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...]
Bucknell GIS brings home an IronSheep
Over the holidays we posted about Prof. Duane Griffin's victory in the FloatingSheep blog's Christmas map contest. Well, Duane has once again brought glory (or infamy, depending on which way you look at it) to Bucknell GIS by winning the coveted 'Sheep of Fools' award at the first ever IronSheep contest. The contest, part of the slate of activities for the 2012 annual … [Read more...]
Call for faculty interest in summer 2012 ‘Mapping Communities’ fellowship at University of Redlands
For the last two years, the LENS program at the University of Redlands has offered fellowships to faculty from around the country who are interested in exploring different ways to incorporate maps and spatial perspectives in their teaching and research. The fellowships include a week-long summer institute in Redlands, CA organized around a spatial theme. This year's institute … [Read more...]
Call for faculty interest in summer 2012 GIS workshops at Bucknell (revised)
As we have for the past two summers, Bucknell's LIT division will offer a series of summer workshops for faculty interested in hands-on instruction in GIS. Stipends of $400 will be offered to faculty for participating in each workshop. Please fill out this interest/registration form as soon as possible if you are interested in any of the following workshops. Overview 1. … [Read more...]
GIS in the Classroom: Civil & Environmental Engineering 432
Last summer, Bucknell's administration asked our GIS team to conduct an analysis of parking availability across campus. The project was assigned to Dan Dougherty, Geography/History ’12 and is summarized in Dan's guest post here. This spring, a team of four students in Prof. Michelle Oswald's CENG 432 course, Sustainable Transportation Engineering, are picking up where Dan left … [Read more...]