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WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Acorn Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACFN) the digital energy company today announced that Jim Andersen, Founder, President & CEO of its portfolio company, US Seismic Systems, Inc. (USSI), will present on September 19, 2012 at the Marcellus Shale Coalition Technology Showcase which is part of the Shale Gas Insight Conference at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, PA. (Logo:...
NEW YORK, September 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Collaboration makes over 225,000 maps available on-demand to help geoscientists quickly and accurately assess the opportunities and risks involved in oil & gas exploration Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, and SEPM [http://www.sepm.org ] (Society for Sedimentary Geology)...
TSX Venture Exchange: DVV Frankfurt Stock Exchange: DV1 VANCOUVER, Sept. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Driven Capital Corp. (TSXV: DVV) (FSE: DV1) ("Driven" or the "Company") is announcing the balance of its first-phase drilling results and providing a corporate update regarding its 60% optioned White River gold-copper-silver property ("White River") in the Yukon Territory, Canada. Balance of Drill Results Holes WRDH-05 and WRDH-06 tested the property's Cool Zone, where surface...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kroff, Inc., a specialty chemical company focused on creative solutions for environmental, manufacturing and water treatment processes, is pleased to announce that Dave Kern, area manager of Kroff Well Services Inc. (KWS) , will offer his expertise on water treatment procedures that allow for safe and effective reuse of frac water flowback and production brines, as well as, frac fluid designs that are effective when reusing water during a...
Millions of years ago, the creatures who would become the ancestors of all life, animals and humans alike, were simple, sometimes composed of individual cells. Evolution had been slow, with very little diversification. Then, as the waters began to shift and separate exposing new areas of land to air and daylight, this slow evolution began to explode into activity. Referred to as the Cambrian Explosion, this diversification is estimated to have taken several million years itself, breeding many...
NEW YORK, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- New Geofacets SEPM content module delivers powerful, niche content into the hands of users to give them more confidence in their exploration decisions Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/homepage.cws_home ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, today announced that it is to integrate approximately 18,000 geological maps from SEPM (Society for...
The March GSA TODAY, the Geological Society of America’s open-access science and news magazine, is now online at http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/3/. This month’s science article, by Todd LaMaskin of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, presents uranium-lead dating analyses of detrital zircon grains in Paleozoic-Mesozoic basin sediments in the Cordillera of western North America. LaMaskin's analysis shows a systematic variation in age distribution within the...
Harsh living conditions caused by major fluctuations in the carbon content and sea levels, overacidification and oxygen deficiency in the seas triggered the largest mass extinction of all time at the end of the Permian era 252 million years ago. Life on Earth was also anything but easy after the obliteration of over 90 percent of all species: Throughout the entire Early Triassic era, metazoan-dominated reefs were replaced by microbial deposits. Researchers had always assumed it took the Earth...
MONTPELLIER, France, June 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15th 2011 CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com and CosmeticsDesign.com USA will launch the industry's first ever virtual trade show (VTS) focusing on the industry hot topic, skin care. Skin care continues to be the most innovative category in the cosmetics and personal care industry and in 2010 the global market was valued at $80bn. This is forecast to increase to $91bn by 2014, with growth in the emerging markets set to be...
BANGOR, Maine, May 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- It's a time for reckless abandon, of char-grilled fish eaten at the water's edge, melon ice-cream melting over your chin, skinny-dipping and the smell of sun-tan lotion, coconut-based cocktails shared at twilight, and the squeak of fine white sand as you wander hand-in-hand down to the ocean. Summer is seen as the finest season for so many reasons: for children it's the freedom of no school, for adults the period to unwind, and for new-found...
