Gemma Cirac-Claveras
Biographic Data
| ID | 1466976 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gemma Cirac-Claveras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gemma |
| FAMILY NAME | Cirac-Claveras |
| SIGNATURE | CIRAC-CLAVERAS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6094-4287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction Why Small Science
Is it possible today for a small research team to do excellent work with modest means?It does not seem so.Institutions such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the transnational laboratory of high-energy physics based in Geneva, loom large in the landscape of contemporary science.CERN represents a large-scale mode of research that mobilises vast resources and adopts the industrial division of labour.Along with observatories l…
Trading with weather. Governmental and commercial meteorological satellites
Cet article étudie la manière dont la météorologie fondée sur l’emploi de satellites est progressivement passée d’une mission accomplie par le gouvernement des États-Unis à une activité privatisée au cours des deux dernières décennies. Il s’attache au cas des données météorologiques obtenues par l’analyse des distorsions subies par le signal radio émis par les satellites GPS (technique de l’occultation radio RO-GPS) qui illustre les controverses …
Trading with weather. Governmental and commercial meteorological satellites
Re-imagining The Space Age
Imagining space technology has been influenced by (usually American-centred) turning points in rocketry, launchers, space exploration and human spaceflight: principally in terms of techno-bureaucratic Big Science products embedded in Cold War rivalry, military and prestige objectives. While this representation is useful to understand many developments of the space age, it has tended to downplay the role of natural history practices of data collec…
Program Earth
The Weather Privateers
This article examines the changing framework for producing satellite weather data in the United States since the 2000s, from a government function to one increasingly carried out by the private sector. It explores the controversial attempts to commercialize the production of a particular data source (atmospheric profiles obtained with radio occultation) from the perspective of executives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA…
Satellites for What? Creating User Communities for Space-based Data in France
This article uses a French case to explore the who, how, and why of satellite remote-sensing development and its transition towards routine utilization in the domain of ecosystems ecology. It discusses the evolution of a community of technology developers promoting remote-sensing capabilities (mostly sponsored by the French space agency). They attempted to legitimate quality scientific practices, establish the authority of satellite remote-sensin…
Satellites for What? Creating User Communities for Space-based Data in France
This article uses a French case to explore the who, how, and why of satellite remote-sensing development and its transition towards routine utilization in the domain of ecosystems ecology. It discusses the evolution of a community of technology developers promoting remote-sensing capabilities (mostly sponsored by the French space agency). They attempted to legitimate quality scientific practices, establish the authority of satellite remote-sensin…
The Weather Privateers
This article examines the changing framework for producing satellite weather data in the United States since the 2000s, from a government function to one increasingly carried out by the private sector. It explores the controversial attempts to commercialize the production of a particular data source (atmospheric profiles obtained with radio occultation) from the perspective of executives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOA…
Satellites for What? Creating User Communities for Space-based Data in France
This article uses a French case to explore the who, how, and why of satellite remote-sensing development and its transition towards routine utilization in the domain of ecosystems ecology. It discusses the evolution of a community of technology developers promoting remote-sensing capabilities (mostly sponsored by the French space agency). They attempted to legitimate quality scientific practices, establish the authority of satellite remote-sensin…
Trading with weather. Governmental and commercial meteorological satellites
Cet article étudie la manière dont la météorologie fondée sur l’emploi de satellites est progressivement passée d’une mission accomplie par le gouvernement des États-Unis à une activité privatisée au cours des deux dernières décennies. Il s’attache au cas des données météorologiques obtenues par l’analyse des distorsions subies par le signal radio émis par les satellites GPS (technique de l’occultation radio RO-GPS) qui illustre les controverses …
Trading with weather. Governmental and commercial meteorological satellites
Re-imagining The Space Age
Imagining space technology has been influenced by (usually American-centred) turning points in rocketry, launchers, space exploration and human spaceflight: principally in terms of techno-bureaucratic Big Science products embedded in Cold War rivalry, military and prestige objectives. While this representation is useful to understand many developments of the space age, it has tended to downplay the role of natural history practices of data collec…
Program Earth
Introduction Why Small Science
Is it possible today for a small research team to do excellent work with modest means?It does not seem so.Institutions such as CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the transnational laboratory of high-energy physics based in Geneva, loom large in the landscape of contemporary science.CERN represents a large-scale mode of research that mobilises vast resources and adopts the industrial division of labour.Along with observatories l…
Space exploration and regulation (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Geography (3 works) · Satellite (3 works) · Twentieth Century Scientific Developments (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Environmental Science (2 works) · History of Science and Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)