GIS History

Meagan Snow has posted a fabulous GIS history piece on the Library of Congress blogs, called SYMAPping the Puget Sound: Exploring Early Techniques in Computer Cartography. 

Tree planting at Rutgers

Exciting to see that a Rutgers landscape architecture and urban forestry project is getting attention. Read more about Josh Kover's project that got the community together to plant trees on a former road.   

FS

 Jim Pattiz has an update on the changes at the Forest Service at Hatch Mag.

bell hooks quote

“Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion.”

― bell hooks

Ghostly aerials of an Iceland glacier

 After a fascinating Common Lecture today by Joyce Hsiang on glaciers and the cryosphere, I was surprised to see an amazing photo by Dani Guindo of an Icelandic glacier. The link can take you to a whole series of photos. 

Bill Nye on wetlands

 

Wetlands restoration video

 

Erosion can be fast

 The Grand Canyon might make you think that erosion happens slowly, but this video of gully erosion shows that it can happen fast too.

the world

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

― E.B. White