Each of the 9 categories will have a winner, runner-up and an Editors' Choice selection. 
 Recognizing outstanding projects that measure, monitor or improve our understanding and relationship to the environment and its resources. 2011 Best Environmental Implementation
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Votes  @AlarmaSismos Earthquake Alarm System By: Sebastian Alegria https://twitter.com/#!/sebasak Description: Sebastian Alegria is a 14 year from Chile who has hacked together a Twitter based regional earthquake alert system. The system uses an off-the-shelf "P" wave (compression wave) QuakeAlarm detector for which provides some added warning [More...] 2
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Votes  Radiation Detection in Japan http://www.tokyohackerspace.org & http://japan.failedrobot.com/ Description: One of the many DIY projects to flourish in Japan after the earthquake/Fukushima disaster to create crowd-sourced realtime networked geiger counter measurements. 3
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Liquid Robotics Wave Gliders
 http://liquidr.com/ Description: Harnessing energy from the rise and fall of waves and having its real-time data sent to satellites via its solar instruments the Wave Gliders can travel up to 2500 miles and return home on its own. The system can be outfitted with any number of sensors and can be used to monitor marine habitats, track the [More...] 4
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Votes  Sierra Nevada Snowpack Sensors By: University of California Merced: Roger Bales with help from UC Berkeley and the UC's Center for Information Technology Research. Description: Their first prototype project uses 300 wireless sensors covering more than 1 square kilometer in the southern Sierra to track snowpack depth, water storage in soil, stream flow, and water use by vegetation so that the [More...] 5
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EOS Talking Tree
http://talking-tree.com/ Description: "EOS magazine decided to give Nature the means to talk. A 100 year old tree, living on the edge of Brussels, was hooked up to a fine dust meter, ozone meter, light meter, weatherstation, webcam and microphone. This equipment constantly measures the tree’s living circumstances. And translates this information into human [More...] 6
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Acoustic Landslide Detector
 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/ Description: The University of Loughborough’s device, called Assessment of Landslides using Acoustic Real-time Monitoring Systems (ALARMS), detects high-frequency stress waves produced by soil movement. Continuously monitored by wireless communication they can be used to calculate soil movement in real time and [More...] 7
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Camalie Vineyards: Wireless Vineyard Monitoring
 http://www.camalienetworks.com Description: "The system provides support for numerous sensors including soil moisture, soil water content, soil temp, solar radiation canopy temperature, wind speed, wind direction, rain, humidity and leaf wetness monitoring for viticulture and agriculture in [More...] 8
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Open Source Lion Tracking Collars
 By: Ground lab & Lion Guardians http://home.groundlab.cc/lioncollars.html Description: "This project aims to create an open source wildlife tracking collar system to help conservationists protect the last 2000 lions living in the wild in Southern Kenya, and safeguard the Maasai herders cattle, restoring [More...] 9
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NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy (CBIBS) system
 http://buoybay.noaa.gov/ Description: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a network of observing platforms (buoys) that deliver real-time data on weather, water conditions (wave height, etc), and water quality; This data [More...] 10
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Smart Window Hardware by Bronze Craft
 http://smartwindowhardware.weebly.com Description: "A solar powered, wireless communication device for remote monitoring of room conditions, window security, and window performance. The sensor reports solar gain and thermal loss data via RFID signal to allow the HVAC system to evenly adjust the room [More...] 11
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WeatherTRAK Irrigation Systems:
 http://hydropoint.com/ Description: Drawing on information delivered wirelessly from 40,000 weather stations, the WeatherTRAK ET Everywhere service automatically schedules irrigation based on individual landscape needs and local weather conditions resulting in lower water bills and energy savings. New:
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Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's awards - Over 100 projects and 16,000 votes were submitted.
