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30 Mar

Company Spotlight: Locana

By Catherine McKenna Earlier this month, the American Geographical Society had the opportunity to speak with Jaime Crawford, SVP of Strategic Industries, and Kim Kearns, Professional Services Director of Open Data and Development, of Locana, formerly known as Critigen. This...
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24 Mar

Map of the Week: Ocean Light Pollution

By Mike Wallace From raising blood sugar and heart rates in humans to inhibiting pollinators, the effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on humans and terrestrial life has been subject to scientific investigation since the late 19th century. The...
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18 Mar

Map of the Week: Shipwrecks of the Arctic

By Jessie Woldstad Many maps rely on data that is tied to the land that we live on and rarely do we see indications of human interaction in places that are far less traveled and, quite frankly, inhabitable. When thinking...
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10 Mar

Map of the Week: Socioeconomic Status, Gender, and Cities

By Catherine McKenna Gender and socioeconomic status play a large role in how people navigate the world. In the new paper, “Differences in the spatial landscape of urban mobility: Gender and socioeconomic perspectives,” recently published in the journal PLOS...
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3 Mar

Map of the Week: Female Cartographer Spotlight

By: Abigail Vandenberg As we kick off the beginning of Women’s History Month this March we bring you a map of an untold story of the Canadian Beothuk tribe from female cartographer Shawnadithit. Born in Newfoundland in 1801, Shawnadithit’s childhood...
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1 Mar

AGS Statement on the Invasion of Ukraine

The American Geographical Society wholeheartedly condemns Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as an unprovoked war of choice, and calls upon the Russian Geographical Society (RGS) to remove President Vladimir Putin as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of RGS. By...
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28 Feb

Company Spotlight: GEO261

By Mike Wallace The world is inundated with spatial data today like never before. Devices such as satellites, drones, smartphones and all the Internet of Things (IoT) are constantly monitoring movements and collecting information, and geospatial technology has advanced to...
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25 Feb

Map of the Week: Black Cartographies

By Catherine McKenna Maps, given their limitations requiring inclusion or exclusion of information, can carry inherent bias and further one’s personal agenda by representing the world in unequal ways, for example: redlining or colonizers “discovering” and settling different lands. Counter-mapping...
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24 Feb

Welcome, Spring ’22 Interns

Throughout the year, the American Geographical Society maintains a staff of Scholar-Interns to keep things humming. Our interns help report on the news of the day for DailyGeo, produce new content for our regular Map of the Week and Company...
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18 Feb

Map of the Week: Mapping Environmental Injustice

by Mike Wallace In January of 2021 the Biden administration issued the Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad executive order outlining a new federal environmental justice and climate action agenda. The order arrived alongside the Justice40 initiative, a...
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