According to ryot.org and many other news agencies, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a new study that claims we only have a few decades left before life as we know it is over. The research project is based on a new cross-disciplinary ‘Human And Nature DYnamical’ (HANDY) model, led by applied mathematician Safa Motesharrei of the US National Science Foundation-supported National Socio-Environmental...
Read MoreAntonsson, Gadal, Halloran, Karaffa, Kelley, Lovegreen, Norrington, Padilla, Parenti, Ponce, Weinberg, Zhang—apart from Patricia Halloran and Ryan Kelley, you wouldn’t think that UCSB Geography staff had much Irish blood (and actually, Ryan is Hungarian, not Irish, but it’s a long story), but that didn’t stop them from celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Not only did all staff wear something green on March 17,...
Read MoreThe following posting introduces recent work on exploring Spatial Cloud Computing and Big Geo-Data Analytics in GIScience research by our grad student Song Gao and his advisor Krzysztof Janowicz and colleagues: The widespread use of location-awareness technologies and social media has enhanced the capability to collect large-scale spatio-temporal-semantic data for analyzing the world. At the same time, the scalable cloud computing...
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