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Upper Susquehanna Watershed Dashboard Launched

December 15, 2021 by Editorial Staff Leave a Comment

Upper Susquehanna Watershed Progress DashboardDEC has launched an ArcGIS Dashboard to provide stakeholders with a simple and direct platform to access data and information relevant to the Upper Susquehanna Basin and Chesapeake Bay TMDL in New York State. [Read more…] about Upper Susquehanna Watershed Dashboard Launched

Filed Under: Mohawk Valley, Nature, Western NY Tagged With: Chesapeake, DEC, Geography, pollution, Science, Susquehanna River, water quality

Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake

September 25, 2019 by Liz Covart Leave a Comment

ben_franklins_worldHow do empires come to be? How are empires made and who makes them?

What role do maps play in making empires?

Christian Koot is a Professor of History at Towson University and the author of A Biography of a Map in Motion: Augustine Herrman’s Chesapeake (NYU Press, 2017). Christian has researched and written two books about the seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch World go better understand empires and how they are made. He joins us in this episode of Ben Franklin’s World to take us through his research and to share what one specific map, Augustine Herrman’s 1673 map Virginia and Maryland, reveals about empire and empire making. [Read more…] about Mapping Empire in the Chesapeake

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Biography, British Empire, Chesapeake, Dutch History, Early America, Early American History, Empires, Mapmakers, Maps, Maryland, New Netherland, Podcasts, Virginia

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