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Laura E.P. Rocchio

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geographer, science writer, designer; always curious co-author: Landsat's Enduring Legacy: Pioneering Global Land Observation from Space

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Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It. The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals…

Cutbacks have gutted the staff at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, who work to protect the public from toxic algal blooms.

Severe spending limits have made it difficult to purchase ordinary equipment for processing samples, such as filters and containers.

12.05.2025 01:30 👍 1189 🔁 570 💬 34 📌 32
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Hybrid mapping method key to EUDR cocoa compliance, study finds A coalition of organizations has assessed how locally produced maps stack up against global open-access data sets to evaluate deforestation in the context of cocoa production. The assessment will be…

A coalition of organizations has assessed how locally produced maps stack up against global open-access data sets to evaluate deforestation in the context of cocoa production. The assessment will be useful for cocoa producers as they work toward compliance with the EUDR.

08.05.2025 03:40 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Walking up to the second level of The Last Bookstore in April 2025.

Walking up to the second level of The Last Bookstore in April 2025.

The Last Bookstore in DTLA.

Used books, book installation art, and stairs?
Yes, please!

26.04.2025 22:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Mirela. I would be delighted to work together again sometime!

26.04.2025 01:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Uncharted Exhibit in Sioux Falls | Landsat Science Uncharted, a cartographic art installation, was on display for the 2017 Pecora 20 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

"Landsat sits at the confluence of many, incredibly interesting issues... [it shows] in a comprehensive way how all natural processes are related, and how they are affected by human transformation."
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/unch...

25.04.2025 06:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Artist and writer James Bridle. Photo credit: Steve Forest

Artist and writer James Bridle. Photo credit: Steve Forest

How did the idea for James Bridle's Laaaaaaandsat (which was featured in MoMA's 2016 "Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today" exhibit) come about?

landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/jame...

25.04.2025 06:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Artist Tom Van Sant used a series of 2′ x 2′ mirrors spread across the Mojave Desert to create a 1.5-mile-wide eye on a Landsat 3 image acquired on June 11, 1980.

Artist Tom Van Sant used a series of 2′ x 2′ mirrors spread across the Mojave Desert to create a 1.5-mile-wide eye on a Landsat 3 image acquired on June 11, 1980.

#DYK? In 1980, artist Tom Van Sant created the world’s largest manmade image with the help of Landsat 3... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-bi...

25.04.2025 06:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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National Park Service Cartographer Tom Patterson Talks Landsat | Landsat Science National Park Service cartographer Tom Patterson's mapmaking process often incorporates information from Landsat. | Tom Patterson | NPS | NPS

Maps are a foremost infographics... often with intertwined artistry: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/nati...

25.04.2025 06:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Artist Grayson Cooke Explores the Forces that Shape Earth with Landsat | Landsat Science By Laura E.P. Rocchio Grayson Cooke Artist “Open Air” is a media project of Australia-based artist Grayson Cooke that features Landsat 8 imagery as it explores how time and elemental forces work toget...

During my time as a #Landsat science writer, some of my favorite stories were Q&As with artists. Here are some highlights: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/arti...

25.04.2025 06:53 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Have you found your name in #Landsat? 🤔🛰️ Check out a new Q&A to learn how the Landsat outreach team sourced the letters, developed the interactive, and now utilize the tool to highlight the mission’s important contributions to society.
go.nasa.gov/3CTYFXL
#GISchat

03.12.2024 18:25 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Virginia Norwood, key Landsat pioneer, recognized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame this year: go.nasa.gov/4gbjX0Z

24.01.2025 13:50 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A hand-drawn integrating sphere with a green circle in the middle and a photograph of calibration scientist Brian Markham.

A hand-drawn integrating sphere with a green circle in the middle and a photograph of calibration scientist Brian Markham.

Brian, as always, was a good-sport and let me use this whimsical graphic in the story. My daughter drew the integrating sphere for me, I added a flat shade of green for the sphere's inside and a headshot of Brian.

25.04.2025 05:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Data as Good as it Gets: A Discussion with Brian Markham | Landsat Science Why do we calibrate Landsat data? We spoke with Brian Markham, a key figure of Landsat calibration science for four decades. He said that it all comes down to this: "If we're using a system to quantif...

After 25 years of sharing #Landsat stories as a NASA contractor, I am now a freelance writer. My second-to-last story for the Landsat was a Q&A with longtime calibration scientist, Brian Markham—one of the first people I met at GSFC & an all-around good human: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/data...

25.04.2025 05:45 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 1