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Earthquake and Tsunami – Sendai, Japan
/in Incidents /by John AmosThe Ring of Fire strikes again. We’re starting to see satellite imagery of the damage caused by the massive earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck northeastern Japan yesterday (this aerial video shows the waves approaching shore, and the terrifying destruction as they sweep through coastal towns). Some resources: DigitalGlobe has a Flickr gallery of high-resolution […]
Safer Offshore Drilling? Trust us.
/in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosWith much fanfare, the federal government agency responsible for managing offshore drilling, BOEMRE, issued the first new permit for deepwater drilling since the BP / Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Sort of new, but not really: the permit allows Noble Energy to resume work on a well […]
Be a SkyTruther! Follow Your Favorite Places in Google Maps/Earth
/in SkyTruthing /by John AmosThe folks at Google have released a great new tool called Follow Your World. Now you can sign up to get email alerts whenever they update the imagery in Google Maps and Google Earth covering your areas of interest. Using a simple interactive map interface, you can select and register points of interest: I’m hoping […]
SkyTruth Presentation to the Potomac Valley Audubon Society
/in Presentations /by Teri BiebelThe Potomac Valley Audubon Society will sponsor a presentation about the Shepherdstown-based nonprofit organization SkyTruth at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9 in room 151 at the National Conservation Training Center. Admission is free and anyone is welcome to attend. The speaker will be John Amos, SkyTruth’s founder and president. He will review the organization’s […]
NSCE – 11th Nat’l Conference on Science, Policy & The Environment
/in Biodiversity, Climate, Oceans /by Teri BiebelBack in January, SkyTruth attended the National Conference on Science, Policy and the Environment held in Washington, DC. The theme of the conference this year was Our Changing Oceans, and you can see our presentation here. While we were there, we participated in one of the breakout sessions entitled Ecosystem-Based Marine Spatial Planning in U.S. […]
Monday’s Planned Balloon Launch a No-Go.
/in SkyTruthing, Watchdog /by Teri BiebelIt’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature. We had hoped to have a successful test-launch of our balloon on the Shepherd University campus on Monday afternoon. Unfortunately, we were grounded by gusty winds which preceded the storm we had on Tuesday. Not to be discouraged, we retreated to Mellow Moods to plot our strategy […]