The following article with the title above was released by the USGS Newsroom on September 4, 2013, and details of the report have since been widely disseminated by the media: While scientists can’t predict when a great earthquake producing a pan-Pacific tsunami will occur, thanks to new tools being developed by federal and state officials, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts when tsunamis...
Read MoreBernadette Weinberg, the staff Academic Personnel and Space Analyst for UCSB Geography, sent the editor an email with the clever title above in the subject line and a link to a News Release from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s News Center. The article in question was by Alison Hatt, was posted August 14, 2013, and was titled “Raising the IQ of Smart Windows”: Researchers at the U.S. Department of...
Read MoreThe following is a UCSB News Release, dated August 20, 2013 and with the title above: Imagine your life recreated in data, every car trip, bus ride, grocery store stop, and burrito run –– including when, why, and with whom you went –– represented by blips on a computer. It’s recently been done in Southern California, the daily to-do’s of 18 million people tracked, logged, mapped, and analyzed....
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