Branner Blog

Satellite imagery has been released showing evidence of population relocations, refugee camps, and burned villages in the country of Myanmar. Private funding has allowed the AAAS Geospatial Technologies and Human Rights project to capture imagery of the country and compare it to older images of the same areas. The imagery is being used to verify field reports of human rights abuses across the country. Discussions of the reports are available from Reuters and MSNBC. The MSNBC article includes the imagery side by side for comparison.

Image downloaded from the Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection.

NEWS:
The Branner fall newsletter is up on our site here. Click over to the newsletter for information about recent library purchases, changes in journal subscriptions and other news.

ORIENTATION:
An orientation session for new ERE students will be held this morning at 11 am in the Branner Teaching Corner.

Welcome back! Several orientation sessions are coming up at the library. These are intended for new students, but returning students who’d like a refresher are welcome as well. Details follow:

Thursday, 9/20 at 3 pm for GES students (Branner Library, 2nd floor Mitchell Building)
Friday, 9/21 at 2:45 pm general introduction for all School of Earth Sciences students (Hartley)
TBD: IPER, Geophysics, and ERE.

Want to hear about upcoming events at the library? Visit our calendar.

Polar Station at Sodankyla, Finland.

In preparation for the new quarter, we have a new display in Branner. The theme is polar, arctic + antarctic, in honor of the third International Polar Year. Visit the library to see the books in person or see the list virtually on Library Thing. We’ll be amassing Polar Year e-sources on del.icio.us under the tag “ipy.”

If you’d like to find books from the last display “General Interest Earth Science reading”, click to List 1 in the blog or the tag list 1 on Library Thing.

Image from NOAA, “First International Polar Year.”