The latest edition of the NLCD (2006) is now publicly available, providing updates on land cover change occurring between 2001 and 2006. I’m working on downloading the data to the GIS data folder on Xanthus so stay tuned for a post telling you when that’s complete. If you can’t wait, click here to download the data now from the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium website.
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.
From GoogleEarthHacks via YouTube:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYs6gW4b1w
Thanks to Prof. Ben Marsh for sending in this image of the Bonne map projection, 1752!
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!