Posts by geogadmin

The following UC San Diego News Center press release is by Mario Aguilera, dated August 21, 2014, and titled “Severe drought is causing the western U.S. to rise: Scientists use GPS technology to track uplift from recent massive loss of water, estimated at 63 trillion gallons”: The severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond localized effects of water restrictions...

Rising temperatures threaten public health and are tied to higher levels of ozone air pollution. The following is a Press Release by Climate Central: Urbanization and climate change are teaming up, turning up the heat in cities faster than rural areas. These hotter urban temperatures raise the risk for dangerous ozone air pollution, according to a new report, “Summer in the City,” from Climate Central, a research and...

The following is a University of Maryland news release, dated August 1, 2014 and titled “UMD/NASA Goddard Instrument to Fly on Space Station: Technology Enables U.S. to Monitor Forest Carbon from Space Station”: NASA has selected a proposal developed by the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) for a new instrument that will join a growing suite of technologies deployed on the International...