Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Well, don’t get your hopes up too high. To help confirm your wishes NOAA developed this fun map last year showing the probability past on historical data of places having more than one inch of the white stuff on December 25
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Offers a New View of Killer Whales
For the first time, scientists have used an unmanned aerial vehicle to photograph killer whales from above. This gives scientists a new way to monitor killer whale health and reproduction while giving us all a stunning new view of the species.
Data Tip – California Drought Visualization website
An eye-catching example of OWDI success is the USGS interactive California Drought Visualization website, released in December 2014.
Wildlife Researchers to Give Public Close-Up, Real-Time View of Big Game Fieldwork
LARAMIE, WY — Seeking insights to help moose, elk, mule deer and bighorn sheep populations, researchers from the University of Wyoming, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the U.S. Geological Survey and other partners will spend much of March capturing animals on their winter ranges in western and southern Wyoming.
Software Tip – AutoCAD for MAC Shortcut Key Guide
Autodesk has now created an AutoCAD for Mac Shortcut Key Guide to help its Mac users – The AutoCAD for MAC Shortcut Key Guide
Infographic – Mapping Where the College Graduates are Going
An interesting report has surfaced recently revealing just where College students are heading after they graduate.
For more than 50 years, NORAD is Tracking Santa
Reposted from 2007… Once again, beginning at 2:00 am MTN on Christmas Eve, you can track Santa Live as he makes his historic journey around the world! This time you can track him using Google Earth and get glimpses of Saint Nick captured with the NORAD Santa Cams. NORAD has been tracking Santa since 1955 […]
Hackbusters Top Security Topics of 2014
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Web GIS Gets A Huge Boost From Esri – What’s New in ArcGIS 10.3
This week, Esri quietly released ArcGIS 10.3 noting to users, If you’re a Desktop user, you’ll get ArcGIS Pro and a named user account to ArcGIS Online, which in turn unlocks all the ArcGIS apps
Storm Watching Awesomeness – Global Wind Patterns with EarthWindMap
Woah, indeed it has been windy here on the left coast of North America recently, although that is part of winter! Enter EarthWindMap, an animated map of global weather condition