ten times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope (4 times the resolution of the James Webb Space Telescope) and 7-10 times the light-gathering power of the largest telescopes today.
Q: How do amateur telescopes compare to the Giant Magellan Telescope?
A: The GMT will work according to the same basic principles as most of today's amateur telescopes. They are all based on Isaac Newton's design for a reflecting telescope, which uses a primary mirror to collect light.
Chile and Las Campanas
Q: Where is the GMT being built?
A: The telescope will be built at Las Campanas Observatory (LCO) in the Andes mountain range in the Atacama Desert in Chile. At an elevation of almost 2400 meters (8000 feet) and latitude 29° South, Las Campanas is known for dark skies, excellent weather and outstanding seeing. Extensive site testing, both in advance of the construction of the twin Magellan 6.5 meter telescopes and for the GMT have shown that the images are quite sharp (half a second of arc). While Las Campanas is a remote site far from any towns or cities, it has a well-developed infrastructure of roads, electrical power, and water from deep wells fed by runoff from the high Andes mountain range.
Q: What are the benefits for Chile for hosting the GMT?
A: The GMT will be located on the top of Las Campanas, the mountain that gives the name to the Las Campanas Observatory. In 1971 the first of the telescopes owned and operated by Carnegie Institution was opened to Carnegie astronomers and the Chilean community. Since then a number of smaller telescopes have operated at Las Campanas, making it one of the premier observatories on the planet. By the agreement with the University of Chile, all telescopes on Las Campanas, including the GMT, devote 10% of the observing time to professional astronomers working at Chilean institutions.
Q: Are you working with the Chilean government?
A: The GMTO organization has a cooperative agreement with the University of Chile and is recognized by the Government of Chile as a special international organization. The GMT team and our partner universities and institutions have active outreach activities in Chile and work closely with the Chilean Universities and the relevant departments of the Government of Chile.
Q: How many jobs will you be creating in Chile with this program?
A: During construction we expect to have up to 250 workers on site building the telescope and related infrastructure. The GMTO office in Santiago will have 20-40 staff during construction. During the operations phase (expected to be at least 50 years) we expect to employ 100-150 Chileans in technical, administrative and support positions.
Q: Are there any natural hazards at the Las Campanas site?
A: All of the world's great observatories are perched atop high mountains. These mountains are made either from volcanic or plate tectonic processes and thus are inherently risky. We have designed the GMT to withstand the largest earthquakes expected in a 500-year period at the Las Campanas site. We expect the telescope to be operating for a very long time!
Q: Do you have permits to build on Las Campanas?
A: One of our founding partners, the Carnegie Institution for Science, has owned the Las Campanas site since the late 1960's. We have an excellent relationship with the government of Chile and local authorities, and have all of the necessary permissions in place.
Mirror Technology
Q: Where are the primary mirrors being made?
A: The telescope's 24.5 meter (82 foot) primary mirror will be comprised of seven separate 8.4 meter (27 foot) diameter segments. Each of the primary mirror segments weighs approximately 17 tons and takes a year to cast and cool. After casting, the fabrication of each segment requires more than three years of surface generation and meticulous polishing. The mirrors are being produced by the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab of the Steward Observatory of the University of Arizona, one of the partner institutions of GMTO.
Q: What are the advantages of the large primary mirror segments?
A: The GMT primary segments have a heritage in the MMT, Magellan and Large Binocular Telescope primary mirrors. These mirrors have been shown to produce excellent images. They have high mechanical stiffness and short thermal time scales. The GMT segments will provide the largest possible area of continuous wavefront and will reject wind-driven disturbances. The manufacturing, mechanical support, and thermal control of these mirrors are well understood and this knowledge is contained within the GMT partner institutions. The project has invested in the infrastructure at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab to produce these segments in an efficient manner. The first mirror segment was completed in 2012 and demonstrated the viability of polishing large off-axis mirrors to the required optical tolerances.
Q: How is the polishing process going?
A: Four of the seven primary mirror segments have been cast at the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab at the University of Arizona. This is the status of the mirror production as of May 2017:
- Mirror Segment 1 was completed in 2012.
- During polishing, the mirrors are housed in a structure that supports the mirror in the right shape. This structure is known as a "Cell". The Cell used to house Segment 1 while it was being polished is being refurbished for use with Segment 2. The cell is undergoing final testing and when it is ready Segment 2 will be placed in it, ready for the final stage of production: front surface polishing.
- Segment 3 has had its rear surface polished and load spreaders have been installed on the rear surface. The next stage will be processing of the front of the mirror.
- The team has just finished edging and beveling on Segment 4 and is now preparing to start polishing the rear surface.
- All the glass for Segments 5 and 6 are on hand at the Mirror Lab. The glass for segment 7 is coming.
Q: What are the advantages of the segmented adaptive secondary?
A: Adaptive optics (AO) is enormously powerful at increasing the resolving power and sensitivity of the GMT, achieving close to the diffraction limit for the reddest colors that the eye can see (wavelengths longer than 0.6 microns). Doing some of this correction at the secondary mirror offers some important advantages over conventional methods, which require additional optics. First, the background light in the thermal infrared (wavelengths longer than 2.5 microns) is greatly reduced. Second, the secondary mirror is optimal for correcting atmospheric turbulence around 200m above the ground, where much of the image blurring occurs. The large size of the secondary also assures a wide field of view. We expect to achieve 50% to 200% reductions in image size in the near infrared (wavelengths around 1 micron) over fields of view as large as 8 arcminutes in diameter. The GMT adaptive secondary mirrors have a common heritage with those in the Large Binocular Telescope and the European Very Large Telescope. They are only slightly larger in size, and each of the seven segments will have 6700 actuators controlling the mirror shape.
Q: How will the telescope be phased?
A: The telescope will be phased (i.e. brought into optical alignment) by positioning and pistoning the primary and secondary mirror segments. Stars will be observed continuously in the near-infrared, where the atmospheric coherence length is larger than the gap between mirror segments. Interference fringes are formed at the mirror gaps and these are used to sense average phase differences on time scales of about one minute. Optical or mechanical edge sensors that span the gaps between segments of both the primary and secondary mirrors will be used to track deviations from the average phase caused by mechanical vibrations on time scales shorter than one minute. Adjustments on shorter time scales will be made with the adaptive secondary mirror segments, while drifts on longer time scales are taken out with the primary mirror segment supports. Sky coverage is nearly 100% using currently available near-infrared and optical wavefront sensors.
Q: How do you get the mirrors to Chile and up the mountain?
A: We will most likely transport the mirrors from Tuscon, Arizona, by road to the port of Los Angeles, California. Then they will be transported by ship to Chile and finally by road to the site at Las Campanas.
Q: Why did you decided to formally move forward with construction in 2015?
A: The idea behind the Giant Magellan Telescope has been maturing for some time. In 2014 the project completed a rigorous set of reviews that evaluated the project's design plan and budget. Having passed the inspection with flying colors, and having raised more than $500 million dollars (US) for construction, the Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) Board of Directors has unanimously voted to move into the construction phase of this historic endeavor.
Q: When did construction begin?
A: Construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope and its support facilities in the Chilean Andes began in 2015.
Q: When will construction be complete?
A: The Giant Magellan Telescope will see "first light" early in the next decade and begin initial scientific operations as the largest telescope in the world, with at least four of its final complement of seven giant mirrors. The project is on-track to be completed with all seven mirrors by 2025.
Q: What pre-construction work has taken place?
A: We realized early in the project that we needed to convince ourselves that we could make the challenging optics at the heart of the GMT. In late 2012 we completed the first of the GMT mirrors and thus retired our greatest technical risk. In addition, we began preparing the mountaintop site in the Chilean Andes for construction in mid 2012. This preconstruction work also allowed us to measure the properties of the rock under the soil and so finalize our designs for the foundation of the observatory. A telescope that looks up at the heavens must be firmly anchored to the Earth.
Q:What construction work will happen first?
A: The first major construction activity will be to excavate the foundations for the observatory and the massive pier that will form the base of the telescope. It is ironic that in our reach for the heavens, our first step is to dig a deep hole in the Earth!
Q: What will be included in the first phase of construction?
A: The first phase of construction will see completion of the telescope – a precision optical and mechanical instrument that collects light from celestial objects and delivers it to a focus – and the 'dome' – a rotating cylindrical building that protects the telescope during the day. In addition, we will build an initial suite of scientific instruments including sophisticated cameras and spectrographs that will allow scientists to measure the composition and dynamics of distant planets and galaxies. A support campus for the technical staff and visiting astronomers will also be constructed.
Q: What will not be included in the first phase of construction?
A: Some of the more sophisticated optical instruments and advanced optical correction technology are not slated for construction during the initial phase. We will continue to develop these technologies, however, and when they are mature we will include them in the construction plan. These advanced instruments and correcting optics will further enhance the power of the observatory.
Q: What contracts will be placed now construction is announced?
A: We are working on three major procurement contracts. The first is a civil engineering contract to improve the roads, excavate the foundation, and build the basic infrastructure on the site. The second major contract will address the detailed design of the telescope; subsequently there will be a contract to build the precision structure, test it, and then ship it to Chile and assemble it on the mountaintop. The third major contract for the early stage is centered on fabricating the large rotating enclosure building that will form the 'dome' of the observatory. This large structure must protect the telescope during the day and in rare times of inclement weather, but must open at night to allow the telescope to see the heavens.
Q: What was the process for the design and technical review before reaching this construction decision?
A: The GMT project team has passed through several rigorous design and cost reviews. In the language of large projects these are called 'conceptual' and 'preliminary' design reviews, but there is little that is preliminary about them. The design and driving requirements were subject to a thorough review by an international panel of recognized experts in the development of large observatories.
The GMT project will undergo regular reviews throughout the construction phase. Something as complex as a 25 meter telescope needs careful oversight from the best minds in science, engineering and project management.
Q: Who was involved in making the construction decision?
A: The construction decision was made unanimously by GMTO's Board of Directors. This is comprised of individuals from the Founding institutions, which are Astronomy Australia Limited, the Australian National University, Carnegie Institution for Science, Harvard University, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Smithsonian Institution, Texas A&M University, The University of Arizona, the University of Chicago, The University of Texas at Austin.
Q: Who is overseeing the construction of the GMT?
A: The GMTO Board and the Founding partners are overseeing the construction of the GMT. The construction of the GMT is being managed by the GMTO Corporation under the leadership of its President, Dr. Robert N. Shelton, and Director, Dr. Patrick McCarthy.
History and Timing
Q: What is the history of the GMT? Who made the decision to start the project?
A: The GMT concept, as with those of the other extremely large telescope projects, has its roots in turn-of-the-millennium discussions about how to build on the successes of the 8-10m telescopes developed in the 1980s and 1990s. Three quite distinct primary mirror technologies – segmented mirrors (Keck), monolithic meniscus mirrors (Gemini, VLT, Subaru), and structured monolithic mirrors (MMT, Magellan) – had, by 2000 or shortly thereafter, produced telescopes that yielded outstanding image quality at costs well below the extrapolation of the D2.7 scaling (D is the diameter of the primary mirror) from the 1950-1970's 2m to 4m aperture telescopes. The Magellan telescopes (Baade in 1999 and Clay in 2001) produced exceptionally good images at a site that, while known for good seeing, was not until then considered a rival in terms of image quality to Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
The excellent images from the Magellan telescopes arise from a combination of well-figured primary mirrors, precise and accurate thermal control, and a full-time active optics system that corrects many aberrations in the primary mirror and repositions the primary and secondary mirrors on time scales of about a minute. The short thermal time scale (about 20 minutes) of the Arizona mirrors allows them to be controlled at a level that tracks the ambient air temperature with high accuracy.
It was clear that apertures larger than 8-9m could only be achieved by segmenting the primary mirror collecting area. Basic material properties make fabrication of monoliths larger than 9m difficult, and the challenges of transporting and handling such large optics quickly become insurmountable. It was also clear that the cost scaling with diameter must be beaten to reach 20-30m apertures at affordable costs. Scaling the cost of a 25m aperture from the 4m costs using either the D2.7 scaling or the more recent D2.4 scaling leads to very high cost estimates. Breaking the cost scaling would likely require primary focal ratios even faster than the very fast – f/1.25 (MMT, Magellan) to f/2 (VLT) – primaries on the 8-10m telescopes.
The GMT concept arose from the '20/20′ concept for an interferometer using twin 21m telescopes on a circular track 100m in diameter. The individual telescopes were composed of seven 8.4m diameter segments with a primary focal ratio of f/0.7. The concept for the individual telescopes in the 20/20 interferometer formed the starting point for the GMT design.
The GMT is being developed by an international consortium of universities and research institutions, starting in 2004 with the Carnegie Institution, the University of Arizona, Harvard University, and the Smithsonian Institution. The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University joined the project in 2006. They were followed by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), the Australian National University, and Astronomy Australia Limited in 2008. That same year the GMT founding institutions signed a partnership agreement and formed an independent nonprofit corporation to manage the development, construction, and operation of the GMT. The University of Chicago joined the project in 2010 and FAPESP, representing the state of São Paulo, Brazil, joined in 2014.
Q: Why build the Giant Magellan Telescope now?
A: The time is right to build the next-generation astronomical observatory. We have a clear technical path forward and a burning set of scientific questions that can only be addressed with a giant telescope. These questions are couched in sophisticated scientific language, but can be reduced to questions that we can all identify with: What is the Universe made of? Where did we come from? Are we alone in the Cosmos? Answering these questions involves studying the properties of planets around other stars, the early formation of galaxies, stars, and planetary systems, the nature of dark energy and dark matter, and the evolution of the elements.
Q: Why does GMT want to be the first Extremely Large Telescope?
A: Astronomy is about exploration. Being the first to enter uncharted territory provides one with unique opportunities for discovery. There are a number of prime scientific questions just waiting for a giant telescope like the GMT.
Q: What is the lifetime of the Observatory?
A: There is nothing that will naturally limit the lifetime of the observatory. We are designing for a minimum 50-year lifetime. Some past observatories have lost the impact due to man-made light pollution from nearby cities, but the GMT is being built at a site with little likelihood of future light pollution.
For Astronomers
Q: What astronomy will the GMT specialize in?
A: The GMT will cover a very broad range of astrophysics, but it will specialize in several areas of astronomy such as the formation of stars and planetary systems, the properties of exoplanetary systems, stellar populations and chemical evolution, galaxy assembly and evolution, dark matter, dark energy and fundamental physics, first light and reionization, and transient phenomena. For more information about the GMT Science Case, please check out our Science Book (pdf).
Q: Will the GMT be able to take photographs of Earth-like planets around other stars?
A: Once the near-infrared integral field unit spectrograph and adaptive optics system is in place, the GMT will be able to image exoplanets. Taking photographs of planets like the Earth will be technically challenging and will likely require further innovations in optics. Scientists in our community are actively working on this challenge.
Q: Why is this an important milestone for the scientific community?
A: As we start construction of the GMT, the largest telescope in history when it begins operations, we are taking a huge step forward for humanity's understanding of the Universe. We are ramping up a project that will give us the ability to see deeper into space than ever before, opening the door to discovery.
Q: What are the plans for data archives and support for archival research?
A: The baseline GMT operations plan calls for archiving data, and requires that all instruments provide a means of ensuring that all relevant metadata are attached and that all GMT data are cataloged in a format making them useful to scientists around the world.
Q: Can I expect to have access to the GMT?
A: The GMT project is seeking additional partners, and is open to institutions from around the world. Partners can join during the construction phase ('Founders') or can help to support operations ('Participants'). The model for sharing observing time means that the earlier in the project a new partner joins, the better value-for-money their investment returns. The GMT Board has been in discussions with the US National Science Foundation to ensure open US access to the GMT in proportion to US public investment. This investment could be in the form of contributions to the capital construction costs, to annual operations or to instrumentation development. AURA is acting as the interface between the US community, the NSF and the US extremely large telescope projects. You can learn more by visiting the NOAO/GSMT web site at: http://www.gsmt.noao.edu. In Australia public participation is being coordinated by Astronomy Australia Limited and you can learn more by visiting http://astronomyaustralia.org.au. The Korean Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI; http://www.kasi.re.kr/english) is currently acting as the responsible agency in Korea. If you would like to ensure access to the GMT for you and your colleagues be sure to let your national agency know and become involved in community activities relating to extremely large telescopes.
Extremely Large Telescope Questions
Q: How many other Extremely Large Telescope projects exist?
A: Currently there are three ELT projects: the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) project (http://www.gmto.org), the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project (http://www.tmt.org), and the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) project (www.eso.org/e-elt).
Q: Are the three ELTs competing with one another?
A: While the three ELTs have different features and strengths, all three ELTs represent dramatic advances over currently existing telescopes. From a design perspective, the GMT will have seven very large primary mirrors while the TMT and the E-ELT will comprise hundreds of smaller mirrors. All three ELTs will likely strive to answer the same fundamental scientific questions, which opens the door for collaboration as well as competition. While we are technically competing to be first on the sky, we hope that all three telescopes will be built and be operational in the next decade.
Q: Will the GMT work with the other ELTs and future ground-based telescopes?
A: As with all modern astronomy, it often takes many telescopes to fully exploit a discovery. It is likely that astronomers will use the GMT and other ELTs to perform detailed follow-up work on observations made by other telescope. For example, the LSST will be starting its 10-year sky survey when the GMT has first light, and we expect the GMT to be in a position work with the LSST to make discoveries. The different strengths of the ELTs mean that there are opportunities to work together efficiently.
Q: Will the Giant Magellan Telescope work with the James Webb Space Telescope?
A: Space telescopes and ground-based telescopes have always complemented each other. For example, while the Hubble Space Telescope takes many spectacular images, it is the detailed follow-up work by the 8m-class ground-based telescopes such as Gemini and Keck that allow further advances in science. Similarly we hope that the GMT, and other 30m-class telescopes, will work with the data from the JWST to produce spectacular science.
Other Questions
Q: Can I get a job at GMTO?
A: We are always looking for highly motivated and qualified individuals to work with us. Please visit GMTO's employment page to see our open employment opportunities.
Q: What educational and outreach activities does GMTO have planned? Can I get materials for my classroom?
A: We plan to create classroom materials and school outreach programs as part of our communications strategy. Stay tuned for more information.
Q: Where is GMTO's HQ?
A: The US Project Office is at 465 N. Halstead St, Suite 250, Pasadena, CA, 91107. In Santiago we are at Presidente Riesco 5335. Of. 501, Las Condes, Santiago, CP 7561127.
Q: How do I get more information?
A: Check the other pages on our website, ask us a question on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn), or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Technical Specifications
- Height of telescope housing: 61m (200 ft) (22 stories)
- Moving weight of telescope: 1,100 tons (2,425,085 pounds)
- Weight of each finished mirror segment
- Outer off-axis segments 33,000 lbs (16.5 tons)
- Center segment 30,000 lbs (15 tons)
- Diameter of each mirror: 8.4m (28 ft)
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
City Cycling Stress Scores
Moovel Lab's What the Street? provides an interesting analysis of how much space is dedicated to cars, to cycling and to trains in cities around the world. According to What the Street cyclists in most cities around the world can typically expect much less than ten percent of the physical space that is dedicated to cars.
The quality of a city's cycling network however is far more than just a reflection of the amount of physical space dedicated to bikes. It also relies on how well a cycling network connects people to the places that they want to go and to the levels of stress that they experience while on their bikes. PlacesForBikes has therefore carried out a detailed analysis of local bike networks across the United States and ranked its towns and cities on how good they are for cycling.
The PlacesForBikes Bicycle Network Analysis allows you to view the results of this cycling network census in 299 towns and cities. You can view an interactive map for each town and city. The maps show the selected city's street colored according to their cycling stress score. Each map also includes the town or city's overall Bicycle Network Analysis score and individual scores for how easy it is for the population to access different places (e.g. parks, stores and health services) by bike.
You can read more about how the Bicycle Network Analysis scores are calculated on the PlacesForBikes Methodology page. The methodology partly relies on how streets are tagged on OpenStreetMap in terms of the roadway characteristics important to bikes and cyclists.
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Labels: Bike Routes, USA
Friday, June 23, 2017
Sonnets on the Streets of Seattle
Seattle is a city 'full of cannabis craving lovers ... and power hungry sharks'. It is also a city full of poets and bards. Some of whom can be found on this Seattle poetry map.
For two years Claudia Castro Luna has been Seattle's Civic Poet. To mark the end of her residency as Civic Poet Claudia has launched an interactive map of Seattle poetry. The Seattle Poetic Grid is a collection of poems by Seattle residents who took part in poetry writing sessions during Claudia's residence program at the Seattle Public Library.
The map features both established poets and those who are new to the art. Each of the featured poems on the map provides an insight into how Seattle locations can infuse and inspire. You can inspire yourself simply by clicking on the markers on the map and reading that location's featured poem.
If you don't live in Seattle you might still be able to find poems written about places nearby. The Representative Poetry Online (RPO) from the University of Toronto Libraries has created a Google Map called Places of Poems & Poets. This map allows you to search the RPO poetry collection by location
Alternatively you could search the Poetry Atlas. The Poetry Atlas is a Google Map that is trying to map poems that mention specific locations around the world.
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The Rent in Spain Falls Mainly Down the Drain
Renting an apartment in Madrid or Barcelona is becoming very difficult for anyone who isn't already rich or a high earner. Like many other cites in the developed world a number of factors have combined to price many people out of being able to afford to rent an apartment in Spain's two most populous cities.
Tell Me How Much You Can Afford and I'll Tell You Where to Live explains the problems of renting in Madrid and Barcelona. It also explores the reasons behind the high rents and then suggests some possible solutions. The article includes an interactive map which allows you to explore how much salary you need to rent in different neighborhoods in both cities. The map allows you to enter your monthly salary and the size of the apartment that you want to rent. The city's neighborhoods are then colored on the map to show the percentage of your salary that you would need to be able to rent in that area of the city.
The map also includes a timeline control which allows you to compare the current situation to previous years. Therefore if you are depressed by the current situation you can depress yourself further by sliding the years back to see how far back in time you would have to travel before you could afford to rent in Barcelona or Madrid.
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Labels: Barcelona, madrid, real estate, Spain
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Degradation of the Amazon Rainforests
Most people are aware of the devastating effect of deforestation on the Amazon Rainforest. Not so many people are aware of the equally worrying 'degradation' of forests. With deforestation the forest is completely cleared and left for pasture, monoculture or simply abandoned. Forest degradation is the thinning of tree density which leads to the removal of important biodiversity. It is often caused by logging, fire, drought or hunting.
The extensive forest clearance caused by deforestation can be relatively easy to spot using aerial surveys or even satellite imagery. Forest degradation on the other hand can be a lot harder to monitor from the air as the tree canopy can still exist above the thinning tree density.
The Silent Forest project has been started by a team of Brazilian and foreign scientists to assess the extent and impact of forest degradation in the Amazon Rainforest. As part of this monitoring the project has released an interactive map to show Contributing Factors to Degradation in the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. The map shows the extent to which fire, logging, hunting and fragmentation are leading to forest degradation.
The Silent Forest website also includes a hexagon grid map of the Brazilian state of Pará. The grid map shows the percentage loss of biodiversity across the whole state.
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Where Cars Rule the City Streets
Do you know how much physical space in your town or city is dedicated to cars, to bikes and to trains? Moovel Lab has been analyzing OpenStreetMap data to answer this question and to provide a Mobility Space Report for major cities around the world. What the Street? allows you to explore these Mobility Space Reports and to view the amount of space dedicated to the three different modes of transport in your favorite cities.
Before exploring a city on What the Street? you are asked to enter your own guess as to how much city space you think is allocated to cars, trains and bikes. After you have made your guess you can then explore the results.
The results for each mode of transport is presented in a long scrollable visualization of all the individual spaces dedicated to each form of transit. For example for cars you get to scroll through all of the city's streets and parking lots. As you scroll through the visualization a total is kept of the amount of space dedicated to cars. Don't worry - you don't have to scroll through the whole city and a link allows you to skip to the end of the visualization.
After you have finished scrolling through all the city's streets, rails and bike lanes you can see how good your initial guess was. Your guess is compared to the actual results and to the guesses made by other users. The results page also includes some useful information about the city, such as the longest street and street name.
The city is then compared to the other cities around the world. This comparison includes its ranking as a city for driving, biking or taking the train.
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Labels: transit
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Name the City from its Bike Lanes
The Guardian has a fun map game which requires you to guess cities around the world based solely on maps of their bike lanes. The maps were created by Bike Citizens using their bike mapping data. Each city map consists of just protected bike lanes (blue lines) and painted lanes (grey lines).
There are twelve city maps in all in Can you guess the city from its bike lane maps. All you have to do is choose the correct answer for each city map from a choice of three possible answers.
I got 10 out of 12 of the questions correct. I won't tell you which cities I got wrong as that would give you the answer to two of the trickier cities. I was amazed by how many cities I could recognize just from their bike lanes. I obviously spend far too much time looking at maps.
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The UK Election Dot Map
The Colours of the Election is a dot map which provides a view of the geographical distribution of votes cast in the 2017 UK election. Each dot on the map represents 250 votes for one of the political parties. The dots are randomly distributed within each electoral area.
At the electoral ward level a random distribution of colored dots is obviously not the best way to present the number of votes cast for each political party. This data would be much more legible visualized as a bar graph. In fact randomizing the numbers within each constituency could be confusing as it suggests that the data is shown geographically - when in fact the data is just randomly distributed.
When you view the data at a regional level the data does begin to make more sense and the geographical distribution of votes for each political party can begin to emerge from the map. For example the regional view of London shows the dominance of Labour in inner London. The Conservatives voters are more concentrated in a ring in the suburbs outside of the center. This ring is broken in the south-west where the Liberal Democrats have a small pocket of support.
The question remains about whether this dot map view shows a more detailed picture of the number of votes cast for each party than a traditional election map. Here's the Evening Standard's static map of the 2017 election results in London.
I would argue that the Evening Standard map is at least as good, if not better, at showing where the different parties have the most support in London. In fact you could easily add a more refined analysis to the Evening Standard map by adding pop-up bar charts showing the total number of votes cast for each party in each electoral district.
What I do like about the Colours of the Election map is the responsive bar chart. This graph shows the total number of votes cast for each party for the current map view. This means that you can zoom and pan the map to explore the number of votes cast for each of the political parties in different parts of the UK. The date control also allows you to make a useful comparison between the support for each of the parties in this election and in previous elections.
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How to Make a Travel Time Map
Mapbox has released a new plugin which allows you to add an isochrone layer to your Mapbox powered maps. The Mapbox Isochrone plugin visualizes how far you can travel in different periods of time.
You can see how the ischrone plugin works on this demo map. You can adjust the starting position by dragging and dropping the car icon on the map. If you switch to the 'Quantized' view the map switches to display stepped isolines, showing how far you can travel in incremental steps of time.
The Mapbox Isochrone plugin works with three different modes of travel: driving, cycling and walking. You can discover a little more about how the plugin generates the travel times for the different modes of travel on the Mapbox blog, Add Isochrones to Your Next Application.
You can also use the Route360 API to add an isochrone layer to your maps. Route360's API provides developer access to their isochrone library. The API has been designed to provide simple access to the Route360 isochrone travel time library from the Leaflet.js mapping platform.
Using the Route360 JavaScript API you can add a travel time isochrone layer to a Leaflet map. The API allows for users to view bike, car or walking travel-time isochrone layers on a Leaflet map. The API includes options to add a time control, so that the transit isochrone travel times will adjust to a transit network's schedule of operations.
The GraphHopper Isochrone API also provides travel times for bike, car or walking. You can view the API in action on this demo map. You can get details on how much the API costs on the Pricing page.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Trump's Huge Conflict of Interest Map
So many people ask me this. They ask me where does the president have great conflict of interests. I tell them Donald Trump has the best conflicts of interest. The corruption is big. I never realized how big it was. I really just see the bigness of it all.
You know Obama worked on it for years, got zippo, zero. Me, the people just call me up, they say, 'Donald, can we just give you the money?' I say, 'Absolutely, yes.' But some people don't get it. They don't want to give you the money. In which case they're very, very stupid people. Sad.
Here, you can take this, that's the final map of the numbers. It's pretty good, right? It's called the Trump's Conflicts of Interest map. The black is obviously us. There's some countries you can't break through, you can't. It's sad. You can't. There is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with them. But forget them. Have you seen all the black countries on the map. That's a tremendous success ... That's another thing that nobody talks about. The success. So much success.
Take that Qaddafi. I dealt with Qaddafi. I rented him a piece of land. He paid me more for one night than the land was worth for two years, and then I didn't let him use the land. That's what we should be doing. I screwed him. But nobody wants to talk about that.
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Mapping Death from Global Warming
In 2003 in Europe 70,000 people died during an extreme heatwave. As global warming increases countries around the world are likely to experience more and more periods of life threatening extreme heat. By the year 2100 it is estimated that 74% of the world's population will be exposed to deadly heatwaves.
The University of Hawaii has released an interactive map which predicts the number of deadly days we can expect from extreme heat around the world for each year up to 2100. Heatwaves: Number of deadly heat days provides a timeline control which allows you to select any year from 1950-2100. The blue dots on the map show historic extreme heat events that have occurred around the world before 2014.
If you click on the map you can view two charts for the selected location. One chart visualizes the number of yearly deadly days over time and the other shows the humidity vs. temperature for the current year.
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The Birds of London by Andrew Self (Bloomsbury, £50)
As a young birder growing up on the edge of London in the Seventies, I envied my peers elsewhere in the country. As they roamed over hills, moors and marshes, I trudged along the causeway at Staines Reservoirs. While they were watching vast flocks of wild geese, I had to make do with ducks on the local gravel pits. And whereas they might discover a rare visitor from Siberia or North America, I could only dream. And yet… As Andrew Self's magisterial tome reveals, if I had only looked a bit harder, who knows what avian delights I might have discovered in the heart of the urban jungle?
Incredibly, not far short of 400 different kinds of bird have been recorded in the London area — defined here as within a 20-mile radius of St Paul's Cathedral. There are the usual suspects: sparrows and starlings, mallards and magpies, street pigeons and the now ubiquitous ring-necked parakeets — which urban myth wrongly claims were originally released into the wild by Jimi Hendrix.
Yet London has also played host to exotic visitors from right across the globe. These include an American robin visiting a garden in Peckham; a Naumann's thrush — the very first of this Siberian species ever seen in Britain — in Chingford; and the desert wheatear that flew all the way from the Sahara to end up in Barnes. But for the capital's birders, these wandering waifs are merely the icing on a very rich cake. Sites such as Brent Reservoir in the shadow of Wembley Stadium, Rainham Marshes on the banks of the Thames, and the famous London Wetland Centre are home to a wide range of commoner but no less fascinating species.
As this book reveals, you can watch great crested grebes perform their famous "penguin dance" in Regent's Park, red kites soaring over Epping Forest, and most exciting of all, peregrines — the fastest living creature on the planet — hunting over the South Bank, where I've often seen them perched on Tate Modern.
Other surprising sites are also magnets for birds. Canary Wharf, whose lights attract nocturnal migrants each spring and autumn; Hyde Park's Serpentine, which recently played host to a pair of bearded tits; and London Zoo, one of the few places in central London were you can still see house sparrows. The story of the house sparrow's unprecedented decline is just one of the many fascinating tales told in this comprehensive and well researched book.
We also learn of the recent invasion by roof-nesting gulls, the decline and loss of the red-backed shrike (known as the "butcher bird" for its habit of impaling its prey on thorns); and the fate of the unfortunate Tengmalm's owl, stoned to death by urchins in Plaistow in 1877.
The Birds of London is a truly fascinating book but it is also a crucially important one. By establishing the status of the capital's birdlife at the beginning of the 21st century, Andrew Self has provided a vital tool for conservationists to ensure that the decline of birds such as the house sparrow — once so common we never even gave it a second glance — is never repeated.
Stephen Moss is a naturalist, author and TV producer. His latest book, Tweet of the Day (co-written with Brett Westwood), will be published in April by John Murray.
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A Children's Book for Adults
"Go the F**K to Sleep" by Adam Mansbach and illustrated by Rocardo Cortes isn't necessarily a book you would want to read to your children at bedtime, but a book for anyone who has children to get a great laugh out of. This book is about real bedtime rituals, screw the cutesy nursery rhymes that claim to send your child off into snooze land. Every new, old, or expecting parent should peruse that pages of this book. However, reading this book to your child probably isn't a good idea. Download the FREE Audio book on Audible.com. Samuel L. Jackson narratives it.
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I have a good source for a used Winchester Featherweight 30-06, catolog weight info is 7lbs. I am not really sure if this would make a real difference in carrying compared to the 06, Rem BDL I already own. Cat data is 7.25-7.5 I believe.
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03 August 2015 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
TWi's diabetes drug recieves patent allowance from Europe, Russia
TWi Biotechnology holds two US INDs for AC-201
Singapore: Taiwan based TWi Biotechnology has received patent allowance for AC-201, its lead drug candidate, from the European Patent Office and the Patent Office of the Russian Federation.
The patent includes AC-201, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts or active metabolites, for treatment of both type I and type II diabetes. This patent adds to TWi Biotechnology's broad intellectual property portfolio for AC-201. The patent provides a protection period up to year 2030, and has been previously allowed in US, Mexico, New Zealand and China.
"We are very pleased with the allowance of patent covering the use of AC-201 in treating diabetes in both Europe and Russia. Given the unique modes of action of AC-201, if successful, AC-201 will not only be able to help diabetic patients in controlling blood sugar, but also protect vital organs from the damage caused by the chronic inflammation associated with diabetes and obesity." said Dr Calvin C Chen, CEO, TWi Biotechnology.
"It is estimated Europe and Russia have a total of 80.1 million patients in 2013. We have conducted multiple clinical trials for AC-201 in the US and Asia with positive results, and hope to develop AC-201 soon in European countries, with the goal of bringing benefits to the vast number of diabetes patients in Europe after it obtains drug approval," he said.
TWi Biotechnology holds two US INDs for AC-201, one for controlling blood glucose in patients with type II diabetes and the other for treating gout in patients undertaking urate-lowering therapy. In addition to the good safety record of its active ingredient used in treating another chronic disease, AC-201 has demonstrated safety in multiple human clinical trials including 3 phase II trials with treatment periods up to 6 months in duration.


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