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General GIS Slideshow

bin Laden Habitat Suitability Model

Amongst all of the Osama bin Laden news from the last few days there was a fascinating article from sciencemag.org about a ‘bin Laden Habitat Suitability Model’ created by geography students at UCLA using GIS and remote sensing data, tools and spatial analytical techniques.

Click here to read the article “Geographers Had Calculated 81% Chance That Osama Was in Abbottabad.” See below for an excerpt. Thanks to UT Austin Geography Professor Jennifer Miller for the heads up on this article!

Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Probably not, but the predictions of UCLA geographer Thomas Gillespie, who, along with colleague John Agnew and a class of undergraduates, authored a 2009 paper predicting the terrorist’s whereabouts, were none too shabby. According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 80.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was killed last night.


 

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

TNC Presentation on Marcellus Shale – Monday, April 4 @ 4:30pm

What: Presentation by The Nature Conservancy on Marcellus Shale/PA Energy Impacts
When: Monday, April 4th at 4:30pm
Where: Bertrand Library, Traditional Reading Room

Refreshments will be served.

Come and hear Tamara Gagnolet, GIS Analyst and Conservation Data Manager for the Pennsylvania chapter of the Nature Conservancy, discuss her work in using GIS to analyze potential impacts of Marcellus Shale gas drilling in Pennsylvania. 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.

Students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

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Bucknell/Local Interest Environment General GIS Marcellus Shale Slideshow

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.