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@blanfordj.bsky.social

GIS educator, geohealth, spatial epidemiology, higher education, spatial thinking, spatial data geek, making geography fun

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Thank you again to @andrewstoehr.bsky.social and Butler University for a great visit and for offering my talk as part of the unique β€œButler Cultural Requirement” to students!

www.butlerartscenter.org/performances...
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justineblanfordweb - LocustsAndBioControl Locust Swarm Β© Blanford, 2000

Tackling Global ChallengesΒ with GIS Series
Previous episode - Episode 1 - Locusts and biocontrol. Mapping the variability in performance of green pest control agent and why this matters.
sites.google.com/view/justine...

15.11.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
justineblanfordweb - LongWalk Access to essential health services is still a major issue for many people in different parts of the world. For example, 400 million people lack basic health care and 1.6 billion people live in fragi...

Tackling Global ChallengesΒ with GIS Series Episode 2 - A Long, Long Walk. Here we look at who is affected, how accessibility can change seasonally and what can be done to reduce this problem by exploring where to place additional services.
sites.google.com/view/justine...

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justineblanfordweb - LongWalk Access to essential health services is still a major issue for many people in different parts of the world. For example, 400 million people lack basic health care and 1.6 billion people live in fragi...

The next installment of Tackling Global Challenges with GIS Series.

sites.google.com/view/justine...

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justineblanfordweb - Locusts and biopesticide control Locust Swarm Β© Blanford, 2000

Tackling Global Challenges with GIS - Locusts and a biopesticide. Mapping variations in performance and understanding when and where to use the biopesticide

08.11.2025 07:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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justineblanfordweb - Locusts and biopesticide control Locust Swarm Β© Blanford, 2000

Over the past few weeks I have been diving deeper into using some of the AI tools now available to bring to life some of my scientific publications. Using these tools I created a podcast and short video series - Tackling Global Challenges with GIS.

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Inspiring. A work of art in the making.

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Understanding park visitors’ soundscape perception using subjective and objective measurement Environmental noise knows no boundaries, affecting even protected areas. Noise pollution, originating from both external and internal sources, imposes costs on these areas. It is associated with adver...

We published this article a year ago today in the #OpenAccess journal the @PeerJLife peerj.com/articles/16592 #EcosystemScience

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Map illustrating the density of disaster events around the world. Graph captures the frequency of events.  Data obtained from Reliefweb (2015- Oct 2024)

Map illustrating the density of disaster events around the world. Graph captures the frequency of events. Data obtained from Reliefweb (2015- Oct 2024)

Recently gave a talk on climate and health. To set the scene I made a map capturing where disaster events were reported around the world and summarised the type of events. Some places are more affected than others. Data from Reliefweb. This provides a quick summary, but further analysis is needed.

06.01.2025 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Geospatial for Planetary Health - Geoversityβ„’ The Geospatial for Planetary Health course explores how geoinformation and geospatial technologies address critical health challenges shaped by environmental c…

We just launched geospatial for planetary health so that you can learn more about how geographic information and earth observation data can be used for tackling different planetary health, global health, disaster health, one health challenges.
www.geoversity.io/courses/geos...

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Best wishes for 2025

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Geo+health. Interested in learning more about how geographic information and geospatial technologies can be used for health. Check out my new book.
www.routledge.com/Geographic-I...

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Geography matters as shown by this displacement map. www.internal-displacement.org/regional-rep...

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Female astronaut goes to space but can’t escape online sexism by β€˜small men’ Emily Calandrelli posted a video sharing awe of seeing Earth, that was soon flooded with hateful, objectifying comments

Way to go thespacegal! Leading the way so more women can add their perspective. Thank you Emily Calandrelli on becoming the 100th woman to go to space!
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

25.11.2024 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great talk by Nienke Beerlage De Jong at ESCAIDE 2024. www.escaide.eu/en

22.11.2024 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Bluesky. I am a #spatial epidemiologist: #gis, #rspatial, #geohealth, #arcgis pro, #spatial data science analyst.
Geospatial4Health - use geo to address a variety of geohealth research topics: vector-borne diseases, health accessibility, climate health and disaster epidemiology.

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