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...]
From the Yale Daily News… “Map on, Maples!”
The Yale Daily News has a great article about the role that the GIS Specialist, Stace Maples, plays on campus. Maples, a fellow ESRI T3G Institute alum from summer 2010, works with faculty and students on integrating GIS into teaching and research at Yale and... ... he is in high demand. Working in the three-person Map Department, a department within the Yale University … [Read more...]
Physics Dept coffee talk on using the Flying Bison drone to collect aerial imagery
Come hear Nick Urban, Computer Science '12, talk about designing, building and flying the remote-controlled Flying Bison drone. Nick will be presenting on Monday, 9/26 at noon (Olin 364) as part of the Physics department's coffee talk series. He'll have the plane with him and will be showing some new video that will be captured by the drone in test flights he's conducting this … [Read more...]
Keystone Edge story about the Flying Bison
The online journal, Keystone Edge, recently picked up the story of Nick Urban and the Flying Bison drone. Published by Issue Media Group, the Keystone Edge ... tells the story of the new economy in Pennsylvania--a narrative of creative people and businesses, new development, cool places to live, and the best places to work and play. Each Thursday, the Web site and weekly … [Read more...]
Computer science major builds aerial drone for a bird’s-eye view of local stream
Bucknell communications recently published an article on the work that Nick Urban and the other GIS student assistants did this summer for the Miller Run Restoration project. Excerpt below - click here to read the full article. LEWISBURG, Pa. - As the son of an aircraft mechanic, Nick Urban learned a thing or two about planes. The rising senior at Bucknell University … [Read more...]