Urban Ecology Science at Boston College http://www.urbanecologyscience.org Motivating Science Learning through exploring Social and Environmental Justice Issues Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:10:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.urbanecologyscience.org http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/ Urban Ecology Science at Boston College NAIP imagery link http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=465 http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=465#comments Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:06:08 +0000 mikeb http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=465 If you are looking for imagery for “LEAF ON”, that is, imagery that is taken while there are leaves on trees just go to this website: http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/ Click on the get data link to get to the imagery that you want to download.  Please note that site works better with Internet Explorer. Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById('facebook_share_link_465') [...]]]>

If you are looking for imagery for “LEAF ON”, that is, imagery that is taken while there are leaves on trees just go to this website:

http://datagateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

Click on the get data link to get to the imagery that you want to download.  Please note that site works better with Internet Explorer.

Share on Facebook ]]> http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?feed=rss2&p=465 19 Track your impact http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=460 http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=460#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:36:47 +0000 mikeb http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=460 PEIR is an online service that interacts with your mobile phone to provide you with an environmental “scorecard” that tracks some of your effects on the environment and some of what you are exposed to as you go about your day. http://peir.cens.ucla.edu/index.php/about/ This is a really cool and interesting use of mobile technologies coupled [...]]]>

PEIR is an online service that interacts with your mobile phone to provide you with an environmental “scorecard” that tracks some of your effects on the environment and some of what you are exposed to as you go about your day.

http://peir.cens.ucla.edu/index.php/about/

This is a really cool and interesting use of mobile technologies coupled with GPS

Share on Facebook ]]> http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?feed=rss2&p=460 34 Project highlighted by ESRI http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=457 http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=457#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:08:12 +0000 mikeb http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?p=457 Our urban tree project which was recently published in the Science Teacher was posted on the ESRI education blog community page.   The link is very long so we did a tiny url below for the direct link to the post. http://tinyurl.com/ykaz262 Share on Facebook var button = document.getElementById('facebook_share_link_457') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_icon_457') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_both_457') || document.getElementById('facebook_share_button_457'); if (button) { button.onclick = function(e) [...]]]>

Our urban tree project which was recently published in the Science Teacher was posted on the ESRI education blog community page.   The link is very long so we did a tiny url below for the direct link to the post.

http://tinyurl.com/ykaz262

Share on Facebook ]]> http://www.urbanecologyscience.org/?feed=rss2&p=457
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