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