The Library of Congress online includes the 41,000 photographs in the Harris & Ewing Collection, all searchable.
27 March 2025
Harris & Ewing Collection
24 March 2025
Trail survey
If you use trails in New Jersey, here is a survey from the NJ DEP about trails and trail use.
16 March 2025
Lost species
13 March 2025
Another $65,000 in the fight against climate change?
Is this our best response to increased flooding in a changing climate? New gates to close the roads?
11 March 2025
UNESCO World Heritage list in the US
You don't need to travel to Europe or South America to visit UNESCO World Heritage Sites. There are multiple sites within an easy drive of Rutgers. And there are even more all throughout the US (28, to be precise), with the National Park Service and the Department of Interior maintaining a list of future candidate sites to list. Here is a list/map of the US sites.
What should be added? What is a site that is significant to the entire world's population?
10 March 2025
FlowingData's warning about dishonest charts
In the GISciences, people often cite Mark Monmonier's How to Lie with Maps. It is a very accessible guide to the ways that maps can trick us and how cartographers, even well meaning ones, can create maps that mislead.
So I am quite taking with the chart equivalent. FlowingData has posted an accessible explanation about Dishonest Charts that can help us both as the creators of charts but also as critical readers of data that need to be wary of what at first seems obvious.
28 February 2025
Serious about recharge
Drought-challenged areas can get serious about the water supply. Consider this story from Texas where the community acquired land that was the aquifer recharge zone as a way of protecting their water supply.