Greening the Hunt

Are "darting safaris" an improvement over traditional safaris? Rick Schroeder will present a fascinating look at the topic on October 27.

Mapping Ebola

 With epidemics, there are different scales of mapping. The cases happen to individuals, but the outbreak happens at regional and national scales. you can see mapping at this scale in the Esri Story Map of Ebola Outbreaks from 1976-2014.

But Esri's Hugh Keegan worked with the UN WHO to map Ebola but was given street addresses of cases. He gave a great talk at Harvard last year about the problems he faced.

National Parks

Today is the last day in the Byrne Seminar on National Parks and Parklands. The conversation will include a very brief discussion about International National Parks. One of the places that will get mentioned is Virunga National Park in the Congo. Virunga is the subject of a recent documentary available on Netflix that is powerful and important but also highlights how different their national parks are from ours. We contrasted it with the recent Ken Burns series on PBS about the U.S. National Parks: America's Best Idea. 

The links above are to YouTube-hosted previews for each. Compare and contrast.