Category: SPOTLIGHTS

NOAA Map Shares historic probability of a White Christmas

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 Continue reading “NOAA Map Shares historic probability of a White Christmas”

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. Continue reading “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Offers a New View of Killer Whales”

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. Continue reading “Wildlife Researchers to Give Public Close-Up, Real-Time View of Big Game Fieldwork”

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 (I recall using this fine service when I was a kid, albeit without the help of Google Earth at that time!). Continue reading “For more than 50 years, NORAD is Tracking Santa”

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 Continue reading “Storm Watching Awesomeness – Global Wind Patterns with EarthWindMap”

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