January 8. 2021
NOAA DataVizEd Resources
Climate program expands resources for mapping and visualizing urban heat islands
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The National Integrated Heat Health Information System explores the problems of extreme heat, defines resilience strategies, and develops science-based products and services to improve understanding of the problem of extreme heat.
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The heat vulnerability mapping tool allows users to select a location in the United States to visualize predicted future heat events and societal vulnerabilities.
NIHHIS NOAA Climate Program Office: Extreme Heat Vulnerability mapping tool
NOAA and the NASA Tournament Lab have teamed up to crowdsource technology solutions that could improve forecasting geomagnetic storms
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With a total prize money to be awarded is $30,000, NOAA is challenging people to develop code using a set of shared parameters and data that demonstrates improvements in solar weather forecasting.
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This is a great opportunity for a small group of high-leveled coding students to accomplish a real-life task, remotely.
NOAA Driven Data: MagNet: Competition to model the geomagnetic field
DataVizEd News and Resources
NASA shares beautiful video of Astronauts’ intimate experiences in Space
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NASA’s astronauts highlight experiences on the International Space Station, exploring the life-changing pleasures of an orbital perspective.
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Educators can use this 30-minute video to build content and connections to earth science curriculum.
NASA: Down to Earth: The Astronaut’s Perspective
Super article describes how Cold War-era spy satellite photographs have been used to monitor environmental change
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Declassified images from the Corona satellite project — which collected nearly 2 million images from orbit from 1960 to 1972 — are now used by scientists to track decades of changes around the world, from the movement of glaciers to the erosion of shorelines.
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Educators can use this story to inspire students to look for older photographs of their neighborhoods, to track changes in vegetation or water levels.
New York Times: Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth
01/08/2021