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Is the World Tottering on the Precipice of Peak Gold? An excellent article in this week Science

By Eugene Barsky on March 2, 2012

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6072/1038.full?rss=1 Seventeen-hundred-dollar-an-ounce gold is driving a mining frenzy, but analysts are concerned that miners can’t extract gold any faster than they have the past decade.

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International Business Times article on a Study that Finds Biofuels May Be Less Green Than Fossil Fuels.

By Eugene Barsky on May 17, 2011

From ASEE daily news digest: The International Business Times (5/17) reports that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a study funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force Research Labs, found that “biofuels may pollute the environment much more heavily if the process used to make them isn’t done in the right [...]

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ENVR 200 – Thu, 13 January, 11:00am – 12:30pm

By Eugene Barsky on January 11, 2011

ENVR 200 students will see me on Thu, 13 January, 11:00am – 12:30pm talking about library research in environmental sciences. Here is the library course page for this class – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2270

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UBC Students’ Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge

By Eugene Barsky on December 10, 2010

Here is an interesting students project from UBC: Design and Tele-Operation of a Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge. Taylor Cooper, Amy Cheng, Ian Phillips, Andre Wild, and John Meech, ASCE Conf. Proc. 366, 95 (2010), DOI:10.1061/41096(366)95. The desire to colonize the moon has prompted an examination of ways to mine lunar regolith to [...]

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AGU Poll – What is your preferred reference/bookmarking tool?

By Kevin Lindstrom on December 9, 2010

The American Geophysical Union is conducting an online poll asking the question: “What is your preferred reference/bookmarking tool?” As of December 9, 2010 at 13:53 PST 873 votes have been submitted. And the winner is. Hint. It is not Refworks. Submitted by Kevin Lindstrom Earth and Ocean Sciences Liaison Librarian at the University of British [...]

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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European Geoscience Union Journals being Evaluated for Web of Science Coverage

By Kevin Lindstrom on October 15, 2010

The following EGU open access journals are being evaluated for coverage in the Web of Science database Earth System Dynamics Geoscientific Model Development Solid Earth Posted by Kevin Lindstrom Liaison Librarian for Earth and Ocean Sciences

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Professor Janusz Laskowski wins Gaudin Award

Professor Janusz Laskowski wins Gaudin Award

By Eugene Barsky on September 30, 2010

Prof. Janusz Laskowski has just been selected as the recipient of the SME 2010 Antoine M. Gaudin Award. The Gaudin Award is the highest award in the field of Mineral and Metallurgical Processing. The award ceremony will be held in Denver, Colorado, during the SME Annual Meeting (March 2, 2011).

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Web of Science Journal Selection Process

By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010

Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]

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ENVR 200 – we care about the environment!

By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2010

ENVR 200 students with Sara Harris and Tara Ivanochko will see me tomorrow for a session on searching environmental information. We will cover Google, Web of Science, and do lots of comparisons. “Virtual water” will be our search anchor…

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