During Summer 2012, Prof. Michelle Oswald (Civil Engineering) and student Christian Treat '13 (Animal Behavior) used GIS to model seal level rise inundation and identify vulnerable transportation infrastructure in the Philadelphia metropolitian area. Christian's stipend for this summer research project was paid for out of Bucknell's GIS student assistant fund (funded in part by … [Read more...]
Another summer 2013 GIS student research opportunity
Here's info on another GIS student research opportunity for summer 2013. This one is hosted by Georgia State University. It's part of the same NSF-funded 'Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program as the California State Long Beach program we posted about a few weeks ago. The Geogria State program focuses on addressing social/environmental disparities through … [Read more...]
Register & Submit Presentations for Bucknell-hosted GIS conference
We recently launched the conference website for the upcoming Bucknell-hosted conference GIS & Spatial Thinking in the Undergraduate Curriculum. Basic info is shown below, but please check out the conference website for details and updates as they become available. About the Conference: When: November 16-18, 2012 Where: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. … [Read more...]
GIS in the Classroom (and dorms): Environmental Residential College
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...]
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...]