Earthquake Recap: What Worked, What Didn't

Safecast was formed in reaction to the Fukushima Nuclear Powerplant Disaster, which was caused by the magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. Specifically, our project was begun because of the lack of publicly available data regarding the accident’s impacts and the condition of the nuclear reactors themselves in the days and weeks following the start…

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E2D3-x-Safecast

Please join us in Shibuya on 11/3 for a fun workshop on visualizing open data in innovative ways! E2D3 (Excel to D3.js) is a graph-sharing community enabling everyone to handle and display data. E2D3 has been hosting collaboration events with various companies and organizations. This time, we are holding a joint event with Safecast, the…

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Safecast Visits Washington DC

Last month, thanks to coordination and support from the NRDC and N*Squared, several of us were lucky enough to visit Washington DC during the week of the Nuclear Security Summit for a series of presentations and meetings about what we’ve been up to, what we’ve produced that people might make use of, and who we…

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Chernobyl, 30 years ago

The Chernobyl Disaster happened April 26, 1986 – exactly 30 years ago today and until 2011 when disaster struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, it was the only level 7 nuclear event. Several Safecast volunteers have mapped out the Chernobyl site and surrounding cities which is still one of the most radioactive places on earth.…

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Quick Bits: Feb 20

A few exciting bits this week at Safecast. Over on National Geographic, Ari Beser published “How Citizen Science Changed the Way Fukushima Radiation is Reported” detailing Safecast’s efforts and impact. This is a fantastic endorsement of the efforts and commitment of Safecast volunteers worldwide. We’ve also gotten news that Congressman Jason Hsu showed off his…

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Safecast Conference 2015 Video

http://vimeo.com/133349609 The team at Make It Creative who helped us organize the Safecast Conference 2015 put together this short (3 minute) video about the event and the project overall. We think it’s a wonderful video and hope you’ll enjoy it as well.http://vimeo.com/133349609 The team at Make It Creative who helped us organize the Safecast Conference…

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Anniversary & Conference : March 22 – 25

Watch Live! Download the Safecast Report Executive Summary here (Currently English only) The Future of Citizen Science & the First Safecast Report A Free Symposium & Hackathon in Tokyo, and ‘Super Presentation’ in Koriyama We’re excited to announce the 4th Anniversary of Safecast and the 1st Safecast Conference. This multiday event will begin on March…

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Fukushima: The Next Three Years Symposium

Above: Everything looked great on the huge screen, including Joi Ito Skyping in from MIT to say hello. The “FUKUSHIMA: THE NEXT THREE YEARS” symposium SAFECAST organized in commemoration of the third anniversary of the start of the Fukushima disaster was held at the Komaba Research Campus of Tokyo University on March 15, 2014. We’re…

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Safecast 3 Year Anniversary Event: Schedule

On March 15th and 16th we’ll be holding events to commemorate three years since the Tohoku Earthquake and resulting Tsunami and meltdowns at Fukushima Daichi which led to the founding of Safecast. The 2-day program will consist of  both talks and hands-on events. On Saturday, we’ll host a discussion at Tokyo University called “The Next…

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Vice Japan Covers Recent bGeigie Build Event

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vZUg1HEKI4 Recently, we held a build your own bGeigie Nano workshop at our offices in Shibuya, Tokyo. We’d been talking to the great folks at Vice Japan for a while and they decided they wanted to join the workshop and build a geiger counter for themselves. We were fortunate that schedules worked out and Yuka…

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