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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General GIS GIS in Art

Map Your Music Memories

The Grammys and Music Is Life, Life is Music have launched  a new mobile app that allows you to tag locations on a map with a music marker – could be the club you’re going to see a show at later this weekend, the place you heard a song for the first time, or any other music-related comment or memory.

From the Grammys blog:

“You can share your tag by posting to your Facebook profile or Twitter account. The app integrates with Flickr and Foursquare data by highlighting concert venues via Foursquare, and promoting Flickr photo data of GRAMMY-related artists and venues.

As more users tag the map, you’re able to view what music inspires others at any given location, such as your neighborhood, a popular venue or your favorite travel destination. I’d argue the coolest part about the app is that several featured artists will be using the app and their tags are featured on the map by a special marker. For example, by filtering the map for music artists, you can see several tags and notes posted by Katy Perry. The Recording Academy says more artists will be featured within the app as we get closer to the 53rd GRAMMY Awards.”

Here’s one of JayZ’s music memories:

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Bucknell/Local Interest Environment General GIS

Conservation map competition

Sponsored by Esri and the Society for Conservation GIS

ESRI and the Society for Conservation GIS (SCGIS) are sponsoring a map competition. Deadline is midnight, March 15th, 2011. Entries must use ArcGIS software and have a focus on an existing conservation project or program. See list of prizes below. Click here for more info.

$5,000 – Grand Prize (Best Exemplifies Conservation Mapping)
$1,000 – Best Traditional Cartography
$1,000 – Best Interactive Web Map
$1,000 – Best Use of Science
$1,000 – Best Innovation
$1,000 – Best Societal Impact

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Bucknell/Local Interest General GIS

USC student uses crowdsourcing to map billboard locations

From Directions Magazine’s All Points Blog,  “A Ph.D. Candidate in spatial science at USC, Elisabeth Sedano, has developed a Website that tracks and maps the visual eyesores in hopes of creating LA’s first database of billboard locations. The project uses crowdsourcing to capture the data.”

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Bucknell/Local Interest Digital Humanities Events/Calendar General GIS Slideshow

Upcoming lecture by Margaret Pearce

Tuesday, March 1st @ 4:30pm (Coleman 221)

“Rethink the reader: Toward cartographic design to engage, inspire and empower”

Come hear Margaret Pearce from the University of Kansas talk about map visualization and cartographic design.  Dr. Pearce is a geographer who works on cartographic representation of cultural and historical geographies, especially Indigenous geographies.  Her work is inspired and influenced by emerging ideas in critical cartography, affective technologies, and the focus on place in Indigenous studies.  She has published in journals such as Cartography and Geographic Information Science, American Indian Culture & Research Journal, and Cartographic Perspectives, and has co-authored a book, with O. Dwyer, Exploring Human Geography with Maps.

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Bucknell/Local Interest Digital Humanities Environment General GIS GIS in History GIS in Humanities Marcellus Shale Slideshow

Ask the expert: Katie Faull on maps, Moravian diaries and Native American history

In the BU homepage’s February ‘Ask the Expert’ interview, Prof. Katie Faull discusses her research on the 18th Century Moravian settlers and Native Americans who inhabited the Susquehanna watershed region. With the help of her research assistant, Emily Bitely ’11, Prof. Faull has made extensive use of GIS in reconstructing 18th Century landscapes of the Susquehanna.  Read the interview here.

Sample map constructed from witness tree markers and georeferenced historic maps:

Sample map showing locations of Native American sites, trails and sacred places in relation to Marcellus Shale gas drilling.