New Plant Hardiness Zone Map (0)
1/25/12 •
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM). The map is the first updated in over twenty years and incorporates greater accuracy and detail since the last map from 1990. The new map was developed by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Oregon State University’s (OSU) PRISM Climate Group and is available ... read more
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Geomagnetic Storm to Hit Earth (0)
1/24/12 •
A strong geomagnetic storm is set to hit the earth today. This storm is the strongest one in seven years but is expected to only have a minor effect on the disruption of satellites, power networks, and navigation systems. The geomagnetic storm is cause by a coronal mass ejection (CME) which happens when a cloud of magnetised ... read more
WorldMap: An Open Source Software Platform (0)
1/23/12 •
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis recently released WorldMap, an open source mapping application designed to make it easier for researchers to upload large GIS datasets and to create online maps using thousands of geographic layers available to them from the Worldmap Library. WorldMap is built using open source software (access the WorldMap source code via github.com) and is hosted on Amazon’s EC2 cloud ... read more
GPS Tracking Needs a Warrant (0)
1/23/12 •
The Supreme Court ruled today that law enforcement agencies need to obtain a warrant before using GPS tracking on a person’s vehicle. The ruling for United States v. Jones came from an appeal by the Justice Department of a lower court’s ruling that GPS tracking required a warrant. Antoine Jones was a Washington D.C. nightclub owner whose ... read more
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New Baby Island in the Zubair Islands (0)
1/17/12 •
The Zubair Islands are located in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen on top of a shield volcano. Shield volcanos are created from fluid basalt lava flows, have broad, smooth slopes, and resemble a warrior’s shield, hence the name. The island chain, until the new eruption, contained ten islands and submerged shoals in a shallow ... read more
How Archaeologists and Geomorphologists Can Work Together to Understand the Quaternary (1)
1/05/12 •
Interdisciplinary collaboration is widely talked about but in reality it is not really implemented on a large scale. This is especially true in the realm of environmental compliance that geographers, geologists, and archaeologists often find themselves working in. Even in the world of academia, few professors take advantage of the human knowledge outside of their ... read more
