Reference: Best Practices from The Snell Group, January 31, 2008“Remember, it is important for thermographers to take an annual vision exam. At a minimum it should include a Jaeger Eye Test, to see if you can read small print, as well as a color-blind test such as the widely accepted Ishihara Color Deficiency.

“If you are a male, especially, you may have some type of color deficiency. Having a color vision deficiency does not mean you must give up thermography.

“What it does is help you better understand what color palette to use and where you need to be careful when interpreting color thermograms.”

Gainesville FL, USA — Analytical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Principles is a transparent reality simulation of analytical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). This simulation does not directly address MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging).

The simulation illustrates the concepts of spin vector, precession, shielding and chemical shift (the shift in resonant frequency due to nearby electrons). This simulation was implemented for an online forensic science course offered by the University of Florida. (Requires require the Macromedia Shockwave Plugin. It can be downloaded here.)

Reference: Lizdas D, Tebbett I, Lampotang S, (2005): Simulation of Analytical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Principles. Retrieved January 29, 2008, from University of Florida (UF) Department of Anesthesiology Virtual Anesthesia Machine Web site: vam.anest.ufl.edu/forensic/nmr.html

This is but one simulation that is part of the “Simulation Portfolio” created on the UF Department of Anesthesiology Virtual Anesthesia Machine Web site.

There are 14 Free, Public Simulations including this one and others like: Virtual Fabius GS - A VAM-like Simulation of the Drager Fabius GS Anesthesia Workstation, One-Compartment Hydraulic Analog (Deterministic), Altitude Oxygen Calculator and Collision with Variable Velocities and Coefficient of Restitution of Two Particles (For Physics Students).

{IMAGE CAPTION: The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory set out to test and speed adoption of new smart grid technologies that can make the power grid more resilient and
efficient via the Pacific Northwest GridWise Demonstration.}

DOE’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announces the results of two studies demonstrating consumers and information technology can play an
active role in managing the grid

The project was funded primarily by DOE, with other support provided by utilities and manufacturers. It involved two separate studies to test demand-response concepts and technologies.

The Olympic Peninsula Project found homeowners are willing to adjust their individual energy use based on price signals — provided via information technology tools.

The Grid Friendly™ Appliance Project demonstrated that everyday household appliances can automatically reduce energy consumption at critical moments when they are fitted with controllers that sense stress on the grid.

(Read the Full Story on the PNNL DOE website or on our companion site, TempSensorNEWS.com.

Southampton, PA, USA — On January 13th the IRINFO Training Conference for 2008 opens in Orlando, Florida. It is aimed at both new and experienced Infrared Thermographers and sponsored by the merry men and women at the Infraspection Institute. It is almost a family affair in many ways!

Since I submitted a paper to the conference (and they have graciously accepted it), I am really looking forward to this meeting.

The Conference will be also chock full of people from NORMi, the Mold Inspection people for the first time, plus a number of regular attendees from both the USA and Overseas.

There will be a lot of new tips and thermography lore to learn and report on both here and on TempSensorNEWS.

I have been a regular attendee for the last five or six years and am pleasantly surprised by the new things presented each year. Jim & Chris Seffrin sure have their fingers on the pulse of the industry!

Attendees get to see some of the latest items available from the IR Thermography suppliers at the adjoining Expo. I plan to place regular reports from the Meeting and Exhibition and, if it works as advertised, actually submit a few videos feeds on new products featured and some of the events at the meeting. (I am bringing my new camera, just in case.)

So tune in, or keep an eye on our RSS news feed next week - (NOTE: now available through FeedBurner, Google and Yahoo) .

The Qualified Sampling Technician is trained in a process developed by NORMI™ known as the NORM IAQ Management Program. Here’s a YouTube vendor video describing the work.

Calculators are a necessity today in learning technical topics and a graphing calculator is even better. Falconphysics prepared a series of online videos in another of Steve Dickie’s examples of using web tools in science education.

It starts here at Falconphysics’s Library on ScreenCast.com. There are nine video lessons available in the library that can be embedded into any simple blog or similar webpage and replayed, sent to those with computers on the Web, etc, etc.

Here’s the first one.