The art-and-science blog highlights the work of CISA3 director and IGERT-TEECH co-PI Maurizio Seracini.

The high-performance computing news service reports on UCSD's three-year, multi-university grant from the National Science Foundation IGERT program to encourage and enhance digital communication and collaboration between the US and international science and engineering research and education communities.

Jenny Williams reports in the Wired GeekDad blog about the large crowdsourcing project led by UCSD research scientist and IGERT-TEECH researcher Albert Lin to undertake a 'huge archaeological survey of parts of Mongolia, looking for the tomb of Genghis Khan and other Mongolian cultural heritage sites.'

National Geographic launches the official website of the field expedition to Mongolia led by CISA3's Albert Lin. The site offers crowdsourcing tools to promote citizen science to guide the movements of the ground expedition.

According to the blog, 'Our friends over at the National Geographic are crowdsourcing a project to identify archaeological treasures in Mongolia using satellite imagery (via the GeoEye Foundation) and other modern tools.' The goal of Valley of the Khans Project is to identify archaeological sites, but the fun part is that you get to participate in a real-time treasure hunt. The project is led by Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, a dashing real-life Indiana Jones who’s looking for the lost tomb of Genghis Khan.'

Maurizio Seracini has been a National Geographic Fellow since 2008. He is a co-PI on the NSF IGERT-TEECH grant, and director of CISA3 at UCSD.

Materials scientist Albert Yu-MinLin, Marshall '04, M.S. '06, Ph.D. '08, has just been named the world's top adventurer by readers of National Geographic Adventure magazine for his expeditions in search of Genghis Khan's tomb. A profile of CISA3’s Lin was the cover story of the May 2010 issue of atUCSD magazine.

CISA3 research scientist Albert Lin was voted Adventurer of the Year in a tie with a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, in the magazine's first-ever Readers' Choice award.

CISA3 research scientist Albert Lin was voted Adventurer of the Year in a tie with a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, in the magazine's first-ever Readers' Choice award.

The Italian newspaper reports on the partnership of National Geographic and the City of Florence, under which NGS agreed to fund various projects to highlight aspects of Florence's cultural heritage to readers and TV watchers around the world. (In Italian)

On the Region of Tuscany website, a news release carried over the ANSA news service announces a partnership agreement between the City of Florence and the National Geographic Society. CISA3 director and National Geographic Fellow Maurizio Seracini was at the announcement. (In Italian)

Writer Dominique Dunglas goes 'in search of the lost masterpiece', and talks with the researcher who is leading the international effort: Maurizio Seracini, a UCSD researcher and director of CISA3. The article reports that the new mayor of Florence announced the resumption of the search for the Leonardo da Vinci mural in October. (In French)

Newspaper reporter Steve Litt notes that, 'Superman used his X-ray vision to scope out bad guys hiding behind walls. Maurizio Seracini of the University of California-San Diego wants to do something similar in his quest to rediscover long-lost unfinished masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci.'

Picking up a story from the New York Times, the San Diego newspaper wonders whether UCSD researcher Maurizio Seracini will find a long-lost Leonardo da Vinci mural inside of a wall in Florence.

Nick Squires reports from Rome on the efforts of a team led by CISA3 director Maurizio Seracini to find a Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece hidden in a secret cavity behind a palace wall in Florence.