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…
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…
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…
Safecast Seaweed Collection Feasibility Study
It is known that much of the radiation from the Fukushima incident — about 80% — went into the ocean, and while this would appear to be good for land dwellers, what is not known for certain is how much of that radiation is making its way into the food chain. Seaweed, which is consumed…
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bGeigie Nano workshops on opposite sides of the world
[:en]Above: Workshop participants building their Nanos at Av-Lab in Strasbourg. SAFECAST had another first this past weekend: simultaneous bGeigie Nano workshops on opposite sides of the world. Specifically, on Saturday Oct. 25, teams of people were building Nanos in both Taiwan and France. In Taipei, the workshop was held at FabCafe Taipei, in Huashan Creative…
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SAFECAST fundraiser in Tokyo, Nov. 4, 2014
Come spend an evening with SAFECAST! As many who have been following Safecast know, our funding has come primarily from crowdfunding efforts like Kickstarter and GlobalGiving, and occasional grants from philanthropies such as the Knight Foundation. This is in addition, of course, to the many people who have contributed their invaluable time and knowledge. We…
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Drive of the Month: Safecasting Daiichi again (and again…)
Above: The Safecast Mac OSX app app map zoomed into the Fukushima Daiichi area after the most recent upload of data from inside the plant boundaries. The OSX and iOS maps allow the color scale to be adjusted to more easily differentiate either very high or very low dose rates. Back in December 2013 we…
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20 million!
A few days ago, Safecast reached another milestone: 20 million data points! If you look at the graph above, you’ll see that, starting from zero, it took us 7 months to collect the first million data points. Our first GPS-tagged data collection efforts in mid April 2011 used an Inspector/iPhone combo. By April 23 the first…
Upload of the Month
Above: This is the upload as it appears in the SAFECAST API. Every now and then we get a data submission which strikes us as particularly interesting for one reason or another, and we’d like to start highlighting them. So here’s our first “Upload of the Month.” . User Kevin Kamps, co-credited with Beyond Nuclear,…