{"id":1788123,"date":"2019-12-03T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1788123"},"modified":"2020-05-26T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T15:09:15","slug":"tom-pattersons-map-of-prince-william-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/12\/tom-pattersons-map-of-prince-william-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Patterson’s Map of Prince William Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Prince<\/a>
Tom Patterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tom Patterson\u2019s projects are always worthy of note. His latest is a wall map of Alaska\u2019s Prince William Sound<\/a>\u2014a physical relief map that, Tom warns, will very soon be out of date:<\/p>\n

Prince William Sound turned out being the most laborious map that I have ever made. The culprit: climate change. Although much of the data that went into making the map was of recent vintage, glaciers in the region have melted noticeably these last few years.<\/p>\n

Updating physical features\u2014glaciers, coastlines, rivers, and lakes\u2014from recent satellite images took up ninety percent of my time. Nevertheless, the completed map is only a snapshot in time. Columbia Glacier, for example, lost another one kilometer of its length during the summer of 2019. Much of what the map depicts will be out-of-date again before too long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It can be downloaded, printed (it\u2019s 44 \u00d7 36 inches) and modified free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Patterson\u2019s projects are always worthy of note. His latest is a wall map of Alaska\u2019s Prince William Sound\u2014a physical relief map that, Tom warns, will very soon be out of date: Prince William Sound… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[33,14,879,1069,106],"class_list":["post-1788123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-alaska","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-patterson","tag-wall-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1791186,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/06\/pattersons-malaspina-glacier-panorama\/","url_meta":{"origin":1788123,"position":0},"title":"Patterson\u2019s Malaspina Glacier Panorama","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"2 June 2021","format":"link","excerpt":"Tom Patterson\u2019s latest is a panorama of Alaska\u2019s Malaspina Glacier, with the St. Elias Mountains in the background. \u201cI rendered this panorama to showcase a wild landscape in its entirety where human development is minimal. 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