[FRIAM] Drones to detect wildfires

Tue May 25 13:53:43 EDT 2021

from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology

*Synthetic biology* (*SynBio*) is a multidisciplinary area of research that
seeks to create new biological parts, devices, and systems, or to redesign
systems that are already found in nature.

It is a branch of science that encompasses a broad range of methodologies
from various disciplines, such as biotechnology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology>, genetic engineering
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering>, molecular biology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_biology>, molecular engineering
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_engineering>, systems biology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_biology>, membrane science
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_lipid_bilayer>, biophysics
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysics>, chemical and biological
engineering <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_engineering>, electrical
and computer engineering
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_engineering>, control engineering
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_engineering> and evolutionary biology
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_biology>.

Due to more powerful genetic engineering
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_engineering> capabilities and
decreased DNA synthesis and sequencing costs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing>, the field of synthetic
biology is rapidly growing. In 2016, more than 350 companies across 40
countries were actively engaged in synthetic biology applications; all
these companies had an estimated net worth of $3.9 billion in the global
market.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_biology#cite_note-1>

On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 19:49, Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Marcus, I don't understand your term "synthetic biology."
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:24 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So we move from chemical engineering to synthetic biology.   There will
>> always be mistakes.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Merle Lefkoff
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 25, 2021 10:05 AM
>> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
>> friam at redfish.com>
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Drones to detect wildfires
>>
>>
>>
>> Marcus, we've been "experimenting" with our terrestrial biome for at
>> least 10-12,000 years (when the first spade hit the ground).  The time for
>> more experiments is over....unless they are experiments that help us
>> understand even more deeply how to restore the Mycelium networks so that
>> the fungi can solve our climate change challenge.  This is perhaps the most
>> important task that will save us from extinction.  See Merlin Sheldrake's
>> book, "Entangled Life" for explanation.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 8:41 AM Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> We won’t realize anything unless the experiments happen.   We may not
>> learn from experiments, but that is a different issue than the need for the
>> experiments.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 25, 2021 7:46 AM
>> *To:* friam at redfish.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Drones to detect wildfires
>>
>>
>>
>> My father dedicated his life to "forest management" as a professional
>> forester, trained in biology and range/timber management.   He retired
>> "early" after 30 years somewhat in disgust over the changing of aesthetics
>> and perspectives of the United States Forest Service.   He was dedicated
>> and loyal to the spirit of Aldo Leopold and other early conservationists.
>> He spent multiple multi-week segments every summer leading (most Zuni and
>> Hopi native) fire-crews on the West Coast trying ot protec homes and
>> "valuable timber". We lived on the edge of the first Wilderness (Gila)
>> created (at the behest of Aldo Leopold) for 2/3 of my growing up years.
>> My father died 10 years ago (Alzheimers), was cremated, and we (illegall)
>> spread his cremains in the heart of the Gila with a minor amount of guilt
>> as he was a (nearly) strict rule follower (yet asked for this).   Within
>> the year, a serious wildfire complex converged at almost the exact spot we
>> scattered him (woooOoooooo!).
>>
>> Even my Trump-voting (2016) sister and husband are now acknowledging that
>> his life/profession were dedicated to a project that was fundamentally
>> "unwise".    They *were* (for the most part) doing the best they knew how.
>> Most everything they did (from stopping wildfires at the first opportunity)
>> to running dual bulldozers across landscapes with a chain between them to
>> clear the juniper trees from a landscape to allow more grass (for cattle)
>> to grow was "well intended", but it was *range* and *timber* management not
>> "grassland" and "forest" management as they called it.  The goal was to
>> maximize the "productivity" of the public lands under their management
>> (dept of Agriculture_.   The Bureau of Land Management (BLM dept of
>> Interior) was know to be *worse* in the sense that their rules on cattle
>> and mining were much less careful of protecting the landscape and biome.
>> The National Parks were derided by both the Forest Service and the BLM for
>> being "much too restrictive" (no "harvesting of resources"!!!!)
>>
>> And yet NOW we realize how "unwise" all of that was.   But in the same
>> breath we suggest that all of our exploitative depradations of the planet's
>> "resources" are necessary and possibly "a really good thing"...  and I am
>> sure that in another 20 or 50 years we will be lamenting *all* of the
>> things that today we are promoting wholeheartedly in the name of
>> "progress".
>>
>> This is part of how I became a neo-Luddite.
>>
>> - Steve
>>
>> On 5/25/21 2:50 AM, Pieter Steenekamp wrote:
>>
>> Let's hope they are a bit more wise in managing the wildfires in the
>> future than they were in the 20th century.
>>
>>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/14/california-fire-suppression-forests-tinderbox
>>
>> Before this unprecedented era of mega-blazes on the US west coast,
>> California’s forests had a canny, ingenious way of avoiding destructive
>> worst-case forest fire scenarios. By periodically removing the grasses,
>> shrubs and young trees – known as the forest understory – California
>> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california> avoided fires growing
>> to destructive intensities before the 20th century. The way this was done?
>> Fire.
>>
>> Every five to 15 years, groundfires would burn through the forest,
>> killing off the undergrowth on a regular basis, thus removing the material
>> that can act as tinder and kindle fires. Such groundfires were sparked by
>> lightning or by indigenous people who used sophisticated burning practices
>> to facilitate crop growing and hunting. Because the fires occurred
>> frequently, the understory rarely had time to build up enough combustible
>> material for the fires to reach the canopies of the mature trees – which is
>> what causes the large, devastating fires we are seeing now. As a result,
>> overstory trees might get wounded by the groundfires, but they would rarely
>> get killed.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 25 May 2021 at 10:22, Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:
>>
>> Due to climate change there will be more and more wildfires in
>> California, Arizona and New Mexico in the coming years. Drones could help
>> to detect wildfires early.
>>
>>
>> https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/sensors/remote-sensing/drones-sensors-wildfire-detection
>>
>>
>>
>> -J.
>>
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