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,…
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bGeigie Nano Review
Over at Wise Time With Arduino they decided to build a bGeigie Nano from scratch – that is, they didn’t buy the kit, they used the plans and sourced all the parts on their own which is something an open design like this enables. They wrote a review of the process and the build and seemed to…
Updated Safecast Webmap!
Since the unfortunate demise of our GeoSense map platform we haven’t had recent visualization of Safecast data available to web users. Last week Safecast volunteer Nick Dolezal (mastermind behind the Safecast iOS app) tried out an experiment and it worked fantastically. I’m excited to introduce you to the most recent web map of Safecast data.…
Safecasting DC
Made possible by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, earlier this week we were invited by the NRDC and International Medcom to come to Washington, DC and show a group of people how to build our bGeigie’s and talk a little bit about the value of citizen/independent radiation and environmental monitoring. We’ve had a number…
Safecasting Iraq: Open Data to Open Doors
Last month I was invited to facilitate some data visualization workshops at the Peace Tech camps in Erbil Iraq. One of the NGO’s I was working with was attempting to visualize a study to raise awareness about the issue of depleted uranium in Iraq. Luckily I had run into Sean Bonner moments before boarding my…
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Burning brimstone: the why and how of measuring sulfur dioxide
Carbon dioxide gets a lot of press as a human-generated atmospheric pollutant, but while we have not yet even doubled its concentration in the atmosphere over the past three hundred years of industrial activity we have managed close to a hundred-fold increase in sulfur dioxide during this same period. Some sulfur dioxide gets produced deliberately…
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Fukushima: The Next Three Years Symposium
Above: Everything looked great on the huge screen, including Joi Ito Skyping in from MIT to say hello. The “FUKUSHIMA: THE NEXT THREE YEARS” symposium SAFECAST organized in commemoration of the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima disaster was held at the Komaba Research Campus of Tokyo University on March 15, 2014. We’re…
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Over 46 Countries!
Safecaster Lionel Bergeret has been keeping track of how Safecast is covering the globe, and produced this quick map to show where we’ve been, and where we still need to go. This map was generated after we added data from Iraq putting us in 46 countries, however just after that we added data from Indonesia…
Safecast 3 Year Anniversary Event: Schedule
On March 15th and 16th we’ll be holding events to commemorate three years since the Tohoku Earthquake and resulting Tsunami and meltdowns at Fukushima Daichi which led to the founding of Safecast. The 2-day program will consist of both talks and hands-on events. On Saturday, we’ll host a discussion at Tokyo University called “The Next…
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Safecasting the IAEA
Day 1, Feb 16, 2014 Joe and I are in Vienna this week to attend an IAEA expert meeting which starts Monday. SAFECAST was invited to make a presentation about our methods and results, and I’ll be the one giving the talk, which is on Tues. afternoon, Feb. 18. Information about the meeting can be…