Jerry Shannon
@jerry-shannon.bsky.social
Geographer working at University of Georgia. Community geography, critical GIS, health, food systems, housing. Website: jerry.shannons.us
Excited to head to Albuquerque to present at and attend the Race, Ethnicity, and Place conference. My talk will focus on ongoing work with Historic Athens and @accgov.bsky.social to map displacement from the R-51 urban renewal project in Athens.
November 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Excited to head to Albuquerque to present at and attend the Race, Ethnicity, and Place conference. My talk will focus on ongoing work with Historic Athens and @accgov.bsky.social to map displacement from the R-51 urban renewal project in Athens.
Great first day at #nacis25 and Practical Cartography Day. So many new ideas for future projects and always inspired by the work on display at the map gallery and competition.
October 16, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great first day at #nacis25 and Practical Cartography Day. So many new ideas for future projects and always inspired by the work on display at the map gallery and competition.
Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Honored to present this morning at the Associate for the Study of African-American Life and History conf w/ community partners. Talking about the ongoing work telling the story of the Reese Street Neighborhood in Athens, home to several historic Black schools and key figures from the city's history.
Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.
September 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Spending the day at #positconf. Really enjoying the final talk @kjhealy.co about the inextricably social process of data visualization and the nature of trust in the work of data science.
Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
September 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Planning to slot this new piece by UGA alum Dani Aiello and others on movement scholarship into my engaged research seminar this semester. acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New article about how to use Critical GIS and Community Geography in the classroom to develop students' reflexivity and enhance holistic learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
August 24, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Y'all, my seminar for first year students is on this list. 🧇🗺️
Teaching a graduate student seminar on engaged scholarship in the fall and so scouting out or readings. A lot of new books on the shelf!
July 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Teaching a graduate student seminar on engaged scholarship in the fall and so scouting out or readings. A lot of new books on the shelf!
Wow--just checked on CDC's social vulnerability index for the first time this year, and this disclaimer. It's...something. "immutable biological reality"?
May 22, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Wow--just checked on CDC's social vulnerability index for the first time this year, and this disclaimer. It's...something. "immutable biological reality"?
Honored to be a part of a discussion this evening with Hattie Thomas Whitehead, Mayor Kelly Girtz and others to talk about Linnentown and the new PBS documentary.
May 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Honored to be a part of a discussion this evening with Hattie Thomas Whitehead, Mayor Kelly Girtz and others to talk about Linnentown and the new PBS documentary.
Always love coming back to ArcGIS.
April 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Always love coming back to ArcGIS.
Had a great time today hosting our department's first ever AP Human Geography Day. Shout out to our faculty and students who helped introduce these high schoolers to what we do here at UGA Geography.
March 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Had a great time today hosting our department's first ever AP Human Geography Day. Shout out to our faculty and students who helped introduce these high schoolers to what we do here at UGA Geography.
Headed to my first real in person meetings for @geographers.bsky.social since 2019. Excited to talk about engaged research, critical cartography, and Black geographies with @amberaorozco.bsky.social .
March 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Headed to my first real in person meetings for @geographers.bsky.social since 2019. Excited to talk about engaged research, critical cartography, and Black geographies with @amberaorozco.bsky.social .
Enjoyed spending the day with colleagues and friends at the #standupforscience rally in Atlanta. @amberaorozco.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Enjoyed spending the day with colleagues and friends at the #standupforscience rally in Atlanta. @amberaorozco.bsky.social
Well, my Intro GIS class appears to be pretty daunting for at least three of my students.
February 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Well, my Intro GIS class appears to be pretty daunting for at least three of my students.
Mapbox (and really OSM) still holding strong.
February 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Mapbox (and really OSM) still holding strong.
First Community Mapping Lab mapathon of the year! Digitizing Sanborn maps for Athens in 1918 for our historical work.
February 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
First Community Mapping Lab mapathon of the year! Digitizing Sanborn maps for Athens in 1918 for our historical work.
Nice list of interventions from @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social that universities can consider to be better neighbors and invest in their communities. Plus a public art project at Yale that compared the university's endowment to local investment.
February 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Nice list of interventions from @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social that universities can consider to be better neighbors and invest in their communities. Plus a public art project at Yale that compared the university's endowment to local investment.
Just whipped up (with maybe just a little AI help) a Google Earth Engine script for class today that allows my Intro GIS students to quickly calculate the mean temps for a point in the 1940s compared to today, using ERA5 data. Will see how it goes! code.earthengine.google.com/c8157566133a...
February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Just whipped up (with maybe just a little AI help) a Google Earth Engine script for class today that allows my Intro GIS students to quickly calculate the mean temps for a point in the 1940s compared to today, using ERA5 data. Will see how it goes! code.earthengine.google.com/c8157566133a...
Excited to be part of this discussion about reparations and the university at Newark next week, presenting about Linenntown with collaborators.
January 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Excited to be part of this discussion about reparations and the university at Newark next week, presenting about Linenntown with collaborators.
Excited to be part of this conversation in a few weeks at Rutgers in Newark, keynoted by @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social. Presenting alongside my collaborators talking about Linnentown, race, and urban renewal here in Athens.
January 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Excited to be part of this conversation in a few weeks at Rutgers in Newark, keynoted by @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social. Presenting alongside my collaborators talking about Linnentown, race, and urban renewal here in Athens.
Also my first time working with raster stacks in #rstats. Crazy that it can extract values for these points from 73 years of global scaled data in under two seconds.
December 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Also my first time working with raster stacks in #rstats. Crazy that it can extract values for these points from 73 years of global scaled data in under two seconds.
Continuing to tinker with Google's cloud optimized ERA5 dataset: calculated the mean minimum temperatures for July from 1950-2023 and then extracted the value for each city where I've lived for more than a month (or so). Messy (R2s range from 0.1 to 0.25), but the trend is definitely clear.
December 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Continuing to tinker with Google's cloud optimized ERA5 dataset: calculated the mean minimum temperatures for July from 1950-2023 and then extracted the value for each city where I've lived for more than a month (or so). Messy (R2s range from 0.1 to 0.25), but the trend is definitely clear.