The following blog is from Geography grad student Blake Regalia who is a member of the Spatio-Temporal Knowledge Observatory (STKO) which is headed by Professor Krzysztof Janowicz: “A couple of weeks ago, we were white-listed [given early access] to receive a Project Tango device from Google. This device creates virtual 3D models of its surroundings in real-time. It combines data from several sensors to do things such as area...
Read MoreA recent Plos One article, titled “Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans: More than 5 Trillion Plastic Pieces Weighing over 250,000 Tons Afloat at Sea,” has attracted a lot of attention, if only because of the magnitude of the measured debris problem. But the volume of plastic debris estimated by the study is only part of the problem. Not only are the study’s numbers admittedly conservative, but the results...
Read MoreThe following is a News Release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, dated December 4, 2014, and titled “Evidence Suggests California’s Drought is the Worst in 1,200 Years”: As California finally experiences the arrival of a rain-bearing Pineapple Express this week, two climate scientists from the University of Minnesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have shown that the drought of 2012-2014 has...
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