UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

4 Feb

Map of the Week: Forecasting bird migration in real-time with BirdCast

By Mike Wallace Bird-watching was a rare bright spot for many people during phases of lockdown and quarantines, and initiated a boom in the hobby that continues today. This newly found fascination with the avian species who live and transit...
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31 Jan

Company Spotlight: Plum Run

By Jessie Woldstad The American Geographical Society recently had the opportunity to meet with Keith J. Masback, Principal Consultant of Plum Run, LLC, a boutique consulting firm specializing in supporting early-stage startups operating in geospatial intelligence and related fields. Since...
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27 Jan

Map of the Week: Bathymetry and History of the Hunga Tonga Caldera

By: Abigail Vandenberg Many of us watched the footage of the massive eruption that occurred on January 15, 2022 in the island nation of Tonga. The submerged caldera known as Hunga Tonga is one of many volcanoes in the Tonga-Kermadec...
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25 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Local Differentiation and Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal Ghana

By: Victor Owusu and Edo Andriesse What is the main purpose of your study? To investigate how climate change is affecting the men and women who are engaged in small-scale coastal fishing and its related activities. What are the practical,...
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19 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: The Brazilian Scene: David Lowenthal, John Dos Passos, & The Importance Of “Scene” And Brazil To Geographic Inquiry

By: Samuel T. Brandt What is the main purpose of your study? The idea of “scene” helps understand how places vary. Brazil is a fertile ground for constructing a theory of scene. Three central features of the Brazilian scene are...
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18 Jan

Map of the Week: Tree Species vs Tree Presence

By Jessie Woldstad In breathtaking detail, a map by William Rankin depicts the number of tree species throughout North America. From first glance, there is a prominent difference between the east and the west. For instance, on the western...
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13 Jan

Map of the Week: Bear Ranges in North America

By: Abigail Vandenberg This map of North America shows the overlapping ranges of three species of bears that inhabit North America. There are only eight species of bears living in the world, most of which reside in the Northern Hemisphere....
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11 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Geopandering

By: Stanley D. Brunn and Thomas L. Bell What is the main purpose of your study? We introduce the term geopandering (a portmanteau of geography and pandering) to describe what we feel is a disturbing trend in the issuance of...
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6 Jan

Map of the Week: Draining the World’s Oceans to Visualize Earth’s Surface

By Samantha Hinton Three-fifths of the Earth’s surface is located beneath the ocean, hiding a detailed and intriguing topographical surface, which for a long time was believed to be less understood than the Moon. The map animation was created by...
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28 Dec

Map of the Week: Kiss of the Oceans

By Samantha Hinton This 1931 postcard titled ‘Kiss of the Oceans’ was created to celebrate the powerful creation of the Panama Canal. The original image of the meeting of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans as two women looking at each...
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