Last month we were excited to announce that the World Karate Organization was jumping into the pool of Safecast volunteers and would be mapping out some new territory for us and helping us test our a new version of our bGeigie, that for this specific purpose we’re calling it the “Black Belt bGeigie”. We’re excited…
Maps
New Safecast Global Map
For the last few months our visualization team at MIT in Cambridge lead by Anthony DeVincenzi have been working hard on some new visualizations of our data, the first of those is live now. This has a number of improvements from our earlier maps in that you can link directly to any specific location and…
Safecasting San Onofre nuclear power plant
Earlier this week there was news that The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, just south of Los Angeles, was shut down due to a leak. This obviously caught our attention and luckily Safecaster Mike Outmesguine was nearby with a bGeigie and immediately drove over to measure the situation. As you can see from his readings…
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Safecasting Oshima Island
This weekend Safecast volunteer Eiji Nishikawa spent some time on Oshima Island. This area was heavily devastated by the quake and tsunami impacting tourism which has been very difficult for the residents. On top of that, there were no available radiation readings for the island and locals were very concerned and assumed the worst. We’re…
Safecasting Daiichi
Earlier this month we received our first measurements from inside the evacuation zone and talked about how they illustrated the point that “closer to the plant” doesn’t automatically mean higher readings. To illustrate that point even furthers, Safecast volunteers Akira Sugiyama and Tatsuhiko Kodama were able to take a bGeigie all the way across the…
Safecasting inside the evacuation zone
If you’ve been following our measurements and discussions surrounding them, you know we’ve been saying that the decision to evacuate people in a set radius from the Fukushima Daiichi plant is flawed. Wind, weather, topography and many other factors ensure that radiation isn’t higher the closer you get to the plant, and lower further away,…
Grid Map Improvements
When we launched our new main map on the front page of maps.safecast.org we mentioned that was just the first step in an ongoing process aimed at providing better, more useful info. We’ve recently added another feature to it – data for each grid. If you click on any gird element you’ll now see information…
New Visualizations
One of our goals at Safecast, in addition to collecting radiation data, is putting that data into a format that is helpful and useful. If you’ve been following our work for the last few months you’ve seen the map we launched with on day one progress through several evolutions including being split out into several…
How I spent my Sunday in Fukushima
The Safecasting drives officially started after my last trip to Japan, so I’ve been watching from afar as Pieter and an ever growing volunteer team of total heros have set out time and time again to try and map the radiation levels in the areas surrounding the Fukushima plant, as well as the rest of…
Safecasting in Honolulu, Hawaii
Aloha from Hawaii! Thanks to Pieter for allowing me to use the bGeiger to take readings around Honolulu. On Saturday July 16th at 11pm, we mounted the bGeiger to my Prius in theparking lot of a Starbucks (see inserted picture), dropped off Pieter at his hotel in Waikiki, then I drove along Waikiki beach, and…