by Barbaree | Apr 20, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
This Earth Day, we are shifting our attention to the oceans – the largest and most vital part of our Earth. Today and Monday we will share a two part series on our oceans: a TED talk from Sylvia Earle and our conversations with John Millar from Coast River...
by Barbaree | Apr 17, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
An incredibly stunning solar flare erupted from the sun’s surface, throwing charged particles and searing plasma millions of miles out into space on Apr. 16. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured data from the flare — a medium-sized M-class event — which was...
by Barbaree | Apr 12, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
According to NOAA scientists at the National Climatic Data Center, record and near-record breaking temperatures dominated the eastern two-thirds of the nation and contributed to the warmest March on record for the contiguous United States, a record that dates back to...
by Barbaree | Mar 27, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
Ten years ago this March, the European Space Agency launched an 8-ton satellite called Envisat that would deliver back to Earth some of the most beautiful images of our planet taken from space. Since then, Envisat has orbited Earth more than 50,000 times and has lived...
by Barbaree | Mar 19, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
It’s a common early-spring phenomenon: Cold, dry air from Canada meets warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. The result: massive, tornado-spawning storms. Visit the map story of the 2012 Spring tornado season, which aggregates geographic information with eyewitness...
by Barbaree | Mar 12, 2012 | Free Resources, GIS Happenings, Our Blog
The people of Japan paused for a moment of silence to mark the one-year anniversary of a powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami that killed almost 19,000 people and left hundreds of thousands of others homeless. Entire cities and towns were wiped off the land by...
