Safecast is featured in Episode 4 of an excellent video series called “The Power of Privacy” at The Guardian online: The power of privacy (4/5): Open data: mapping the fallout from Fukushima
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Joe Moross advising participants at an earlier Nano workshop in Taipei, in Oct. 2014. FabCafe Taipei will host its third bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, November 14. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of…
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[:en]Last week VOX posted an article about radiation from air travel which caught some attention and immediately people started asking us for related data. For the past several years we’ve been logging radiation readings during flights so we have a significant amount of measurements relating specifically to this. We haven’t added these “flight” measurements to…
As some will already know the Shuttleworth Foundation has been a gracious supporter of Safecast and helped make our recent 4 year anniversary event possible. As one of their Fellows I’ve been fortunate to get to meet with and work with a brilliant collection of people from around the world working on similar openness-focused, potentially…
Above: 77 new realtime radiation monitors made by JB Japan Brand were installed in Fukushima in March 2015 and taken offline weeks later. This unit, in front of Odaka Station in Minamisoma, has an “under maintenance ” notice posted on it. Back in December of 2012 we posted a two-part article which took a close…
FabCafe Taipei will host its second bGeigie Nano workshop in Taipei on Saturday, May 30. Last years’s workshop, led by Safecaster Joe Moross, was a huge success, and Joe will be there again this time to guide participants through the process of building and learning how to use a bGeigie Nano and upload data to…
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Safecaster Ben Lutch recently uploaded data from Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago far north of the arctic circle, about 1200km from the north pole itself, and home of the Global Seed Vault. Some readers will recall that we received data from Antarctica in Dec., 2013, so these recent uploads mean we now have data on our…
We’re pleased to announce an upcoming bGeigie Nano workshop in Tokyo during Golden Week, so you can build your own bGeigie mobile radiation detector and take it on your Golden Week holiday travels around Japan or the world! The bGeigie Nano is a unique Geiger counter designed by SAFECAST for logging radiation data that can…
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We’re pleased to announce the first release of the SAFECAST REPORT. The report serves two functions. One, it gives an update on the SAFECAST PROJECT itself, what we’ve been up to and have accomplished, and what we expect to be doing over the course of the coming year. Second, it gives a SITUATION REPORT on…
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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