Video: "The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online

Safecast is featured in Episode 4 of an excellent video series called “The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online: The power of privacy (4/5): Open data: mapping the fallout from Fukushima

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bGeigie Nano Workshop in Taipei, Nov. 14-15, 2015

Joe Moross advising participants at an earlier Nano workshop in Taipei, in Oct. 2014.  FabCafe Taipei will host its third bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, November 14. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of…

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More droid trouble

Above: 77 new realtime radiation monitors made by JB Japan Brand were installed in Fukushima in March 2015 and taken offline weeks later. This unit, in front of Odaka Station in Minamisoma, has an “under maintenance ” notice posted on it. Back in December of 2012 we posted a two-part article which took a close…

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Upcoming bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei

FabCafe Taipei will host its second bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, May 30. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of building and learning how to use a bGeigie Nano and upload data to…

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Drive of the month: Svalbard Islands

Safecaster Ben Lutch recently uploaded data from Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far north of the arctic circle, about 1200km from the north pole itself, and home of the Global Seed Vault. Some readers will recall that we received data from Antarctica in Dec., 2013, so these recent uploads mean we now have data on our…

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Upcoming bGeigie Nano Workshop in Tokyo

We’re pleased to announce an upcoming bGeigie Nano workshop in Tokyo during Golden Week, so you can build your own bGeigie mobile radiation detector and take it on your Golden Week holiday travels around Japan or the world! The bGeigie Nano is a unique Geiger counter designed by SAFECAST for logging radiation data that can…

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The Safecast Report

We’re pleased to announce the first release of the SAFECAST REPORT. The report serves two functions. One, it gives an update on the SAFECAST PROJECT itself, what we’ve been up to and have accomplished, and what we expect to be doing over the course of the coming year. Second, it gives a SITUATION REPORT on…

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HELLO BIKINI !

Above: Dr. Buesseler on the beach at Bikini. We recently got some unique uploads from Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, courtesy of Dr. Ken Buesseler, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Dr. Buesseler is a leading oceanographer studying the spread and effects of radioactive releases to the ocean from Fukushima, who started a very important…

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New FAQ page added: Openness and Data Access

We’ve added a new FAQ page about Openness and Data Access SAFECAST tries to set an example of openness in how we gather and present our data, and try to demonstrate what the wider benefits of easy access to open data are for society as a whole. It’s not just a matter of principle, but…

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25 million!

Today SAFECAST got our Christmas present, a data upload which pushed our database over 25 million data points! It took us about 5 months to go from 15 million in Feb of this year to 20 million in July, and another 5 months to reach 25 million. That’s a rate of about a million data…

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