February 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🌊 🦑#geosky #GISchat
The Lamlash Bay on the Isle of Arran—the UK's first community-led marine protected area—is managed by volunteers who use GIS to map underwater conditions, collect research data, monitor biodiversity, and record the remarkable comeback from trawling. www.esri.com/about/newsro...
How One Scottish Community is Restoring a Critical Marine Environment
The Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) transforms marine data into maps, empowering their advocacy for coastal protection in Scotland.
www.esri.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🌊 🦑#geosky #GISchat
Many of Esri's cartographers, developers, product/solution engineers, educators, account managers, and a certain Chief Scientist are now on Bluesky. Follow us to see the neat geospatial projects we're working on, the amazing GIS folks we collaborate with, and get occasional tips.
go.bsky.app/CCn74T5
go.bsky.app/CCn74T5
January 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Impact Map or Federal Cuts Tracker Map is finally live‼️
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Check the 🗺️ out theimpactproject.org/the-impact-m...
Explore how federal cuts are affecting your state or community and share this WIDELY 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
April 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I interrupt the chaos machine to bring you some other news:
This just happened:
www.amazon.com/stores/Jami-...
I guess this means I'm a real author now?
#GISforDummies #GISChat #Author #BraggingRights
This just happened:
www.amazon.com/stores/Jami-...
I guess this means I'm a real author now?
#GISforDummies #GISChat #Author #BraggingRights
February 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations to our Mineral Cup 2026 Champion Quartz!
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
For #MinCup26, we collectively chose a nostalgic beauty of resilience as persistence as our champion. Please celebrate #Quartz, a friend to humans since time immemorial!
www.mineralcup.org/about/2026-q...
October 3, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Esri's free Spatial Analysis MOOC starts today!!! Our awesome colleague Mark Stewart takes you through 6 lessons that include analysis of spatial patterns and prediction. www.esri.com/training/cat...
Esri Training
Learn the latest GIS technology through free live training seminars, self-paced courses, or classes taught by Esri experts. Resources are available for professionals, educators, and students.
www.esri.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship.
But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing.
www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...
April 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
FYI Folks, for a while NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was down. It's back up now! Everybody go check it out and then DOWNLOAD the data so that if/when NOAA resources continue to be gutted, we can still use that data.
edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...
edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...
Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool
This screening tool identifies disadvantaged communities that are underserved &overburdened by pollution. It provides socioeconomic, environmental, health and climate info to inform decisions.
edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io
April 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
February 13, 2025 at 9:59 AM
🧪🌊 ⚒️ #geosky
Holden Thorp (@holdenthorp.bsky.social), editor-in-chief at Science, wrote this past week:
“Those in the scientific community who enjoy the protections of academic and other freedoms afforded by the US Constitution’s First Amendment should do and say more....”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
“Those in the scientific community who enjoy the protections of academic and other freedoms afforded by the US Constitution’s First Amendment should do and say more....”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Come together, right now
The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...
www.science.org
March 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
🧪🌊 ⚒️ #geosky
Keynotes and panels and paper sessions, oh my! 🦁🐯🐻… at @harvard.edu! With wild turkeys thrown in! 🦃😆
20th Anniversary of Harvard Ctr for Geographic Analysis 🥳
harvard-cga.github.io/cga-conferen...
20th Anniversary of Harvard Ctr for Geographic Analysis 🥳
harvard-cga.github.io/cga-conferen...
October 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Things are moving so diabolically fast! We have at least backed up CDC’s geospatial Social Vulnerability Index layers to Esri’s Living Atlas of the World livingatlas.arcgis.com
#gischat #geosky
#gischat #geosky
Redirect
livingatlas.arcgis.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Things are moving so diabolically fast! We have at least backed up CDC’s geospatial Social Vulnerability Index layers to Esri’s Living Atlas of the World livingatlas.arcgis.com
#gischat #geosky
#gischat #geosky
Stunning pink halite crystals on yellow trona from Owens lake , Inyo county California!
September 13, 2026 at 2:08 PM
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j...
Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Check out these great new story maps from @geomarkiel.bsky.social on discovering the "seascapes" of the ocean floor, including dangerous hidden volcanoes!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
🌊 🦑
Discover the landscape of the ocean floor
There's more to it than continental shelfes, abyssal plains and mid ocean ridges!
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
1/8/1863 — b. Ellen Churchill Semple, American geographer, author, presidential advisor. The first influential U.S. female geographer; originator of anthropogeography. The first wmn president of any US academic org; president, American Geographers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #GeoSky #SciSky #HistSci
January 8, 2026 at 4:51 PM
1/8/1863 — b. Ellen Churchill Semple, American geographer, author, presidential advisor. The first influential U.S. female geographer; originator of anthropogeography. The first wmn president of any US academic org; president, American Geographers #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #GeoSky #SciSky #HistSci
