Tide and Current Taxi expedition
On Saturday, May 18, at dawn, SP Weather Station partnered with Marie Lorenz's Tide and Current Taxi on a water-borne dérive in Jamaica Bay. We brought along maps of flight paths and Atlantic coast bird migration routes and, very loosely, let them guide our journey. Marie's blog entry gives a pretty great overview of the day. … [Read more...]
NASA GOES captures Hurricane Sandy
Amazing images of Hurricane Sandy courtesy of NASA GOES satellites: Video from NASA GOES online here. You can also buy a print of a NASA GOES image from 20x200 with net revenue to benefit the American Red Cross - just one of many ways to help out the recovery efforts, of course. … [Read more...]
12/1, 7 PM: U-N-F-O-L-D: Climate Change Art and Science Dating Game @ Parsons
December 1, 2011 7:00 p.m. An event presented in partnership with PositiveFeedback, a collaboration of The Earth Institute at Columbia University; the Center for Creative Research at NYU; and the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities. Wondering what brings scientists and artists together on climate change? Join author David Berreby, artist Mary Miss, and environmental … [Read more...]
From The New Yorker, “The New Politics of Climate Change”
From "Storms Brewing" by Elizabeth Kolbert, published June 13th in The New Yorker "....Obama’s visit to Joplin was the third that he had made in a month to the site of a weather-related disaster. In mid-May, the President met with Memphis residents who had been left homeless by the flooding of the Mississippi River, and, not long before that, he toured sections of … [Read more...]