American Geographical Society

Check out what AGS has been up to this February! Go here: https://lnkd.in/gmmeB-qM ? We're putting out the call for dynamic speakers with powerful ideas to join us for?Geography 2050: The Future of GeoAI and the Planet! Submit a lightning talk here: https://lnkd.in/eDs6SjWb ?? We're taking our first steps towards the 2025 AGS Fall Symposium with?The Road to Geography 2050: GeoAI?podcast hosted by Tee Barr and featuring Elizabeth Foughty, MBA. Listen to it here: https://lnkd.in/d-pUqZh ??? AGS Is Pleased to Announce the Appointment of Dr. Karen Barton as the New FOCUS on Geography's Co-Editor! Inquiries and submissions for our digital journal can be sent to?[email protected]. Go here to view FOCUS on Geography: https://lnkd.in/ggE2Bb4D ?? Learn more about our TeenMaptivists Initiative's February Mapping Module and our inspiring Map Chat Speakers: Muskaan Khemani from trubel&co, Frank Romo and DeAnthony Neal from RomoGIS, Angelique Willis, MPH, MS, CertGIS from Michigan State University - Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and Christian Mey! Thank you to all of these geo-leaders for speaking with our teachers! ?? Read our Scholar-Intern Naomi Ross' interview with trubel&co Founder and Executive Director Nick Okafor. We're grateful for your geo-leadership, Nick, thank you! https://lnkd.in/gwMtaHRG ?? Read our Scholar-Intern Dorothy Janick's EthicalGEO piece, Ripple Effects: The Ethical Implications of Mapping Flood Risk: https://lnkd.in/g-7WVvFE ?? Call for Submissions for the International Cartographic Exhibition at the International Cartographic Conference (ICC) in Vancouver! Go here for more: https://icc2025.com/ ---- #maps #geography #geospatial #GIS #geoscience #earth #remotesensing #environment #GIScience #risk #climate #climatechange #climaterisk #GeoAI #BHM #racialjustice #socialjustice #GenAI #AI #geotech #datascience

AGS Councilor Clinton G. Johnson is truly a geo-hero! Make sure to read this story and look into his prolific work with National Geographic as an Explorer as well as through NorthStar of GIS: Black in Geography, GIS, and the Geosciences. Thank you Clinton, for all that you are and all that you do. We are grateful for your geo-leadership!

During Black History Month, it is important to share and celebrate the anthology of Black Geographers that American Geographical Society Councilor, Dr. Dee Jordan, assembled and that the AGS maintains. https://lnkd.in/eqY333Cv There are many research pioneers and leaders in this list. Geography's history is not diverse. As a discipline it was mostly male and white for much of the 20th century. That is changing but there is room for improvement so that more students from different ethnic, racial and class backgrounds are exposed to geographical thinking and geospatial skills. This is why the American Geographical society works with students through Teen Maptivists https://lnkd.in/em4zf5XV, and with educators in high schools and universities to change the face of geography. Another AGS Councilor, Clinton G. Johnson, is the founder of NorthStar of GIS https://lnkd.in/eMwTTbZt a wonderful organization that connects black professionals in geospatial industries.

This month, AGS Scholar-Intern Dorothy Janick spoke with Brian Goldin, CEO of Voyager Search, an innovative, spatially enabled search engine and data registry that allows users to maximize value from their data assets. Under Goldin’s leadership, the company has grown into a robust information retrieval system that is uniquely positioned to address the complexities of data management in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. As Voyager looks to the future, the company is working to further develop its search technology using tools like artificial intelligence and metadata tracking. Reflecting on his decades-long career in geospatial data, Goldin shared some advice for young geographers who are inspired by his path. He encouraged aspiring geographers to develop data literacy, noting, “It’s really all about data and how to understand it. You don’t have to be a data scientist, but you should ask questions, doubt things, do research, learn some skills so you can play with data.” At the same time, he added, it’s important to develop soft skills, like interpersonal communication and relationship building, that help you present information to others. Perhaps most importantly, he reflected, it’s important that you find something to be excited about: “Be passionate about something. Otherwise, it’s just work. Find something you really want to do and that doesn’t feel like work.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gx_kmA5V #GIS #Geospatial #Geography #Mapping #Geotech #DataScience

Today at 12pm CST / 1pm EST, there is going to be a book launch of the "Forest, Field, and Fallow: Selections by William M. Denevan" Spanish version at UNAM-Morelia. AGS Councilor Antoinette Winkler-Prins will speak on AGS Medalist Dr. William Denevan's legacy. Les informamos de que?ma?ana martes 18 de febrero?a?las?12 pm (hora del centro de México)?celebraremos la segunda sesión de 2025 de nuestro?Seminario Institucional 'Geografía, Ambiente y Desarrollo', en la que llevaremos a cabo la?presentación del libro 'Bosque, Campo y Barbecho: Selecciones de William Denevan'. Participarán los dos editores de la obra,?Antoinette WinklerPrins?(Johns Hopkins University, USA) y?Kent Mathewson?(Louisiana?State?University, USA) así como?Hebe Vessuri?(Instituto Venezolano de la Investigación Científica, Venezuela) y?Gerardo Bocco?(CIGA-UNAM, México). Transmisión en vivo por: Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gxFCMG5e Youtube?Canal CIGA UNAM: https://lnkd.in/gnektqBF

#APHGTeachers: DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL FEBRUARY 16TH for our GeoBoost Program!?You, or an #APHG teacher you know, can receive $300 to “Boost” geographic learning in the classroom this semester.?It’s easy to apply, and your odds of being selected are high. Spread the word and support geography educators! The American Geographical Society will provide 50-60 AP Human Geography teachers with $300 grants to purchase geography or geospatial-related activities or resources through our GeoBoost program. These funds can go towards expanding the books or movies in a classroom library, funding a field trip for students, or introducing new geospatial technology at school. To see how past teachers have utilized GeoBoost to enhance their student's?learning, take a look at this?story map?of our 2021 - 2022 recipients: https://lnkd.in/gqRUAdFe. Applications will now be open through Friday, February 16th, and can be found here: https://lnkd.in/geMB4UMk #APHGTeacher #K12 #Teacher #GeographyEducator

Check out our latest FOCUS on Geography piece and submit your own piece to our peer-reviewed digital publication! The newest piece is: "Everything comes from something: A geographic photo analysis of sand extraction and usage in Rwanda’s rapidly growing economy" by Mette Bendixen at McGill University! With more than 13 million people,?Rwanda?has the second largest population density in Sub-Saharan Africa, putting enormous pressure on the country’s resources, its land usage, and management. Since the 1994 genocide, the country has implemented strategies to rehabilitate and stabilize the economy, resulting in overall socio-economic progress; the country has one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, with an average GDP growth rate of more than 7% and life expectancy improving by more than 33% since 2000. Rwanda is now striving to become one of the fastest growing economies in Africa, and with its Vision 2050 plan, the country aims to transition into a high-income country within the next 25 years. A key component of this strategy is to develop urban areas, which by 2050 are expected to house 70% of the population. Materials as pedestrian as sand, gravel, and crushed stones are a key to that, but also among the most underappreciated resources on the planet. Collectively referred to as ‘aggregates’, they are important construction materials, including concrete, asphalt and glass. Extracting these materials in low- and middle-income countries is often done through manual labor using simple tools like shovels and plastic jerrycans. Throughout the entire Sub-Saharan continent, increasing demand for these resources, due to rapid population growth and urbanization, means that aggregates are often extracted without regulations, using unsustainable methods. With an annual population growth of more than 2% and the ambitious aims to modernize the country, Rwanda’s limited resources are experiencing enormous pressure. Using Rwanda as an example, this photo essay documents the central place of these materials within the development plan and reveal a critical disjunction: extraction activities offer a livelihood for low-income people and provide some necessary materials for them, but the main effort is to create high-end housing and more formal housing in the countries’ richest areas. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/giMPEmkv Digital FOCUS on Geography is open to article ideas and manuscripts from geographers and those who write geographically. Articles must be excellent in quality, richly illustrated, and written for an informed general audience interested in geographic research and exploration. More on submission here: https://lnkd.in/gEkJyR6z #Geography #Geospatial #GIS #Mapping #Maps #Rwanda #Africa

#APHG Teachers and Friends of #APHG Teachers! Please spread the word on this unique opportunity to BOOST learning in the #geography classroom through our $300 grants to purchase geo-related activities or resources. It's easy to apply, and you have a high chance of receiving this extra support to enhance the teaching and learning in your classroom. #K12 #Teachers #GeographyTeacher #Geospatial #GIS #Mapping

February is Black History Month and AGS is proud to recognize and celebrate Black geographers who have contributed so much to the geographical and geospatial disciplines!?You can learn more about this rich history in the?Celebrating Black Geographers Anthology,?conceived, compiled, and edited by AGS Councilor Dr. Dee?Jordan.?The project represents three cohorts spanning 1900-2000, 2001-2010, and 2011-2020. The anthology was inspired by the report titled?"Black Geographers in Institutions of Higher Education in the United States: Where They Are and a Selected Bibliography of Their Works", published in 2003 by Joe T. Darden and Lucia Terra. This anthology of Black Geographers is an expansion of the previous report, born out of the necessity to have a publicly available single source database that chronicles the contributions of Black Geographers to the discipline of Geography. This collection includes photographs, biographies, and interesting facts. Go to the Anthology here: https://lnkd.in/gt8S5sEe Use this form to submit information about persons who should be included in the Celebrating Black Geographers anthology: https://lnkd.in/dVqgF5n #BlackHistoryMonth #MelanatedAndMapping #BlackHistory #Geography #BlackGeographers #BlackGeographies #GIS #Geospatial #Geoscience

As the oldest journal in the United States devoted exclusively to geography and the leading journal of geography for the past 150 years, the?Geographical Review?contains original and authoritative articles on all aspects of geography. Make sure to read through Geographical Review's double special issue, which brings together a rich blend of articles that interrogate diverse aspects of the future of food, including the promise of high-tech modes of food production, alternative food sources, and smallholder agriculture! Read here: https://lnkd.in/g74J-wC4 The?Geographical Review?welcomes authoritative, original, ably illustrated, and well-written manuscripts on any topic of geographical importance. Specifically, submissions in the areas of human geography, physical geography, nature/society, and GIScience are welcome, especially inasmuch as they can speak to a broad spectrum of readers. We encourage empirical studies that are grounded in theory, innovative syntheses that offer a deeper understanding of a phenomenon, and research that leads to potential policy prescriptions. #Geography #GIS #Geospatial #Mapping #Food #FoodStudies #FoodGeographies #Agriculture #Geoscience