Eddy Covariance Flux tower deployment was completed August 2nd, capturing a wealth of ecoinformatics data for researchers. This is the 3rd of a 9 tower network scheduled for full deployment by this fall.
For three days in late July 2013 Kevin Koy, Executive Director of the GIF and I spent time at Google with 50+ other academics and staff to learn about Google Earth's mapping and outreach tools that leverage cloud computing.
