Tag: Geography

  • Arts & Culture

    Century of scientific breakthroughs

    A lecture marks the path to a Harvard exhibit of 16th century art and science, still in the making.

    5–8 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Online portal, created by Harvard center, improved on-the-ground earthquake response

    Count Harvard computer experts among those who responded swiftly to the deadly earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, throwing their expertise behind an effort to improve information flow for responders on the ground through a Web portal designed as a central data site. The Haiti Earthquake Data Portal was designed in the days following the Jan.…

    3–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    How the West was written

    Western poet Katie Peterson, a Radcliffe Fellow, shares her sense of desert life on a vast canvas with startling intimacy.

    3–4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Lessons from a Long War’

    Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran of five ambassadorships in the Middle East, shares lessons from “every major setback.”

    5–7 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Bhat and Holland named Fisher Prize winners

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science (GIS) has announced that Harvard College senior Shubha Lakshmi Bhat and Alisha Holland, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government, are the 2008-09 recipients of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Thinking globally and mapping locally

    Akiyuki Kawasaki thinks globally and maps locally. To do that, the Japanese researcher, who is spending the academic year as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has developed software that allows researchers to predict how changes in population, land use, climate, urbanization, agriculture and other variables will affect water flow…

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Winners of Howard T. Fisher Prize announced

    The Committee of the Howard T. Fisher Prize in Geographical Information Science has named four students winners of the award for the 2007-08 academic year.

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Creating a computer currency

    Computer scientists are using the latest version of peer-to-peer video sharing software to explore a next-generation electronic commerce model that uses bandwidth as a global currency.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Geography center launched

    Those of us who remember grammar-school geography lessons as a tedious affair involving a pink and green window shade map and a chalky wooden pointer would probably never guess that, in fact, it is estimated that 80 percent of all data contains a spatial component. That point was made clearly and colorfully at the launch…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    When oil became black gold

    Texas, Alaska, Russia, the Middle East – these are the regions one is likely to think of when asked to name the world’s top oil- producing areas. Galicia, an area of Eastern Europe now divided between Poland and Ukraine, would probably not make it onto anyone’s list. And yet, 100 years ago, Galicia ranked as…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Geographical information systems conference showcases the future

    Begun as a mapping software decades ago, geographical information systems, known as GIS, today functions to manage different time- and place-dependent data and allows different variables to be projected together, making for decision support systems and for vivid, sometimes revealing comparisons. Brightly colored maps can show everything from traffic patterns to global warming to animal…

    1–2 minutes