Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms.
Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.
A coalition of organizations has assessed how locally produced maps stack up against global open-access data sets to evaluate deforestation in the context of cocoa production. The assessment will be useful for cocoa producers as they work toward compliance with the EUDR.
Walking up to the second level of The Last Bookstore in April 2025.
The Last Bookstore in DTLA.
Used books, book installation art, and stairs?
Yes, please!
Thank you, Mirela. I would be delighted to work together again sometime!
"Landsat sits at the confluence of many, incredibly interesting issues... [it shows] in a comprehensive way how all natural processes are related, and how they are affected by human transformation."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/unch...
Artist and writer James Bridle. Photo credit: Steve Forest
How did the idea for James Bridle's Laaaaaaandsat (which was featured in MoMA's 2016 "Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today" exhibit) come about?
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/jame...
Artist Tom Van Sant used a series of 2′ x 2′ mirrors spread across the Mojave Desert to create a 1.5-mile-wide eye on a Landsat 3 image acquired on June 11, 1980.
#DYK? In 1980, artist Tom Van Sant created the world’s largest manmade image with the help of Landsat 3... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-bi...
Maps are a foremost infographics... often with intertwined artistry: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/nati...
During my time as a #Landsat science writer, some of my favorite stories were Q&As with artists. Here are some highlights: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/arti...
Have you found your name in #Landsat? 🤔🛰️ Check out a new Q&A to learn how the Landsat outreach team sourced the letters, developed the interactive, and now utilize the tool to highlight the mission’s important contributions to society.
go.nasa.gov/3CTYFXL
#GISchat
Virginia Norwood, key Landsat pioneer, recognized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year: go.nasa.gov/4gbjX0Z
A hand-drawn integrating sphere with a green circle in the middle and a photograph of calibration scientist Brian Markham.
Brian, as always, was a good-sport and let me use this whimsical graphic in the story. My daughter drew the integrating sphere for me, I added a flat shade of green for the sphere's inside and a headshot of Brian.
After 25 years of sharing #Landsat stories as a NASA contractor, I am now a freelance writer. My second-to-last story for the Landsat was a Q&A with longtime calibration scientist, Brian Markham—one of the first people I met at GSFC & an all-around good human: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/data...