Environmental maps
see also for information by place
General Resources
NASA Earth Observatory Global and images, maps for fire, snow, rainfall, vegetation, temperature, particles... 11/19. ****
Guerrilla Cartography Water atlas Food Atlas 11/19. (download)
Strange Maps on BigThink, example US states renamed for countries with similar GDP.
Town Charts appears to be used by people to look at different aspects, for example, income inequality in SF or demographics.
ESRI,GIS Hub (community collaboration) (audio interview). GIS Day is in November, 6k schools, 3 million kids, citizen engagement, coordinating with city gov't. ESRE.com free Software and training. great examples. 3/18. ****
World Maps
Worldmapper ***
Trump Wants to Eliminate NASA’s Climate Research Programs: These Pictures Show What a Loss That Would Be: Excellent update, overview with NASA images and graphs 3/18. ***
In honor of fifth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster Interactive Map Details What You Need to Know About the World’s Nuclear Power Plants.
95% of World's Population Breathes Unsafe Air map, 4/18 see Air.
Google Earth (see also Place). 20 Stunning Photos of Google’s Underwater Street View
New Google climate map initiative with the Obama Administration 3/14.
New Google Earth map with an interactive animation showing how climate change and global temperature rises could affect our world over the next 100 years. The Google Earth Timelapse Guide to a Changing Planet.
Google Earth stops mountaintop removal.
Map Shows How Your Consumption Habits Impact Wildlife Thousands of Miles Away 1/17. See Wildlife and Consumption.
Astronauts Throw New Light on Earth’s Energy Budget German scientists have identified a new way to measure the planet’s energy budget: the brightness of the city lights. And the first results clear up one or two points. American city-dwellers emit “many times” more light than their counterparts in Germany, while western German citizens tend to dim the lights more than those in the former Eastern Bloc. (CA is at Eur levels b/c of 1st Gov Brown admin).
Groundbreaking Maps Detail Acidity of the Earth’s Oceans 11/14.
On World Water Day, the World Resources Institute (WRI) has released a study that maps for the first time the water resources available to support fracking in the world’s largest shale exploration areas. 9/14.
Thanks to shrinking sea ice, National Geographic puts global warming on the map literally. 6/14
Plastic gyres see also Plastic 7/14.
Effect of XL pipeline spill 7/14.
Timelapse: glacier retreat is just one of the many stunning phenomena that can be observed using the tools of the recently launched Timelapse project. In conjunction with the U.S. Geological Survey, NASA and TIME, Google released millions of satellite images that cover a quarter century. 4/14.
World map greenhouse gas emissions (per capita?) 1/14.
NASA multimedia sample global tour of fire. Earth at night more NASA Earth from space (video).
Before and After: how we have changed the planet.
AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment
Various downloadable maps on eco-region, status
Atlas of Global Inequality Ben Crow and others UC folk are creating this. Published by Myriad, which has a variety of atlases on different topics.
Disease maps For example cancer and toxics
New map shows how gold-obsessed libertarians are screwing up the rainforest.
Ecopreneurist website has The Global Transition to a New Economy world map of innovative projects which challenge business as usual and make a contribution to the systemic change to the world economy which is urgently required.
Strange and sometimes silly maps e.g., Map of death.
National Geographic has a good, but disturbing, interactive map showing what 216 feet of sea level rise will do to coastlines around the world.
Reunite Gondwanaland! (or Pangea). (bumpersticker)
United States
The UCSC University Library is pleased to announce the acquisition of Social Explorer from Oxford University Press. Many faculty across the campus have expressed interest in this interactive resource, which makes it possible to use U.S. Census Data to create custom maps and find demographic data for both current and historical census years. 3/14.
USA land use 7/18.
Bombs in Your Backyard 12/17 military ordnance and toxic chemicals ***.
EPA Adds Prison Locations to Its Environmental Justice Mapping Tool see EJ.
2.9 Million Children in the U.S. Are Threatened by Toxic Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Development 9/17 map.
'Threat Map' Aims to Highlight the Worst of Oil and Gas Air Pollution: 6/16.
Realtime map 10/15. see Fire.
How Close Do You Live to a Toxic Waste Site? 10/15. direct link.
Environmental Scorecard: How Your Elected Officials Voted in 2012 by LCV.
Town Charts appears to be used by people to look at different aspects of US, for example, income inequality in SF or demographics.
U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is introducing interactive maps (oil, mines, powerplants) that combine real-time data feeds from NOAA's National Hurricane Center, video demo TRMS) 2/14.
Check the climate forecast in your county new USGS tool.
MapCruzin Green maps by UCSC alum Mike Meuser. ***
Oil railcars 7/14. ***
CDC Map Reveals ‘Most Distinctive’ Cause Of Death State by State:Florida has higher rate of HIV-caused deaths than other states with 15,000 deaths in the studied period. Although only 22 deaths were caused by syphilis in Louisiana, the disease is the most distinctive cause of death in that state. The map also may suggest cultural differences and various public health challenges across the states. For instance, the most distinctive cause of death in Oregon, Nevada and New Mexico is legal intervention. In Tennessee and Alabama, it is accidental discharge of firearms, and in Arizona and Arkansas, discharge of firearms with undetermined intent. In New York and Connecticut, the most distinctive cause of death is inflammatory diseases of female pelvic organs, which may suggest challenges in women’s healthcare in these states. 5/15.
Overfishing/bycatch: 9 Most Wasteful Fisheries in the U.S. Revealed map & graphs. 3/14
U.S. Wildfire Interactive Shows Rising Temperatures, Less Snowfall Are Leading To More Fires western states map and infographic 7/13.
Clean Energy map CA rocks!
New Food Desert map 3/13.
US Geological Survey eco maps Also see California site with links to e.g. drought maps.
"The Greatest Paper Map of the United States You’ll Ever See" from Slate magazine. alt link to creator
Video of "flyover" of Columbia River
Map of social justice and environmental groups in Paul Hawken's Blessed Unrest
New map shows 4 of 5 Americans affected by climate disasters 2/12
Climate Central includes sea level rise interactive map.
These 9 Maps Should Absolutely Outrage Southerners various socio-economic factors 3/14.
California
Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen) identifies California communities by census tract that are disproportionately burdened by, and vulnerable to, multiple sources of pollution. see Environmental Justice 11/18.
Atlas of CA by UCSC's Suresh Lodha. **** Science Library General Collection G1525. W35 201
USGS maps.
Animated CA drought map 8/14.
State of CA Environment & Resources has a great deal of info, including environmental maps on many topics.
Cal-Adapt was built specifically to address projections about climate change in California, designed by Google, in collaboration with the California Energy Commission, the U.S. Geological Survey, several California universities and others. NEW
Urban forest map San Francisco.
Here’s what your city (LA) will look like when the ice sheets melt 12/14.
CA US Geological Survey info on toxins, water quality, erosion etc]. Also see [1]
Climate Central collection.
Clean Energy map CA rocks!
Plan to break CA into six states 3/14 much sillier than Ecotopia.
Historical maps
When California was an island 4/13.
Cloudy, with a Chance of Nazgûl: Climate Maps of Middle-Earth
