The President’s Climate Data Initiative: Empowering America’s Communities to...
Read the fact sheet from the White House. Last June, President Obama launched a Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, prepare communities for the impacts of climate change, and lead...
View ArticleNew Satellite Boosts Research On Global Rainfall and Climate
Read the full story at Yale Environment 360. Although it may seem simple, measuring rainfall worldwide has proven to be a difficult job for scientists. But a recently launched satellite is set to...
View ArticleThe Quest to Scan Millions of Weather Records
Read the full story at CityLab. Deep in the dusty catalogs of weather stations and meteorological offices all over the world are hidden treasures. They’re easy to miss if you’re not looking for them,...
View ArticleUSGS Launches California Drought Visualization Site
Read the full post in CivSource. The record drought in California has prompted the US Geological Survey to launch a new data visualization website that gives the public more detailed information about...
View ArticleClimate Data App Challenge
The U.S. Geological Survey and NASA have partnered to offer a challenge to citizen scientists to develop applications that could help us cope with climate change. This challenge comes with prizes of...
View ArticleReport for the Urban Flooding Awareness Act
In August 2014 the Illinois General Assembly passed the Urban Flooding Awareness Act, which charged the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, in concert with other state agencies, with compiling a...
View ArticleUniversity of Illinois launches water scholars web site
The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) has announced a new website to coalesce the dozens of water scholars on the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus. The website...
View ArticleNew funding opportunity from NOAA
The Collaborative Science, Technology, and Applied Research (CSTAR) Program solicits proposals from institutions of higher education to “engage researchers and students in applied research of interest...
View ArticleDOE funding for innovative atmospheric measurement technology
The Department of Energy‘s Office of Biological and Environmental Research is soliciting proposals through the Small Business Innovation Research program for innovative atmospheric measurement...
View ArticleWater Planet, Water Crises? iSEE Congress 2015
From iSEE: The Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE) will present its second annual international conference to address a most basic human need: clean, fresh water. The 2015 iSEE...
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