Come watch the Flying Bison capture high resolution aerial imagery of the Miller Run Creek watershed area. The flight is part of the work that the GIS Student assistants are doing this summer in support of the Miller Run Restoration project. Details and map below. What: Come see the Flying Bison take off. Flight will last roughly 30 minutes. The Flying Bison drone will take … [Read more...]
Miller Run Restoration
In January of 2011, Bucknell received a 178K grant through PA DEP's Growing Greener program to support the first phase of a project that will restore the Miller Run Creek (that runs through campus and the golf course) and provide flood relief to the surrounding areas. Bucknell's GIS Student Assistants are supporting the Miller Run Restoration project by collecting high … [Read more...]
Flying Bison
Nick Urban '12, a GIS student assistant and Computer Science major, recently competed in the 9th annual student Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) competition held at Webster Field in St. Inigoes, MD. Hosted by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the competition challenged students to "design, fabricate, … [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...]
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...]