Physical Geography
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Utah High School Student wins $100,000 scholarship
The winner of the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search is Shannon Babb of Highland, Utah, who won a $100,000 college scholarship for her project studying the impacts of humans and […]
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Wired News 3-part series on Global Warming
Wired News just posted the first part of their 3-part series on global warming, which will consist of interviews with 3 leading authors on the topic. First up is Tim […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
“One Planet, Many People” – New Atlas using Landsat imagery
The United Nations Environment Programme recently published One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, using 30 years of before-and-after Landsat images for 80 sites around the world to […]
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Global Warming debate shifts to “tipping point”
An article from the Washington Post online edition (free registration required) argues that, now that most scientists agree that human activity is causing global warming, the debate is now beginning […]
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BBC NEWS | Sea level rise ‘is accelerating’
It has been a while since the BBC gave us something bloggable. This gem is definitely worth blogging and chuckling about. Sea level is rising…OK. The last 50 years moving […]
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Pleistocene Park
A project is underway in Russia to return a portion of Siberia to the landscape and ecosystem that existed 10,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene. The initiative is led […]
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Alaskan Volcano webcam
The Alaska Volcano Observatory website has a webcam located on Augustine Island in Alaska, monitoring Augustine Volcano, which had a small ash eruption yesterday and continues to show signs of […]
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Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
It’s good to hear that, even though the current US administration has failed to support the Kyoto Protocol, individual US states are at least trying to do something to reduce […]
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Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
LIDAR mapping of changing shorelines
An interesting article from The Daily Times (Salisbury, Maryland) discusses the impact of rising sea levels on the Maryland coastline, including the submergence of numerous small islands and talks briefly […]
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Navigation, Physical Geography
GPS for Tsunami Warnings
Wired News has an interesting article about the use of GPS as an aid in tsunami warnings. Researchers have suggested at least 2 ways in which GPS might give warning […]
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