Archive for December 13th, 2005




ColorBrewer Intro – Selecting Good Color Schemes for Maps

Dec 13th, 2005 | By

One of our listeners, Jody, emailed us a link to ColorBrewer, an online tool to help people select color schemes for maps. It uses a flash-based map to demonstrate how changing colors affects the look of a map and how that impacts the information being represented. It’s a nice tool to give a user an [...]

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BBC NEWS | Ancient clues to ocean currents

Dec 13th, 2005 | By

BBC has an interesting article on the use of sedimentology to study ancient ocean currents by the Woods Hope Oceanographic Institute. It is amazing how many articles are coming out of the American Geophysical Union meetings from this fall. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Ancient clues to ocean currents

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