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15 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Nuclear to Nature Land Conversion

By: Daisaku Yamamoto, Julia Feikens, Melissa Haller What is the main purpose of your study? Our study’s purpose is to better understand the origin of nuclear-to-nature land conversion as it applies to former nuclear power plant properties, and to identify...
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14 Dec

Company Spotlight: Cesium

By Conor White Cesium is the foundational open platform for software applications designed to unleash the power of 3D location data. Location data collected by satellites, aircrafts and drones in today’s world is 3D in nature and Cesium unlocks the...
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10 Dec

Map of the Week: Evergreens

By Nicole Oveisi Reuters recently put together interactive graphics explaining the evergreen economy. Last year, over 26 million evergreen trees were sold in the United States for the holiday season, making evergreen production a $2 billion industry. According to the...
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8 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Cities and Migration – Bibliometric Evidence from a Spatially Biased Field of Knowledge Production

By: Antonie Schmiz* (corresponding), Carsten Felgentreff, Martin Franz, Marcel Paul, Andreas Pott, Charlotte Räuchle, Sebastian Schrader What is the main purpose of your study? The main purpose of the study is to show that common research on migration and cities...
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3 Dec

Map of the Week: Queering the Map

By Nicole Oveisi Queering the Map is an online, crowd-sourced mapping project that geolocates queer moments in space. Its purpose is to collectively document spaces where queer memories have occurred. The project aims to move away from the notion that...
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1 Dec

Geographical Review Preview: Whose Puget Sound?: Examining place attachment, residency, and stewardship in the Puget Sound region

By: David J. Trimbach, Whitney Fleming, Kelly Biedenweg What is the main purpose of your study? Our study examines the relationships among residents’ attachment to place, residency length, and pro-environmental stewardship behaviors in the Puget Sound region of Washington State...
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30 Nov

Company Spotlight: Crunchy Data

By Nicole Oveisi As PostgreSQL becomes one of the most popular and widely used database management systems, large companies have been looking for people who know how to work with the system. The widely adaptable platform is free and 100%...
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25 Nov

Geographical Review Preview: Waterscapes in Wallmapu: Lessons from Mapuche Perspectives

By: Juana Aigo, Juan Carlos Skewes, Camila Bañales-Seguel, Wladimir Riquelme Maulén, Soledad Molares, Daniela Morales, Maria Ibarra, and Debbie Guerra. What is the main purpose of your study? Contribute to the understanding of the multiple worlds that converse with each...
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24 Nov

Map of the Week: Status of the Celtic Languages

By Conor White The history of the British Empire and colonialism allowed for the English language to spread to all four corners of the globe where it is now spoken natively by the majority of the population in the United...
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18 Nov

Map of the Week: Every Country’s Biggest Exports

By Conor White National responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused global social and economic disruption with authorities worldwide implementing travel restrictions, lockdowns, workplace hazard controls, and facility closures. Although many international borders closed over the course of 2020, most...
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