Sunday, February 28, 2016

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Monday, February 15, 2016

Act To Adapt

Act To Adapt is learning game for children and teenager (age 12 to 17) around issues of local climate change impacts and adaptation.

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of easy-to-use web tools for beginners that introduce concepts of working with data. They offer the following three tools and provide great resources and activity guides for educators. Read about it over on ProfHacker.
  • WordCounter
  • WTFcsv
  • SameDiff
DataBasic Introduction - What is DataBasic? from Engagement Lab on Vimeo.

The Garden

This is incredible: Jheronimus Bosch, the Garden of Earthly Delights as an interactive and narrated story map. Here is a similar one, albeit much simpler: The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch.

Even better: experience The Garden in VR using Google Cardboard. Or, get the non-VR iPad app.

Bosch VR app trailer from BDH on Vimeo.

Mapme Stories

Mapme Stories is a nice and simple platform for creating story maps 'superimposed' on Google Maps. Keir Clarke has a nice write-up about it over on Maps Mania and Vegan Berlin is a nice example of the platform and its capabilities.

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Drones map snow depth

This is new (to me): Harder et al. (2016) used a senseFly eBee RTK UAV to map snow depth. In essence you fly first over snow-free terrain and create a DSM, then create a second DSM over snow cover and subtract the two - clever. There are some limitations (e.g. snow depth has to be greater than 30 cm), but otherwise this seems quite feasible.

The Spread Of Zika

The Spread Of Zika is a nice and simple story map - that's it.

The Climate Inspector

The Climate Inspector (by NCAR) is pretty neat: select your location, your variable, and your RCP to see the map, trend, and annual cycle predicted until 2010.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Stream Gauges

Esri's Live Stream Gauges map is very useful, but 1) choose a different base layer and 2) why is this map not public?

Global Weather Comparison

Global Weather Comparison is great: just click on two point and compare their climates - perfect for students learning about climate zones, land/ocean contrast, and more.

Seasonal Wind Forecasting

Project Ukko is an attempt at seasonal wind forecasting - something clearly useful and needed as more and more of our electricity generation is shifted to sustainable sources such as wind. I'm not a fan of the interactive web map, but it has a high coolness factor.

Project Ukko: Climate Service for Seasonal Wind Forecasts from FutureEverything on Vimeo.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016