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March 4, 2015
Understanding risk with ‘environmental computing’

With the world facing unprecedented environmental challenges, it’s time to establish the field of ‘environmental computing’, argues Matti Heikkurinen, a senior advisor at Germany's Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. 

January 22, 2014
Reducing earthquake impact with big data and global collaboration

iSGTW recently interviewed Paul Henshaw and Damiano Monelli of the Global Earthquake Model foundation (GEM). GEM seeks to shake up the way in which seismic hazard and risk are calculated across the globe, thus saving lives and reducing the financial cost of earthquakes.

August 15, 2012
Record-breaking US drought set to become the norm

Climate simulations carried out using the XSEDE grid-computing infrastructure predict that the US is likely to be affected by the levels of extreme drought it is currently experiencing in 20 years out of every 50 by the end of this century.