Category: Slideshow

Bucknell awarded $520,000 Mellon grant to support environmental studies, GIS integration

Post author By Janine Glathar
Post date February 22, 2011

Bucknell has been awarded a $520,000 Mellon grant (the largest Mellon grant ever received by BU) to support the development of courses and initiatives related to environmental studies. Click here to read the announcement on the BU home page. In addition to providing stipends to faculty who create new courses that include environmental connections, the grant will also support the development of GIS technology as a tool in teaching, learning and research related to environmental topics. Specifically, the grant will:

provide stipends to faculty who attend GIS workshops
fund GIS Student Research Assistants
fund development of course materials – labs, lecture materials, datasets, web-based course modules, etc. – that integrate GIS with environmental studies content

Contact me with any questions or ideas you might have about the GIS part of this grant.

Tags environmental studies, GIS, GIS Student Assistants, interactive map, Mellon

General GIS GIS in Public Health Slideshow

Mapping worlwide alcohol consumption

Post author By Janine Glathar
Post date February 21, 2011

The World Health Organization’s recently released Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health includes some interesting maps on worldwide alcohol consumption. Click here to download WHO data and here to read the full report. Below are a few of the maps included in the report – including some interesting maps on binge drinking patterns.

Tags alcohol, data, map

Bucknell/Local Interest Digital Humanities General GIS GIS in History GIS in Humanities Slideshow Videos

Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty

Post author By Janine Glathar
Post date February 21, 2011

There are a million reasons I can think of for wanting to be in Santa Barbara, CA this week but one of them is that I’d love to attend UC Santa Barbara’s ‘Think Spatial’ forum. This week’s presentation features Ruth Mostern from UC Merced discussing her use of Google Earth for teaching undergraduate history courses. In Mostern’s upper division history course about the Silk Road, students read travel narratives and then use Google Earth to create digital atlases about their travelers’ journeys. Here’s a short video that showcases some of her students’ work:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7I2BJBrLAU

Mostern also makes extensive use of GIS in her research and is co-author of the Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty. The website includes maps and downloadable data for counties and prefectures of the Song Dynasty. A sample map from the gazetteer is shown below.

“This map depicts the ratio of cantons to counties based on the data in the Song history. There is no county-level population data for the Song. The number of cantons in a county is the best proxy for its population. Red areas have a large number of cantons, and blue areas have a small number.”

Tags atlas, digital humanities, digital story-telling, gazetteer, Google Earth, spatial, video

Bucknell/Local Interest Environment Events/Calendar General GIS Marcellus Shale Slideshow

Presentation by the Nature Conservancy – Monday, April 4th at 4:30pm

Post author By Janine Glathar
Post date February 16, 2011

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.