Located in Northwestern Washington, the Nike Volleyball Camp at Skagit Valley College is designed to help volleyball players advance to the next level. Camp Director and former DI Seattle University Head Volleyball Coach, James Finley, welcomes players from Skagit Valley, the San Juan Islands, and other surrounding counties to attend.

This girl volleyball camp in Mt. Vernon, will provide players with training that combines technical instruction, position-specific work, and competitive play. Come push your limits with an experienced coaching staff and high energy environment.

Highlights (重点) include:

Instruction from former Seattle University Coach and his expert staff Programs for All Skills and elite

Morning and afternoon training sessions

Nike Volleyball Camps T-shirt and prizes! (multi-day camps only)

Age Group：11-18

Gender: Girls

Programs: All Skills (ages 11-16/grades 6-10), Elite (ages 14-18/grades 8-12) & Serving Clinic (ages 11-18)

Camp Options: Day Camp, Half Day Camp

Lunch: Lunch is not provided, please bring a sack lunch to camp each day.

CAMP DATES

August 9-10 (All Skills)

August 11 (Serving)

August 11-13 (Elite)

SECURE YOUR SPOT!

Due to local and state regulations, we anticipate having to reduce our enrollment numbers significantly this year. You can expect a high demand on these first-come-first-serve camper spots, so please be sure to register early.

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While new phones are advertised as “water resistant (防水)”, this doesn't mean they are waterproof, or totally immune to water. Water resistance just implies the device can handle some exposure to water before substantial damage occurs.

The water resistance of phones is rated by an “ingress (进入) protection” code, commonly called an IP rating. The rating includes two numbers. The first demonstrates protection against solids such as dust, while the second indicates resistance to liquids, specifically water. a phone that has a rating of IP68 has a solid object protection of 6 (full protection from dust, dirt and sand) and a liquid protection of 8 (protected from immersion in water to a depth of more than one metre).

The popular iPhone 12 and Samsung Galaxy S21 phones both have a rating of IP68. However, regarding exposure to water, the iPhone 12 has a permissible immersion depth of a maximum of 6m for 30 minutes whereas the Galaxy 21's immersion limit is up to 1. 5m, also for 30 minutes.

While IP ratings indicate the water-resistant nature of phones, taking most phones for a swim will land you in deep trouble. The salt content in oceans and swimming pools can corrode (腐蚀) our device and cost you a heavy replacement.

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Satellite imagery like Google Earth makes it easy for ecologists halfway around the world to check up on tropical forests—see illegal roads and logging (伐木), for example. But the information is limited.

“Satellite data often tells you what happens after it's happened.” Rhett Butler said, the founder of Mongabay. com, an environmental science news website. In a perspective piece in the journal Science, he and his colleagues write that sound recordings can supplement satellite data as another conservation tool.

You can actually set up alerts. So you can hear things like chainsaws (电锯) or gunshots in real time. So you can get put ahead of potential deforestation before it occurs. Small audio recorders, some of which are solar-powered and connecteded to cellphone grids for data upload, also give ecologists the ability to listen secretly on a jungle's biodiversity over time.

If you're in a primary forest, you'll tend to see all the frequencies of the soundscape occupied by different species. These are insects, birds, calling mammals, frogs things like that.”

As a comparison, here is a forest plot after selective logging---meaning some trees were cut, others left standing. “As you move into a more disturbed ecosystem, you'd start to see more gapsacross the frequencies of that soundscape.”

Certain insects dominate. And the diversity of calls declines as disturbance increases. While the human ear is perceptive (感知的), algorithms (运算法则) are a much more powerful tool to comb through thousands of hours of data, to get a richer picture of changing tropical biodiversity.

Nowadays, many industries---like cattle farming, palm oil, soybean and paper production are committing to zero deforestation goals, which can be hard to measure. But by coupling satellite data and camera traps with audio recordings, ecologists can keep their eyes-and ears-on what's going on in the jungle.