So they went out and they modeled a computer model of a sand dune.

Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.

But, by now, you're probably asking, how am I planning to solidify a sand dune?

They had to move this village in 1987 as a huge dune threatened to swallow it.

So, we pushed the piles down through the dune, and we create an initial bacterial surface.

And here comes dune scape, coming up out of the courtyard, and there it is fully built.

First of all, I was embarrassed because I had not read the novel Dune at that time.

Satellites provide information on aspects of desertification such as regional sand dune migration and vegetation cover degradation.

So to test this crazy idea, we developed a small dune buggy prototype vehicle to test the feasibility.

(d) Implementation of the project Sand Dune Rehabilitation, in Anguilla from June 1997 to July 1998, in collaboration with OECS. The objectives are the rehabilitation of dunes in two sites in Anguilla and the building of awareness on sand dune rehabilitation and beach erosion processes

She was sitting with someone who I presume was her mother, and they were talking about the novel, Dune.

Other activities are taking place in areas such as sand dune fixation, forest management and the promotion of agroforestry.

They took photographs, they fed the photographs into their computer program, and that computer program shaped a sand dune and then took that sand dune shape and turned it into at their instructions, using standard software with slight modifications a set of instructions for pieces of wood.

In a desert plain in Tanzania, in the shadow of the volcano Ol Donyo Lengai, there's a dune made of volcanic ash.

The Israeli army has buried rubble in sites risking pollution, especially in sand dune areas, which are natural infiltration for the Gaza aquifer.50

The body of the notorious gambler and racketeer... was found early this morning behind a sand dune... three miles from the famed desert resort.

I need not remind you that this was David Lynch's version of Dune, in which all of the characters were sexy and deformed at the same time.

According to the reports, soil conservation continues to be given high priority by the organizations in their efforts to preserve the environment, alongside sand dune fixation strategies.

It's what's technically known as a barchan, and the entire dune walks across the desert in a westerly direction at a speed of about 17 meters per year.

It took us about 10 minutes to climb up to the top of that dune, which goes to show why they had to move to a safer location.

If you want to stop a sand dune from moving, what you need to make sure to do is to stop the grains from avalanching over its crest.

I went to see the movie Dune, and a girl talked to me. Now, on its face this is impossible on its face, I realize but it is absolutely true.

We then pull the piles up through the dune and we're able to create almost any conceivable shape inside of the sand with the sand acting as a mold as we go up.

Between 1995 and 1997, AOAD carried out training on land management development, forest management, combating forest fires, alfa grass management, environmental protection, sand dune stabilization and geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in range studies.

In collaboration with Columbia University, Ben Gurion University had also designed interferometric radars to monitor dune and sand migration and evaluate the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami and the quality of water in the Red Sea.

The way it does this is it comes out at night, crawls to the top of a sand dune, and because it's got a matte black shell, is able to radiate heat out to the night sky and become slightly cooler than its surroundings.

In Madagascar, WFP provided assistance to the Government to help people living in the areas frequently affected by cyclones and drought to improve and sustain their livelihoods through reforestation, sand dune fixation, protection against water erosion and improved wood cooking ranges (Food for Training activities).

What happens is that the wind blows the sand up the shallow slope on the other side, and then, as each sand grain hits the top of the ridge, it cascades down on the inside of the crescent, and so the whole horn shaped dune moves.

Similarly, in Kosovo the international community has devoted little time to helping former combatants contemplate their collective responsibility for atrocities, no matter how direct or indirect their personal involvement. Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune.

20. The Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources, in partnership with the Planning Department and the Anguilla National Trust, has launched a Sand Dune Rehabilitation Pilot Project in an effort to help rehabilitate the dunes and raise public awareness of the importance of these natural features.

Defensive barriers would not necessarily require heavy investment they could be mounds of sand several meters high located along and near the shoreline. In fact, in some areas of the US and other countries, only extensive dune fields and vegetated areas are used to separate buildings from the seashore.

Other measures identified by Parties included the planting of high biomass crops, such as sugar cane, soil and watershed conservation, rehabilitation of wetlands, forest research, forest management, bans on bush burning during land clearing and the promotion of fast growing tree species, review of current forest and land management policies, forestry legislation, forestry administration plans and tax incentives for encouraging reforestation, and sand dune stabilization.

Virtual Choir The evening hangs beneath the moon A silver thread on darkened dune With closing eyes and resting head I know that sleep is coming soon Upon my pillow, safe in bed, a thousand pictures fill my head I cannot sleep my mind's aflight and yet my limbs seem made of lead If there are noises in the night Eric Whitacre Thank you very, very much. Thank you.