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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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…
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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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…
Watch Live! Download the Safecast Report Executive Summary here (Currently English only) The Future of Citizen Science & the First Safecast Report A Free Symposium & Hackathon in Tokyo, and ‘Super Presentation’ in Koriyama We’re excited to announce the 4th Anniversary of Safecast and the 1st Safecast Conference. This multiday event will begin on March…
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bGeigie + Webmap Every drive by Safecast volunteers tells a story. Hopefully an exciting and highly radioactive one. But in any case, we’ve added tools to help you visualize and share these efforts to the Safecast webmap. What’s new with this bGeigie log viewer? Multiple Log Display You can now view as many logs at one time…
Volunteer Kiki Tanaka has posted several short YouTube videos showing how to use the bGeigie Nano. They’re in Japanese only (accessible from the Japanese side of this blog), but we hope to have English language versions up soon as well. Meanwhile, check out Sean’s “how to” video HERE. セーフキャストが開発した組立式放射線計測機器 bGeigie Nano（ビーガイギーナノ） の使い方が簡単にわかるよう、ビデオで説明しました。 bGeigie Nano 基本説明…
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…
Real-Time Interpolation: A Powerful and Unique Tool – Overview and Upcoming Improvements – Introduction: What is Interpolation? Spatial interpolation is the prediction of unknown points of data based off the principle that things closer together are more alike than things further apart. This is used extensively with maps you are likely quite familiar with; for…
Safecast volunteer Kohei Watanabe posted an account (in Japanese) of his presentation about Safecast, given at Hakuoh College in Oyama, Ibaragi Pref. on Dec 12, 2014. He reports that his talk was a tremendous success and generated a lot of interest among the 200 students, administrators, and citizens who attended. (English translation being prepared)2014年12月11日（木）、セーフキャストボランティアで白鴎大学（栃木県小山市）の在学生である渡辺晃平は、在学中の白鴎大学にてHakuoh Night…
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