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		<title>Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census &#8211; NYTimes.com. I keep returning to this fine example of web mapping which the NYTimes has created for the 2010 Census results. The content is fascinating and the interface is great in performance (speed) and options. You can&#8217;t download data but that&#8217;s not the point; you can easily explore the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=234&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cal-Adapt &#8212; a new webportal for climate change research</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cal-Adapt &#8212; Exploring California&#8217;s Climate Change Research.     A new website was launched today that raises the bar for visualizing and making both state-wide and local mapping possible for a variety of climate and climate parameters. Funded by the California Energy Commission (CEC), it highlights a lot of climate research products by many similarly funded or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=225&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecosystem Modeling Tried to Predict Osama&#8217;s Possible Whereabouts &#8211; in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 05:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Geographers Had Predicted Osama&#8217;s Possible Whereabouts&#8221; &#8211; ScienceInsider*. I had not seen this 2009 paper that is now getting renewed interest with Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s discovery and death, which applied biogeographic theories to create a probabilistic spatial model to predict his occurrence. Thomas Gillespie and John Agnew, geography professors at UCLA, and their more enterprising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=214&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EarthObserver &#8211; global exploration via iphone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently I am on an iPhone roll here&#8230; Another rich set of GIS data from the Center of International Earth Science Information Network and others is available on your iphone from an app built by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. This one will require a network connection to browse through over 30 global layers of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=180&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GIS in your pocket &#8211; CA Geology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrity Logic&#8217;s opening statement says it all: &#8220;What if you could hold all of California in the palm of your hand?&#8221; They have packed a lot of GIS datasets into an iphone app so you can explore California&#8217;s geology, geologic features, hydrology and much more with the usual iphone accessibility to GPS, screen capture etc. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=172&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>iNaturalist- Explore, Record &amp; Share your Observations</title>
		<link>http://mvzgis.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/inaturalist-explore-record-share-your-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are not familiar with iNaturalist, go check it out! There is a lot of functionality here with a smooth interface that sets it apart from other citizen science websites. iNaturalist satisfies the naturalist in all of us and allows you to share and communicate with a growing community of observant nature lovers around [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=165&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Maps Tools</title>
		<link>http://mvzgis.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/google-maps-tools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is actually &#8220;old&#8221; news but at a recent georeferencing workshop we gave, I was in the awkward position of having an outdated slide! As posted here under the Map Tools tab, we recommend Google Maps as an efficient and easy georeferencing tool to affix coordinates to a site. Further, we used to suggest third-party [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=156&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California Highways: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know Mileposts</title>
		<link>http://mvzgis.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/california-mileposts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California Highways: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Numbered Highways. &#8220;Dumb as a post&#8221; Anyone who slings that insult around hasn&#8217;t had to georeference a common locality type in natural history collections, those based on road mileage, specifically referring to milepost on the highways and byways of the US. Recently the Georef Team had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=148&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google Earth Engine</title>
		<link>http://mvzgis.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/google-earth-engine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 08:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Earth Engine. Unveiled in Cancun, Mexico, at the International Climate Change Conference, Google announced its latest planetary visualizations. From Google&#8217;s blog: &#8221; Google Earth Engine is a new technology platform that puts an unprecedented amount of satellite imagery and data—current and historical—online for the first time. It enables global-scale monitoring and measurement of changes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=122&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Satellite Pictures: Earth As Art</title>
		<link>http://mvzgis.wordpress.com/2010/11/19/new-satellite-pictures-earth-as-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Satellite Pictures: &#8220;Magnificent&#8221; Views of Earth. National Geographic put together some gorgeous photos from the USGS collection to remind us of the feral complexity of Earth as capture by Landsat. Filed under: Earth Tagged: eye candy, Landsat, remote sensing<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mvzgis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15787565&amp;post=113&amp;subd=mvzgis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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