For The Benefit Of Society
Commentary by the 2008 President of the IEEE. IEEE President and CEO, Lewis Terman One of my major areas of focus this year is the application of engineering, science, and technology to societal...
View ArticleChanging Sun, Changing Earth
How and why does the Sun’s energy change, and how does the Earth respond? We care about these changes, and seek improved understanding of their causes and consequences. We do this because society...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Radio – Echo Sounding Of Ice
Christopher Allen – The University of Kansas CReSIS – The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets Figure 1. Illustratration of airborne radio echo sounding showing the grayscale echogram and the...
View ArticleBenefits of GEOSS: A Panel Discussion
Editor’s Note: This article is adapted. The full panel discussion on GEOSS may be viewed on www.ieeetv. The link appears at the end of this article. Benefits of GEOSS: A Panel Discussion There are over...
View ArticleEducation Around Earth – Analyzing the Spatial Distribution of 4 Crops with a...
By Joseph Kerski, Geographer and Education Manager, Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). GIS in Education For centuries, maps have stirred imaginations and inspired explorations of the...
View ArticleTop Three Essays Highlight Sustainability from Around the World
Announcing the winners of our third-annual contest on the question of “How Can Earth Observation Help Us to Build a More Sustainable World?” After reviewing the submissions, publishing six essays,...
View ArticleClimate change: Taking a Local Perspective to the Global Level
Alan K. Betts Atmospheric Research Pittsford, Vermont akbetts@aol.com http://alanbetts.com The rapid pace of climate change in northern latitudes presents society with many challenges and a few...
View ArticleSharing Data to Keep European Oceans Healthy
A school of fish. Image Credit: Matthew HoelscherIn August, the world’s seas scored 60 out of a possible 100 on a global marine health index, which assessed the status of the world’s seas through an...
View ArticleEarthCube: Helping Scientists Share What They Know
Eva Zanzerkia has an embarrassing confession: Back while doing her dissertation in seismology, she had gathered data pinpointing the location of foreshocks to 23 earthquakes. “I didn’t publish a paper...
View ArticleA Sculpted Land: Ecological Landscape Art of the Harrisons, Patricia Johanson...
An image showing detail of Fair Park Lagoon, by Patricia Johanson. Environmental art is a form of art that emerged in the 1960s when artists were choosing to explore new ways of making art, as well as...
View ArticleNASA CERES S’COOL Project: Understanding clouds and how they affect our...
Sarah Crecelius1, Tina Coleman1, Tina Rogerson1, Preston Lewis1, Dr. Lin Chambers2 1 Science Systems and Applications Inc., 2 NASA Langley Research Center Figure 1: S'COOL observer Map, as of September...
View ArticleMonitoring urbanization in the 21st century
Figure 1. Cairo, Egypt, is the largest city in Africa, with more than 17 million inhabitants in the metropolitan area. Image Source: European Commission, 2009. In 2011, the global population passed the...
View ArticleInto the Mind of Visionary Artist Greg Mort
“Salt and Pepper.” Image Credit: Greg Mort.At his home and studio in rural Maryland, Greg Mort pulls his hand away from his painting, “Salt and Pepper” and shows a blue piece of tape on the end of his...
View ArticleEarthCube Brings Big Data Sets to Diverse Researchers
EarthCube will help researchers access and use Earth sciences data from many different sources, in order to build better models. These images show a high-resolution configuration of the Community...
View ArticleA National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling
Figure 1: The users of climate data are diverse, including city planners, energy producers and farmers. Image Credit: iStockphoto.com; USDA; Wikimedia Commons/Florian.Arnd.Climate modeling isn’t simply...
View ArticleKey phrase trends in climate change research and communication
Figure 1. Database search results using CC as the key phrase. The annual counts for research articles and New York Times articles are displayed on the primary axis while annual counts for NSF grants...
View ArticleGiovanni Workshop Lets Earth Scientists Share Global Earth Science Data
A slide from Suhung Shen’s presentation, “Exploring land processes and climate variations through Giovanni,” showing Giovanni-generated rain rate anomaly data and normalized difference vegetation index...
View ArticleApplication of Next-Generation Satellite Data to a High-Resolution, Real-Time...
Bradley T. Zavodsky1, Jonathan L. Case2, Clay B. Blankenship3, William L. Crosson3, Kristopher D. White4 1NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 2ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville 3Universities...
View ArticleMaking Science Accessible to Environmental Advocates
By Ethan Contini-Field, M.Ed. Martha Merson, M.S. Tennie White of the Coalition of Communities for Environmental Justice shows Hattiesburg residents bottles of contaminated groundwater in October 2011....
View ArticleThe New Generation of Digital Globes – Displaying the Global Activities of...
Simulation of the globe display in OmniSuite software. Image Credit: Stephen Peedell.By Stephen Peedell Scientific Officer JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability Ispra, VA-21027, Italy...
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