Here's a link to an interesting NYT story, "Phone-call cartography," on mapping connectedness via data points from mobile phone calls. The accompanying map was produced by M.I.T.'s SENSEable City Lab using the origin and end point locations for cellphone traffic within the U.S. in July of last year. Phone-call cartography … [Read more...]
What we’re up to this summer (and why we’re not posting)
Thanks to the Mellon grant and a huge number of faculty teaching and research projects it's been a very busy summer of GIS work at Bucknell. Over the coming weeks I'll write detailed posts about the work we're doing on each of the projects. If I'm really ambitious I might try to post some interviews with faculty and students - and some footage of the aerial drone flights that … [Read more...]
Details on $520K Mellon grant for environmental studies, GIS integration
I posted a few weeks ago about the $520K grant awarded to Bucknell by the Mellon Foundation. Here are some additional details on how the grant money will be used to strengthen environmental studies and GIS integration across the university. From the Library & IT Matters newsletter: Up to twelve faculty members will receive $400 to participate in either a 4-day (intro) … [Read more...]
New data available on Pennsylvania forest patches
New data on Pennsylvania forest patches is available on Xanthus. The datasets were created by the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). The forest patches were delineated using the new 2006 NLCD data (also available on Xanthus). The TNC defines forest patches as "contiguous areas of natural cover bound by any linear fragmenting feature (roads, railroads, … [Read more...]
GIS in education – EPA grant and campus mapping
Notes on two interesting stories about GIS in education. Thanks to Adena Schutzberg's All Points Blog for the heads up about the stories. 1. Texas State University's Center for GIScience was recently awarded 500K grant from EPA to use GIS for modelling/mapping air pollution-exposure-health effects: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science to Achieve Results … [Read more...]