GeographyAwareness

• November 30, 2020GeographyAwareness

  Crash Course Geography is here

  If you follow Crash Course, you probably saw the preview/trailer of their new Geography focused show/series recently. Today the first full episode dropped and it does a great job of […]

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  November 12, 2015GeographyAwareness, Podcast, Show Notes

  Spatial Conversations – Geography Awareness Week

  Spatial Conversations Shownotes – Episode 05 12 November 2015 This week we sit down to highlight some of the ways we like to celebrate the Geography season (aka Geography Awareness […]

• April 12, 2015Environmental

  GIS and California: The Alarming Revelation

  Another guest post by this semester’s journalism intern. Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, are computer systems that allow individuals to map, model, and analyze large amounts of data through a […]

• November 19, 2014Cartography, Education, ESRIUC, general, GeographyAwareness, Navigation, Remote Sensing, VirtualEnvironments, WebMapping

  GIS DAY 15th Anniversary: Take the way back machine

  Take the way back machine to the first GIS Day in Spring of 1999. ESRI ARC News Online announced GIS Day 1999 Slated for November!  According to the press release, ESRI […]

• September 6, 2014Cartography, Environmental, Remote Sensing, Software

  NASA, Big Data, and a Real World Jigsaw Puzzle

  NASA has posted two news items that illustrate the large amounts of data that they are generating. NASA| The Data Downpour is a  video describing how the GPM constellation turns […]

• July 3, 2014Education, GeographyAwareness

  Nat Geo Bee 2014

  In case you missed the televised coverage of the 2014 National Geographic Bee finals, National Geographic has been kind enough to share it on YouTube.

• June 10, 2014Data, Education, Environmental, general, Remote Sensing

  Cornell Lab of Ornithology YardMap beta

  The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has introduced some very exciting backyard citizen science applications that utilize remote sensing data. One of them is The YardMap citizen science project funded by the […]

• May 21, 2014Events, GeographyAwareness

  DVR/TV reminder: NatGeo Bee

  It is that time of the year again, time to sit back and watch some super-smart youngsters rock our collective Geography socks off. Thursday night the finals of the National […]

• April 14, 2014EarthDay, Environmental, Remote Sensing

  Spatial Easter Egg Hunts

  Location-based technologies are helping Easter Egg hunts go high-tech with the assistance of geospatial professionals taking their love of spatial technologies into their communities. The funniest quote from an article […]

• April 5, 2014Data, Environmental, Travel

  Cherry Blossom Season 2014

  One of the heralds of spring in our region is the arrival of the cherry blossoms in Washington D.C.  In the past, it was difficult to time visits just right […]