Human Geography

Mapping the Risk of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)

March 29, 2020February 4, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

EpiRisk is an interactive map that is being used visualize the risk of the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak spreading based on travel patterns.

Traffic jam in Mumbai. Photo: Marc van der Chijs, CC BY-SA 2.0. https://flic.kr/p/2s62eb

Mumbai Police Fighting Noise Pollution With Enforced Patience

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

In an effort to lower noise levels, the Mumbai Police have set up noise meters at select traffic signals around the city called “Punishing Signals”.

What is the Difference Between an Epidemic and a Pandemic?

March 29, 2020February 3, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

Learn about the difference between endemic, epidemic, and pandemic.

Daily Situational Report and Map of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) from WHO

March 29, 2020February 1, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

The World Health Organization (WHO’s) is producing daily situational reports that contain a map of the current coronavirus spread as well as summary reports.

Geography of the Novel Coronavirus

March 29, 2020January 30, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

Learn about where the Wuhan Coronavirus started and which countries are reporting cases.

Mapping the Transportation Network of the Roman World

March 18, 2020January 24, 2020 by Caitlin Dempsey

ORBIS is a mapping project developed by researchers at Stanford that reconstructs the financial and spatial challenges of transporting goods and people during Roman times about 200 CE.

How Many Countries Are There?

March 16, 2020January 22, 2020 by Elizabeth Borneman

The answer to the question of how many countries there are in the world remains a question with many different possible answers.

Geography of Happiness

February 6, 2020December 31, 2019 by Mark Altaweel

Geography can have a major influence on happiness.

Three moments in a tumultuous year for farming north of St. Louis, MO, as seen in NASA-USGS Landsat 8 data. On the left is May 7, 2019, as heavy rains delayed planting for many farms. Sept 12, 2019, in the middle, shows bright green signifying growing vegetation, although with a fair amount of brown, bare fields. On the right, Oct. 14, 2019, the light brown indicates harvested fields while darker brown are fields that have not been seeded or fallow all summer. Credits: NASA

Monitoring Crop Production Via Satellite

March 7, 2020December 28, 2019 by Elizabeth Borneman

To cope with ever-changing agricultural needs and conditions, the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (or NASS) uses data from Landsat to monitor crops in the contiguous United States.

Examples of city climate adaptation action themes. The size of the circle is proportional to the number of actions listed in the 80 city plans analysed, for each of the ten categories, from largest to smallest: physical infrastructure (73 actions); management and planning (62); green infrastructure (57); practice and behaviour (55); technology (52); policy (49); information (45); capacity building (40); warning or observing (22); financing (20). Source: Butt et al., 2018.

Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019 by Mark Altaweel

Many cities globally are forging ahead with climate change adaptation.

Satellite Data Shows That Tilling Less Leads to Healthier Soils

March 7, 2020December 7, 2019 by Caitlin Dempsey

Researchers applied machine learning to satellite-derived datasets to to analyze tillage practices and crop yields in the US Corn Belt between 2005 and 2017.