GeographyAwareness

• November 20, 2013Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography, WebMapping

  GIS Day in the News

  Updated: Today is GIS Day and it is making headlines in major newspapers around the globe. While some mainstream media sources are celebrating GIS Day by name, others are participating […]

• November 8, 2013GeographyAwareness

  This 5 Year Old Knows More About Geography Than You

  Ok, maybe not.  But probably more than you did when you were 5 years old 🙂

• October 30, 2013Environmental, Human Geography, WebMapping

  Geospatial Analysis of “America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”

  The Wall Street Journal has an interesting in-depth report on Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy and an interactive map of the status of cleanup by state. While they call […]

• July 2, 2013AVSRT, Cartography, Environmental, ESRIUC, WebMapping

  A VerySpatial Road Trip: Missouri Botanical Garden

  Day 2 we hit some fantastic spots around St. Louis.  Hit the link below to find out more!

• June 20, 2013Environmental, Human Geography, Remote Sensing, WebMapping

  Cat Tracks

  The BBC News Science & Environment section has an article on “The Secret Life of the cat: What do our feline companions get up to?” with an interactive map of […]

• May 31, 2013Education, Events, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Social Networking

  ESRI and National Day of Civic Hacking

  I must issue a mea culpa because when I first looked at the sponsors and participants in the National Day of Civic Hacking June 1 – 2, 2013  I saw no […]

• May 23, 2013Data, Education, GeographyAwareness

  Upcoming Hack for Change: National Day of Civic Hacking

  Intel Labs is sponsoring a national civic hacking event June 1 -2, 2013 in order to solve community challenges using publicly-released data. They are calling it the National Day of […]

• January 26, 2013Education, 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 […]

• January 3, 2013GeographyAwareness, 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 […]

• November 28, 2012Environmental, general, WebMapping

  Interactive Greenbelt Map

  The Telegraph UK has an article on England’s Green Belt which provides an interactive Google map for residents to determine if they are in an area classified as green belt […]