An Atlas of Electricity

An Atlas of Electricity is a classic story map by Esri.

CalTopo

CalTopo is a great tool to quickly display topographic maps, mark routes, get elevation profiles, and even add your own data (as GPX or KML).

Coal and Climate in 1912

Nice article by Andy Revkin: News Coverage of Coal's Link to Global Warming, in 1912.

Treasure Maps

Treasure Maps look like fun (and maybe even useful for teaching) - more about it on Maps Mania.

TanDEM-X DEM

The TanDEM-X DEM appears to be the highest-resolution DEM available for free at 12 m posting. The data seems to be free, but require a proposal - lame.

1850 to 2016

Here's a nice example of a small-multiples infographic design: global temperature changes from 1850 to 2016.

Money Does Grow On Trees!

The Global Hunger Index 2016

The Global Hunger Index 2016 combines an interactive map, traditional report, and easily accessible data back to 2006.

Mapping Unemployment 1990 to 2016

The Waldseemueller Map from 1507

Seen on Maps Mania: An interactive version of Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 map 'Universalis Cosmographia' (very cool!).

D3 in Depth

For my D3 friends: D3 in Depth
If that's too much (and you have money) you can join Learning D3.

The US Energy Mapping System

The US Energy Mapping System is a nice interactive map of all kinds energy-related across the country - you can get/download the data for each of the electricity-generating stations or explore/download the data at the state-level.

And therein lies the problem.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/todays-climate-progress-and-tomorrows-climate-challenges/

Lecture Capture with YouTube Live Streaming

Interesting: How to Use YouTube Live Streaming for Free Lecture Capture, especially if captures the sound (your lecturing) using the built-in mic adequately.

Where To Put 1 Billion People?

Nice article in Nature: Where to put the next billion people. See video below and this map.

Bright Spots - The Good Anthropocene

Mental Modeler

Mental Modeler looks great - maybe a combination of concept mapping and a modeling environment such as Stella II - great for collaborative work on 'wicked' problems. More here:

• Collaborative Science
• ONLINE SOFTWARE HELPS CITIZEN SCIENTISTS SOLVE REAL-WORLD PROBLEMS

Falling Prices For Clean Energy

6 Charts that Will Make You Optimistic About America’s Clean Energy Future is a nice PR piece from the U.S. Department of Energy.

The Map / Tree of Life

Very cool 'maps': The Tree of Life and The Map of Life.

R vs. d3.js

That's the current hipster dilemma: Learning R Versus d3.js for Visualization

Hurricane Matthew

Animated path of Hurricane Matthew (from NOAA).

The Rap Guide to Climate Chaos

By Baba Brinkman

• Fossil Fuel Ballers (feat. Aaron Nazrul)
• What's Beef (feat. Bill Nye)

The US Electric Grid (in real-time)

This is super-cool: U.S. Electric System Operating Data as an interactive map and charts, plus data download. I would appreciate a little tutorial on what is displayed.

Teaching Climate Change With Models And Games

Bush et al. (2016) provide a nice compilation of models and games one can use when teaching climate change.

• EdGCM
• MAGICC/SCENGEN (version 5.3.v2)
• Java Climate Model
• Tim Osborn: Climate models for teaching
• Portable University Model of the Atmosphere (PUMA)
• UCAR Interactives and Simulations
• C-ROADS Climate Change Policy Simulator
• Fate of the World - Online
• EcoChains: Arctic Crisis

The Food Access Research Atlas

The Food Access Research Atlas by the USDA is great for mapping and data access down to the census tract level. It takes a little to get used to the lingo, but that's just the nature of federal data.

Census Data Mapper

The Census Data Mapper is pretty simple and seems to only work at the county level, but it is a quick way to look at census data across the country, grab the data into a MS Excel spreadsheet, and export the map into a PDF.

Are Our Brains Wired to Ignore Climate Change?

STEM and GIS in Higher Education

Here we have the perfect combination: STEM and GIS in Higher Education and Esri is all in with a nice Story Map and an associated e-Book.