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
In other Google-related news, you can now see Bucknell’s campus buildings on the Google Maps basemap. Thanks to Dan Mancusi and Lisa Veloz for their help with this! And to Google for finally getting around to adding it…
Check it out here. You may notice… that the one building that’s mis-labelled is Coleman Hall, the home of the Geography Department…. More evidence of Google’s infamous sense of humor? Your guess is as good as mine – but we are working on the problem.
Harrisburg University and the PADCNR recently announced the iExplorePAtrails Mobile Competition. The contest encourages developers from PA universities and beyond to develop mobile applications that combine data on PA trails with other data and user content. The goal is to create ‘mash-ups’ that encourage use of Pennsylvania’s 1,000s of miles of trails and enhance the fun that trail users can have. The contest deadline is April 15th – click here for more information.
Back in December I posted links to a new report and webinar by the Nature Conservancy describing their use of GIS to analyze potential Marcellus Shale impacts in PA. At some point in April we’ll have the Nature Conservancy team here at Bucknell for a presentation of their work. Stay tuned for more details…
The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured maps and stories based on recently-released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. As described by the team at Social Explorer, “the latest [American Community Survey] figures are the single largest data release in the Census Bureau’s history, providing a look for the first time since 2000 at a variety of characteristics, including income, race, immigration and commuting habits for people in areas as small as just a few square blocks.”
A number of searchable, interactive maps – developed jointly by the New York Times and Social Explorer – accompany the articles. Click here to explore the maps. Click below to read the articles.
“Region is Reshaped as Minorities Go to Suburbs”
“Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities”
“Samples of Highs and Lows from Around the Country”
