UBIQUE | American Geographical Society

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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19 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Conserved? A Political Ecology of Landscape Conservation on the North Fork American River

By: Sean J. Pries What is the main purpose of your study? This study examines how various organizations engaged in conservation work define the term conservation and what effects those variant definitions have on quantifying how many acres are protected...
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14 Jan

Map of the Week: World’s Largest Iceberg, A68a, on Collision Course with South Georgia

By: Nicholas Schmidt Reuters recently published a map, accompanied by graphics, of the travel routes of Antarctica’s icebergs. Detailed in blue are the paths that icebergs follow after breaking away from the continent. One iceberg, in this case, is...
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12 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Geographies of Place Attachment

By: Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen What is the main purpose of your study? Attachments are intrinsic to the human condition and place attachments shape everyday routines (e.g. routes to work, shopping, social interactions), major life choices (e.g. places...
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6 Jan

Map of the Week: New Perspectives for 2021

By Katie Cann When the COVID-19 pandemic had taken hold in the United States, Bloomberg’s CityLab launched a competition for its readers: create the map that defines your life during the coronavirus crisis. The original call went out in April,...
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4 Jan

Geographical Review Preview: Contesting Place Names: The East Sea/Sea of Japan naming issue

By: John Rennie Short, Leah Dubots What is the main purpose of your study? To assess the extent of dual naming of East Sea/Sea of Japan in popular media, atlases and textbooks, and the internet. What are the practical, day...
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31 Dec

Map of the Week: New Year’s Island

By Nicole Oveisi Located in the central Pacific Ocean, the Republic of Kiribati is a remote island nation comprising 33 islands. The islands are spread out along the equator covering a large portion of the Pacific, however if you were...
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