Physical Geography

• February 19, 2008general, Physical Geography

  Mapping the Arctic

  The melting of Arctic ice, coupled with other factors such as the push to discover more oil reserves to exploit, is spurring new efforts to map the Arctic. A US […]

• February 16, 2008general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  First US National Biomass and Carbon Datasets now available

  The Woods Hole Research Center has been working on the “National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 (NBCD2000) and have just released datasets from the first nine project […]

• January 25, 2008general, Physical Geography

  A New Geological Age!

  Have humans brought about a new Geological age? Seeing as we’re in a department that shares space with not only Geography but Geology, I occasionally scan for any new Geology […]

• January 13, 2008general, Physical Geography

  Sometimes it Snows in……Baghdad!

  Baghdad got its first snow in 100 years on Friday! The snow didn’t accumulate much, so the Baghdad government won’t have to add “snow plows” to its load of materials, […]

• January 9, 2008Gadgets, general, Hardware, Navigation, Physical Geography, space (not spatial)

  Solar Headaches to Come

  National Geographic is reporting that we can expect a season of intense solar flares for the next few weeks and months. This is all part of a normal 11 year […]

• January 2, 2008general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography

  Japan Wants 30% of Housholds to Go Solar by 2030

  Japan has set a target to increase it’s number of solar powered houses to 14 million by 2030. It’s a fairly lofty goal. The exceptionally noteworthy part of this is […]

• December 22, 2007general, Physical Geography

  Welcome winter

  So we have entered the winter season here in the northern hemisphere (welcome to summer down south). I prefer the winter months during this season, mostly cause the thought of […]

• November 28, 2007general, Human Geography, Physical Geography

  Google Throws Weight Behind Renewable Energy

  In other Google news, they have decided to invest some of their billions into renewable energy sources, like solar and wind. The plan is to make renewable sources cheaper than […]

• October 30, 2007general, Physical Geography, Remote Sensing

  Arctic Sea Ice Loss 1979-2007

  NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has released a video today showing visually the ice loss in the Arctic Sea from 1979-2007. The video is pretty impressive showing the degree of […]

• October 15, 2007general, Physical Geography

  BBC travels the Northwest Passage

  A story to round out Blog Action Day about current research along the Northwest Passage that will likely soon have new environmental finds. The BBC has had a press crew […]