Since witnessing the historic landing of NASA’s Mars Phoenix Lander on May 25, I’ve been holding my breath to learn if Phoenix has made the discovery it set out to make: whether it landed on a vast deposit of water ice near Mars’ northern polar cap. …
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I hadn’t been working at The Bay Institute long when our then Executive Director dropped a packet of information on my desk and asked me to draft a letter. The topic? Urinals. …
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Do you love photographing Science, Environment and Nature in Northern California? Would you like to collaborate on a 2-minute QUEST TV short about your photography for an audience of over 100,000 viewers? …
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Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The New York Times
In the new $25 million Audubon Insectarium, which opened in June, you can watch Formosan termites eat through a wooden skyline of New Orleans (as if this city didn’t have enough problems), stick your head into a transparent dome in a kitchen closet swarming…
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Talk about a wild ride.
Every year, millions of fish make a strange and harrowing detour through the Skinner Fish Facility, part of the State Water Project’s facilities in the Delta.
In my last post, I wrote about my visit to the Banks Pumping Plant, whose giant pumps slurp water from the Delta…
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NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury-artist concept.
Photo by: NASA
I’ve been waiting for the “whole story” on Martian ice at the Phoenix lander site to unfold more completely, but the chemical analyses have not yet run their full courses-so I’ve decided to widen the focus on this blog to give a status report…
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Cris Benton inspects his kite aerial photography rig
before sending it up in the sky. Credit: Jane Liaw.
UC Berkeley architecture professor Charles ‘Cris’ Benton is a kite aerial photography (KAP) enthusiast. Benton is well-known in the KAP world for sharing his knowledge and love of the art.
In this art form, a camera…
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From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14):
Adding value to data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/)
December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA
An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net)There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science…
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