Back in early 2014 we were contacted by curators from the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), who said they wanted to include Safecast in a large exhibition called Big Bang Data. That exhibition opened in May 2014, and since then has traveled to Madrid, Buenos Aires, London, Santiago, Singapore, Lima, and Mexico City. …
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As we posted here a few days ago , on April 30, 2017, Safecast and the MIT Media Lab will host a symposium, “Our World, Our Data: Taking Collective Responsibility for Citizen and Environmental Sensing.” This promises to be an eye-opening and provocative event, and we urge everyone who wants to attend to RSVP as soon…
Safecast has been fortunate to have supporters in several Asian cities who have helped organize events and start volunteer communities. Many of these people have gotten to know each other, and so we’ve launched the Safecast Asia Network initiative to help them stay in touch. As part of this, in coming weeks we will hold workshops…
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Safecast has just wrapped up an intensive three-week workshop on citizen science for environmental measurement at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. The ICTP, which was founded in 1964 by the late Nobel Laureate Abdus Salam, focusses on providing continuing education and skill development for scientists from developing countries. Much of…
Above: Map showing locations and dates of atmospheric I-131 detections in Europe in early 2017, in µBq/m3 (Source: IRSN) A routine press release last week regarding the recent detection of radioactive iodine at trace levels in Europe has set off a flurry of alarm and speculation. On February 13, 2017, the French national radioprotection institute IRSN…
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We’re pleased to announce that our peer-reviewed research paper, “Safecast: successful citizen-science for radiation measurement and communication after Fukushima,” which was published in the prestigious Journal of Radiological Protection in June 2016, has been selected for the journal’s “Highlights of 2016” collection. According to Maggie Simmons, the journal’s publisher, the collection “…brings together some of…
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Late last year we were approached by Julia Muggenburg, owner/director of the Belmacz Gallery in London, about presenting the Safecast project as part of their Bodikon exhibition, which opened on January 17, 2017 and runs through March 17, 2017. Many active Safecast volunteers are artists, musicians, or designers, and we often think about the implications…
— Yes, TEPCO has measured very high radiation inside Daichi Unit 2. — No, it does’t mean radiation levels there are rising. In response to visual investigation results and high radiation measurements recently taken by TEPCO inside Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2, many news outlets have published stories with headlines like “Fukushima nuclear reactor radiation at…
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[Note from the editors: Safecast volunteer BergiX has uploaded quite a few interesting logs from former uranium mining sites in Germany and elsewhere. In the process of checking with him about some of the surprisingly high readings he posted before approving his uploads, we learned that he is careful, well-informed, and researches sites well before…
In addition to the SAFECAST x E2D3 visualisation hackathon on Nov. 3, 2016, we have a few more upcoming events in Tokyo. Mark your calendars! Nov 14th, 2016 – 7:30pm: SAFECAST x RSA JFN lecture – “Radiation & Science Journalism” In conjunction with the Japan Fellows’ Network of the UK Royal Society for the Encouragement of…