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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 14m

Reservation and trust land is 3.8% of the lower 48 today. This is how the rest was taken: colonial counties first, then 1.82 billion acres of recorded cessions by 1894. In California, 18 treaties were never ratified. The land was taken anyway. #IndigenousPeoplesDay #maps #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 6h

Typical peak colour in Türkiye's forests: Yedigöller late October, Istanbul's Belgrad Forest around Nov 10. The plateau is steppe and the southern pine stays green, so the turn is a Black Sea ribbon. 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology. #sonbahar #Türkiye #fallfoliage

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 21h

Almost half the buildings standing in Minneapolis and Saint Paul today were already up by 1930. The war nearly stopped building: 3,957 survivors from 1941, 269 from 1943. #dataviz #TwinCities #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In a typical autumn, Italy's Alpine larches peak around mid-October, the Apennine beech woods late in the month, and Calabria and Etna not until early to mid November. Averaged over 25 years, day by day. Data: NASA MODIS, ISPRA, Copernicus #fallfoliage #Italy #autunno #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Lake Tahoe's surface never sits still, even in a calm week. Light autumn winds kept it drifting about two and a half miles a day, curling into eddies a few miles across. Our own model, 30 Sep-7 Oct 2026. Data: NOAA HRRR, TRPA, USGS #LakeTahoe #dataviz #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Two weeks of air moving over the entire planet, both poles in one frame. Color is air temperature, brightness is speed. Around Antarctica, the storms of the Southern Ocean race west to east with almost no land in their way. Data: ERA5 / Copernicus #weather #wind #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Fall color takes about four weeks to cross the US. Minnesota's north woods peak in the first week of October; the South Atlantic waits until the end of the month. The typical autumn, from 25 years of satellite records. #fallfoliage #autumn #maps #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The 1906 fire burned the heart of San Francisco, yet 1 in 8 buildings standing today is older than the quake: the Victorians of the Mission, Noe Valley and the Haight, outside the fire line. #dataviz #SanFrancisco #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lake Champlain lost almost 4°F in the first week of October. The Inland Sea, east of the islands, started as the warmest water on the lake and cooled the fastest. Our own model, 1-8 Oct 2026. Weather: NOAA HRRR · Depths: VCGI · © OpenStreetMap #LakeChamplain #Vermont #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In Bolivia one band lights up hard at the foot of the Andes: humid lowland air climbs the eastern slope and erupts into storms almost every afternoon. The high, dry Altiplano gets far fewer strikes. 11,921,089 flashes over Bolivia, one frame per day for a year. Data: NOAA GOES-19 #Bolivia

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Japan's forests: around Kamikochi Oct 16, Kyushu mid-November. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology placed on JMA's maple observations; colour from the Ministry of the Environment vegetation map. #紅葉 #Japan

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Irish Sea fills and empties twice a day, the tide pouring in through both the North Channel and St George's Channel. This week the water off Liverpool rose and fell up to 8 metres; off Arklow it barely moved. Data: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service (model) #IrishSea #tides #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Typical peak colour: the Lake District around Oct 29, London around Nov 4, Cardiff around Nov 7. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from Forest Research's tree species map and the National Forest Inventory. #autumncolours #England #Wales

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Same afternoon, same country: 19°C in Logroño, 31°C in Seville. Oct 1 was the coolest afternoon since early June in Logroño, Bilbao, Pamplona and Burgos. The south stayed in summer. Data: ERA5 / ERA5-Land, Copernicus #Spain #weather #dataviz #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

설악산 10월 16일, 서울 10월 25일, 부산 11월 4일 무렵: 평년 단풍 절정. Typical peak color in South Korea: Seoraksan around Oct 16, Seoul Oct 25, Busan Nov 4. 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, placed on KMA's mountain foliage normals. #단풍 #fallfoliage #SouthKorea

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: the Poconos in mid-October, New York City around Oct 30. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #NewYork

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Typical peak colour in France: the Vosges around Oct 18, Fontainebleau around Oct 26, Bordeaux and Provence around Nov 5. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from IGN's BD Forêt. #automne #France

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Ireland: Glendalough around Oct 27, Killarney's oakwoods around Nov 5. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from Copernicus leaf type and Ireland's forest inventory. #autumncolours #Ireland

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Poland: the Bieszczady around Oct 11, Wrocław and Gdańsk around Nov 5. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from the Sentinel-2 tree species map of Poland. #złotajesień #Poland

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

When you load a page from another continent, it almost certainly travels through a cable about as thick as a garden hose, lying on the sea floor. Here is every one switching on since 1999, plus the ones still being built. Data: TeleGeography #submarinecables #internet #dataviz #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Boston Harbor's tide, hour by hour for a week. At President Roads, the channel past Deer Island, the current turned around 26 times and ran up to 1.6 knots. Data: NECOFS ocean model, Dr. Changsheng Chen's lab, UMass Dartmouth #Boston #dataviz #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ciudad de México, redibujada: la distancia es el tiempo de manejo. Santa Fe → Zócalo, 24 min a las 4 a.m., más de 40 a las 6 p.m. Redrawn so distance is drive time: 24 min at 4 a.m., 40+ at 6 p.m. Método: Jeremy Vonderfecht. Calles: OpenStreetMap. #cdmx #maps #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Nova Scotia: Kejimkujik and the Cape Breton Highlands around Oct 11, the Annapolis Valley around Oct 17. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from Canada's forest inventory tree species maps. #fallfoliage #NovaScotia

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: Door County around Oct 18, Chicago around Oct 26. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #GreatLakes

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: Shenandoah and Asheville around Oct 23, Atlanta around Nov 5. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #BlueRidge

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Germany: the Harz and the Black Forest around Oct 14, Cologne and Hamburg around Oct 27. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against DWD phenology observations; colour from DLR's tree species map. #Herbst #Germany

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Typical peak colour in Scotland: Perthshire and the Cairngorms around Oct 15, Dumfries and Galloway around Oct 22. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology; colour from the National Forest Inventory and the Native Woodland Survey. #autumncolours #Scotland

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Every navigation light in the Netherlands, from Brandaris and the Wadden islands to Zeeland and up the Rhine, Waal and Maas. The great towers sweep; the river lights blink on their charted character. Light data: Rijkswaterstaat, OpenStreetMap, NGA List of Lights

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

About half the oxygen you breathe was made by phytoplankton. A year of them from orbit, Sept 2025 to Sept 2026, on a map where every ocean is one body of water. Watch the polar night swallow each pole in turn. Data: NASA Ocean Biology DAAC #oceanography #phytoplankton #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: the North Shore around Oct 3, the Twin Cities around Oct 16. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #Minnesota

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Every tide in Chesapeake Bay comes and goes through the gap between Cape Charles and Cape Henry. At the Bay Bridge-Tunnel the water changed direction 27 times in one week, 25 September to 2 October. Data: NECOFS model, Chen lab, UMass Dartmouth #ChesapeakeBay #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Persian empire reached its greatest extent in 623 and was gone twenty years later. Khosrow II took the Levant, Egypt and Anatolia from Rome and held them about a decade. Then the Arab conquest took the rest, heartland included. #persia #sasanian #iran #history #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's no public current forecast for Lake George, so we built our own. The lake drains north, but the wind does the work: four days of north wind pushed the surface south, then the wind flipped and so did the lake. 25 Sep-2 Oct 2026. Data: NOAA HRRR, Jefferson Project, Auger (2023), CC BY 4.0

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every charted light on the Oregon and Washington coast, each showing its own color and flash pattern, from Cape Blanco to Puget Sound and up the Columbia and Snake to Lewiston, Idaho. 164 lights. Data: OpenSeaMap / OSM, NOAA charts, USCG Light List.

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Tang dynasty ruled China from 618 to 907. In forty years it grew to nearly nine million square kilometres, deep into Central Asia. Then the An Lushan rebellion of 755 broke it, and the last 150 years held a third of that. #tang #china #history #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

San Francisco, redrawn so distance is drive time. Ocean Beach to the Ferry Building: 23 min before dawn, 34 at 5 p.m., and the whole west side drifts away from downtown. Method: Jeremy Vonderfecht. Streets: OpenStreetMap. #SanFrancisco #maps #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Narragansett Bay breathes through three doors: the tide pours in past Newport, Jamestown and the Sakonnet River, then drains back out. The water under the Newport Bridge changed direction 32 times from 24 September to 1 October. Data: NECOFS model, Chen lab, UMass Dartmouth #RhodeIsland #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: the Buffalo River around Oct 23. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #Ozarks

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cape Spear, on the easternmost point of North America, has marked the way into St. John's since 1836. Every lighthouse on the Newfoundland coast flashes on its own rhythm, a set interval and colour no neighbour repeats. #lighthouse #Newfoundland

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The typical station on the Paris Métro map is drawn 730 m from where it actually stands. One in five is more than a kilometre off, and Aéroport d'Orly more than 8 km. Data: Île-de-France Mobilités, RATP, IGN #Paris #maps #dataviz #transit

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tampa Bay's tide turned about four times a day this week, swinging the whole bay in and out under the Sunshine Skyway. Surface currents hour by hour, 24 September to 1 October 2026. Data: NOAA TBOFS model #TampaBay #Tampa #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Typical peak foliage: the Smokies around Oct 23, Birmingham around Nov 7. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; color from USDA Forest Service tree species maps. #fallfoliage #Tennessee

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Typical peak colour: Mont-Tremblant around Oct 3, Quebec City around Oct 11. Timing from 25 years of NASA MODIS phenology, checked against USA National Phenology Network observations; colour from Canada's forest inventory tree species maps. #fallfoliage #Quebec

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Peru's Pacific coast barely lights up, one of the driest deserts on Earth. The storms live inland, where humid Amazon air climbs the eastern Andes and erupts almost every afternoon. 15,043,828 flashes over Peru, one frame per day for just over a year. Data: NOAA GOES-19 #Peru #lightning

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every lighthouse on the Croatian Adriatic flashes to its own clock, no two quite alike. That rhythm is how a sailor tells one from the next in the dark, from Savudrija (lit 1818, oldest on the Adriatic) down to Dubrovnik. #lighthouses #Croatia #Adriatic #maps

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This was one of the three hottest US summers since 1940: June to August ran 3.2 °F above the late 1800s across its land. Colorado ran 5.8 °F above, its hottest summer since 1940. The ten warmest years since 1979 have all come since 2012. ERA5 via Copernicus C3S. #USA #climate #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Most of Galveston Bay's tide squeezes through Bolivar Roads, and this week it ran up to 3.4 knots there. Early in the week it turned once a day; by midweek, twice. 21 to 28 September 2026. Data: NOAA NGOFS2 model #GalvestonBay #Houston #dataviz

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mercator keeps every shape true and pays for it in area: land at 82° north is drawn 51 times too big. At the same total area as Equal Earth, its poles balloon while Africa, South America and India shrink. #maps #cartography #dataviz #mercator

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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Boston sells itself as a colonial city, but fewer than 1 in 100 of its buildings are older than 1850. Most of the city went up between the 1880s and 1930. Only 1 in 20 is newer than 2000. #dataviz #Boston #maps

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