Author: Janine Glathar

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

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Bucknell/Local Interest Environment Events/Calendar General GIS Marcellus Shale Slideshow

Presentation by the Nature Conservancy – Monday, April 4th at 4:30pm

Save the date – April 4th at 4:30pm.  Tamara Gagnolet, GIS Analyst and Conservation Data Manager for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Nature Conservancy, will be at Bucknell on April 4th, 2011 to discuss her work in using GIS to analyze potential impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania. The Nature Conservancy recently released part 1 of its ‘Pennsylvania Energy Impacts Report’ – focusing on environmental impacts of Marcellus Shale gas-drilling and wind energy. Ms. Gagnolet’s presentation will focus on how GIS and spatial analysis were used to project how much energy might be developed in PA during the next 20 years, where that development is more or less likely to occur and what types of strategies might need to be employed to mitigate potential habitat impacts.

Presentation details: April 4th, 2011 at 4:30pm in the Bertrand Library Traditional Reading Room. Refreshments will be served.

Click here to read an earlier post about the Nature Conservancy report.

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General GIS Videos

And last but not least, a Google Earth video tour of hearts found on earth…

From GoogleEarthHacks via YouTube:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYs6gW4b1w

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General GIS Slideshow

….or, Valentine Your Map?

Thanks to Prof. Ben Marsh for sending in this image of the Bonne map projection, 1752!

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General GIS Slideshow

Map your Valentine

MapYourValentine from Google –  “sometimes, what means the most isn’t something. It’s somewhere.”

Update: to avoid confusing your Valentine, you might want to use the ‘preview’ feature before sending. I just tested the site on myself using ‘Kedainiai, Lithuania’ as my special location and in return I got a Valentine’s Day message with a cute little heart circling a spot in the middle of the Caribbean Sea!

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General GIS GIS in Art Slideshow Videos

From the wilderness downtown to a Grammy win

In honor of Arcade Fire’s Grammy win last night for album of the year, here’s a link to their video/interactive map app for song ‘We Used to Wait’ from The Suburbs.  You’ll have to download Google Chrome to experience “The Wilderness Downtown” but it’s worth the couple of seconds it’ll take to do it. As mashable.com put it, “it’s basically one big ball of HTML5/Google Maps/musical goodness.”