UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

17 Feb

Map of the Week: World Happiness Map

By: Kelly Young Happiness is something that isn’t often associated with geography. However, geography plays a larger role in our daily happiness than we likely assume, influencing political tensions, diets and lifestyles. A map published by Visual Capitalist uses data...
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16 Feb

Geographical Review Preview: Homemaking and Places of Restoration: Belonging Within and Beyond Places assigned to Syrian refugees in the Netherlands

By: I. van Liempt & R. Staring What is the main purpose of your study? The purpose of the study is to issue how refugees’ homemaking processes evolve against the background of Dutch dispersal policy and more in general share...
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11 Feb

Map of the Week: Top Valentine’s Day Candy by State

By Christina Lin Valentine’s Day is an eventful holiday that usually involves a lot of spending. 58 million pounds of chocolate are bought during Valentine’s Day week. Even with the COVID-19 pandemic, Valentine’s Day spendings on candy still managed to...
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9 Feb

Geographical Review Preview: Croatian Rural Futures in 2030: Four Alternative Scenarios for Post-socialist Countryside in the Newest EU Member State

By: Aleksandar Lukić, Petra Radeljak Kaufmann, Luka Valožić, Ivan Zupanc, Marin Cvitanović, Dane Pejnović, Ivan Žilić What is the main purpose of your study? Let’s start with what is certainly not the main purpose of our study: the creation of...
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4 Feb

Map of the Week: The Province of Pennsylvania

by: Nicholas Schmidt Over 250 years ago, in colonial Philadelphia, James Nevil published William Scull’s 1770 map depicting the extensive frontier of the Province of Pennsylvania. Scull was an American cartographer and officer during the Revolutionary War. The Penn brothers...
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2 Feb

Geographical Review Preview: Geography, Heritage, and Things: Analyzing an Agricultural Landscape in Southern Idaho

By: Bryan D. Orthel What is the main purpose of your study? The study links everyday stories about an agricultural landscape with the experience of living in that place. The combination of history, geography, and everyday experience is valuable for...
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28 Jan

Map of the Week: Tracing Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Footsteps

By Christina Lin Last week Monday, the US observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, a day where most reflect on the work that still needs to be done for racial equality. King was a civil rights leader, best known for...
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27 Jan

Company Spotlight: GeoSISU

When Jessica King, fearless leader of geospatial firm GeoSISU, set out to found her company in 2018, she kept her goal concise and clear: she wanted to help geospatial businesses and people grow. Now in its third year of business,...
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26 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Place identity among native minorities: Lessons from Arabs in Israel

By: Ilan Shdema, Deborah G. Martin What is the main purpose of your study? The purpose of the study is to characterize and uncover the sources of native minorities’ place identity in Israel. We follow the environmental psychology approach to...
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20 Jan

Map of the Week: Auto Emissions in the United States

By: Kelly Young Transportation emissions are a major contributor to global greenhouse gasses and are largely responsible for increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2. The New York Times published an interactive map depicting auto-emissions from passenger and freight traffic across the...
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