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Maker of maps. Geography/GIS/Cartography professor. Occasional landscape photographer. Not the English footballer but am available for autographs.
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Everyone remembers the woman who failed but few remember the woman who succeeded Check out this article from The Columbus Dispatch: Did you know? On April 17, 1964, Bexley's Jerrie Mock finished her worldwide flight

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🚨A U.S. born citizen was arrested in Florida for entering the state as an “unauthorized alien.” His mother and a community advocate showed his birth certificate during a hearing in Leon County. The judge said she had no authority to release him.

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I'm pretty certain Abrego Garcia is a person.

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While playing around with a legend for a map showing when counties reached their peak population, I came up with the following. It was a lot of fun to create.

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Here’s me in meme form

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The Introducing Vector GIS Analysis videos are up! #1 - Preprocessing Techniques youtu.be/OKX-smvLd3U

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Minor league hockey playoffs tonight. Quad Cities vs. Peoria.

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My WIU students have placed 1st (2023) and 2nd (2024) at the past two GISCI student map contest. We're shooting for three years in a row! P.S. the map shown below is Melinda Lowe's 2024 second place submission.

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It's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.

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The Queries and Selections videos are up! 1. Simple Queries and Selections youtu.be/v3vL7jqmqMg

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Need a break from the news? How about Six Finger Falls, located in north-central Arkansas.

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#WomensHistoryMonth Day 24: Marie Tharp was a cartographer and oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor & helped prove continental drift. Despite dismissal by male colleagues, she persisted. Her work revealed the Mid-Atlantic Ridge—forever changing what we know about Earth’s geology. #Shero #GISChat

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I’m not sure who needs this today, but you’re welcome. youtu.be/miomuSGoPzI?...

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A-ha unplugged. As much as I like the original, this version gives me chills. youtu.be/-xKM3mGt2pE?...

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🌍 Happy #Equinox! On 20 March 2025 at 09:01 GMT/10:01 CET, just a few moments ago, the Sun appeared directly above Earth's equator - with our planet neither tilting towards nor away from the Sun! (pic: @eumetsat.int, processed by ESA/S. Proud) See flic.kr/p/2qT1ZUu

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