This year the University of Rochester will be participating in “GIS Day” by holding a student Story Map competition including accompanying training workshops. What is GIS Day? According to ESRI’s website, GIS Day is an: “…international celebration of GIS technology. GIS is a scientific framework for gathering, analyzing, and visualizing geographic data to help us …
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Dynamic Maps Using CSV, Google Earth, KML and ArcGIS Online
In Fall 2018, Professor Molly Ball’s History 252: Immigration in the Americas students developed original research based on archival and primary sources to explore how Rochester’s own immigrant history can not only enrich our understanding of the city’s history, but also further our understanding of transnational immigrant experiences throughout the Americas. One of the ways …
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Visualizing Sea Levels- GIS Class Exercise
The Digital Scholarship Lab collaborated with professor Carmala Garzione (Earth and Environmental Sciences) to create an exercise for her sedimentology course to examine sea level change’s impact on geologic formation. The goals for the exercise were: Must be completed in one course period Expose students to open source GIS tools Show students where to download …
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Blair Tinker, GIS Specialist
Blair is currently the GIS specialist for the Digital Scholarship Lab. After receiving his MA in geography from Binghamton University he spent time teaching and practicing GIS and related spatial technologies in Virginia and California. His interests include mapping/GIS, data visualization and open source spatial tools. He guest lectures in classes across the University of …
In The Field
In The Field (prototype) brings networking among social scientists into the 21st century. Our goal was to create and maintain an interactive website that will enable political scientists – and, ultimately, all social scientists engaged in the field research – to easily forge connections with one another across the globe. Scholars: Gretchen Helmke and YeonKyung …