GeographyAwareness
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Environmental, General, Physical Geography, Political Geography
The Cost of Carbon
Ars Technica is reporting that some researchers are having issues with the US’s pricing of carbon emissions. The price of carbon emissions is notoriously difficult to pin down, but these […]
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Education, GeographyAwareness, space (not spatial)
Today’s College Freshman and the Geospatial World
Beloit College has released their 2012 list of things that new college freshman have known their whole lives, besides making some of us feel very old, it gives a good overview […]
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URISA looks to build management initiative
Apparently, while at the Esri UC, URISA has announced their new Geospatial Management Initiative (GMI). You may recall that we have heard about the Geospatial Management Competency Model (GMCM) that […]
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GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Navigation
We Give Directions Differently Depending on Where We Live
Europeans and Americans just give directions differently. Who knew? Researchers conducted an experiment to see if people gave directions differently if they thought the person was driving verses looking at […]
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The United Shapes
From the most excellent as always XKCD… and you can even get this one as a poster! Click the image to make it larger so you can see the detail.
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Education, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography, Political Geography, VirtualWorlds
Spatial role-playing and virtual immersion
It is interesting to find that there are many types of spatial immersion projects going on this summer. They provide a good contrast of how creative people can be with […]
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Education, Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography
Climate Models Ignored by Media
Ars Technica is reporting an interesting article for science, I think. Researchers at George Mason University have looked at climate reporting in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The […]
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Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Counting the True Cost of Coal
Obviously being a native West Virginian and living in the state, this is an issue near and dear to my heart. Ars Technica does a wonderful job of summing up […]
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General, GeographyAwareness, Remote Sensing, WebMapping
Panoramic View of Angel Falls, Venezuela
We’ve featured AirPano before on the site, but a set they’ve put up just took my breath away. They have a wonderful 360 degree air panoramic of Angel Falls in Venezuela. You […]
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Environmental, GeographyAwareness
Earth Microbiome Project
An article by Alan Boyle in MSNBC’s Cosmic Log discusses How Scientist’s Map the World’s Microbes. The Earth Microbiome Project is a project to collect and analyze microbial communities from […]
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