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Geography Awareness Week

On Being a Geography Major

This blog is written by National Geographic Education Social Media & Promotion Intern, Amelia Tidona, as a part of the Geography Awareness blog-a-thon. For more information about Geography Awareness Week visit, http://ow.ly/qRPvt. Hey! It’s Amelia again, current Social Media & Promotion Intern for National Geographic Education.  As a recent college graduate coming from a small liberal arts school in rural upstate New York, I’ll admit the … Continue reading On Being a Geography Major

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#GreatNature: Celebrate Your Neighbors this September

This blog post was written by Justine Kendall, National Geographic Education staff. We’re sharing National Geographic staff and friends’ stories about nature to celebrate the Great Nature Project. To share your own nature photos of plants and animals with National Geographic, visit greatnatureproject.org.  What is Great Nature? To some of our explorers it’s a very, very close-up picture of a snake. To others it’s a regal … Continue reading #GreatNature: Celebrate Your Neighbors this September

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What it’s like to work at National Geographic

Living in Washington, D.C., when meeting a person for the first time the conversation often goes like this: X: Hi, I’m X. Sam: Hi, I’m Sam. X: So, what do you do? Sam: I work at National Geographic. X: No way! What do you do there? The truth is, it’s hard to answer that question: “What do you do there?” In the simplest sense, the … Continue reading What it’s like to work at National Geographic

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Here comes goodbye

2010-05-18_0834938.JPGWell, faithful readers craving geographical knowledge: The time has come for me to bid you farewell.

It has been a fun ride, and I have enjoyed each and every moment immensely.  I remember quite clearly January 17 when I rode the Washington, D.C. mass transit system known as the “Metro” for the first time by myself and walked through the doors of the National Geographic Society’s M Street Building to meet eight other Geography Interns “under the stars”  (that is, in the building’s main lobby, which has a ceiling display of lights that looks like stars). Today, I will exit the way I came in–but with many new friends and a mountain of new memories to accompany me on my next adventure.

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Geography In the News

GIS pioneers awarded Alexander Graham Bell Award

The National Geographic Society  recently awarded Alexander Graham Bell Medals to GIS pioneers Dr. Roger Tomlinson and Jack Dangermond. 

The Alexander Graham Bell Medal is named after the inventor, who also served as the second president of the National Geographic society.  It is awarded for extraordinary achievement in geographic research. 

Bell’s great-grandson, National Geographic Society Chairman Gilbert M. Grosvenor presented the medals to Tomlinson and Dangermond at the ESRI International User Conference on July 12, 2010. 

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