Posts Tagged ‘UC Berkeley’

Devoted to a Fault, Conclusion: Education, preparation, and the stadium

Read Part I and Part II of Devoted to a Fault. You can download the entire text (without images) as one file here. The following was reported in late 2007 and early 2008.
The 1868 Earthquake Alliance held its April 2008 meeting in an Oakland building undergoing a seismic retrofit. In the lobby, plywood [...]

12th June 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Oh My Lucky Star

This was fun to report. A short article, called “Lucky Star,” is out in the new California magazine about astronomer Maryam Modjaz and her work documenting a supernova. The twist was that, through a bit of good luck, she and her colleagues had telescopes pointed at it the whole time–before it even exploded.
In the image [...]

7th November 2008 | Tags: , , , , , ,
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