UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

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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23 Dec

Company Spotlight: CUBIC

By Ruqaiyah Zarook The American Geographical Society recently spoke with Mr. Bradford Powell, Vice President and General Manager of Cubic, a leading technology-driven company providing integrated solutions for transportation and defense to reduce urban congestion and improve militaries’ effectiveness....
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23 Dec

Map of the Week: The Geography of Christmas

By: Abigail Vandenberg Merry Christmas to our AGS readers! The Christmas holiday is filled with traditions and folk stories from diverse geographic backgrounds. Many of the familiar Christmas traditions celebrated today were borrowed and adapted from other cultures. The captions...
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17 Dec

Map of the Week: Average Colors of the USA

By Jessie Woldstad In this map created by Erin Davis, the average colors of the U.S. by county are revealed, showing drastic changes in land cover as seasons pass. Most notably, we see the ways in which some landscapes remain...
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