As a big fan of locative media the recent release of an Flickr / Yahoo Map integration caught my eye. The marriage is experienced through the eyes of Flickr where the Organize Panel now sports a Map tab for drag and drop geo-tagging. Under Flickr’s Explore menu you will find a map browsing option that [...]

Wayne and I had spent a pleasant Saturday session with the Northern California Science Writers Association (NCSWA). We gathered at Heron’s Head and poked around the micro-organism sampling sites that Wayne has been tracking for the last year.

Wayne sampling from the Big Pond Site
As Wayne and a squad of juvenile helpers filled small vials with [...]

Salt pond observations in Heron’s Head, made July 15 and August 22, 2006, show some startling
changes.

Among the sequence of aerial photographs in the Drawbridge Report by Cris is a very large brilliantly-green pond. While Cris was getting his kite aloft…

Armed with newly-acquired Special Use Permits, Wayne Lanier and I made our first trip out to Drawbridge on Thursday. What a treat.

Drawbridge shown on a snippet from the USGS map.
Drawbridge is an abandoned settlement in the South Bay wetlands on Terminal Island, a strip of land separating Mud Slough on the north from Coyote Creek [...]

The kind folks at the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge have decided to display the Hidden Ecologies exhibit developed originally for ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA2006). The exhibit will be open to the public through mid-October in [...]