Jack Dangermond will speak at one of his alma maters, the University of Minnesota on April 10.
- UMN News
Red Orbit seems to starting a series of lessons on weather. The first in on how mountains impact weather. The first lesson covers the mountains of the U.S. and their impact on climate and weather. Sadly, those two terms are not defined.
- Red Orbit
Focused on the best of America, Rand McNally has launched a short essay contest to discover what places across the country inspire young people. Students who enter the contest have the opportunity to win a $10,000 college scholarship and earn a trip to Washington, D.C.
The contest is open to 7th-12th grade students; there are prizes for teachers, too.
- press release
The University of Alabama in Huntsville is starting a master's degree program in the Earth System Science Department in the College of Science, the school has announced.
The first enrollments will be in August. The program will train master's level students in research applications at the decision-making level. The goal is understanding both Earth system processes but the tools to explore them including GIS, data analysis and remote sensing.
- Al.com
by Adena Schutzberg on 03/28 at 03:53 AM |
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Jack Turner and Adam Grossman, two web developers from Troy, New York, say they have invented a mobile app that makes remarkably precise short-term weather forecasts. Using radar data and your phone's GPS, it promises to tell you the exact minute it will begin raining or snowing your location, and how long it will last.
There's a catch, however: The app, called Dark Sky, only works over a short period of time – up to about an hour in the future.
The data comes from the same government radar every prediction site/app uses. The difference is the algorithms used. Dark Sky models between the radar snapshots and makes lots of assumptions, which in turn make it helpful but not foolproof. The app is expected on iOS in spring with an Android version perhaps to follow. Funding for the app was from Kickstarter (aka crowdsourced funding!)
- CNN
by Adena Schutzberg on 12/21 at 03:47 AM |
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Esri wants you to know that the company's Live Severe Weather Map "allows you to view continuously updated U.S. tornado reports, wind storm reports, weather warnings, and precipitation. The map also pulls in social media pertaining to severe weather events."
by Nora Parker on 05/25 at 05:11 AM |
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Google announced new datasets including demographics, parcels, traffic counts in its for fee Google Earth Pro this month. Why? What market is the company looking capture? Are those data enough? And, do they belong in Google Earth Pro? Our editors explore the new additions.
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In this special “vacation” edition of the podcast, our editors turn their attention to a piece of geospatial technology they both use: the Garmin Forerunner “GPS watch.” There’s quite a bit of disagreement about what’s expected of the device and what’s wanted in future versions.
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