In the August 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again highlighting a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:  The lowest places on Planet Earth, Dr Dawn Wright, the Ecological Marine Units, Alfred Wegener vindicated, and Tristan da Cunha, the most remote inhabited island in the world. 

Dr Dawn Wright:  Chief Scientist at Esri, oceanographer, geographer, educator, and more.

In the July 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again highlighting a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:   The wettest and driest places on Planet Earth, Pliny the Elder, fieldwork, and Mt Vesuvius, the Astrolabe, Compass, Sextant, Cross-Staff, and other navigational aids, the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, and the coldest spots in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. 

Pliny book

In the June 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again highlighting a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:  The Pulau people of Indonesia, John Harrison and the Longitude Clock, BIM-CAD-GIS (Building Information Management), Computer Aided Design, Geographic Information Systems, the SuperBowl and GIS Dashboards, and the sport of curling with a connection to a village in Scotland.

Harrison H1 Clock (Wikipedia).

In the May 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again highlighting a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:   The Midwest, Cartographer Louise E Jefferson, 3D mapping, the 1884 Meridian Conference, and Loving County, Texas. 

 Pecos River crossing at Loving County, Texas.  Photograph Credit: Robert Plocheck.

In the April 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again focusing on a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:  Microstates, James Rattling Leaf, UAVs (Unmanned or Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, or Drones) in GIS and remote sensing, Earth Day and GIS Day, and the complexities of a section of the Netherlands-Belgium border.

UAVs or Drones

In the March 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, again focusing on a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, and Geographic Oddity, we will focus on:  Two famous and beautiful trails (Cinque Terra Italy and Saxer Lucke Switzerland), scientific and geographic pioneer Gladys West, GPS, The Rights of Nature movement, and national and state borders along latitude and longitude lines.

Gladys West

Gladys West, science and geographic pioneer.

In the February 2026 Thinking Spatially podcast, we will again highlight a Place, Thought Leader, Tool, Event, Geographic Oddity:  This month we will focus on the distinction between Place vs Space in geography, Dr Yi-Fu Tuan and the concept of Topophilia, Remote Sensing, Mapping Cholera in 1854, and the concept of and importance of Null Island.

Landsat Imagery

A place, thought leader, tool, event, and geographic oddity: January 2026 podcast in the Thinking Spatially series.

This month I feature:  The shortness of the Alabama coastline, Eratosthenes' Earth Measurement, GIS as a tool, the Earthrise 1968 photo, and the northernmost, easternmost, southernmost, and westernmost points of land in the USA.  Enjoy!

Joseph Kerski at GIS lighted sign

This episode investigates Mt Vesuvius: Natural Hazards Analysis, past and present, and its impact on geographic studies.

Mt Vesuvius:  Public Domain

This episode discusses how geography is defined, exploring its traditions, themes, and standards.

Defining Geography