Skip to content
Geography Realm
  • Home
  • Physical Geography
  • Human Geography
  • Maps
    • Maps
    • Map Exhibits
  • Events
    • Geography Events
    • Geography Exhibits
  • Books
  • Contact
    • About/Contact
      • Privacy Policy
        • Disclaimer
        • Copyright
    • Article Submissions
      • Become a Geo Lounge Contributor
      • Submit a Geography Conference or Event
    • Subscribe

Rebecca MaxwellRebecca Maxwell

Rebecca Maxwell is a freelance writer who loves to write about a variety of subjects. She holds a B.A. in History from Boise State University. Rebecca is also a contributing writer on GISLounge.com
Some areas of the Southern Antarctic Peninsula have lost up to 30 m in ice since 2009. Source: University of Bristol

Ice Loss in Antarctica

August 16, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

In the last six years, a 750 kilometer (466 mile) strip of Antarctica has been shedding ice into the ocean at a rate of about 60 cubic km each year according to data collected from Cryosat-2.

Categories Physical Geography Tags Antarctica, climate change, ice loss

Why Do We Blindly Follow Our GPS?

August 12, 2020July 30, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

Stories abound of people blindly following GPS directions, leading to the term “death by GPS”. Why do people put so much faith in digital directions?

Categories Maps Tags GPS, map reading, spatial navigation
Base map: Equal Earth Physical Map, public domain

What is the Nationality of a Baby Born on an Airplane?

August 29, 2020May 31, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

It is a question that confounds the most geographically and legally astute: what is the nationality of a baby born on an airplane?

Categories Geography Fun, Political Geography Tags international space, Jus sanguinis, Jus soli, nationality airplane
Project based learning using the Iditarod sled dog race in Alaska.

Using Google Earth to Teach Math

August 12, 2020April 20, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

Every math teacher knows the difficulty in trying to convince their students why math matters. It is often hard to see that math is useful … Read more

Categories Geography for Kids Tags Google Earth, Math lessons
Map showing locations of plots included in this study. Map: Brienen et al, 2015.

Reducing Climate Change Could Be More Difficult in the Future

August 12, 2020April 8, 2015 by Rebecca Maxwell

A recent study has declared that limiting climate change in the future could be more difficult due to shifting conditions in the Amazon forest. The … Read more

Categories Human Geography Tags Amazon, carbon sink, climate change
The geography of aboveground carbon density (ACD) throughout Perú, derived at a 1-ha resolution with uncertainty reported for each hectare. Source: Asner et al, 2014.

Mapping Carbon in the Amazon

August 8, 2019December 10, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

In order to produce the most detailed carbon maps of the Amazon, researchers turned to remote sensing, specifically satellite imagery and LiDAR.

Categories Physical Geography Tags Amazon, carbon dioxide, carbon maps, deforestation
The results demonstrated that the visual map of the tadpoles developed naturally when the bars moved from front to back. The tadpoles that were shown the images in reverse order, however, extended nerve fibers to the wrong spots in the map, confirming that the brain would perceive those images as backwards.

How Mental Map Development Affects How We Perceive the Visual World Around Us

March 5, 2020December 2, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

A new study from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, is challenging the way scientists look at the brain’s visual system.

Categories Maps Tags navigation, spatial orientation
Monthly 700 hPa vertical velocity anomalies (Pa/s) from October of 1933 through March of 1934, calculated from the 20th Century Reanalysis. All anomalies are calculated relative to the baseline period of 1931–1990.

New Study Discovers the Worst Drought of the Millennium Occurred in 1934

November 14, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the worst drought of the last thousand years occurred in 1934 at the height of the … Read more

Categories Physical Geography Tags climatology, drought, dust bowl, United States
On Sept. 19, 2014, the five-day average of Antarctic sea ice extent exceeded 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. The red line shows the average maximum extent from 1979-2014. Image Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr

New Record Extent of Sea Ice in Antarctica

October 16, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

The polar regions of the Earth, the Arctic Ocean and Antarctica, are of particular concern to scientists and researchers. In one sense, these areas act … Read more

Categories Physical Geography Tags Antarctica, ice levels
A digital camera on NASA’s ER-2 airplane captured this top-down view of a melt pond atop a glacier in southeastern Alaska on July 16, 2014. Chunks of ice float on the pond’s turquoise water.

Melt Ponds and the Prediction of Ice Melt

October 7, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

One of the biggest environmental concerns is that of global climate change. Symptoms of major shifts in the Earth’s climate are everywhere from the melting … Read more

Categories Physical Geography Tags climate change, ice melt, melt ponds
Map of the North Atlantic Ocean showing gravity anomalies. Marine gravity model of the North Atlantic (10 mGal contours). Red dots show locations of earthquakes with magnitude > 5.5 and they highlight the present-day location of the seafloor spreading ridges and transform faults. This gravity information shows the details of the plate tectonic history of the rifting of these continents including the subtle signatures of fracture zones that are currently buried by sediment.

An Ocean of Mountains

September 5, 2020October 6, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

With the help of satellite technology, a team of American and European researchers recently announced that they have discovered thousands of new mountains on the ocean floor.

Categories Maps, Physical Geography Tags ocean map, seafloor mapping

Mind Over Map: How Our Concepts of Reality Affect Map Making and Vice Versa

March 5, 2020September 29, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

The nature of maps as portrayals of the world mean that they can both represent physical reality but also create it at the same time.

Categories Maps Tags influence of maps, mental maps
A rectified and warped aerial image taken from a Manhattan Community Planning District publication titled, "Lower East Side, East Village, Chinatown, Two Bridges".

Travel through Time with New York City’s Maps

August 20, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

The New York City Public Library is expanding geographical knowledge and experiences with its new online map warping tool with access to over 10,000 historical … Read more

Categories Maps Tags historical maps, open source GIS
Helsinki's vans on demand Kutsuplus service.

Carless Cities

August 12, 2020July 29, 2014 by Rebecca Maxwell

Cities are seeing growing problems with smog and the resulting health effects, noise pollutions, and motor vehicle related fatalities. A few cities have already put restrictions on the number of automobile in an effort to build a carless city.

Categories Urban Geography Tags carless cities, smart cities, urban geography
Post navigation
Older posts
Page1 Page2 Next →
+ More

Geography Newsletter

Enter your e-mail address to receive our free newsletter:

Popular Articles

Help Map the World's Coral Reefs

First High Resolution Map of the U.S. Food Supply Chain

Mapping Where Planting Trees Can Help with Climate Change Mitigation

Search

© 2021 Geography Realm unless otherwise noted. Privacy Policy
  • Home
  • Physical Geography
  • Human Geography
  • Maps
    • Maps
    • Map Exhibits
  • Events
    • Geography Events
    • Geography Exhibits
  • Books
  • Contact
    • About/Contact
      • Privacy Policy
        • Disclaimer
        • Copyright
    • Article Submissions
      • Become a Geo Lounge Contributor
      • Submit a Geography Conference or Event
    • Subscribe