Physical Geography
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general, Hardware, Physical Geography
Breakthrough in Solar Cell Efficiency
The EETimes is reporting that there has been a major breakthrough in the efficiency of solar cells. Up until now, solar cells have only operated at between 12-18% efficient. Through […]
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Redrawing the Map of Ancient Earth
I saw this MSNBC article and thought it would be great to highlight for the last day of Geography Awareness Week,since we hadn’t done too much on Physical Geography. Apparently […]
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Data, general, Physical Geography
How do you want your geospatial weather data
The National Weather Service is seeking input on its geospatial data services, and would like you to offer comments here. They recognize that “While most NWS information is geospatial in […]
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‘The World’ Video
I know that Dubai’s newest artificial islands ‘The World’ made a round of the blogs including a mention on the podcast a while ago, but I had not seen this […]
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$3billion For Global Warming
Sir Richard Branson has promised all profits from his travel companies to combat global warming. The anouncement was made at former President Clinton’s Global Initiative. The money is supposed to […]
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Breathing Earth
Breathing Earth is a website which displays near real-time data on birth and death rates around the world on a map interface that also shows carbon emission rates. Their data […]
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Al Gore’s new idea to combat global warming – Tax carbon emissions
In a speech yesterday at the New York University School of Law, Al Gore argued that one way to compel employers to cut greenhouse gas emissions would be to assess […]
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Japan Gets Nationwide Earthquake Detector
This spring, Japan will launch the first nation wide earthquake detector in the world. The system basically senses pre-major quake waves and gives a warning the big one is coming. […]
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Education, general, GIS_Software, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing
Smithsonian offering Advanced Course on Conservation GIS
For those of you interested in using GIS and remote sensing in conservation-related activities, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s Conservation and Research Center is offering a week-long advanced GIS and […]
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Back to the Future!
Yeah, it’s 80’s movie reference day around here (at least for me). Some scientists down under have decided to see if they can figure out what global warming is really […]
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