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NEES/QCN Open House for Future Teachers
NEES@UCSB personnel hosted an open house for future science teachers in the Givertz Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara in April 2013. Sandra Seale and Francesco Civilini, NEES project specialists, gave a training session in “Make Your Own Earthquake” using the QCN sensor. …
Read More →QCN Featured in TEDx Talk
Project collaborator Debi Kilb gave a TEDx talk on ‘Using Videogames to Cultivate Future Scientists’ which includes a videogame created around the QCN project. Check out the video of her talk here. Associate Project Scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, studies …
Read More →New QCN Software Released (v.7.29), Windows 8 Compatibility
There are new versions of QCN/BOINC and QCNLive for all platforms, due to upgrades in the BOINC libraries as well as the development tools on Mac (Xcode4) and Windows (VS2010). There is no longer support for the MotionNode accelerometer, nor for the Mac PowerPC (PPC) …
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Using the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk on QCN
Here is something of interest to electronics hobbyists: QCN Participant Jonathan Thomson has hacked together a way to use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk controller as a QCN accelerometer. His work is documented at his blog
Read More →New Zealand Sensor (Re)distribution
GeoNet in New Zealand are looking to redistribute some QCN sensors in the area, if you are interested please see the GeoNet/QCN Press Release.
Read More →New QCN Paper on New Zealand aftershock sensor deployment
A new paper on QCN’s work in New Zealand is available from the Annals of Geophysics: Comparison between low-cost and traditional MEMS accelerometers: a case study from the M7.1 Darfield, New Zealand, aftershock deployment
Read More →President Obama Honors Quake-Catcher Network Inventor Elizabeth Cochran
QCN is proud to announce that Prof. Cochran has received a ‘Presidential Early Career Award’ from President Obama. Read more at the USGS website.
Read More →CNN News Story On QCN and Our ‘Rapid Aftershock Mobilization Program’
CNN has released a news story about QCN and some of our rapid response efforts in Chile and New Zealand. ]]>
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