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Improving Learning and Applying GIS in Interdisciplinary Research

I guess I’m not alone in either struggling with GIS (Geographic Information System) technologies, or seeing colleagues struggle to effectively … More

GIS, Interdisciplinarity, Learning

Remediating the inequalities of geographic knowledge production through ‘chromatographical’ visualizations

There has been significant academic coverage of the inequitable power dynamics of geographic knowledge production (c.f. Simonsen 2004; Ferenčuhová 2016).   … More

academia, geographies of knowledge, Publishing, visuals

Joining Up Divided Data: The TEMPEST Database

We were very pleased to launch TEMPEST – our database of historical weather events – at this year’s RGS-IBG Annual … More

archives, Climate, data paper, open data, weather

Revisiting the effects of climate change on salamander body size: the role of natural history collections

Our recent paper, The relationship between climate and adult body size in redback salamanders (Plethodon cinereus), found that salamanders were larger … More

Climate, climate change, Ecology, natural history

Multiple stressors and ecological surprises

The expanding global human population, now about 7.5 billion, is increasing the pressure that we as a species put on … More

Ecology, ecosystem services, environmental change, fieldwork, policy

Opening-up (to) the politics of Anthropocene science

A group of scientists working for the International Commission on Stratigraphy recently recommended that the start of the Anthropocene epoch, … More

Anthropocene, Disciplines, Science and society

Journal metrics and linguistic hegemony

Geography is a uniquely international discipline. It is concerned with describing and explaining the world in all its infinite variety. … More

academia, disciplinary conversations, Language, Metrics, open access, Publishing

Drawing, remembering, knowing: natural history and the ecological imagination

By Meredith Root-Bernstein (Aarhus University) Geo: Geography and Environment recently published my personal essay about how natural history practices have … More

academia, fieldwork, knowledges, natural history, play

Uneven geographies of openness and information

By Helen Pallett (University of East Anglia, UK) Open access to information and data appears to be a cause which has … More

Learning from guano: In search of a paleo-seabird proxy

By Jessica Conroy (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Take a vacation to the Galápagos Islands and you’re bound to see … More

Climate, El Nino, Oceans, Paleo-data

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