Guest post by Dan Ladd, Middlebury College ’14 One of the major projects the GIS team worked on for much of the early part of the summer was mapping community assets in Williamsport and Lycoming County. This project was requested by Professors Ben Marsh (Geography) and Carl Milofsky (Sociology). Chad Lawlis (Environmental Studies '11) and I worked on putting together the … [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...]
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...]