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Kendra McLauchlan, an assistant professor of geography at Kansas State University and director of the university’s Paleoenvironmental Laboratory, has just been named to a list of the top 150 scientists in the history of Kansas. This award adds to the National Science Foundation CAREER Award that she received in 2010. McLauchlan’s research involves the reconstructing [...]
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Pavan Sukhdev has a fascinating TED Talk on the subject of putting value to nature. He uses economics to explore the value of Earth’s assets, and puts many practices in perspective in terms of their overall economic cost. The calculation factors in the commercial value vs. the properties of nature that are of value to [...]
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Andreas Sevtruk, a researcher with the CityForm Lab that was first at MIT and now at the Singapore University of Technology & Design, discussed the Urban Network Analysis Toolbox today at the GeoDesign Summit in Redlands. This toolbox is an open source tool that works with ArcGIS 10. Not much has been done to understand [...]
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The BioWeatherMap initiative looks to uncover insight into the geographic and temporal distribution of microbial life through an distributed and volunteer environmental sensing effort. The intent is to gather environmental samples from around the world that will be DNA sequence for ongoing discovery and surveillance. This effort teamed with Autodesk to explore the visualization aspects [...]
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Over the weekend, NPR highlighted the work of researchers in Baltimore that are following addicts and their behavior very closely to track movement as well as the behaviors that coincide with their drug use. Researchers in the methadone program that serves addicts are studying specifically what makes addicts relapse with a smartphone program that requires [...]
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The BBC is on a quest to provide a human scale to events and places in history in a way that we can all understand. Their How Big Really? and How Many Really? web sites provide an appreciation of events in a way that we can all relate to. The map-based understanding of the ‘How [...]
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Climate Corp. is the new name of a company started by two former Google employees that have been applying big data analysis to climate data since 2006. The company first focused on weather, compiling all the freely available data from the U.S. Weather Service, and selling the insight to businesses dependent on weather forecasts as [...]
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A Boston-based startup Sourcemap uses mapping software to calculate the carbon used to produce the things we eat, use and wear. The project began as the MIT PhD thesis of founder Leonardo Bonanni, and was first registered as a .org site, but has since become commercialized as a means for companies to communicate their environmental [...]
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