UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

10 Sep

Map of the Week: Strabo’s Map of Ireland

By: Samantha Hinton Strabo of Amasia was an early Greek geographer from Pontus and lived from roughly 65 B.C. to 25 A.D. In his key writing, The Geography, Strabo reviewed the ancient world. He completed this work around 7 B.C....
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2 Sep

Map of the Week: 2020 Migration Patterns

By: Kallie O’Donnell This StoryMap, Where are people moving? by Jennifer Bell tracks the movement of people to different regions in America during the year of 2020. Data was retrieved from the American Community Survey to visualize the areas with...
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27 Aug

Map of The Week: Surging Seas Risk Zone Map

By Samantha Hinton The Surging Seas Risk Zone Map is an online, interactive database that visually displays the interaction of Earth’s water and coasts by showcasing how projected sea level rise could affect certain areas. Created by Climate Central and...
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23 Aug

Company Spotlight: Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance

By: Kallie O’Donnell The NEPA Alliance is a private nonprofit that focuses on various aspects of community and economic development including business finance, local government assistance, nonprofit development, and transportation. The organization serves 7 counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania covering over...
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19 Aug

Map of the Week: The Lines That Shape Our Cities

By: Kallie O’Donnell The Lines That Shape Our Cities StoryMap (created in collaboration with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, The Science Museum of Virginia, and Esri) connects present-day environmental inequalities to their 1930s policy roots. The...
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12 Aug

Map of The Week: Schoolgirl Mapmakers

By Samantha Hinton Susan Schulten, historian of 19th-century American cartography at the University of Denver, studies the maps of schoolgirls, or what she calls a “hidden part of American education.” Schulten explores the history of schoolgirl mapmakers in connection to...
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5 Aug

Map of the Week: Using GIS to Combat ‘Vaccine Deserts’

By Nina Edward Geography is at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic. From where the virus originated, to where it has spread, geography has been a mainstay factor contributing to the pandemic. A year and a half on, geographers are...
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29 Jul

Map of the Week: The Cost of Hosting The Olympics

By Kallie O’Donnell The Summer Olympic Games are underway in Tokyo, Japan! This marks the second time Tokyo will host the event; the first time was in 1964. 2021 is the fourth time in history that the Olympics were postponed....
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23 Jul

Map of The Week: The Human Reach

By Samantha Hinton With the polluted skies, deadly heat waves, destructive flooding, sweeping forest fires, and more, the state of planet Earth is dragging at geographers and mapmakers’ minds lately. The Human Reach, created by Esri’s StoryMaps team, investigates and...
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19 Jul

Geographical Review Preview: Networks, coalitions and the contestation of dam removal across political and institutional scales in France and New England (USA)

By: Ludovic Drapier, Marie-Anne Germaine, Laurent Lespez, Francis J. Magilligan and Chris Sneddon What is the main purpose of your study? This study explores how and why conflicts over small dam removal have become an issue discussed at the national level...
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