120: Urban Growth in Southwest Salt Lake

Here's the latest Geog 120 Web Map. We looked at aerial photography from three dates, 10 years apart, to investigate the rapid growth of the Southwest Salt Lake Valley over the past 20 years. Wow! View the Full Size Map

Geog 120: Mapping the LDS Church in Latin America

Here's the next great interactive map my World Regional Geography students are working on. This one maps the distribution of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Latin America, where its strength is second only to the United States.

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Geog 120: Invent your own Development Index

For this assignment, my students are using statistics from the World Bank to invent their own index of human and/or economic development for Africa. Here is an example, based on GNI per Capita (PPP), Life Expectancy, and the Percent of GDP in the Service Sector. Look at this awesomeness!

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Data Source:
World Bank, "2013 World Development Indicators," World DataBank, http://databank.worldbank.org/

120 Map 3: Asia Natural Hazards and Resiliency

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Asia has lots of natural disasters.

Here are a couple cities that are trying to do something about it:
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Sources:
Global Volcanism Program, 2013. Volcanoes of the World, v. 4.4.1. Venzke, E (ed.). Smithsonian Institution. Downloaded 15 Oct 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5479/si.GVP.VOTW4-2013

United States Geological Survey, 2015. ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2015. International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), tropical cyclone data. http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/