by Barbaree | Apr 13, 2012 | Apps We Love, Free Resources, Our Blog
The NASA Space Weather Media Viewer features near-real-time imagery from a wide variety of NASA missions, as well as video interviews with prominent scientists about the causes of space phenomena and NASA-created visualizations. The Space Weather Media Viewer 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 | Apr 11, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Visit this phenomenal interactive historic atlas that allows you to browse geographic borders through time with little tidbits sprinkled throughout like a panaramio. Each hot link shows you pieces from museums or gives you cool facts or trivia from the region.
by Barbaree | Apr 10, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
From one of the earliest depictions of the continent to the colonial scramble for land, these maps reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries. To try to shed new light on the African archives held by the Royal Geographical Society,...
by Barbaree | Apr 9, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Those with low socioeconomic status have poorer health than other persons, and are less likely to have adequate access to care or to receive high-quality clinical and prevention care services. In the United States, diabetes is a potentially debilitating disease that...
by Barbaree | Apr 7, 2012 | Our Blog, SEVEN
Mapping Our World & Analyzing Our World both contain comprehensive lessons on population that can help you explore the 7 billion phenomenon in your classroom. Providing a complete resource for any teacher seeking a way to bring GIS technology into the middle- or...
by Barbaree | Apr 6, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
MoonPhase for both iPhone and iPad is your guide to all sorts of moon info! And a little bit of sun info too. All presented in a beautiful, easy to use format. So convenient you will use it everyday! Easily find for today or any day between 1900-2100: moon rise/set...
by Barbaree | Apr 5, 2012 | Free Resources, Newsletter Archives, Our Blog
We published our November Resource Broadcast today, summarizing our free resources, product releases and lots of GeoSpatial fun. Click here or scan and follow the qr code off your mobile device to view our broadcast. Click here to subscribe to our broadcast...
by Barbaree | Apr 5, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
NASA\’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has traced the moon\’s early history as well as the latest trash left behind by moonwalkers, and now the team behind the mission has created a video smashing 4.5 billion years of the moon\’s existence into less...
by Barbaree | Apr 4, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
The standard picture of the moon is of a long-dead object, geologically speaking. But using observations from cameras on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Thomas Watters and colleagues say in the journal Nature Geosciences that there are signs of more recent...
by Barbaree | Apr 3, 2012 | Conferences, Free Resources, Our Blog, Presentation & Conference Archives
The 2012 NAA Convention The National AfterSchool Association’s 24th annual national convention will bring afterschool professionals together for 3 days of the most comprehensive professional development opportunities available for afterschool professionals anywhere in...
by Barbaree | Apr 3, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
Image courtesy Science/AAAS – The moon\’s magnetic rocks are pictured to the left in dark red. Unlike Earth, the moon has no global magnetic field, but patches of the satellite\’s surface are magnetic. According to new models, these unusually...
by Barbaree | Apr 2, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
We always get questions from teachers and students on matching career paths with majors, so when we ran across this great career matching tool from ESRI, we knew we had to share!
by Barbaree | Apr 1, 2012 | Featured Content
Now you can order all the titles from A-Z from ESRI Press through GISetc! Esri Press publishes books about the science, application, and technology of geographic information systems (GIS). Esri Press supports the global community with publications that advance...
by Barbaree | Mar 30, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Have you ever wanted to capture a wider view in a photo? Do you sometimes wish you had a better camera on your iPhone or iPod Touch? With AutoStitch, you can: – Combine multiple photos to produce wide-angle panoramas with no visible seams – Create...
by Barbaree | Mar 29, 2012 | Cougar's Corner, Our Blog
There may be no better way to engage kids of all ages in learning about science than with a Lego-based DNA molecule, robot or rocket. WIRED SCIENCE scoured the internet for the best, quirkiest, most innovative examples of science-inspired Lego creations....
by Barbaree | Mar 28, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
The night sky seems unchanging to the naked eye, but beauty is hidden beyond the limits of unaided human perception. As Earth rotates, the sky moves, revealing astronomical events that only time-lapse photography – a series of exposures lasting for minutes...
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 26, 2012 | Free Resources, Our Blog
“Just like the advent of radiocarbon dating, LiDAR will have the same impact” proclaimed archaeologist Chris Fisher. LiDAR, or “light detection and ranging,” acts as a sort of radar with light, painting the target area with lasers and recording the time it takes to...
by Barbaree | Mar 23, 2012 | Apps We Love, Our Blog
Learn how to track and read a storm like the pros! Be an (armchair) storm chasing meteorologist! TORNADO CHASER features: -Pics, videos, and descriptions of the clues you can watch for when a tornado is imminent -Complete cloud chart, w/pictures and names -Detailed...
