Michael J. Morgan
An interactive story map overviewing Pennsylvania's current population and the areas that drive it, along with a quick population change animation, and finally a case study on football gameday traffic at Penn State University.

Ellen J. Platts
What can heritage teach us about climate change, and how we can take action? This online exhibit illustrates the climate change-related impacts, challenges, and opportunities of tourism at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The tool is designed to inform the general public, educators, policymakers, site managers, and tourists about how the climate crisis is already affecting their lives, how they might be contributing to this crisis, and what can be done to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

Sam McCormally

"Connecting the Corridor" is a story map that explores the neighborhoods along the route of the Purple Line, a light rail under construction in Maryland. The story map uses photographs, charts, and interactive maps to explore how the historical legacy of racial discrimination continues to shape the region. Purple Line advocates hope that the line, connecting two areas that were intentionally divided by policy, will help foster a more widely-shared economic prosperity and help counter residential segregation.

Miles C Morgan

The extreme disposability of clothing and textiles in contemporary society has reached a critical degree. Around 10 million tons of textile ends up in landfills each year, contributing to water, soil, and atmospheric pollution. Plus, with the ever increasing production of textile, the issue is only growing. In this story map we analyze causes, effects, and possible solutions surrounding this issue.

Joseph Robert Galarraga

Lead data from Baltimore, MD is the perfect case study to demonstrate how environmental exposures, and subsequently disparities in health, flowed from policy decisions. Redlining can be understood as a practice in which the Federal Housing Administration rated Black neighborhoods as high risk to prevent people of color from getting mortgages and moving into wealthier, Whiter neighborhoods. Due to these racist policies spanning back to the early 1900s, Black Baltimoreans are more likely to be affected by lead poisoning today.

Saad Mukhtar

This project is a continuation of previous research on the oral history of breaking. Breaking is now an Olympic sport and will debut in Paris in 2024. However, there is limited information about the practitioners and scholars of the dance. In the 1990s, dancers released solo travel documentaries, including montages of themselves and other dancers while traveling, then distributed the tapes within a networked community. By mapping the origin of the videotapes, community members and the general public will better understand the spatial relationship between dance styles and how these styles are currently adapted.

Jan-Michael James Archer

This web mapper highlights relative occurrences of environmental hazards and locally unwanted land uses (aka "LULUs") alongside population health outcomes and sociodemographic data to visualize environmental injustice throughout Maryland. The MD EJSCORE model incorporates 22 indicators to produce a percentile ranking for each census tract in Maryland. In 2020, four new functions for screening and visualizing environmental justice indicators were added: the Select Feature and EJScreenChart, Side-by-Side Mapper, Report tool, and Base Map Selector. MD EJSCREEN can be used by local policymakers, regulators, and community leaders in a decision-support capacity to inform strategies for reducing environmental injustice.

Jaemin Eun

The Plant Patent Metadata Portal is a resource created by the University of Maryland Libraries to keep track of US Plant patents. The Libraries, designated by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as the College Park Patent & Trademark Resource Center (PTRC), hopes to assist other PTRCs in making color Plant Patent images easily available to browse and search.

Amy S. Heath

To Relate reveals the homelands of Native American Tribes who were Indigenous to Texas and explains their defined relationships to one another. The exhibit features an original video about the National Park Service Historic Trail that goes through Austin, called El Camino Real de los Tejas. The El Camino Real de los Tejas original Native American trail routes developed into roads and highways, travel through cemeteries, parks and golf courses, and are near high schools, fresh water springs, and recreation areas which are actively used today. This project also used advanced GIS imagery and maps to illustrate historical concepts and identify historic Native American village sites in a major metropolitan city.

Michael Henry

A story map highlighting the broadcast locations of the radio program Vox Pop, which traveled around the United States interviewing men, women, and children during the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the early post-war period.