GeographyAwareness

• May 3, 2011GeographyAwareness

  Geospatial Revolution Episode 4

• April 29, 2011GeographyAwareness

  iTunes highlights learning Geography

  In my regular trip to the iTunes App Store today I saw an exciting feature labeled Apps for Learning Geography. The sections featured include Maps, World Facts, People & Cultures, […]

• April 18, 2011Environmental

  Understanding Risk and Resilience to Natural Hazards

  In this week’s podcast we talked to USGS Geographer Dr Nathan Wood. Located at the USGS Western Geographic Science Center, Nate discussed an array of research locations in the interview […]

• March 10, 2011Environmental, Physical Geography

  Your Spatial Backpack

  When I was reading this month’s issue of Backpacker magazine, I started to fold down pages that contained geospatial apps and other features. After I had folded down most of […]

• February 23, 2011Environmental, Remote Sensing

  New Jersey’s lost acres

  It’s amazing how often life immitates blog. For a class on qualitative GIS, I put together a Google Earth narrative history of growing up in north west New Jersey. I […]

• January 30, 2011Contest, Environmental

  The MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize

  If you are a student team or professional start-up anywhere in the world, The MIT Clean Energy Entrepreneurship Prize $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is now open. According to their website, “MIT […]

• January 7, 2011Census 2010, general, GeographyAwareness

  US Census 2010 data and redistricting

  In about a month, the US Census Bureau will be releasing the 2010 Census data to states so that they can begin the process of redistricting for the House of […]

• January 4, 2011Environmental, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography

  Australian Flood Maps

  Like many recent weather-related disasters, the media and on-line websites have started to increasingly use interactive maps to explain disasters such as Guardian UK and other news outlets coverage of […]

• December 30, 2010Environmental, WebMapping

  Sustainable Seafood App

  There are many restaurant apps around that rely on users to input location on their locale or sites they visit to create a national or international database. The most recent […]

• December 19, 2010Data, Education, Environmental, Physical Geography

  National Renewable Energy Laboratory

  In 2008, Sue posted about the U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Atlas that was in development. I ran across the completed NREL FTP site with geospatial toolkits […]