There is a growing desire in many scientific and exploration communities to use cheap, small, autonomous vehicles to perform information gathering tasks. As the number of vehicles used for information gathering tasks increases from a single large, capable, often remotely operated vehicle to a collection of smaller, more specialized, autonomous vehicles, so too does the complexity of the plannin...

Creating a full-featured resource portal on the Web is no small task, and it can be even more of a challenge without a team of Web designers and programmers. In the fall of 2000 the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Internet Scout Project (Scout) received funding from the Mellon Foundation to build an open-source software package intended to enable collection developers to share their collectio...

Here we are halfway through 2021 and my year as president of the Emergency Nurses Association. I got inspiration for this President's Message topic was helping son complete his Eagle Scout project. This message is written from lens youth, experience in scouting some key components that factored into who am today. would like to acknowledge Scouts organization does have a past history inequities ...

Introduction: The Thermal “and” Evolved Gas Analyzer (TEGA) instrument scheduled to fly onboard the 2007 Mars Phoenix Scout Mission will perform differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and evolved gas analysis (EGA) of soil samples and ice collected from the surface and subsurface at a northern landing site on Mars. We have been developing a sample characterization data library using a laborato...