@arobinson
E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professor of Geography, Penn State. Director, Online Geospatial Education programs & GeoGraphics Lab. Chair, AAG Cartography & Mapping Specialty Group. Vice Chair, ICA Commission on Geovisualization. Past President of NACIS.
Graphic design is just poorly served by text prompting, I am convinced. We don't train to design that way, and we don't have (and won't soon develop) useful matches between words and images when we're designing. I'm pretty interested in this in cartography where AI so far really struggles.
Herzlich willkommen an bord!
Ah, I'm so happy for you!!
I had so much fun talking to my favorite podcasters at GLaD!
cc: @pennstategeography.bsky.social
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📣 Calling all geographers! I'm editing a special issue of the @geographers.bsky.social Annals on "21st Century Geographic Theory" and the call for abstracts is out! Please consider contributing and sharing! All geographers, all kinds of theory welcome! 🌎
Details here: www.aag.org/journal/anna...
My PhD student Zhaoxu Sui (zhaoxusui.com) has compiled a map of map stores: experience.arcgis.com/experience/a...
Is Trevlac just Calvert backwards? I'm from rural Western MD where we have Nikep, which used to be called Pekin before they had to change due to the fact that there was another Pekin in Indiana, back when post offices were supposed to have unique names.
A map store version of "What's in your bag?" could be fun...
Donors have already given $6,650 to the GeoGraphics Lab Fund!
Alumnus Bob Myers will match gifts up to $25,000, doubling support for student cartography internships in our program.
Join the match: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab
🎧 new episode of the #GLaDpodcast is out!
You can run but you can’t hide. @levijohnwolf.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social and I went to the source (Krzysztof Janowicz) to hear more about Geo + AI, AI for Geo, and my personal bugbear GeoAI.
#geography #geoAI
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Screen shot of Esri's Student Programs page under the site careers.esri.com showing a picture of a young woman with dark brown skin and long dark brown hair. Use the link in the actual posting to apply for the summer internship.
2026 Esri Global Operations Sustainability SUMMER INTERNSHIP available! This is an opportunity to join alongside the Esri team leading global operational efforts for a company committed to simply "doing the right thing" as an excellent global citizen!
Apply at:
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Bob Myers is an incredible alum @pennstategeography.bsky.social - the only person to ever earn multiple Master's degrees in our online program, a tireless advocate for civil rights, and a key supporter of the cartographic work we're doing in the GeoGraphics Lab today: www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...
Really excited to share this new paper on "Data Visualizations as Propaganda", co-led by PhD students Priya Dhawka and Nina Lutz, which just won a Best Paper award at the CSCW conference: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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The National Geographic Society hired PSU Geography alumnus Harrison Cole to design maps for the National Geographic Museum of Exploration, currently under construction in Washington, D.C.
www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...
Fond memories of going to the mall (!) and getting this the morning after it was released as soon as the music store opened.
Douro reds are always my favorite.
Figure 5. Combine View lets users analyze a) a combination of one or more binning methods by visualizing b) the most consistent Bin, c) the frequency of the most consistent Bin, and d) both together for each U.S. county in separate choropleths. The new, resiliency binning method then utilizes this information to g) determine “resilient” bins (counts, intervals) that are also visualized in a choropleth. Hovering any county on the map shows a tooltip with relevant information about the county, as shown in e) and f).
New article! A fantastic new tool Exploropleth: exploratory analysis of data binning methods in choropleth maps, from @arpitnarechania.bsky.social Alex Endert & Clio Andris doi.org/10.1080/1523... #GISchat website exploropleth.github.io video of the tool in action: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNV8...
We're hiring our next colleague for our Online Geospatial Education programs @pennstategeography.bsky.social - Assistant Teaching Professor of Spatial Data Science: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
🗺️ + 🏀 = 📈
ICYMI: PSU Geography alum Kirk Goldsberry returned to campus last week to share how his geography degree led him to work with Team USA, the Spurs, ESPN, and The Ringer.
📺 Watch the full talk: psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Kirk%2...
The public doesn't understand the finances of public universities. They don't know that unplugging 20-25% of the budget (federal $) + slashing tuition $ (👇) means less $ & "things" for their kids, & they don't know this because our leaders are absent from the public square:
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The call for participation is out for the 9th Spatial Knowledge and Information Conference #SKI2026 Canada. The conference will take place February 19-22, 2026 in Banff, Alberta. Ski all morning, conference all evening.
skiconference.ca
We're recruiting cartography & GIScience grad students @pennstategeography.bsky.social - if you're interested, we'll hold a live info session on October 23rd - sign up today: tinyurl.com/psugeoinfo
🏀 Penn State geography alum & NBA analyst Kirk Goldsberry is giving a talk Fri, Sept. 26 at noon in 102 Paterno Library (Foster Auditorium).
He’ll share how maps & data changed the NBA. Open to all, Zoom option available!
www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...
🏀 NBA analyst and Penn State geography alum Kirk Goldsberry is back on campus Friday, Sept. 26, to talk hoops, cartography, and the big data behind the modern game.
🗓️ Friday, Sept. 26
📍 102 Paterno Library
💻 Zoom Option Available
🕛 Noon
📰 Read more: www.psu.edu/news/earth-a...
The 1st year students I am teaching right now include a few who are already experiencing their geospatial revelation, and it's a wonderful bright spot.
We welcomed alumni and donors Bob Myers and Jim McCrory back to campus Friday!
Bob has committed up to $25K in matching support for the GeoGraphics Lab, directly funding student cartography internships. Jim has also been a key supporter of the lab.
Join the match: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab
There's a subfleet ased out of GUM that fly to routes like Okinawa, Ulanbataar, etc ex-NRT in addition to running their south Pacific island hopper route.
Here is a stock image that appears to be the basemap for this: www.vecteezy.com/vector-art/5...
Examples indexed in stock collections appear to go back to 2017 according to Tineye results.
Not sure if it's nearby, but Proud Mary is amazing in Melbourne. One of my favorite breakfast experiences on the planet.
We're so excited about a new opportunity to support the GeoGraphics Lab @pennstategeography.bsky.social - our alumnus Robert Myers has committed up to $25,000 in a 1:1 match. These funds propel student cartographers working on mapping projects for community partners: raise.psu.edu/GeoGraphicsLab
