The winner of the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search is Shannon Babb of Highland, Utah, who won a $100,000 college scholarship for her project studying the impacts of humans and animals on the Spanish Fork River drainage system. Not only did she spend six months studying the drainage system, she also came up with recommendations
Outdoor Classroom Awards
Lowe’s, International Paper and National Geographic Explorer have teamed up to award nearly $80,000 in grants to 32 schools in 15 states to help construct outdoor learning environments for science education. I think this is a really great program to give kids more opportunities to learn and get excited about science. If you’d like to
SkillsUSA Announces New College Geospatial Competition
In case any of you aren’t on the ESRI Education email Newsleter, this is an item that of you may be interested in following. From the newsletter: “SkillsUSA has partnered with the GIS industry to develop a competition program that will provide universities, colleges, and their students with a way to validate their geospatial programs
Step-By-StepTutorial: Open Source Web GIS
mapz posted a link to an article titled “Web GIS in practice IV: publishing your health maps and connecting to remote WMS sources using the Open Source UMN MapServer and DM Solutions MapLab“, that comes complete with a tutorial. The tutorial is a 14 page document that walks you through downloading the software, installing on
GLIS Annual GIS competition for high schools
The Geographic and Land Information Society has announced their Annual GIS Competion for high schools, sponsored by ESRI. Basically, high schools submit projects to the competition by the deadline of March 15, 2006, and the winners will be notified by April 1st. Entry forms, rules for project submissions, and information on prizes can be found
UCGIS Draft Body of Knowledge
The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science has made a draft of its GI S&T Body of Knowledge (that’s Geographic Information Science and Technology, BTW) available for comment. This document is part of their Model Curricula. Comments can be made on the associated discussion forum on the UCGIS site. While the document is lengthy at
Geography Departments Worldwide
This site offers a searchable list of over 1000 Geography departments from around the world. WVU is on it, is your school (or alma mater)? Geography Departments Worldwide: Homepage
NASA’s ISS EarthKAM program
I just read an article about a teacher in Maine who has had her students participating in projects based on NASA’s ISS EarthKam project. EartKAM is Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students, an education program that is centered around a camera currently mounted on the International Space Station. EarthKAM has actually been around since
GAW Day 2: Human Geography
Although definitions vary, most agree that human geography focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment, and the spatial relationships that define and are defined by those interactions. Human geography has many sub-disciplines, from cultural geography to urban geography to historical geography and many others (Wikipedia lists 18 fields of Human Geography, and that’s
GIS on TV
I was waiting for my ride to campus this morning and I stumbled across a program on the History Channel called Battlefield Detectives. This episode was about the Battle of Hastings in England in 1066. But what was interesting was a discussion and demonstration of the use of GIS in historic landscape interpretation and reconstruction.
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