Rhumbline

03/29/2024

Proud to support our local land trust Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust—they’ve been instrumental to almost everything you can imagine related to the environment and our home landscapes: stewardship, education, outreach, conservation, and some of the most beautiful places to recreate outdoors in coastal Maine. We hope to see you at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival at Lincoln Theater next Thursday night! https://www.facebook.com/Lincoln.theater.org

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust invites you to the 7th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival on Tour at Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Maine! Kick back and enjoy a hand-picked selection of the just-released 2024 films, and enter to win great giveaways from Coastal Rivers and Wild & Scenic's Natio...

11/20/2023

Thanks to Tenji Aquarium Design + Build for supporting this imagery for Hearty Roots — a random crop of it shown here for the sharing-of-beauty’s-sake. Go ahead and Google "crown-shyness." Great work by Forrest, our FAA drone pilot, and Rhumbline's new Deputy Director.

" 'Crown-shyness is so striking, don't you think?' [...] Despite their number and close proximity, none of the treetops were touching one another. It was as though someone had taken an eraser and run it cleanly through the canopy, transforming each tree into its own small island contained within a definitive border of blue sky. [...] It wasn't that the trees were unhealthy or their foliage sparse. On the contrary, every tree was lush and full, bursting with green life. Yet somehow, in the absence of contact, they knew exactly where to stop growing outward so that they might give their neighbors space to thrive. " —Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

11/10/2022

No map too small (-: Check out this beautiful new exhibit at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute, designed by Tenji Aquarium Design + Build. Thanks to Edward Seidel for thinking of us for this small contribution and to Kate Talano for helping Rhumbline compile these reference maps back in 2020. Just for fun we've thrown in some Landsat imagery over the same extent so you can see the difference between a "map" of coastal Texas's marine habitat and the same view at 35,000 ft ... give or take a little (-; ... Happy Thursday

10/20/2022

Pleased to publish this post, written by Leo Sovell-Fernandez back in January, a primer on how to use the Opportunity Atlas—you'll find a few click-by-click video tutorials and a general walk-through. Thanks again to Swarthmore College's The Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Dr. Keith Reeves for working with Middlebury College Geography Department for making that internship possible.

Middlebury student and Rhumbline intern Leo Sovell-Fernandez reviews the website The Opportunity Atlas and provides a brief tutorial. The website was created by researchers at the Census Bureau and Harvard University and enables users to analyze the geography of social mobility in the US.

07/26/2022

We're pleased to announce that we're opening our *online store* today. https://rhumbline.us/geomosaics Only one thing for sale! But many more to come. Our flagship product is the — beautiful aerials compiled and integrated into one seamless composition. If you live in and want to see one in person, give us a shout. They're pretty neat.

10/05/2021

First host of a guest podcast "the Arc Towards Justice" on the new Sandbox Atlas series, "Mapping the Color of (In)Justice." Keith Reeves and Swarthmore College alumnus Jack Pokorny look at the story behind the youngest person to be put to death by the State of Pennsylvania, Alexander Williams, a 16-year-old African-American boy. 14-minute listen, 10-minute read.

https://www.sandboxatlas.org/mapping-the-color-of-injustice/atj-1-mystery-in-a-murder