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The Royal Geographic Society is sponsoring a ‘From the Field’ fieldwork grant application program for secondary teachers that is sponsored by The Goldsmiths’ Company. The objective is to inspire young people to get involved in fieldwork, and also to develop curriculum for geography education about issues of global significance such as climate change, loss of [...]
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One of the more compelling aspects of the ESRI/UC is the education sessions, and the inclusion of youth. This year, the work of a caving club in Montana were highlighted on the main stage for their work on raising awareness and remediating fragile cave ecosystems. The outstanding nature of their work brought them recognition from [...]
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Researchers at Appalachian State University are studying the long-term use of GIS and remote sensing to track and respond to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The unique long-term nature of this disaster provides new opportunities for mapping technologies to make a significant impact in the operations, policy decisions and allocation of resources for this disaster [...]
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The Geological Society of America and Google have teamed on a Penrose Conference to address the creation of geoscience educational modules and research visualizations using the Google Earth platform. The week-long event is scheduled for early January 2011 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., including time for a full-day field trip to geologic sites [...]
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The ability of GIS to capture and synthesize information from large distributed work groups makes it an ideal tool for project-based learning. Current GIS students also benefit greatly from the newer robust tools that port GIS to the field for more enlightened fieldwork, where the work is informed by greater context and the ability to [...]
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The newly opened Gallery of California History at the Oakland Museum opened with detailed maps and documents about “The California Land Grab.” There’s an exciting use of multi-touch mapping for this exhibit with a screen that can accommodate up to 60 simultaneous touch points. The following video illustrates two people accessing the map at the [...]
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When speaking about the move toward greater collaboration and teams of discipline experts all working in concert on projects and approaches to problem solving, the word that I’ve been using is multidisciplinary. I had an enlightening conversation with Kenneth Brooks, professor of Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University (ASU) yesterday. He filled me in on [...]
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San Francisco State University will be offering a new Masters of Science degree in Geographic Information Science for fall 2010. The new program highlights the emerging field of study that combines aspects of geography, cartography, statistics, visualization, and custom programming. More details on the program can be found here.
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As geospatial practitioners in the developed world struggle with data management issues, and the challenges of keeping software updated with the latest releases, it’s helpful to see a developing world perspective in order to understand more profound challenges. There’s a story in the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror today that outlines the challenges of students in [...]
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The GeoTech Center has harnessed virtualization or cloud computing to expand access to GIS and geospatial software to remote schools and colleges. The approach reduces the complexity of installing and maintaining complex desktop software, eliminating the need for specialized administrative technical skill sets in remote areas that likely don’t have the talent. The center can [...]
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