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One of the major cornerstones in Geography is understanding the biological, physical and chemical components that create physical landscapes across the map. As a geographer I used my training and spatial thinking to understand why, for example, the wind is blowing the American flag eastward (inland) during the day and reverses direction at night (offshore)? This is because during the day, there is high pressure over the ocean and low pressure over land, which causes air to flow from the high to low areas along a pressure gradient. Since land heats and cools faster than water, a massive cycle of air movement is caused by the warming of land along the coastline. As the land temperature rises, air is forced to expand, ascend, and form a low pressure system that collects surface breezes from the Pacific Ocean (McKnight, 129). Once the sun sets, lands cools down and the water temperature rises and there is high pressure over land and low pressure over the ocean, and air continues to flow from high to low at night. By doing so there is an offshore flow blowing westward towards the ocean, better known as a land breeze (McKnight, 130).   

Project Completion: April 22th, 2015 to May 14th, 2015 

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Check Out My Résumé!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hAgUVVYIXS5oh3fFk4wdRWe0jhdsxYji32yzl4dMaeA/edit?usp=sharing

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A photo of My Scoutmaster on my left, Eagle Mentor and I after completing my Eagle Scout project! I led a group of scouts and volunteers to plant 16 trees in Huntington Beach Central Park to improve three areas that had deteriorated. All areas were mulched to give a clean, fresh appearance. The Deodar Cedars and Toyon trees planted today will benefit the park for decades.  This project took six months in planning and fulfils one of the major requirements for Eagle Scout.

Volunteer work

Eddie Scandura’s Eagle Project 

Date: December 2013

#volunteer #eaglescout

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My personal hobbies include taking photos with my GoPro and my Samsung Galaxy S7 while hiking, biking, and surfing. I took an introductory to photo course during my senior in high school, and that is when I developed a passion for photography, learned about the importance of lighting and positioning. I believe that biking and hiking keep you connected to your interests because I am always anxious to explore new places around my hometown and current residence. And I noticed that riding my bike fuels my interests in transportation on the local scale, whereas hiking along beaches and in the mountains keeps me in shape and connected to nature. I come from a beach town commonly known as “Surf City” Huntington Beach, where the annual US Open of Surf takes place, so surfing is something that I grew up doing and I always try to get in the water every time I am back home. 

Personal Hobbies and Interests

Photographer: Eddie Scandura 

Photos taken from May 2014 to July 2017

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Political geography is widely known as one of the main linchpins of human geography, focusing on concepts like colonization, importance of borders, territoriality, nation and statehood, the political organization of space, and geopolitics. I read about how the town of Gibraltar was captured by the British during the Spanish War of Succession and today is a disputed territory between Spain and the United Kingdom. The British regard the town of Gibraltar as an overseas territory, yet the Spanish have a problem with that because it is on their soil and they believe that they have every right to assert political power and control over the area. I used my training in Geographic Information Science by collecting data from Natural Earth, creating a contextual map of Gibraltar and displaying the disputed territory in three different frames. The top left visualizes the relative location of Gibraltar to Spain and Morocco as well as the strait. In the top right I used a satellite imagery base map to show the exact location of the town. And in the bottom left I used a World Terrain Base map to show western Europe and Northern Africa, and outlined the two parties in dispute: Spain and the United Kingdom. 

Territorial Dispute: Gibraltar

Map completed: March 15th, 2018

A Map by Eddie Scandura

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Life and times in California and Oregon

#eugene huntingtonbeach california oregon

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Design proposal for a six-leveled highway system, New York City

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We were promised flying cars…so where are they?

We may not be too far from the stuff of sci-fi fantasies. In this fascinating talk at TEDxKC, designer Jared Ficklin introduces a new type of transportation: high-speed urban cable cars that run on wires above the ground. Modeled after ski lifts, these fast, energy efficient cable cars reduce traffic, save cities money, and help everyone avoid a heinous morning commute. We’d swap New York’s jam-packed subways for these flying pod cars any day. 

Watch his whole talk here.

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City planning, Los Angeles, c1960s

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“before” picture of a typical American “neighborhood main street”

“after” sketch. Check out the sharp corners, bump-out sidewalks, center turn lane, parklet, dedicated truck loading zone and of course the buffered bike lanes

NACTO Urban Street Design Guide 

via bikeportland: Three local agencies just endorsed these visions for better streets, 19.12.13.

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Urban planning and neighborhood revitalization. The day-lighting of the river in the middle is my favorite! See dozens more, here.

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Top Google autocomplete results for “[state] is…”

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Likelihood of collision with deer in each state - State Farm, 2012

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How to Say 'metal’ in Europe with Etymology

Requested by lemonaadechase 

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The history of colonization, 1492 - 2008 Click here to see more maps