Greetings!  My name is Glenn Liu, and I grew up in Queens, New York.  I was drawn into geography through the beautifully illustrated maps found on the backside of book covers.  In this respect, I was an “armchair geographer”...
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Hello! My name is Rachel Fritz. I am in my second year at Montclair State University where I am pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Sustainability with a minor in Public Administration. I was born and raised in a small...
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  AGS Councilor Dean Wise is the Vice President of Network Strategy for Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway Company, a Berkshire Hathaway company. Based in the Fort Worth metropolitan area, BNSF Railway is a preeminent freight transportation company in...
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Today, we honor the life of John Glenn, previously recognized by the American Geographical Society as a hero of exploration. In 1962, when he returned from the first earth orbits by an American Astronaut, he was accorded our highest exploration...
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A Bowman Expedition is currently being conducted in Honduras. The AGS Bowman Expedition Program allows researchers to offer practical assistance in mapping, analysis, and GIS functionality for host countries and communities as well as, produce open-source datasets for these areas....
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Keith Masback is the Chief Executive Officer of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), a non-profit educational foundation that aims to advance the education, training, and tradecraft of geospatial intelligence. He points out that the three “legs of a...
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Hello all! My name is Vivian Chen and I am currently in my second year at the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College. My hobbies include swimming, eating, painting, reading, and traveling. Although I grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, I...
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It’s hard to believe that my time at the AGS headquarters has come to an end. I couldn’t be anymore grateful for all the lessons I’ve learned and all the open doors this opportunity has provided me. I will never...
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