Professional Documents
Culture Documents
general coverage by necessity - GIS world is too big now term paper or project is opportunity to go in depth
online resources as well
Who Am I?
Over 20 years of GIS experience B.S. in Geology
Wheaton College in Illinois
M.S. in Oceanography
Texas A&M
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Association of American Geographers: Coastal & Marine, GIS, Cyberinfrastructure specialty groups
American Geophysical Union: Earth & Space Informatics, Tectonophysics sections
Other Interests
Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes comics Building Legos Competitive cycling Animation / Art House films Pasta New puppy Sally Arcade Fire, Weezer, Snow Patrol, Coldplay, The Shins, U2, Erasure, Moby, Celtic music
Learning Styles
You may be interested in the web site test at
www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnaire
study strategy helpsheets that apply to your own learning preference, and may thus help you to further succeed in this course, as well as others
Textbooks
Required Text for Lecture
Geographic Information Systems and Science, 3rd ed. by Longley, Goodchild, Maguire, and Rhind
Textbooks
Required Text for Lab, 2nd half of term
GIS Tutorial 2: Spatial Analysis Workbook for ArcGIS 10, 2nd ed. by Allen
Textbooks
Optional and on reserve
Place Matters: Geospatial Tools for Marine Science, Conservation, and Management in the Pacific Northwest edited by Wright and Scholz
Learning Outcomes
Understand, articulate, demonstrate:
GIS theory and methods GIS ANALYSIS (more than getting data in and displaying it) Simple spatial analysis Geographic Information Science Basic software skills
Internet Access
Web Site of the Week
dusk.geo.orst.edu/gis
Labs
Teaching Assistants are Alexis Smoluk and Kelvin Raiford Lab sessions are in Wilkinson 210
Section 10, T 1:00 - 2:50 p.m. (Both?) Section 11, W 10:00 - 11:50 a.m. (TBD) Section 12, W 3:00 - 4:50 p.m. (TBD)
Labs (cont.)
Purpose is to give you a BRIEF hands-on experience
what software can do what problems can be solved
longer learning curves in reality 1st half of term w/ArcGIS 9.3, 2nd half w/ArcGIS 10
Questions??
Storytime
An aviatrix was piloting a hot air balloon. She ran into some unexpected weather and was blown about for a long time. When the weather cleared, and she was able to descend, she had no idea where she was.
As she came down, she saw someone immediately below her and yelled, Where am I?
You are 75 feet above my head.
perfectly useless!
-- Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of MITs Media Lab. Being Digital (1995), p. 6.
-- Keith Clarke, Director, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
Geography of a Recession
http://bit.ly/3xsef0