Best Geography Podcasts (2025)

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Hal Brands, "The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World" (Norton, 2025) 52:28

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We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long, violent Eurasian century. That giant, resource-rich landmass possesses the bulk of the global population, industrial might, and potential military power; it touches all four of the great oceans. Eurasia is a strategic prize without equal―which is why …

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2.5.25 28:00

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William A. Selby, "The California Sky Watcher: Understanding Weather Patterns and What Comes Next" (Heyday Books, 2024) 50:57

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Often stereotyped as the land of unflaggingly perfect weather, California has a world-renowned reputation for sunny blue skies and infinitely even-keeled temperatures. But the real story of the Golden State's weather is vastly more complex. From the scorching heat of Death Valley to the coastal redwoods' dripping in dew, California is home to a diz…

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1.29.25 28:09

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1.22.25 28:13

14d ago28:13

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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 753

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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 753 12 January 2025 CES, AR/VR/xR, and wearables Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) AVSP – Episode 753 Transcript (docx) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode753.mp3 News: Copernicus Sentinel-2C commissioned (copernicus site) NC no longer requires drone test U.S. Navy surface fleet tr…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 753 36:47

17d ago36:47

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News: Copernicus Sentinel-2C commissioned (copernicus site) NC no longer requires drone test U.S. Navy surface fleet trains on GPS alternatives Landsat's 12 millionth image! Topic: This week we talk about how this year's CES coverage prompted conversations centered around AR/VR/xR and how the broader wearables market will like impact the utility an…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 753 36:47

17d ago36:47

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News: Copernicus Sentinel-2C commissioned (copernicus site) NC no longer requires drone test U.S. Navy surface fleet trains on GPS alternatives Landsat's 12 millionth image! Topic: This week we talk about how this year's CES coverage prompted conversations centered around AR/VR/xR and how the broader wearables market will like impact the utility an…

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1.15.25 28:10

21d ago28:10

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By Radio Eye

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Isaac Stanley-Becker, "Europe Without Borders: A History" (Princeton UP, 2025) 45:14

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Forty years ago, Schengen - a wine-making village at the tripoint border of Luxembourg, France, and Germany - made European history when diplomats from these countries, Belgium, and the Netherlands struck a deal to scale back their mutual border checks. "The event at Schengen went unnoticed by much of the European press," writes Isaac Stanley-Becke…

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Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks 58:52

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Telematics Data is Reshaping Our Understanding of Road Networks In this episode MIT Professor Hari Balakrishnan explains how Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) is transforming traditional road network analysis by layering dynamic behavioural data onto static map geometries. Telematics data creates "living maps" that go beyond traditional road geomet…

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1.8.25 28:05

28d ago28:05

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By Radio Eye

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Jewel Of Arabia with Mark Evans MBE FRGS 18:02

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Listen to Mark Evans, MBE FRGS talk about his incredible 30-day journey across most of Oman’s coast, from Ras Al Hadd to Salalah, retracing the steps of British explorer Bertram Thomas’ 1928 expedition.By Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Schools

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Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024) 46:17

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In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about education and leisure. A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour (Stanford UP, 2024) combines —in dy…

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Minisode: Christmas Quizzes 2024

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Audio: Christmas Quizzes 2024 https://media.blubrry.com/80_days_an_exploration/content.blubrry.com/80_days_an_exploration/80Days_Christmas2024.mp3 In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast, we’re exploring (in the format of festive trivia and quizzes) winter celebrations from around the world, and diving into our back-catalogue to test our…

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Emily Mitchell-Eaton, "New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United States" (U Georgia Press, 2024) 1:14:59

2M ago1:14:59

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In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of “visa-free” migration to t…

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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 752

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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 752 17 December 2024 Discussing four questions Jesse had this week (NGCollaborative, OSM, drones, Syria) Click to directly download MP3 YouTube (audio only) AVSP – Episode 752 Transcript (docx) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode752.mp3 News: World Lidar Day (Feb 12) World Magnetic Model (WMM) updat…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 752 36:43

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News: World Lidar Day (Feb 12) World Magnetic Model (WMM) updated Drones to map rare plants in Hawaii Web Corner: Whatsapp Chatmap with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) Topic: Discussion around questions Jesse has had this week What is the National Geospatial Collaborative But OSM is infrastructure!!! Drone news impacts Are we nearing the end of th…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 752 36:43

2M ago36:43

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News: World Lidar Day (Feb 12) World Magnetic Model (WMM) updated Drones to map rare plants in Hawaii Web Corner: Whatsapp Chatmap with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) Topic: Discussion around questions Jesse has had this week What is the National Geospatial Collaborative But OSM is infrastructure!!! Drone news impacts Are we nearing the end of th…

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12.18.24 28:18

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Stephanie Rutherford, "Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada" (McGill-Queen's Press, 2022) 53:53

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A wolf’s howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and free, wolves have been at the heart of Canada’s national story since long before Confederation. Vi…

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Kenny Cupers, "The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design" (U Texas Press, 2024) 1:21:28

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The Earth That Modernism Built: Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design (University of Texas Press, 2024) by Dr. Kenny Cupers traces the rise of planetary design to an imperialist discourse about the influence of the earthly environment on humanity. Dr. Cupers argues that to understand how the earth became an object of design, we need to radically …

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12.11.24 28:16

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Susan Gaunt Stearns. "Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade" (U Virginia Press, 2024) 1:03:20

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Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question. Spain controlled the Mississippi River, closing it to American trade in 1784, and western men on t…

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Jacob Flaws, "Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp" (U Nebraska Press, 2024) 1:00:11

2M ago1:00:11

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Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (U Nebraska Press, 2024) utilizes testimonies, oral histories, and recollections from Jewish, German, and Polish witnesses to create a holistic representation of the Treblinka death camp during its operation. This narrative rejects the historical misconception that Treblinka was an isolated Nazi extermina…

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Socotra (S6.08)

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Audio: Socotra In this episode of 80 Days: An Exploration Podcast we’ll be talking about Socotra, an island in the Indian Ocean, lying between the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea. It lies 380 kilometres (205 nautical miles) south of the Arabian Peninsula and 240 kilometres (130 nautical miles) east of Somalia. Geographically part of Africa, it has…

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Hivemapper 51:29

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In this week’s episode, I’m thrilled to welcome back Ariel Seidman, founder of HiveMapper. Ariel was my very first podcast guest back in 2019, and HiveMapper has come a long way since then! We explore how HiveMapper has evolved from a drone-based mapping system to a cutting-edge platform collecting street-level data at a global scale. Ariel shares …

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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 751

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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 751 1 December 2024 Mostly data news Click to directly download MP3 YouTube(audio only) AVSP – Episode 751 Transcript (docx) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode751.mp3 News: Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022) Foursquare open source places Niantic’s LGM goal Google Location History WebCo…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 751 34:32

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News: Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022) Foursquare open source places Niantic’s LGM goal Google Location History WebCorner: URHere Podcast from 2021By VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 751 34:32

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News: Microsoft Places (a discussion topic from 2022) Foursquare open source places Niantic’s LGM goal Google Location History WebCorner: URHere Podcast from 2021By VerySpatial

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12.4.24 28:11

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Ptolemy Dean, "Streetscapes: Historic Routes Through English Towns" (Lund Humphries, 2024) 43:56

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At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that the lessons learned about the creation of a general attractive ‘townscape’ or ‘streetscape’ have become forgotten or obscured. Featuring 26 of the mos…

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11.27.24 28:14

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Tom Scott-Smith, "Fragments of Home: Refugee Housing and the Politics of Shelter" (Stanford UP, 2024) 1:02:07

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Abandoned airports. Shipping containers. Squatted hotels. These are just three of the many unusual places that have housed refugees in the past decade. The story of international migration is often told through personal odysseys and dangerous journeys, but when people arrive at their destinations a more mundane task begins: refugees need a place to…

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Alice Rudge, "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest" (U Nebraska Press, 2024) 1:13:46

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How do we confront difference and change in a rapidly shifting environment? Many indigenous peoples are facing this question in their daily lives. Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest (U Nebraska Press, 2024) explores the lives of Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the b…

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Timothy E. Nelson, "Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930" (Texas Tech UP, 2023) 54:11

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By most accounts, Blackdom, New Mexico existed from 1900-1930. However, as historian and artist Dr. Timothy Nelson argues in his new book, the Black colony founded in the then-territory of New Mexico has a much longer history and many afterlives, even after the residents moved away. In Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 19…

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Allen James Fromherz, "The Center of the World: A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present" (U California Press, 2024) 54:04

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Whether it’s in commerce or conflict, today’s world pays rapt attention to the Persian Gulf. But the centrality of the Gulf to world history stretches far beyond the oil age–its ancient ports created the first proper trading system and the launching point for the spread of global Islam. Allen James Fromherz’s new book The Center of the World: A Glo…

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Julian Hanna, "Island" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 31:20

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Darwin called the Galápagos archipelago “a little world within itself,” unaffected by humans and set on its own evolutionary path – strange, diverse, and unique. Islands are repositories of unique cultures and ways of living, seed banks built up in relative isolation. Island is an archipelago of ideas, drawing from research and first-hand experienc…

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Sasikumar Harikrishnan, "Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala" (Routledge, 2023) 1:17:29

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What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms and libraries reify-or subvert-dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that Social Spaces and the Public Sphere:: A Spatial-history of Modernity in Kerala (Routledge, 2023) explores through a…

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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 750

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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 750 17 November 2024 We talk to John Nolte about the rebranding from URISA to Geospatial Professional Network Click to directly download MP3 YouTube(audio only) AVSP – Episode 750 Transcript (docx) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode750.mp3 News: Esri Updates ArcGIS Pro 3.4 ArcGIS Online November Au…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 750 45:28

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News: Esri Updates ArcGIS Pro 3.4 ArcGIS Online November Autodesk investment in GAMMA AR MS Earth Copilot RFP out for 2025-29 Landsat Team Topic: This week Jesse sat down with current URISA president, John Nolte, to discuss the rebranding and transition to the Geospatial Professional Network Events: Geo Week: 10-12 February, Denver Commercial UAV E…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 750 45:28

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News: Esri Updates ArcGIS Pro 3.4 ArcGIS Online November Autodesk investment in GAMMA AR MS Earth Copilot RFP out for 2025-29 Landsat Team Topic: This week Jesse sat down with current URISA president, John Nolte, to discuss the rebranding and transition to the Geospatial Professional Network Events: Geo Week: 10-12 February, Denver Commercial UAV E…

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11.20.24 28:10

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Adam Bobbette, "The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java" (Duke UP, 2023) 43:08

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In The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java (Duke UP, 2023), Adam Bobbette tells the story of how modern theories of the earth emerged from the slopes of Indonesia's volcanoes. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, scientists became concerned with protecting the colonial plantation economy from the unpredictable bursts and shudders of …

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11.13.24 28:02

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A VerySpatial Podcast – Episode 749

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A VerySpatial Podcast Shownotes – Episode 749 3 November 2024 Catching up on news Click to directly download MP3 YouTube(audio only) AVSP – Episode 749 Transcript (docx) http://traffic.libsyn.com/avsp/AVSP_Episode749.mp3 News: Gemini coming to Google’s mapping apps (from Google) Unity 6 Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android Planet Releases Ana…

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 749 29:28

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News: Gemini coming to Google’s mapping apps (from Google) Unity 6 Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product Windows 10 security for $30 GISP accredited by CESB Events: International GNSS Day: Oct 23 annuallyBy VerySpatial

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A VerySpatial Podcast - Episode 749 29:28

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News: Gemini coming to Google’s mapping apps (from Google) Unity 6 Mapquest releases Private Maps for Android Planet Releases Analysis-Ready PlanetScope Product Windows 10 security for $30 GISP accredited by CESB Events: International GNSS Day: Oct 23 annuallyBy VerySpatial

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Tracking Elephants 45:36

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Tracking elephants in Southern Africa’s Kavango-Zambezi (KAZA) region, the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world. Lead scientist Robin Naidoo from the World Wildlife Fund-US explains the complex, cross-border collaboration required to understand elephant movements across vast landscapes and the role of GNSS. Connected with Robin http…

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11.6.24 28:05

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