Another useful Google Earth feature today: the Contaminated Sites layer from Terradex. This company compiled, and makes available free online, a list of USEPA Superfund and RCRA Cleanup sites, and state sites including California, Oregon, Washington and New Jersey. The layer requires the use of Google Earth 4 or later. When you click on individual [...]
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Google Earth layer: Contaminated sites
Posted in environment, technology, tagged contamination, environment, google earth, local, maps, software, tools on 30 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Google Earth for northern California
Posted in local, technology, tagged california, google earth, humboldt, landscape, local, software, tools on 19 May, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve mentioned several times things I love about Google Earth. I use it a lot for my work, but I also find it to be a lot of fun. Today, I’d like to share some interesting resources and tips on more geographic information about local features that can be explored in Google Earth. Google Earth [...]
Animal or vegetable
Posted in environment, nature, science, tagged birds, database, fisheries, google earth, natural resources, plants, science, software, species, tools on 20 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are a few sites I want to gush about, as educational resources, as entertainment, and as serious technical and scientific resources. Not only can they be used in the classroom, or browsed for the sheer enchantment of discovery, but they are pure gold for for professionals in the environmental fields as well. NatureServe Explorer [...]
Google Earth: Wilkins ice shelf collapse
Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged climate, environment, google earth, landscape, maps, media, science, software, tools on 17 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The various stages of collapse of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctica has been in the news over the past couple of weeks. Now you can watch an animation of the process in Google Earth, as assembled by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC). After downloading the file and opening it with [...]
How to navigate a map
Posted in technology, tagged google earth, information, maps, tools on 8 April, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some people find it daunting to orient themselves using a map. If you’re not used to this way of seeing the world, or to reading the symbols, it can be confusing at first. But I learned to read maps as a kid, to pass the time in the backseat of the family car when we [...]
Finding map coordinates
Posted in environment, science, technology, tagged california, google earth, maps, software, tools on 7 April, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Monday I talked about the North Coast Geotourism project and how the public can submit sites. There is only one potentially slightly tricky question in the form for submitting sites: you need to provide the latitude and longitude of the site you’re submitting. Gulp! The what? How do I do that? Well, as a [...]
Geotourism map: California North Coast
Posted in current events, local, society, technology, tagged california, google earth, history, humboldt, landscape, local, maps, media, native peoples, software, tools on 6 April, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A couple of weeks ago, the Crescent City Daily Triplicate introduced us to an exciting mapping project: the North Coast California Geotourism project, covering the Del Norte to Marin areas, including Lake County. Working with the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations, the North Coast Tourism Council and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management are [...]
Melting glaciers mean redrawing border between Italy and Switzerland
Posted in current events, environment, tagged climate, environment, google earth, impacts, maps, politics on 25 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to global climate change and the resulting world-wide glacier meltdown, Switzerland and Italy now have to redraw their border. The draft law has already been endorsed by the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, and is expected to become law before the end of April; Switzewrland has already agreed to the new border. The current [...]
Sinking the map, blurring the map
Posted in current events, environment, science, technology, tagged california, climate, environment, google earth, landscape, maps, science, tools on 12 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sea level rising… Wednesday’s San Francisco Chronicle offered an article discussing the release of a new report by the Oakland-based Pacific Institute, evaluating the effects on the California coastline of a rise in sea level resulting from global climate change. A Huffington Post article also discussed the report, which was commissioned by the California Energy [...]
Earthquake tools rock!
Posted in nature, science, technology, tagged california, geology, google earth, landscape, science, software, tools on 4 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is one of my favourite agencies and sources of information. They take their science seriously, publish excellent quality material, and put great effort into make the information as available, comprehensible, and interesting to the general public as possible. Some of the tools they have added to their Earthquake Hazards Program [...]
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