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Sierra Nevada (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Sierra Nevada, meaning "snowy range" in Spanish, is a mountain range in the region of Andalusia in Spain. The Sierra Nevada were formed during the Alpine Orogeny, a mountain-building event that also formed the European Alps to the east and the Atlas Mountains of northern Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The Sierra as observed today formed during the Tertiary Period (65 to 1.8 million years ago) from the collision of the African and Eurasian continental plates. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(Spain)   (239 words)

Cheap Hotels Alquife, Spain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The '''Sierra Nevada Observatory''' (OSN) (2896m) is located at Loma de Dilar in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the province of Granada. It is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of two rivers, Darro and Genil, at an elevation of 738 metres above sea level. '''Lujar''' is a village in southern Spain in the Sierra Nevada mountains, a couple of miles inland from the coast and the city of Motril along a fairly precipitous road. cheaphotelsspain.info /a/alquife   (272 words)

EO Newsroom: New Images - Sierra Nevada, Spain The Sierra Nevada, part of the Betic Cordillera of southern Spain, were formed during the Alpine Orogeny, a mountain-building event that also formed the European Alps to the east and the Atlas Mountains of northern Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to the south. The Sierra Nevada in the Granada province of Spain are perhaps the southernmost skiing location in all of Europe. This astronaut photograph depicts the Veleta Peak region of the range and illustrates the sharp contrast between the snow-capped mountains, adjacent dry lowlands to the west and north, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17169   (306 words)

Astronomical Observatories in Spain Emphasizing both big observatories located in the islands Canaries, the Observatory of the Teide in Tenerife and the Observatory of the Roque de los Muchachos in the island of La Palma, which they receive to telescopes of diverse countries. These two big Observatories close to other scientific facilities and available technologies jointly constitute the "European Northern Observatory" (ENO), one of the most important centers of astrophysics observation and research worldwide. The Hispanic - German Observatory of Calar Alto had an operation on joint form by the Max Planck's Institute for the Astronomy (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie) in Heidelberg, Germany and Astrofísica's Institute of Andalucia in Granada, Spain. www.telescopios.org /English_index.htm   (229 words)

Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC) The existence of small, active research groups at the University of La Laguna (Tenerife) and Granada (Spain) proved to be a decisive factor prompting the CSIC to create the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA), with headquarters in La Laguna (1974) and in Granada (1975), respectively. At the time, this observatory, founded in 1902, had a mountain station situated on the Sierra Nevada mountain, at Mohón del Trigo peak (2,605 m in altitude), equipped with a small Cassegrain telescope with a 32-cm aperture, used jointly with the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) of the UK for stellar-photometry studies. In this way, the CSIC made a commitment to construct the Sierra Nevada Observatory (OSN) on the slope Veleta Peak, and the foreign institutions in compensation donated two telescopes, of 60 and 75 cm, respectively, to be installed in this observatory and to be used jointly. www.iaa.es /presentation/history.html   (1141 words)

Pacific Mountain System The rocks that form the backbone of the Sierra Nevada are mostly granitic rocks that formed during the Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Rising far more steeply to the east than the west, the entire Sierra Nevada can be thought of as an enormous tilted fault block with a long, gentle slope westward to California's Central Valley and steep eastern slope. Not long after the Sierra uplift began, the Earth cooled, marking the beginning of the Pleistocene (Ice Age) Epoch. www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/usgsnps/province/pacifmt.html   (584 words)

Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A New Planet Larger Than Pluto? A team of astronomers led by Jose-Luis Ortiz at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Baja, California found the object, called 2003 EL61, using observations made in 2003. It is some 51 AU from the Sun (one AU, or Astronomical Unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun), and evidently comes as close as 35 AU, inside Pluto’s average distance of 39 AU. The Sierra Nevada team has asked amateur astronomers to study the object, and its observations have been verified by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center (MPC) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. www.centauri-dreams.org /?p=113   (636 words)

Russ Ladkin - Sierra Nevada 1995   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Sierra Nevada, Spain 28 May - 4 Jun 1995 At 3482m, this is the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada and mainland Spain. On to the peak of Veleta (3398m) with the ski tows and observatory. homepage.ntlworld.com /russell.ladkin/Hiking/SierraNev/sierra.html   (352 words)

Map Index for Lahontan Audubon Society's Bird Map [LAS-map.htm]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) From the crest of the Sierra, which cradles Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North America, the Truckee and Carson Rivers descend several thousand feet, slow, and then end in the northwestern Nevada desert, an area once covered by Pleistocene Lake Lahontan. Nevada Division of Wildlife, Checklist: Birds of Northwestern Nevada. Weather patterns from the west sometimes burst across the Sierra Nevada, producing erratic conditions and significant winds. www.nevadaaudubon.org /BirdSites/las-map.htm   (997 words)

Szeged Obs. general Szeged Observatory has been controlled by the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Szeged (earlier József Attila University, JATE) and the Szeged Observatory Foundation since 1992 in cooperation with a few members of the Department of Optics and Quantumelectronics working in similar research fields. This project was extended at Sierra Nevada Observatory by observing 23 fainter Cepheids with the 90 cm telescope equipped with a four-channel Strömgren-photometer. Szeged Observatory is open for the public every Friday while there is an open hour for the members of the Hungarian Astronomical Association every Tuesday. astro.u-szeged.hu /csillvi/szobseng.html   (815 words)

Projects supported by the James L. Baillie Memorial Fund in 2000 The primary goal of the Atlantic Bird Observatory is to use migration counts to monitor landbird populations on a long_term basis. The Tadoussac Bird Observatory (TBO) is located 4 km to the northeast of the village of Tadoussac, Québec close to the interpretive centre in Saguenay Provincial Park. The observatory was established as a migration monitoring station in 1995 to continue the research started by the Kingston Field Naturalists in the 1970s and 1980s. www.bsc-eoc.org /organization/bfproj00.html   (5544 words)

Yosemite Association - Nature Notes He authored articles on Sierra birds, coauthored the bird chapter of "California Wildlife and their Habitats: Western Sierra Nevada" for the U.S. Forest Service, and was a coauthor for the California Department of Fish and Game's Wildlife Habitat Relationships project. He coauthored Discovering Sierra Birds, which is being revised extensively for the current Field Guide to Birds of the Sierra Nevada. He recently revised the classic guidebook Sierra Nevada Natural History for the University of California Press, which guide will be published in 2003. www.yosemite.org /naturenotes/birdguide/authorartist.htm   (423 words)

SR.com: Meet 2003 UB313, our newest planet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Brown, along with his colleagues Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory and David Rabinowitz of Yale University, first saw the new planet Jan. 8 using the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory. Brown said that he had not intended to announce the finding until he had pinned down the exact size, but someone "with more cleverness than scruples" hacked into his restricted Web site Thursday night and was planning to announce the discovery. The discovery of the second-brightest object was announced Thursday by a group headed by Jose-Luis Ortiz of the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=82734   (709 words)

21 May '04 Major News about Minor Objects Upper left, by Jose-Luis Ortiz on 2004 April 24.11 UT in a stack of ten 200-second exposures from the 1.5m f/8.0 Ritchey-Chretien telescope at Sierra Nevada Observatory. Lower right (arrow), by Juan Rodriguez and Salvador Sanchez on 2004 April 26.08 UT in a stack of twelve 420-second exposures from the 0.35m f/9 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at Observatorio Astronomico de Mallorca (OAM). Cover details: The Sierra Nevada observations were made with a clear filter and had a measured magnitude of V=22.1. www.hohmanntransfer.com /mn/0405/21.htm   (668 words)

Gemini Observatory These observations were obtained on January 25, 2005 by Chad Trujillo, a Gemini staff member who is also on the discovery team for 2003 UB313, the existence of which was formally announced by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA on July 29, 2005. Note that it appears UB 313 passes inside Pluto’s orbit, but this is due to the fact that UB 313’s orbit is tilted significantly more than Pluto’s orbit relative to the plane of the solar system (UB 313’s orbit is tilted almost 45° and Pluto’s is about 17°). The team have also obtained spectra of the smaller mini-planet 2003 EL61, which was reported on July 28, 2005 by two independent teams: one from the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain and the Brown, Trujillo and Rabinowitz team. www.gemini.edu /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=142   (1101 words)

Sierra Nevada Avian Center- Avian Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) In Nevada, the Avian Center developed the framework for the Partners in Flight All Bird Monitoring Program in a concept paper commissioned by the Lahontan Audubon Society in 2002. The focus of the program is a statewide network of point count transects, which provides coverage in all of the habitat types set forth in the NV PIF Bird Conservation Plan (caution: large file) and generates status and trend information for many of the bird species breeding in Nevada. The Avian Center contributed to the program in 2002 by conducting a study on the distribution of breeding Flammulated Owls in the Spring Mountains of southern Nevada, which was funded by the USFS Humboldt-Tioyabe NF. www.aviancenter.com /ARC_main.htm   (299 words)

Astronomy News Jose Luis Ortiz of Sierra Nevada Observatory has seemingly found a very large Trans Neptunian object while checking out some old images from their TNO survey that was started in 2002. It was one of those telescopes, at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which Dr. Brown and his colleagues were using to track the object. The telescope is one of four owned by a consortium of universities and operated by two observing assistants at the observatory. www.activeboard.com /forum.spark?forumID=58381&action=viewTopic&commentID=3666493   (3081 words)

La Alpujarra Observatory - 2005 holidays with a difference at an Observatory in Andalucia, Spain La Alpujarra Observatory - 2005 holidays with a difference at an Observatory in Andalucia, Spain La Alpujarra Observatory is in the "parque natural de Sierra Nevada" 1000 metres above sea level. The observatory and casa are completely private in 2 acres of terraced land planted mainly with almonds and figs. www.adstellasimus.com   (139 words)

Projects supported by the James L. Baillie Memorial Fund in 2000 The Point Lepreau Bird Observatory (PLBO) was established in 1995 to study the spectacular migration of seabirds through the Bay of Fundy each spring and fall. In 2000 the Observatory opened on 10 April and was in full operation daily to 31 May. In the census area, 156 species of birds were recorded, and 3000 birds of 92 species were banded. The Observatory has not operated since 1998, but the intent of the project is to operate on a part-time basis in spring 2001 and full-time in fall 2001. www.bsc-eoc.org /organization/bfproj01.html   (7429 words)

Scientists Discover Tenth Planet - The Post Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The new object is the reported to be the third-brightest known body in the Kuiper Belt. The discovery of the second-brightest object was announced this past Thursday by a group headed by Jose-Luis Ortiz of the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain. The new entity is currently at its farthest apex from the sun, about 97 times the distance between our sun and the Earth, according to published reports. www.postchronicle.com /news/science/printer_212748.shtml   (375 words)

Laurie Hatch Photography Lick Observatory has inspired photographers for over a century. Native wildflowers and winter snowfalls are framed by spectacular 360-degree vistas of central California's Sierra Nevada, Silicon Valley, and San Francisco Bay. TWO WEEKS ON MARS: The close approach of Mars in late summer 2003 stimulated considerable activity at Lick Observatory. www.lauriehatch.com   (252 words)

Bob Burd's Trip Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) In 1891, his father built him an observatory attached to their house, known as the Kenwood Physical Observatory. Hale was hired by the University of Chicago in 1892 on condition that the university build a large observatory for him. At an astronomy meeting in New York during the summer of 1892, Hale heard of a 40-inch lens that was available. sepwww.stanford.edu /~morgan/snwburd/etymology/hale.html   (247 words)

Gemini Observatory Gemini is an international partnership managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The Gemini Observatory provides the astronomical communities in each partner country with state-of-the-art astronomical facilities that allocate observing time in proportion to each country's contribution. The Observatory is managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the NSF. www.gemini.edu /index.php?option=content&task=view&id=142   (121 words)

sierra Kathy Sierra Kathy Sierra is the coauthor of Head First Java and Head First EJB. Sierra Health Foundation is a private, independent philanthropy supporting health and health-related activities in a 26-county region of northern... Timeshift, Sierra and the Sierra logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Sierra... www.hotvsnot.com /www/sierra:43   (267 words)

ESA Science - Leonids meteor shower 1999 The observatory (SNO) staff said that at some point a snow plough would clear the route down the mountain, so we should have no problem leaving the observatory. The situation at the observatory of the Sierra Nevada (OSN) still looks bad and we do not expect that we can get up there before Monday morning because of all the snow. We called Calar Alto Observatory (CAHA), and the news there is: it is snowing right now, and there is no way to get up. sci2.esa.int /leonids/leonids99/l-diary1.html   (2758 words)

New Scientist Breaking News - New world found in outer solar system The message described the discovery of a "very bright" object that was creeping along slowly beyond the orbit of Neptune - making it a Trans-Neptunian Object, or TNO. If the reflectivity is as dim as most other distant, rocky objects that have been studied, the object "would be larger than Pluto," Jose-Luis Ortiz, an astronomer at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, wrote in the email. Ortiz and colleagues discovered the object when they re-analysed observations they had made in 2003. www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7751   (798 words)

Deceived   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) When a top secret Pentagon experiment intended to release paranormal powers goes out of control at the same time that a Sierra Nevada observatory receives an apparently extraterrestrial signal, it's believed that the two are connected. Colonel David Garrett (Louis Gossett, Jr.) heads out for the observatory while computer expert Jack Jones (Judd Nelson) attemps to share the signal with the entire world. Before long, it is evident that the signal has darker origins, with the potential to unleash some very bad things on the world. www.videoflicks.com /titles/1112/1112582.htm?14107   (279 words)

Sierra Nevada Alliance - Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) A recommended watershed management strategy used in the Feather River may not be applicable to watershed managers and advocates in the Owens River. The Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project (SNEP) is an assessment of the Sierra Nevada ecoregion, which was requested by Congress in 1992. Along with a scientific review of late-successional forests, key watersheds, and significant natural areas on federal lands of the Sierra Nevada ecoregion, SNEP also broadly evaluates an entire set of Sierra Nevada ecosystems, including their social, economic, and ecological components. sierranevadaalliance.org /programs/profile.shtml?index=1113512429_29839   (3178 words)

Parque Sierra Nevada -- Mucuy The weekend of March 5-7, we rented a little Renault and drove up to the high paramo region around Apartaderos, some 40 miles or so northeast of Merida. We stayed in a nice hotel in Apartaderos, and visited surrounding attractions: Pico el Aguila, Lago Mucubaji (where we hiked in to Laguna Negra), Parque Mifafi, and the CIDA astronomical observatory. On the way back to Merida on Sunday we stopped for a hike in the Mucuy section of the Parque Sierra Nevada. donporter.net /Merida2004/Mucuy   (81 words)

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