Janine Glathar joined the Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship team in 2009 to fill the newly-created role of GIS Specialist at Bucknell. She has worked in the field of geospatial technologies for more than 15 years as research specialist, technical analyst and software trainer. Prior to joining L&IT at Bucknell, Janine spent seven years doing applied GIS research in Philadelphia’s non-profit social services sector as the GIS Senior Analyst for Philadelphia Safe & Sound and the Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition. Before transitioning to the social services research world, Janine worked for the GIS software company ESRI as a trainer and education/non-profit coordinator. She earned a B.A. in European History and Russian Language/Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. If you ask Janine where she’s from, she’ll tell you she’s a Navy brat and will probably offer to show you a map of all of the various places she’s lived over the years.
Areas of expertise:
ArcGIS, Digital Pedagogy, Digital Scholarship, GIS, Google Earth, Spatial Thinking
Here’s another in a series (see here and here) of interesting maps that address scale. Created by Kai Krause, the map aims to show the true size of Africa by visualizing all of the countries and regions that could fit inside the continent – including the U.S., China, India, Japan and all of Europe. Krause calls the map “a small contribution in the fight against rampant immapancy” – or insufficient geographical knowledge.
A new episode of Penn State’s “Geospatial Revolution” project was released today. With the tagline “the location of anything is becoming everything” the Geospatial Revolution series is produced by Penn State’s public broadcasting group and described as an “an integrated public service media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.” The new episode – part 3 in a 4 part series – focuses on using GIS for public safety and military/defense purposes. Episode 4 is due out on May 1, 2011. See below for the full-length videos for episodes 1, 2 and 3. Videos are also available for individual chapters within each episode.
Episode 1:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poMGRbfgp38
Episode 2:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXS0bsR0e7w
Episode 3:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePOK6nzcaY
The New York Times has put out a new interactive map graphic that visualizes toxic contamination found in the wastewater from natural gas wells in PA. The data – from 149 wells – is visualized by the type of contaminant (radium, uranium, gross alpha and benzene) and the amount by which each well exceeded the federal drinking water standard. Below are some screenshots from the interactive graphic.
Radium contamination:
Uranium contamination:
Gross alpha contamination:
Benzene contamination:
Margaret Pearce, University of Kansas Dept. of Geography, will present a lecture, “Rethink the Reader: Toward Cartographic Design to Engage, Inspire, and Empower” tomorrow (Tues. 3/1) at 4:30 in 221 Coleman Hall.
Dr. Pearce works on cartographic representation of cultural and historical geographies, especially indigenous geographies. Her work stems from, as she describes it, “a love of map design as both a tool for exploring geographical information as well as expressive form for communicating complex geographical ideas, especially ideas about place and experience.” Her work is inspired and influenced by emerging ideas in critical cartography, affective technologies, and Indigenous Studies. She has published in journals such as Cartography and Geographic Information Science, American Indian Culture & Research Journal, and Cartographic Perspectives and has authored a book, Exploring Human Geography with Maps.
Sponsored by L&IT, the Geography Department, and the Bucknell Environmental Center.
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 about some of the conclusions he drew from his analysis.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJf29_Mujw
The images below show some of the maps Dougherty was able to produce using ArcGIS, MaxEnt and data from WorldClim.
