Developing a Culture

Geology

How rocks influence soils, water, industry and more…

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Geography

How location influences climate, rainfall, temperature, and more…

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Flora

How plants shape culture.

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Fauna

How cultures adapt to other animals on the landscape

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News & Information

  • Isla de Providencia
    AKA Isla de los Burros, Isla Lazara, Island of the Martyrs, and ultimately, Isla de Providencia. It was a leprosarium near Maracaibo, on an estuarine lake of the same name. Fun fact: Cataumbo Lightning is a phenomenon that occurs over the lake; aerial displays that last nine hours per day, 150 days per year, make … Continue reading Isla de Providencia
  • Cimarron River, Oklahoma
    Salt. In Central Oklahoma. Why? Geography, of course. And geology too. The Permian Basin is a geologic structure in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas that has sequestered a bunch of salt which dissolves with rainfall and flows out out to the ocean. Here is a place where the river slows down and more evaporation (aided … Continue reading Cimarron River, Oklahoma
  • Indonesian Coastal Fisheries
    Go southwest, or so the arrows seem to suggest. What do the arrows point to? Jakarta, on the island of Java, in the Java Sea, but that’s merely coincidental. This is an area where mangrove roots nurture and protect all sorts of aquatic life. So, the big fish work their way into the mangrove forest … Continue reading Indonesian Coastal Fisheries
  • {null} Island
    This is the most magical place on earth. At least, from a geographer’s standpoint. This is where the Prime Meridian meets the Equator off the shore of Africa in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s not an island, it’s a weather buoy. Maybe it isn’t all that magical, really. The coordinates here are (0,0) using a standard … Continue reading {null} Island
  • Hawthorne Army Depot
    In deserts of rural, western Nevada, by the city of Hawthorne is the army depot. It’s where munitions are manufactured, but more importantly stored in these little isolated bunkers. Armies all over the world store munitions in similar fashion. I had believed that humidity might play into the life expectancy of munitions, and if that’s … Continue reading Hawthorne Army Depot