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Coastal cities are grappling with how to shift their approach in designing the built environment to respond to global warming and sea level rise. With the potential increase of sea level rise by 1 metre by the year 2100, and climate change projecting more intense and frequent storms to British Columbia’s coasts, Vancouver will need to consider more resilient approaches to address flood risk along its shores. One area that will be exposed to flood risks includes the False Creek Flats, a historic tidal flat converted to rail and industrial hub in the core of the city, and on the cusp of transforming into the city’s next employment hub. At present, it is indiscernible that the False Creek Flats at one time was a historic tidal flat with a rich ecology supporting a variety of plants and wildlife, providing food and sustenance to the Indigenous people whose traditional territory included this land. The emergence of the rail and industry erased this history, the connection to the water, and the dynamic coastal processes that shaped the landscape. With the False Creek Flats undergoing a significant transformation over the next number of years, there is a window of opportunity to reconnect False Creek Flats to the coastal landscape, while also making room for flood waters and shifting perspectives on how we live with and build with water. This practicum seeks to develop a resilient design approach for False Creek Flats through three lenses: robustness, ensuring people are safe; adaptive, making room for the water; and transformative, shifting perspectives through design interventions. Leveraging the opportunity to make False Creek Flats resilient to climate change and flooding will benefit Vancouver by creating opportunities to shift public perspectives on how the city should adapt to sea level rise and climate change, while also bolstering public policy that will make the city and its residents more adaptive and resilient to change.

The Small Unmanned Meteorological Observer (SUMO), equipped with a miniaturized 5-hole probe for turbulent flow measurements with 100 Hz temporal resolution, has for the first time been operated in and around a wind farm. The 5 day campaign from May 9-13 took place at a small wind park of 21 1 MW-turbines close to Vindeby on Lolland, Denmark and was dedicated to the investigation of the effects of wind turbines on boundary layer turbulence. A total of 20 SUMO flight missions carrying the turbulence system have been performed during the campaign. In spite of a few pitfalls related to the fine-tuning of the autopilot system and in the configuration and synchronization of the corresponding data logging systems, this campaign provided promising results indicating the capability and future potential of small UAS for turbulence characterization in and around wind farms. Subsequent flights upwind and downwind of the park revealed qualitatively a distinct enhancement in the turbulence level behind the wind farm.

En los proceso de generación de energía es muy común el uso de combustibles fósiles, los cuales tienen como desventaja la contaminación que producen por las reacciones de combustión. Por esta razón desde hace vario años surgió, como una alternativa prometedora, el empleo de celdas de combustible para la generación de energía eléctrica. Uno de los combustibles más utilizados para la alimentación en las celdas es el etanol debido a su baja toxicidad, su fácil producción, transporte y almacenamiento. Debido a esto se han incrementado las investigaciones acerca de la actividad catalítica de los electrocatalizadores empleados para la descomposición del etanol. En el presente trabajo se investigó el efecto de la temperatura de descomposición y concentración del ferroceno (como precursor de las partículas Fe que actúan como catalizador en la síntesis de los nanotubos de carbono) en el proceso de síntesis de nanotubos de carbono con defectos tipo bambú (BCNTs) por deposición de vapor químico (CVD). Posteriormente se analizó el comportamiento catalítico de electro catalizadores trimetálicos Pt, Pd, Sn con diferentes composiciones metálicas y preparadas por el método de reducción químico con etilenglicol, soportados sobre BCNT. Se corroboró que el Pd actuando como tercer metal disminuye los potenciales de inicio para la reacción de electro oxidación; estos potenciales se encuentran entre 189 y 250 mV vs NHE. También gracias a las propiedades estructurales y electrónicas de los BCNTs, las actividades catalíticas de las mezclas aumentan respecto al carbón vulcan XC-72R. Además, la mezcla catalítica que presenta un mejor desempeño en la electro oxidación del etanol fue Pt50Sn35Pd15/BCNTs In the process of power generation is common to use fossil fuels, but it has disadvantages due to pollution caused by the combustion reactions. For this reason appeared like a promising alternative, the use of fuel cells to produce power. One of alternative fuels is ethanol, because it has low toxicity, easy synthesis, transport and storage. Many researchers look at fuel cells like an attractive technology and increased studies of catalytic activity of the electro catalysts employed for electro catalysts employed for electro oxidation of ethanol. This thesis presents a study of decomposition effect temperature and concentration of the precursor in the synthesis of bamboo shaped carbon nanotubes (BCNTs) by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Subsequently, this thesis show a study of behavior of electro catalysts of Pt, Pd and Sn supported on BCNTs. This study confirmed that the role of Pd acting as third metal. Pd decrease onset potential of electro oxidation reaction and thanks of properties of BCNTs improve the catalytic activity of blends increase relative to Carbon Vulcan. Key words: bamboo shaped carbon nanotubes, fuel cell, electro catalysts and chemical vapor depositación. Línea de Investigación: Materiales y celdas de combustible Maestría

This report is the output of the work carried out in Task 6.4.2 of the iSCAPE project, which focuses on the evaluation of the effectiveness of Passive Control Systems (PCS) on air quality under future climate change scenarios in the target cities. The evaluation of the efficacy of PCSs has been conducted by reconstructing detailed air quality maps in three iSCAPE cities, namely Bologna, Dublin and Vantaa, chosen as representative of south, western and north Europe respectively. Following a thorough validation of all numerical models used in present scenarios, simulations have been conducted using downscaled climate projections for the three cities. Changes in air quality in future climate scenarios and in the presence or absence of selected PCSs are documented allowing to extract recommendations for the selected cities and easily extendable to other European cities.

This deliverable describes the STARCELL website (www.starcell.eu), which is a key point to disseminate the main project outputs, such as scientific results and linked events (i.e. seminars, workshops & open days), providing at the same time relevant data about the project scope and involved partners and stakeholders. An eye-catching and attractive design of the web page is very relevant for enticing possible visitors. In this sense, the website was inspired in the colours and design of the STARCELL logo. An external professional designer was selected to carry out the design on the basis of the best value for money approach in agreement with the tendering procedures of IREC. From now on, the website contents will be maintained and regularly updated by the Project Coordinator. The preliminary structure of the website, which is described in detail in this document, includes the following sections: · About · Partners · News and Events · Publications · Public Documents · Useful Links · Contacts The website has been first launched on 23rd January 2017, in parallel to the kick-off meeting of the project. It is expected that it will be regularly updated, being online for at least two years after the end of the project. In Figure 1, an schema of the design of the website is presented. Finally, it should be pointed out that in the lowest right hand part of the website a private access to the “Partner Zone” is available.

Hace 27 años el país sufrió una de las crisis más caóticas de la historia, por cuenta del fenómeno del niño entre el 02 de mayo de 1992 y el 7 de febrero de 1993, Colombia se enfrentó a un racionamiento energético que se recuerda como la famosa "hora Gaviria". El sector eléctrico pasaba por una crisis estructural, los embalses estaban casi vacíos y se necesitaban aproximadamente 1.900 aguaceros para volver a estabilizar la situación energética. Está situación obligó a buscar alternativas que garantizaran la seguridad energética del país. Este documento periodístico explora las maneras en las que el gobierno actual se ha propuesto revolucionar el acceso a la energía en el país. Dentro de las soluciones y nuevas fuentes de procesos, se encuentran las empresas privadas quienes juegan un papel clave en la transformaciñon energética, en este reportaje quisimos sumergirnos al mundo de qué están haciendo las organizaciones para aportarle un grano de arena que aporte al medio ambiente. En el reportaje entrevistamos al Ministerio de Minas y Energía, Daabon, Tecnoglass, Transcaribe y personas beneficiadas de proyectos del Gobierno nacional quienes por medio de sus testimonios nos dan un panorama de qué se está haciendo y para dónde vamos en temas de sostenibilidad. Es el tiempo de que Colombia y las regiones más apartadas puedan recibir soluciones reales y contundentes, ya que por ejemplo, en el caso de la zona norte del país, los problemas de energía y costos tienen inconforme a la mayoría de las poblaciones, y muchos de los proyectos que se tienen proyectados son específicamente en estas regiones debido a sus privilegiadas zonas geográficas. La Transformación energética parece ya una realidad, pero por lo pronto se espera que el Ministerio de Energía realice su segunda subasta eléctrica para que más empresas puedan participar en proyectos de generación de energías biomasa, eólicas, solares e hidráulicas. El mundo está cambiando y los modelos tecnológicos de hoy exigen mayor innovación y potencialización que vayan al ritmo de la modernización. Las energías renovables le dan un semblante esperanzador al país y un derecho a cientos familias de lugares recónditos que durante 40 años no tuvieron energía, cocinaban a leña porque no tenían gas y no se podían informar de lo que pasaba diariamente en su país. Aunque falta mucho por avanzar ya se están dando paso para esta nueva energía que ya es una realidad en el mundo entero.

Research script for the article "A Comprehensive Study of Software Forks (Dates, Reasons and Outcomes)" (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33442-9_1 ) The script identifies significant forks, several hundreds in total, analyzing for each fork the date when the forking occurred, the reason of the fork, and the outcome of the fork, i.e., if the original or the forking project are still developed. Sistemas Telemáticos y Computación

Pollinators at high elevations face multiple threats from climate change including heat stress, failure to phenological match advancing flower resources and competitive pressure from range-expanding species of lower elevations. We conducted long-term multi-site surveys of alpine bumble bees to determine how phenology of range-stable and range-expanding species is responding to climate change. We ask whether bumble bee responses generate mismatches with floral resources, and whether these mismatches in turn promote community disruption and potential species replacement. In alpine environments of the central Rocky Mountains, range-stable and range-expanding bumble bees exhibit phenological mismatches with flowering host plants due to earlier flowering of preferred resources under warmer spring temperatures. However, workers of range-stable species are more canalised in their foraging schedules, exploiting a relatively narrow portion of the flowering season. Specifically, range-stable species show less variance in phenology in response to temporally and spatially changing conditions than range-expanding ones. Because flowering duration drives the seasonal abundance of floral resources at the landscape scale, we hypothesize that canalisation of phenology in alpine bumble bees could reduce their access to earlier or later season flowers. Warmer conditions are decreasing abundances of range-stable alpine bumble bees above the timberline, increasing abundance of range-expanding species, and facilitating a novel and more species-diverse bumble bee community. However, this trend is not explained by greater phenological mismatch of range-stable bees. Results suggest that conversion of historic habitats for cold-adapted alpine bumble bee species into refugia for more heat-tolerant congeners is disrupting bumble bee communities at high elevations, though the precise mechanisms accounting for these changes are not yet known. If warming continues, we predict that the transient increase in diversity due to colonization by historically low-elevation species will likely give way to declines of alpine bumble bees in the central Rocky Mountains.