The Obama administration recently announced that funding will be cut for NASA manned-space exploration projects, including a return trip to the moon in 2020. Instead, more funding will be directed towards NASA Earth-observation and monitoring missions, in hopes of better understanding our planet and its changing climate. Thinking back over the history of manned space [...]
August 12, 2009
Well, not “we” per se, however my PhD advisor, UC Irvine Professor Jay Famiglietti, was a co-author on the recent “Satellite based estimates of groundwater depletion in India” with his former PhD student and current NASA Scientist Matt Rodell. Also, 2nd author I. Velicogna is on my PhD committee. (So it’s kind of like I [...]
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What’s the idea behind the website “ActualEarth.org” ? It’s simple, really. It’s meant to convey one basic idea — that there is an amazingly beautiful, profoundly intricate world all around us that escapes our everyday perception. When we’re so caught up in our lives of survival, achievement and satisfaction, how much time is missed in witnessing the [...]
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