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Earl Gregg Swem Library

Coastal Topography: Northeast Atlantic Coast, Post-Hurricane Sandy, 2012

Categories: Environment,Maps/Geography,Natural Resources,Virginia Issues,Weather/Disasters

http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/765/pubs765/index.html

 

Contains dune elevations and mean-high-water shoreline position datasets for most sandy beaches from Cape Lookout, North Carolina to Fire Island, New York.  From the U.S. Geological Survey

 

Visualizing Virginia’s Changing Electorate: Mapping Presidential Elections from 2000 to 2012

Categories: Elections/Campaigns,Maps/Geography,Presidency,Virginia Issues

http://www.coopercenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Virginia%20News%20Letter%202013%20Vol.%2089%20No%202.pdf

Maps the changing geography of support for Republicans and Democrats by use of population cartograms to better identify the new political battlegrounds.  From the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia

 

Groundwater Depletion in the United States: 1900-2008

Categories: Environment,Maps/Geography,Natural Resources,Statistics

http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2013/5079/SIR2013-5079.pdf

Evaluates long-term cumulative depletion volumes in 40 separate aquifers in the U.S. Finds the rate of groundwater depletion has increased markedly since about 1950 with maximum rates occurring during the most recent period.   From the U.S. Geological Survey

 

BISON: Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation

Categories: Animals/Wildlife,Maps/Geography,Science/Technology

http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/

Online tool for locating species in the U.S. and its territories.  Offers more than 100 million mapped records of nearly every living species nationwide.  From the U.S. Geological Survey

 

Map of Assessed Shale Gas in the United States, 2012

Categories: Energy,Geology/Mining,Maps/Geography

http://pubs.usgs.gov//dds/dds-069/dds-069-z/DDS-69-Z_pamphlet.pdf

Offers map of U.S. with estimates of potential volumes of undiscovered gas within shale-gas assessment units.  Also includes a historical perspective of shale gas activity in the U.S.  From the U.S. Geological Survey

 

 

Hampton Roads MSA: Analysis of Recent Delineation

Categories: Maps/Geography,Population/Census,Transportation,Urban Issues,Virginia Issues

http://www.hrpdcva.gov/news/index/view/id/1520/

Explains that change of status for Williamsburg and James City County from central counties to urbanized area caused Surry County to be dropped from Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News metropolitan area based on commuting patterns.  For similar reasons, Gates County North Carolina was added.  From the Hampton Roads Plan District Commission

 

Census Flows Mapper

Categories: Immigration/Migration,Maps/Geography,Population/Census,Statistics

http://flowsmapper.geo.census.gov/flowsmapper/flowsmapper.html

A web mapping application that provides users with an interface to view, save, and print county-to-county migration flows maps of the United. States.  From the Census Bureau

 

Census 2011 Constituency Results: England and Wales

Categories: Great Britain,Maps/Geography,Population/Census,Statistics

http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/RP13-20.pdf

Key census statistics for the population of each of 573 parliamentary constituency areas in England and Wales.  Also has sections on new and changed questions.  House of Commons Library Research Paper 13/20

 

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