Category: Open Source Data
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North American Eclipse 2024
Monday, April 8, 2024, marked a “once in a lifetime” opportunity for North America to witness a solar eclipse. But what if I told you that our work wasn’t done yet? We have an opportunity to work together to create maps that describe our experiences of this event, and contribute…
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Taku Glacier: Summer Lake Formation
Introduction and Objective The Alaskan Ice Field is the third largest in the world after the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, and the Juneau Ice Field is one of the most studied, due to its relative accessibility. In addition to size, these glaciers are uncharacteristically low in elevation, which makes…
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Interpolating Surfaces: Describing the Tohoku Earthquake
ON March 11, 2011, an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 occurred off the east coast of Japan. The intensity of this earthquake was measured by many monitoring stations. The epicenter of the March 11, 2011 earthquake was located about 45 miles (72 kilometers) east of Tohoku, at a depth…
Christina O'Malley, PhD 