Geographic information system software, created for mapping cities and continents, works equally well with the minuscule layers and inclusions that record a crystal’s history.
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Testing the Waters: Mobile Apps for Crowdsourced Streamflow Data
Citizen scientists keep a watchful eye on the world’s streams, catching intermittent streams in action and filling data gaps to construct a more complete hydrologic picture.
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Managing Radio Traffic Jams with the Cloud
Sensor networks and data mining allow for fully automated, real-time monitoring of radio waves.
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New Thermodynamic Model for Computing Mantle Mineralogy
A newly developed open-access software package called MMA-EoS can calculate whole mantle mineralogy in multicomponent systems by Gibbs energy minimization.
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New Online Tool Teaches Students About the Energy-Water Nexus
Students use real data sets to explore how population changes, power generation, and water-saving strategies affect surface and groundwater use.
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Open-Source Tool Aims to Boost Confidence in Ice Sheet Models
The software could help strengthen ice sheet models to provide a better basis for policy decisions.
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A New Tool for Deep-Down Data Mining
GeoDeepDive combines library science, computer science, and geoscience to dive into repositories of published text, tables, and figures and return valuable information.
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Annotation Tool Facilitates Peer Review
AGU journals will incorporate open source software to facilitate dialog among reviewers, editors and authors during peer review.
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A Grand Tour of the Ocean Basins
A new teaching resource facilitates plate tectonic studies using a Google Earth virtual guided tour of ocean basins around the world.
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Giovanni: The Bridge Between Data and Science
Using satellite remote sensing data sets can be a daunting task. Giovanni, a Web-based tool, facilitates access, visualization, and exploration for many of NASA’s Earth science data sets.