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NASA has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services that the agency hopes will spark wider collaboration on climate research. In an effort that is in some ways parallel to Google's Earth Engine, NASA has uploaded terabytes of data to Amazon's public cloud and made it available to the anyone.

For class discussion: here is one look at the difference between Google Maps and Open Street Map. From http://www.theguardian.

UC Berkeley is establishing a new institute to enable university researchers to harness the full potential of the data-rich world that today characterizes all fields of science and discovery.

urgent needs from the Philippines, from tweets and images YolandaPH is a ESRI-based mapping platform for post-disaster response in the Philippines. Snapshot above.

From suddenoakdeath.org. The United Kingdom (UK) Forestry Commission has updated its P. ramorum larch outbreak map (http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-86ajqa) to include Northern Ireland.