Flood Map and Flood Zones in New York and New Jersey

I saw this nice and clean map of New York and New Jersey shoreline inundated by Hurricane Sandy - Flooding v. Flood Zones - out of WNYC.

From the site: How Sandy flooded the New York & New Jersey coastlines, compared to storm-surge predictions by hurricane size. Sandy approached as a Category 1.

Mapping options include Actual Flooding and Predicted Surge Zones. The map with the blue regions (above) is zoomed in on Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey. All this blue was once swampy and marshy and probably deemed useless by early industrialists so it was filled in to make ports and housing.

The map was created with MapBox and OpenStreetMap. Thanks for the retweet, TheSteve0.

Google Earth in Education GSA Penrose Special Paper is Out

It's hard to believe that the Google Earth in Geoscience Visualizations Penrose Conference was nearly two years ago? The Penrose Conference Series volume (Google Earth and Virtual Visualizations in Geosicence Education and Research) is out now and thick with amazing work by mostly geoscientists and their use of Google Earth in teaching and research. You should definitely check into it. Here is where you can order it.

From our work presented at the conference, Kim Baldwin and I have a paper in the manuscript. Check it out here in Google Books.