Stories indexed under: Geography

Total: 8

  • Curiosities: How many people can the Earth support? Oct. 2, 2008
  • Wisconsin aerial photos: A modern update for a historic collection Sept. 25, 2008 As visitor after visitor to the Arthur H. Robinson Map Library came to use a 70-year old collection of historic photos of the Wisconsin landscape, Jaime Stoltenberg realized that something needed to be done.
  • Stoltenberg Librarian makes modern update to historic collection Sept. 24, 2008 The Department of Geography and UW Digital Collections Center at Memorial Library — with help of a 2008 Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment grant — are digitizing the collection of aerial photos of the state of Wisconsin, taken by the USDA from 1937–41, and creating a Web portal to make the content more publicly accessible.
  • Screen capture from online diet map Geography students put local foods on the map May 14, 2008 As temperatures warm, farm fields begin to green and outdoor farmers' markets get under way, the time is ripe for thinking about local foods. For Madison residents, finding locally produced foods is now just a mouse click away.
  • Lakeshore preserve Web site wins ‘Best of 2007’ award June 1, 2007 The interactive Web site for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Lakeshore Nature Preserve has garnered another national award.
  • UW-Madison geographer receives achievement award April 17, 2007 James Knox, Evjue-Bascom Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded the Presidential Achievement Award by the Association of American Geographers.
  • Online lakeshore map wins national award March 7, 2007 An online, interactive Web site that helps decipher the Lakeshore Nature Preserve has won an award that puts the University of Wisconsin-Madison student-driven project at the forefront of map design in the United States.
  • Geography professor honored with lifetime achievement award Feb. 20, 2007 Longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Waltraud Brinkmann has been selected as the recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Climate Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers.