The New York Times has put out a new interactive map graphic that visualizes toxic contamination found in the wastewater from natural gas wells in PA. The data – from 149 wells – is visualized by the type of contaminant (radium, uranium, gross alpha and benzene) and the amount by which each well exceeded the federal drinking water standard. Below are some screenshots from the interactive graphic.
Radium contamination:
Uranium contamination:
Gross alpha contamination:
Benzene contamination:
Below is an interview with Daniel Dougherty ’12, a History and Geography major, discussing his use of GIS for an analysis of the impact of climate change on sleeping sickness. The research project was conducted as part of Prof. Duane Griffin’s Geography 204 course Applied GIS. In the interview, Dougherty describes the data and methodology he used for the project and talks about some of the conclusions he drew from his analysis.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJf29_Mujw
The images below show some of the maps Dougherty was able to produce using ArcGIS, MaxEnt and data from WorldClim.
Back in December I posted about an NPR story about map scale. I got so excited about the baseball on the moon map that I neglected to point out the other really interesting link from the story – to the BBC Dimensions website. Dimensions (or, ‘howbigisitreally’) has a tool that lets you plug in any zip code or location and then choose from a list of events, places or things that you want to superimpose onto your area. See below for a map showing the area that the Guantanamo Bay Naval base would occupy if it was located in Lewisburg. I’ve also included maps showing what the ancient walls of Athens and the Gulf oil spill would look like if superimposed over the Lewisburg area. The Dimensions website has numerous places, events and things to choose from in making your map, including: the war on terror, ancient worlds, the industrial age, space, environmental disasters, depths, cities in history and more.
A fun new map site from Stephen Von Worley of Datapointed.net. Click here then scroll to the ‘Find This First Name’ tool (screenshot below) and type in your first name. Clicking the ‘Map it!’ button will return a map showing the worldwide locations of streets, places and things with your name. Clicking the ‘Earth it!’ option will give you the option of saving and/or opening a Google Earth KML file with the data.
If you’re the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend. Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, stream directly into your ArcGIS map project, or (in many cases) download the raw data to use in whatever way you want. The basemaps shown below for snowfall forecasts and supermarket access are just two of the dozens of basemaps you can choose from in the ArcGIS Online Gallery.
Read more about this on the ESRI ArcGIS Online blog.
ArcGIS Online Basemaps
Snowfall forecast map
Supermarket access in Lewisburg
