Resilient Communities

Esri put together a nice ArcGIS Online site for sharing data and resources around climate change and communities = how do we plan (geodesign) for climate change resilience? Have a look at http://resilience.maps.arcgis.com/home/

Climate Science Investigations (CSI)

Here's another great teaching resource: Climate Science Investigations (CSI). Some of the modules arr still being developed, but this could form a nice framework for a Climate Change class.

Climate Change Impacts

Your contribution to climate change: see your impact on the Earth's vital signs from The Guardian is a pretty slick (and depressing) interactive infographic.

NOAA goes 2 mile!

NOAA just released their new hyper-local HRRR forecast model at 2 mile resolution. As always with NOAA their visualizations are not all that exciting, but the data are all there so I would expect to see a lot of cool data viz happening soon!

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2014/20140930_hrrr.html

The Age of Megacities

Another great Esri Story Map: The Age of Megacities

GIS Cloud

This looks useful (maybe): GIS Cloud - an alternative to ArcGIS Online perhaps? More information here. Also comes with a Mobile Data Collection app that's free to use on 1 device when making a public map.

Class, Education, and Income

The Geography of Class, Education, and Income in the United States is pretty simple: census tract maps of occupation, education, and income displayed as three synchronized panels via an ArcGIS Online web app.

But, combine this with The Divided City and you have a great learning activity: wealthy, educated creative types cluster around the urban core, transit hubs, knowledge institutions, and natural amenities.

(via Maps Mania)

http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/09/the-divided-city/380873