Category: Marcellus Shale

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Ask the expert: Katie Faull on maps, Moravian diaries and Native American history

In the BU homepage’s February ‘Ask the Expert’ interview, Prof. Katie Faull discusses her research on the 18th Century Moravian settlers and Native Americans who inhabited the Susquehanna watershed region. With the help of her research assistant, Emily Bitely ’11, Prof. Faull has made extensive use of GIS in reconstructing 18th Century landscapes of the Susquehanna.  Read the interview here.

Sample map constructed from witness tree markers and georeferenced historic maps:

Sample map showing locations of Native American sites, trails and sacred places in relation to Marcellus Shale gas drilling.

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Upcoming presentation by The Nature Conservancy

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…

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Using GIS to analyze Marcellus Shale impacts in Pennsylvania

The Nature Conservancy recently released a study analyzing potential habitat impacts of energy development – including Marcellus Shale – in Pennsylvania over the next 20 years. Click here to watch a recorded presentation by the two lead researchers on the project. Click here for a copy of the full report.

The presentation includes discussion of how GIS and spatial analysis were used to project how much energy might be developed in PA during the next 20 years and where that development is more or less likely to occur.

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Tour the front lines of the Marcellus Shale boom with students from the Susquehanna Valley Summer Writer’s Institute

In Summer 2010, a team of five Bucknell undergrads participated in the Susquehanna Valley Summer Writer’s Institute with the goal of collecting and reporting stories of how the Marcellus Shale gas-drilling boom is transforming communities and cultural landscapes. Given how central geography is to the story of the Marcellus Shale boom, it was quickly agreed that the most powerful way to share this work would be through embedding the emerging, evolving stories into a clickable, interactive map – giving users the ability to interactively explore and engage with the material.  The map for the Summer 2010 project was built using the Google Maps API but plans are underway to implement ArcGIS Server technology to add additional functionality and interactivity.  Thanks to Mike Weaver from ITEC for his work in building the Google Maps site!