Charting the earth's health From: The Boston Globe | Date: December 30, 2007| Author: Susan Chaityn Lebovits | Copyright 2007 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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From the Charles River to the Amazon, Ron Eastman has been able to connect environmental researchers with unique data.

The 57-year-old Waltham resident is the author of IDRISI, one of the world's most widely distributed software packages for studying and tracking the earth's natural resources.

Whether it's predicting where a wildfire is likely to occur in California, or projecting the effects that rising sea levels will have on coastal rice-producing ...

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