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Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland is again hosting a resident week-long summer learning experience for kids in grades 7-12 from June 24 through 30. The program has three different tracks with a focus on marine exploration, 3D visualization and virtual worlds, and CSI crime analysis and predictive modeling. Youth will also come away from the [...]
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As growing season approaches, I’ve been doing some online research into how I can better manage my garden this year. I stumbled across videos from Bigelow Brook Farm, and want to share the inspiring engineering of this automated hydroponic system. It’s a great example of a finely tuned sensored system, with an automated hydroponic system [...]
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Three researchers in the Applied Geomatics Research Group at Nova Scotia Community College were dismissed this week in favor of expanded research in other areas, including sustainable energy and the development of technology to assist aging populations. There’s an outcry in the local paper that pins this as a poor decision that will hurt the [...]
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SAP and the United Nations Population fund have put together a web-based interactive map to explore the milestone reached this month, with a world population that has reached 7 billion people. The site contains details on births, deaths and growth rate, as well as demographic details on youth, children and seniors. The site is part [...]
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NASA has just launched the 15th NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) crew, sending six astronauts, researchers and habitat technicians to live for ten days in an underwater habitat three miles off the coast of Key Largo. This is a training mission for plans to send a crew to visit an asteroid, using the weightless [...]
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Boston Rare Maps, a specialist dealer in rare and unusual antique maps, has launched AmericanMapmaking.com, an online exhibit of maps of America from 1782-1800. The exhibit was originally hosted at the Harvard Map Collection, and illustrates an evolution in the country and its mapmaking ability. Among the highlights of the online exhibit are: Andrew Ellicott’s [...]
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Kevin Pomfret, executive director of the Centre for Spatial Law and Policy, spoke this morning at the Autovation event regarding privacy issues related to spatial information and the smart grid. With the move to collect more and more data from phones, imaging sensors, smart meters, and other sensor sources, there is a growing concern about [...]
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The Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., will open a new exhibit titled, “Earth Lab: Degrees of Change,” next Thursday, Sept. 16. The exhibit focuses on the visualization of climate change, along with its impacts. The exhibit has at its center a simulation game where visitors take on the [...]
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The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled a lineup of 2012 stamp sets that include a series called Earthscapes that will feature 15 photos taken from the air and from earth observation satellites. The series was highlighted in today’s Denver Post, paying tribute to photographer Jim Wark of Pueblo, who took five of the photos from [...]
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