By: Samantha Hinton Strabo of Amasia was an early Greek geographer from Pontus and lived from roughly 65 B.C. to 25 A.D. In his key writing, The Geography, Strabo reviewed the ancient world. He completed this work around 7 B.C....
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By Samantha Hinton The Surging Seas Risk Zone Map is an online, interactive database that visually displays the interaction of Earth’s water and coasts by showcasing how projected sea level rise could affect certain areas. Created by Climate Central and...
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By: Kallie O’Donnell The Lines That Shape Our Cities StoryMap (created in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, The Science Museum of Virginia, and Esri) connects present-day environmental inequalities to their 1930s policy roots. The...
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By Samantha Hinton Susan Schulten, historian of 19th-century American cartography at the University of Denver, studies the maps of schoolgirls, or what she calls a “hidden part of American education.” Schulten explores the history of schoolgirl mapmakers in connection to...
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By Nina Edward Geography is at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. From where the virus originated, to where it has spread, geography has been a mainstay factor contributing to the pandemic. A year and a half on, geographers are...
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By Samantha Hinton With the polluted skies, deadly heat waves, destructive flooding, sweeping forest fires, and more, the state of planet Earth is dragging at geographers and mapmakers’ minds lately. The Human Reach, created by Esri’s StoryMaps team, investigates and...
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By: Nicole Oveisi Al Jazeera compiled a series of maps to showcase the evolution of major protests within the last ten years. The Mass Mobilization Project has tracked protest data spanning the past ten years, recording almost 7,000 protests across...
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By Nina Edward According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), refugees are “people who have fled war, violence, conflict, or persecution and have crossed an international border to find safety in another country.” Forcibly displaced people are internally...
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