World Population Data
High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions: http://www.worldpop.org.uk/
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30 meter Global Forest Change Data
Global maps showing forest change from 2000-2012. Read about them at http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-first-detailed-maps-of-global.html or go directly to the maps at http://earthenginepartners.appspot.com/science-2013-global-forest and the Science article at http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6160/850
Elephant Poaching Story Map
Elephant Poaching Crisis Story map developed through a partnership between Esri, Wildlife Conservation Society and Save the Elephants. http://elephantstory.wcs.org/ The story map gives a broad overview of historic and current African elephant ranges, the collapse of forest and savannah elephant populations, and the ivory trade within Africa that extends to Asia with the Chinese ivory … Read more
Embedding a Web Map (for today’s Web Maps workshop)
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The Racial Dot Map
Visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country.
The True Size of Africa
A map illustrating how choice of map projection, specifically the Mercator projection, has minimized the size of Africa in the world’s sense of space.
GIS Day is coming!
National GIS Day is Wednesday, November 20. Stay tuned for a schedule of activities at Usdan. Visit the tables at Usdan to learn about GIS resources on campus, go on a geocaching scavenger hunt, play geoguess’r, make your own GIS map, and eat world cake. From 2:40-4:00 pm (Exley 074) attend an informal talk by … Read more
Department of Geography and the Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering will host Dr. Luc Anselin Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences Professor & Director, Arizona State University for a lecture titled “Software Tools for Modern Spatial Econometrics” Friday, November 8, 2013 1:30 – 2:30pm AUST 434 (UConn Storrs) Dr. Anselin is one … Read more
Upcoming E&ES Seminar
Dr. Roering will give a noontime talk and a GIS-related presentation at 3:00 pm in Exley 405. All are welcome.