geographyalltheway.com - Online Geography and Humanities Resources

geographyalltheway.com - Online Geography and Humanities Resources

Royal Institution - Geographers website

A fantastic website by the RI covering great geographic themes - plenty of videos to watch and discussion to to contirbute to - excellent - also on my links page!


http://richannel.org/themes/environment

Check out the link on the anthropocene...

The scale of the universe

http://www.notdoppler.com/thescaleoftheuniverse2.php

A great link putting everything in context...

The importance of the RGS Monday Night Lectures

Dear all,

If you live in the vicinity of London - do please get down and attend one of these fantastic lectures, especially if you are a student or in academia. They are absolutely brilliant!

http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/London+Lectures/Monday+night+Lectures.htm

The Arab Powder Keg: An animated map of protests in the Middle East as they spread from country to country, updated with the most recent events.

An animated map of protests in the Middle East as they spread from country to country, updated with the most recent events.

The protests that drove Hosni Mubarak out of power in Egypt were only the beginning of a wave of civil unrest that has boiled over into nearly all of the Middle East. Tunisia had already driven longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from office, and by the beginning of February, unrest had spread to Jordan, Lebanon, and Sudan. Many more countries were to follow. This map depicts the tides of protests and government retaliations day by day, beginning in Tunisia and ending with the unresolved conflict in Libya. You can click through the days one by one with the green arrows or choose "Autoplay." To get the big picture, just turn off the info boxes and crank up the speed.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/maps/2011/03/the_arab_powder_keg.html

A smorgasbord of useful Geog data websites for further research; Unit 4 esp

http://www.swissray.com/

http://www.cred.be/sites/default/files/ADSR_2010.pdf

http://maplecroft.com/

http://www.gale.cengage.com/

http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_burden_disease/en/index.html

Different ways of measuring tectonic events...

Ok say ask any budding geographer how do you measure tectonic events and they will probably quote: Richter scale, Fujitsu scale, may be the Mercalli or even the VEI...but are some of these too out of date - according to topical popular science programme like QI they are!

Tectonic recording and measurements now focus and refer to the following:

VEI
Moment magnitude scale
Sieberg-Ambraseys Tsunami Intensity Scale
Mercalli

Interesting..no..?

A great website/rss feed to subscribe to...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/rss/earth_climate/geography.xml

A great feed on Global Development....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/rss

Google maps

From time to time it is easy to forget how lucky we are to have so much technology at our finger tips. Google maps is just one of those essential tools that all geographers should become familiar with. I have recently finished teaching a young group the basics of Google maps in making their own personal geography maps including place markers, street view and usual routes. Given the open ended nature of the task some students excelled themselves and independently went off and explored much more than i had thought was capable.

So keep the tasks open ended and independent and use Google maps more!

STA travel around the world - one man's perspective on travel and food

STA Travel Australia sent 3 of our mates, Rick Mereki, Andrew Lees and Tim White on an amazing trip around the world. A 6 week journey of a lifetime crammed into one epic minute. http://www.statravel.com.au/

Earthwatch Institute

http://www.earthwatch.org/europe/expeditions/new_expeditions_2012/

NERC - Free online mgazine!

A great, free e-magazine resource - great for budding geographers, geologists and environmental scientists!

Check the latest issue here

A great data visualisation website

A great visualisation website: http://flowingdata.com/

Facebook connections in a globally connected world

The price to fill up a Honda Civic

The true size of Africa

A few websites that geographers should use more often....

http://www.swissre.com/
One of the world's leading global insurers - link to the Swiss definition of what is a hazard in World at Risk.

http://maplecroft.com/
A fantastic visual mapping treasure trove. In their own words: "We analyse over 500 global risks and issues to provide a comprehensive portfolio of indices, interactive maps, scorecards, briefings and in-depth reports."

http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/climatechange/gateway
The UN's dedicated Climate Change web page - very useful for up-to-date resources and news feeds.

http://www.un.org/en/events/tenstories/08/index.shtml
A fascinating website by the UN which looks at regions and stories passed over by the main international news corporations.

http://www.un.org/News/
A new home page favourite for me! Excellent for geopolitics, hazards and all types of geography at all scales.

Here you can visualise your neighbourhood's profile using different area classifications through the Google Map interface.

A great resource for all geographers!

http://www.londonprofiler.org/

Geographical Association - GA Updates

Geographical Association - GA Updates

The UK's population mapped

Who's growing, who's shrinking? Find out what's happening to the UK's population for every local authority across the country using this excellent website from the Guardian newspaper:

Click here for the links:

• For the data
• For the interactive map

Living Geography: What was there ?

Living Geography: What was there ?:

This is a website which ties historical imagery in with Street View to pro...http://whatwasthere.com/

World Mapper - re-ordering the world; a new form of Cartography!

An understanding of maps is fundamental to the study of Geography. Geographers by nature are interested in maps and one of my favourite first year modules at university was Cartography as it enabled me to visualise the data spatially and interpret it.

More recently with the advent of GIS and Google Earth/Maps maps have had in my opinion a brief revival, despite the rise of the Sat. Nav!

The worldmapper website certainly adds a new and updated dimension to how we see the world. The maps move away form the traditional and conservative approach of preserving the existing world order of old regimes/empires. In worldmapper, using information form the UN, the world is reshaped to show factors and trends often hidden by traditional  maps.

Enjoy and explore:

GHG emissions

Number of disasters

World population

Other map sites to explore:

http://bigthink.com/blogs/strange-maps
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/