In previous posts, I've mentioned some of the cool projects that Azavea (a GIS consulting firm in Philly) is involved in. Things like... creating a mobile GIS app for cell phone users to find and map the locations of heart defibrillators across Philadelphia... launching a web map application for students, researchers and concerned citizens to map their watershed and … [Read more...]
Faculty GIS Profiles: Song Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese History
The following is a guest post by Prof. Song Chen, Assistant Professor of Chinese History, who arrived on campus in fall 2011. Click here to read the profile of Prof. Chen that was posted on the Bucknell website. In addition to his use of GIS for research purposes, Prof. Chen is planning to integrate GIS into a Spring 2013 quantitative methods course for history majors. Below … [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...]
Bucknell GIS brings home an IronSheep
Over the holidays we posted about Prof. Duane Griffin's victory in the FloatingSheep blog's Christmas map contest. Well, Duane has once again brought glory (or infamy, depending on which way you look at it) to Bucknell GIS by winning the coveted 'Sheep of Fools' award at the first ever IronSheep contest. The contest, part of the slate of activities for the 2012 annual … [Read more...]
Call for faculty interest in summer 2012 ‘Mapping Communities’ fellowship at University of Redlands
For the last two years, the LENS program at the University of Redlands has offered fellowships to faculty from around the country who are interested in exploring different ways to incorporate maps and spatial perspectives in their teaching and research. The fellowships include a week-long summer institute in Redlands, CA organized around a spatial theme. This year's institute … [Read more...]