Category Archives: Visualization

Cultivating the spread of resilience thinking

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Garry Peterson

It is great to see resilience thinking spreading. The cooperative Cultivate Ireland has created a new video on community resilience for its ‘resilience month.’ The film uses surfing change as a metaphor for different aspects of resilience building. The video … Continue reading →

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Loss of Old Arctic Sea Ice

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Old sea ice, which had survived several summers, used to dominate the sea ice of the winter Arctic. However, today less than half of the sea ice at winter maximum has survived at least one summer.  NOAA’s climatewatch has a … Continue reading →

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Yukon Delta from Space

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Garry Peterson

A great picture of the organic complexity of the Yukon River Delta from NASA EOS.  They write: The Yukon River originates in British Columbia, Canada, and flows through Yukon Territory before entering Alaska. In southwestern Alaska, the Yukon Delta spreads … Continue reading →

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More conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Following up on my post yesterday on conceptual diagrams of social-ecolgoical systems (SES), below are some more SES conceptual diagrams from the journal Ecology and Society. I did a google search that found a bunch of nice and not so … Continue reading →

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Conceptualizing Social-Ecological Systems

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Garry Peterson

I’ve recently been teaching about social-ecological systems and because I think it is important to conceptualize systems graphically these discussions caused me to reflect on the conceptual diagrams of social-ecological systems Conceptualizing something as a social-ecological system hides some aspects … Continue reading →

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Scanning the Internet for Ecological Early Warnings

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Victor Galaz

If Google Flu Trends can, why can’t we? The possibility to mine large amounts of individual reports and local news posted on the Internet as early warning signs of pending epidemic outbreaks has been a part of global epidemic governance … Continue reading →

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5 000 000 Books

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Garry Peterson

Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel discuss Google Labs’ NGram Viewer. In their TED talk what can you learn from 5 million books?

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if history = people x years

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Garry Peterson

From Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist. SOME people recite history from above, recording the grand deeds of great men. Others tell history from below, arguing that one person’s life is just as much a part of … Continue reading →

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Dammed Anthropocene

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Garry Peterson

James Syvitski a geology professor at the University of Colorado created this 200-year compilation of dams built in the USA. He used it to illustrated his talk on the age of the human-shaped Earth at the Geological Society of London … Continue reading →

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Jellyfish

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Garry Peterson

From Monterey Bay Aquarium a beautiful jellyfish video – there’s no such thing as a jellyfish. By all accounts, jellyfish are creatures that kill people, eat microbes, grow to tens of meters, filter phytoplankton, take over ecosystems, and live forever. … Continue reading →

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