UCSB Geography’s Associate Professor Krzysztof Janowicz (“Jano”) is the Principal Investigator on two new grants. The first is a 2-year NSF collaborative proposal titled “EarthCube IA: Collaborative Proposal: Cross-Domain Observational Metadata Environmental Sensing Network (X-DOMES)” (Jano is the UCSB PI; total funding: $55,288). Abstract: Across-domains, agencies and political boundaries, our environment is being continuously...
Read MoreThe following is a press release by The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology (LBI ArchPro) of Austria, posted September 7, 2015 and titled “The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project reveals traces of standing stones beneath Durrington Walls super-henge”: The remains of a major new prehistoric stone monument have been discovered less than 3 kilometres from Stonehenge. Using cutting edge,...
Read MoreThe following is a Climate Central article by Brian Kahn, published August 31, 2015, with the title above: The West continues to be a fiery inferno as August fades into September. Wildfires have exploded across the region this month. There have been 117 large wildfires to date, including 70 large fires that are still burning. Those fires, along with thousands of smaller blazes, have contributed to 7.8 million acres burned in the U.S.,...
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