UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

25 Jun

Welcome, Summer 2021 AGS Scholar-Interns!

Throughout the year, the American Geographical Society maintains a staff of Scholar-Interns to keep things humming and to help advance our mission to aid geographical understanding. Our interns help report on the news of the day for DailyGeo, produce new...
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24 Jun

Map of the Week: Acrylic International Air Routes

By Samantha Hinton Out of the calm of her Connecticut countryside residence, graphic artist Paula Scher is anything but peaceful and quiet when painting her lively maps. While playing old movies in the background and saying the lines along with...
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22 Jun

AGS in the Field: Dr. Jordan at WKAR

AGS Councilor Dr. Dee Jordan’s work as a health geographer was featured in series called “Curious about Careers” from WKAR – Public Media at Michigan State University. Dr. Jordan highlighted her research on health and disease risk in sub-Saharan Africa...
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18 Jun

AGS in the Field: AGS Teacher Initatives Highlight During AP Human Geography Exam Reading

AGS CEO Dr. John Konarski along with Manager of Sponsored Projects, Ms. Courtney Clark, joined the AP Human Geography Exam Reading this month to offer a preview of our APHG Teacher Initiative for the 2021-2022 school year. We were joined...
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17 Jun

Map of the Week: Beer vs. Wine Spending

By: Kallie O’Donnell This image was created by cartographer John Nelson as a part of a StoryMap in which he examines the spending habits on wine versus beer per county in the US. On this map, more vibrant colors represent...
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10 Jun

Map of the Week: Peacewalls in Belfast

By Nina Edward This map, from the Peacewall Archive, shows where peace walls in Belfast are still up in 2017. The Troubles was a period of violent conflict from 1969-1998 in Belfast between paramilitary groups and the British military over...
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9 Jun

AGS in the Field: UCGIS Symposium 2021

AGS President Dr. Marie Price, and Manager of Sponsored Projects and Initiatives Ms. Katherine Cann participated in the recent UCGIS Symposium 2021: Advancing GIScience-informed Policy Solutions. AGS’s work at the intersection of ethics and geography, including its EthicalGEO Initiative, was...
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4 Jun

Map of the Week: PEATMAP

By Samantha Hinton PEATMAP is an improved global peatland map by Xu et al, 2018. With peatlands’ significant role as carbon sinks within the global carbon cycle, continuing to study and map their extent and distribution will be crucial for...
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28 May

Company Spotlight: TeachOSM

When OpenStreetMap was created in 2004, the world of open geospatial data was a new frontier for the discipline of geography. Now it serves as a ubiquitous and powerful framework used all over the world to respond to humanitarian disasters,...
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27 May

Map of the Week: Global Military Spending

by James Mallinson Visual Capitalist has shared this image by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute giving a visual illustration on relative expenditures by the world’s biggest military spenders. As Visual Capitalist notes, the world’s relatively declining global and international...
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