As we have for the past two summers, Bucknell's LIT division will offer a series of summer workshops for faculty interested in hands-on instruction in GIS. Stipends of $400 will be offered to faculty for participating in each workshop. Please fill out this interest/registration form as soon as possible if you are interested in any of the following workshops. Overview 1. … [Read more...]
Simple tool for creating KML-based thematic maps
As someone who has one foot in the ArcGIS world and another in the GoogleEarth/GoogleMaps world, I'm continually annoyed at how cumbersome it is to shuffle data back and forth between the two product lines. I'll skip the diatribe for now and instead just point out a cool new tool that I ran across last week when I was getting ready to talk to a Women's Studies class that will … [Read more...]
ChesapeakeView
Maurie Kelly and her team at PASDA (part of the Penn State Institute of Energy and the Environment) have just released ChesapeakeView, a website that provides free access to remotely sensed data about the Chesapeake Bay region. The website currently holds 263 datasets related to the Chesapeake Bay region - including remotely sensed data as well as habitat, land use, … [Read more...]
Bucknell student uses ArcGIS in research on sleeping sickness
Below is an interview with Daniel Dougherty '12, a History and Geography major, discussing his use of GIS for an analysis of the impact of climate change on sleeping sickness. The research project was conducted as part of Prof. Duane Griffin's Geography 204 course Applied GIS. In the interview, Dougherty describes the data and methodology he used for the project and talks … [Read more...]
Forecasting snow and finding supermarkets
If you're the type of person who loads up on bread and milk at the first hint of snowfall, then ArcGIS Online is your new best friend. Using ArcGIS Online you can create a map showing projected snowfall amounts for your area along with the locations of nearby supermarkets. The ArcGIS Online Gallery has free basemaps that you can use to create quick and easy mash-ups online, … [Read more...]
