Author: Barb
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Education, Human Geography, Travel
Epidemiology, GIS, and Portwenn
I only recently started to watch reruns of Doc Martin on Hulu. The show is about a gruff London surgeon who relocates to the picture book seaside village of Portwenn, […]
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Education, Environmental, Physical Geography
Great Garden Worm Count
The Guardian article, “The Great Garden Worm Count Finds Our Underground Allies are Thriving” discusses the role of citizen scientists in earth worm research. According to the article, “The discovery […]
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AugmentedReality, Human Geography, WebMapping
Geospatial Grocery Store
The Telegraph recently published an article, “How Supermarkets Prop Up Our Class System” by Harry Wallop introducing his book “Consumed: How Shopping Fed the Class System“. In the article, he discusses […]
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Flu trackers then and now
Influenza or “flu” is on the rise this month and so are the number of interactive maps being used to track it. Interactive maps have become an integrated part of […]
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Pins on a map: Networks and Nostalgia
I was exploring the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Association conference website and didn’t get further into it then the 2013 Best of Innovations Awards when nostalgia hit. The first category: […]
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Education, Human Geography, Physical Geography
AP Human Geography and Environmental Science
The AP (Advanced Placement) College Board has announced that it particularly needs AP Exam readers to score AP Human Geography and Environmental Science exams. Their website states that, “Each June, AP […]
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Cartography, Education, general, Remote Sensing, Software
The ZSL London Zoo
The ZSL London Zoo‘s annual census of every zoo animal as part of their zoo license renewal is an example of how to turn a seemingly routine geospatial task into international […]
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GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Forever Wild
The National Endowment for the Humanities and SUNY Cortland is accepting applications for two one week workshops at the Great Camps of the Adirondacks exploring the Gilded Age of America and it’s […]
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general, Physical Geography, Political Geography
Free Geography Books
I recently got an Ipad Mini and started to look for free books to download from Kindle, Google, Project Gutenberg, and the many other free resources that are available online. Once […]
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New York City Transportation Apps
The New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has been in the news this week for it’s new Subway Time app, but that isn’t the only transportation app that they or […]
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