“The week’s hottest temperature was 140.2 degrees Fahrenheit (49.0 degrees Celsius) at Dal Bandin, Pakistan. The week’s coldest temperature was minus 102.3 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70.0 degrees Celsius) at Russia’s Vostok Antarctic research station. Temperatures were tabulated from the more than 10,000 worldwide synoptic weather stations. The United Nations World Meteorological Organization sets the standards for weather observations, and provides a global telecommunications circuit for data distribution.”
The information above is from Earthweek – A Diary of the Planet: Weekly News which is featured on our web site at as part of “Earth Gate.” Earth Gate is a gateway to UCSB earth science research. Since the university has many interdisciplinary research projects, and since several departments research the same fields (for instance, Marine Sciences, Biology, Physics, Geography, and Geology research the oceans), researchers and potential funders of research sometimes want to know what’s being done in, say, oceanic research, but not know every place to look. Earth Gate provides a central site from which one can jump to all UCSB organizations researching a given field. As a bonus, Earth Gate includes a weekly environmental news map, with short descriptions of major events occurring around the world. Check it out!
