Last month we were excited to announce that the World Karate Organization was jumping into the pool of Safecast volunteers and would be mapping out some new territory for us and helping us test our a new version of our bGeigie, that for this specific purpose we’re calling it the “Black Belt bGeigie”. We’re excited…
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We need a volunteer to help with our volunteers
Safecast is powered by volunteer efforts, and we’re always open for more help. We’ve got a big task ahead of us and it’s going to take a lot of helping hands to make happen. Luckily a lot of people want to help, so many in fact that we can’t keep up with them – a…
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Measuring Radiation in Snow
On January 22-23 it snowed heavily in Tokyo. To see if it affects radiation measurements I ran out with a few geiger counters to see if I could detect any change. Snow in Tokyo To measure the fresh snow I used 3 geiger counters and absorption filters: Inspector Alert with 2″ pancake for measurement in…
New Safecast Global Map
For the last few months our visualization team at MIT in Cambridge lead by Anthony DeVincenzi have been working hard on some new visualizations of our data, the first of those is live now. This has a number of improvements from our earlier maps in that you can link directly to any specific location and…
Safecasting San Onofre nuclear power plant
Earlier this week there was news that The San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, just south of Los Angeles, was shut down due to a leak. This obviously caught our attention and luckily Safecaster Mike Outmesguine was nearby with a bGeigie and immediately drove over to measure the situation. As you can see from his readings…
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World Karate Organization to do All Japan bGeigie Relay
On December 2nd, we handed one bGeigie to the Kenji Midori, the President of the World Karate Organization (WKO), or in Japanese “Shinkyokushinkai”. The WKO is well known in Japan and world wide for organizing the Karate World Championships. Actually the 10th World Cup was just held here in Tokyo. from left to right: Sakurako…
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Fukushima New Year Cesium Spike
The Japanese New Year started with an M7.0 earthquake centered at an island 600km south of Tokyo, but the quake was still strong enough to shake a very widespread area of northern Japan including Fukushima to a Level 4 of the Japanese local intensity scale of 7 levels. Come January 2, Fukushima Prefecture’s official radiation…
Safecast T-Shirts!
Not in time for the holidays! We’ve had a few shirts made one at a time here and there and keep getting requests for them so we decided it was time to finally have some available for everyone else. Since this is our first merchandise offering we’re keeping it simple with a 2 color logo…
Open Research Forum – Scanning the Earth
On November 23rd, the Keio University Open Research Forum 2011 was held. The highlight was the talk by Prof Jun Murai (Keio SFC and Safecast Advisor) and Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab and Safecast Advisor). The talk featured Safecast and the ScanningTheEarth project, but also covered topics such as the direction of the Internet, impact…
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Berliner Gazette: Learning From Fukushima Report
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be invited by The Berliner Gazette to participate in a symposium called “Learning from Fukushima” that they were producing in Berlin. Krystian Woznicki and his team organized a fantastic collection of speakers and many thought provoking discussions were had. In follow up they have produced a report…
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