Tag: organizing

Posted on by

City organizing group rides as part of Spring GoByBike Week in Nanaimo – Nanaimo News Bulletin

City organizing group rides as part of Spring GoByBike Week in Nanaimo - Nanaimo News Bulletin

The City of Nanaimo is encouraging people to go by bike for a week in an effort to get people out of their cars.

Spring GoByBike happens May 30-June 5 when Nanaimo’s cyclists can get in the saddle to reduce emissions, save on fuel costs and win prizes by participating in events and visiting celebration stations, noted a city press release.

Cyclists are encouraged to make the most of this year’s commuter challenge by registering online for Spring GoByBike where they can record all the kilometres they ride throughout the week for a chance to win prizes that include an adult bike and a kids bike, donated by Canadian Tire. Registration is free at http://gobybikebc.ca/nanaimo.

In Nanaimo, celebration stations hosted by sponsors will be set up at various locations, so riders might want to plan their routes to stop by and enter to win prizes. An updated digital cycling map will be available soon to assist with route planning.

Numerous biking events are planned, too, with a kickoff event May 29, a downtown heritage bike tour on May 31, a clean-up ride June 4, a “Nanaimo (Handle) Bar Ride” June 4 and a commuter challenge wrap-up event June 11.

Cyclists who don’t want to attend events can still participate virtually. The City of Nanaimo has joined bike tag, a game started by the cycling community that is now played all over the world. Bike tag is a photo tag game played on bicycles where riders find and create fun mystery locations around Nanaimo.

“Grease the chains, don your reflective vests and GoByBike Nanaimo,” said Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog in the press release. “This B.C.-wide event celebrates active and fun ways to get around and is for everyone, at every level.”


photos@nanaimobulletin.com
Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter

carbon monoxideCyclingEnvironmentOutdoors and Recreation

Posted on by

Structured pathways in the turbulence organizing recent oil spill events in the Eastern Mediterranean – Scientific Reports

  • Sarah, B.-N. Israel’s Beaches See More Tar as Oil Spill Consequences Continue. Jerusalem Post, https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israels-beaches-see-more-tar-as-oil-spill-consequences-continue-661788 (2021).

  • Rinat, Z. & Ben Zikri, A. Oil Spill Off Israel’s Coast Is Its Worst Maritime Pollution in Decades, and Cleanup ’Could Take Years’. Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-oil-spill-off-israel-s-coast-is-its-worst-maritime-pollution-in-decades-1.9553528 (2021).

  • Al Jazeera and News Agencies. Lebanon Begins Cleaning Beaches After Oil Spill. Aljazeera, https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/27/lebanon-begins-cleaning-beaches-after-oil-spill (2021).

  • Max, K.-Z. Israel Oil Spill: How did it Happen and What Will We Do Going Forward? Jerusalem Post, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-oil-spill-how-did-it-happen-and-what-will-we-do-going-forward-660242 (2021).

  • Andrea Polidura. Israel’s Oil Spill Now Affects Entire Lebanese Coastline. Atalayar, https://atalayar.com/en/content/israels-oil-spill-now-affects-entire-lebanese-coastline (2021).

  • Rutgers Staff. Oil Spill Off Israel Reaches South Lebanese Beaches. Rutgers, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-environment-oil-spill-lebanon-idUSKBN2AM19V (2021).

  • Joffre, T. & Tercatin, R. Israel investigates tar spill calamity, places inquiry under gag order. Jerusalem Post, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-oil-spill-disaster-investigation-details-placed-under-censor-659765 (2021).

  • Rossella Tercatin. Damage to Israeli marine environment from tar spill extreme, experts say. Jerusalem Post, https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/damage-to-israeli-marine-environment-from-tar-spill-extreme-experts-say-659716 (2021).

  • Ahmad, A. A. Oil Spill in Mediterranean Reaches Besieged Gaza Strip. Al-Monitor, https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/03/gaza-beach-oil-spill-israel-environment-pollution.html (2021).

  • Wikipedia. 2021 Mediterranean Oil Spill. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Mediterranean_oil_spill (2021).

  • Pavlakis, P., Sieber, A. & Alexandry, S. Monitoring oil-spill pollution in the Mediterranean with ERS SAR. ESA Earth Obs. Q. 52, 8–11 (1996).


    Google Scholar     

  • European Space Agency. Oil Pollution Monitoring. ESA brochure: ERS and its applications Marine, BR-128, 1, https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/-/ers-and-its-applications-marine-4680 (1998).

  • Ivorra, B., Gomez, S., Glowinski, A. M. & Ramos, R. Nonlinear advection–diffusion reaction phenomena involved in the evolution and pumping of oil in open sea: modeling, numerical simulation and validation considering the prestige and Oleg Naydenov oil spill cases. J. Sci. Comput. 70, 1078–1104 (2017).

    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Carswell, C. Unique oil spill in East China Sea frustrates scientists. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00976-9 (2018).

    Article 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar     

  • CMCC, ORBITALEOS, and ORION. MEDSLIK-II Simulations of Transport and Fate of a Massive Oil Spill from the Banias Electrical Plant in the Coastal Area of Syria. CMCC, https://www.cmcc.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/CMCC_ORION_ORBITALEOS_Report_n5_V1.pdf (2021).

  • Ankur Kundu. Syrian Oil Spill Spreads Across The Mediterranean, Endangers Northern Cyprus Coast. FleetMon, https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2021/35177/syrian-oil-spill-spreads-across-mediterranean-enda/ (2021).

  • ASCE Task Committee on Modeling of Oil Spills of the Water Resources Engineering Division. State-of-the-art review of modeling transport and fate of oil spills. J. Hydraul Eng. 122(11), 594–609 (1996).

    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Stolzenbach, K. D., Madsen, O. S., Adams, E. E., Pollack, A. M. & Cooper, C. K. A review and evaluation of basic techniques for predicting the behavior of surface oil slicks (1977).

  • European Commission. About Copernicus. European Space Agency, https://www.copernicus.eu/en/about-copernicus (2014).

  • Garcia-Garrido, V. J., Ramos, A., Mancho, A. M., Coca, J. & Wiggins, S. A dynamical systems perspective for a real-time response to a marine oil spill. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 112, 202–210 (2016).

    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • García-Sánchez, G. et al. Very high resolution tools for the monitoring and assessment of environmental hazards in coastal areas. Front. Mar. Sci. 7, 605804 (2021).

    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • García-Sánchez, G., Mancho, A. M. & Wiggins, S. A bridge between invariant dynamical structures and uncertainty quantification. Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. 104, 106016 (2022).

    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Olascoaga, M. J. & Haller, G. Forecasting sudden changes in environmental pollution patterns. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 4738–4743 (2012).

    ADS 
    CAS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Vanhellemont, Q. Remote sensing of environment adaptation of the dark spectrum  fitting atmospheric correction for aquatic applications of the Landsat and Sentinel-2 archives. Remote Sens. Environ. 225, 175–192 (2019).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Sue Surkes. Satellite Images of Oil Slicks Off Coast Show Recent Spill Far from a One-Off. Times of Israel, https://www.timesofisrael.com/satellite-images-of-oil-slicks-off-coast-show-recent-spill-far-from-a-one-off/ (2021).

  • Schrope, M. Minor oil spills are often bigger than reported. Naturehttps://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.12307 (2013).

    Article 
    PubMed 

    Google Scholar     

  • Monroy, P. Doctoral Thesis: Lagrangian Studies of Sedimentation and Transport. Impact on Marine Ecosystems. Universitat de les Illes Balears, https://ifisc.uib-csic.es/es/publications/lagrangian-studies-of-sedimentation-and-transport/ (2019).

  • Monroy, P., Hernández-García, E., Rossi, V. & López, C. Modeling the dynamical sinking of biogenic particles in oceanic flow. Nonlinear Processes Geophys. 24, 293–305 (2017).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Lekien, F. et al. Pollution release tied to invariant manifolds: A case study for the coast of Florida. Physica D 210, 1–20 (2005).

    ADS 
    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Garcia-Garrido, V. J., Mancho, A. M. & Wiggins, S. A dynamical systems approach to the surface search for debris associated with the disappearance of flight MH370. Nonlinear Proc. Geophys. 22, 701–712 (2015).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Dritschel, D. G. Contour dynamics and contour surgery: Numerical algorithms for extended, high-resolution modelling of vortex dynamics in two-dimensional, inviscid, incompressible flows. Comput. Phys. Rep. 10, 77–146 (1989).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Mancho, A. M., Small, D. & Wiggins, S. A tutorial on dynamical systems concepts applied to Lagrangian transport in oceanic flows defined as finite time data sets: Theoretical and computational issues. Phys. Rep. 437(3–4), 55–124 (2006).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Mancho, A. M., Small, D. & Wiggins, S. Computation of hyperbolic trajectories and their stable and unstable manifolds for oceanographic flows represented as data sets. Nonlinear Proc. Geophys. 11, 17–33 (2004).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Mancho, A. M., Small, D., Wiggins, S. & Ide, K. Computation of stable and unstable manifolds of hyperbolic trajectories in two-dimensional, aperiodically time-dependent vectors fields. Physica D 182, 188–222 (2003).

    ADS 
    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Madrid, J. A. J. & Mancho, A. M. Distinguished trajectories in time dependent vector fields. Chaos 19, 013111 (2009).

    ADS 
    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Mancho, A. M., Wiggins, S., Curbelo, J. & Mendoza, C. Lagrangian descriptors: A method for revealing phase space structures of general time dependent dynamical systems. Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simul. 18(12), 3530–3557 (2013).

    ADS 
    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Mendoza, C. & Mancho, A. M. The hidden geometry of ocean flows. Phys. Rev. Lett. 105(3), 038501 (2010).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Ottino, J. M., Jana, S. C. & Chakravarthy, V. S. From Reynolds stretching and folding to mixing studies using horseshoe maps. Phys. Fluids 6(2), 685–699 (1994).

    ADS 
    MathSciNet 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Shu, Y. et al. The contribution of local wind and ocean circulation to the interannual variability in coastal upwelling intensity in the Northern South China Sea. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans 123, 6766–6778 (2018).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Shu, Y. et al. Meridional overturning circulation in the South China Sea envisioned from the high-resolution global reanalysis data GLBa0.08. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans 119, 3012–3028 (2014).

    ADS 
    Article 

    Google Scholar     

  • Barker, C. H. et al. Progress in operational modeling in support of oil spill response. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 8, 668 (2020).

    Article 

    Google Scholar     

    • Posted on by

    Beijing 2022 world reference of organizing sport events – Cuban expert

    HAVANA, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) — The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have demonstrated the high capacity of the Chinese government and its people in organizing international sports events, a Cuban senior sports official has said.

    “The Cuban sports movement ratifies its strong commitment to the current Winter Games and voices confidence in the Chinese authorities’ vast experience and ability to successfully conclude this event in the coming days,” said Silvano Merced, president of Cuba’s Manuel Fajardo University of Physical Culture and Sports Sciences, in an interview with Xinhua.

    The Olympiad sends a message of peace and fraternity to the world amid the complex social, economic and political scenario humankind is going through, he said.

    “The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are helping nations build bridges as clear proof of the importance of the sports practice to improve the human condition and promote unity among the peoples,” said Merced.

    Our academic center, he said, stands with the Cuban Olympic Committee and Cuba’s Institute of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation in its unwavering support to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

    The official said that China has become a world reference in organizing sports events, particularly when it comes to “infrastructure of sports facilities, logistics and recruitment of volunteers.”

    “Despite the failed attempts to politicize the sports event, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have undeniably succeeded,” he said.

    In addition, he said, China has imposed stringent COVID-19 protocols to guarantee the safety of athletes, coaches and officials attending the Games.

    “China has done exemplary work in handling the sanitary emergency caused by the novel coronavirus,” he said, adding the Chinese management of the COVID-19 crisis has become a role model for the world over.

    “Aside from the spectacular opening ceremony, and the impressive use of technology and robotics as a pandemic prevention tool, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics have shown once more the strong resolution of China on the road to victory,” he added. ■