Congratulations to Nathan Crock and Olmo Zavala-Romero on receiving an honorable mention for best use of data at the global round of NASA's 2013 International Space Apps Challenge!

The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48 hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of additional government collaborators and 100+ local partner organizations.

Nathan and Olmo, along with Sam Rustan, a researcher at FSU's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, addressed the "EarthTiles" challenge to "take global imagery data from Landsat, EOS, Terra, and other missions and turn them in to imagery tiles that can be used in an open source street map." Their solution is called OpenTiles and involves taking various data from satellites and translating to the geoTiff format and then making that data available via the geoServer.

Congratulations to Melissa Griffin, assistant state climatologist, for her 10 years of service at COAPS! Melissa will be recognized at an FSU employee awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 30, at 3:30pm at the Turnbull Conference Center.

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