In fall 2011, Professors Steve Jordan and Chris Daniels assigned a semester-long documentary project to students in Bucknell's Environmental Residential College. The goal was to create video essays to tell the story of how the Marcellus Shale gas boom is impacting communities in northeastern Pennsylvania. Students visited communities impacted by the gas boom to conduct … [Read more...]
Mapping Marcellus Shale Flowback Water Chemistry
Guest post by Darin Rockwell, Geography/Geology ’13 The Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction process is undergoing rapid development, which raises many environmental questions. This project studies the chemistry of flowback water[1]. High salinity levels, radioactive elements, and toxic trace metals are found at very high concentrations in the flowback water. However, … [Read more...]
GIS posters at Sigma Xi summer research symposium
Come to the Sigma Xi summer research symposium on Wednesday, July 27th from 2-4pm at the Langone Center's Terrace room to check out posters by student researchers. There will be a variety of posters that feature GIS as a research methodology and/or visualization tool - including posters about the Flying Bison drone, community asset mapping, georeferencing historic maps, … [Read more...]
Presentation Monday, May 2nd, 8pm – “Guinea Pigs Atop the Marcellus Shale”
From a press release from the Bucknell Environmental Center: Presentation - “Guinea Pigs Atop the Marcellus Shale” 8 – 9:30 pm on Monday, May 2nd at the Union County Government Center, 155 North 15th Street in Lewisburg. The event is free and open to the public. Barbara Jarmoska, who serves on the Board of Directors of the Responsible Drilling Alliance (RDA), a … [Read more...]
TNC Presentation on Marcellus Shale – Monday, April 4 @ 4:30pm
What: Presentation by The Nature Conservancy on Marcellus Shale/PA Energy Impacts When: Monday, April 4th at 4:30pm Where: Bertrand Library, Traditional Reading Room Refreshments will be served. Come and hear Tamara Gagnolet, GIS Analyst and Conservation Data Manager for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Nature Conservancy, discuss her work in using GIS to analyze … [Read more...]