Steering Committee Activities
2012-2013 tasks
- Mini-grant program
- Mapping Air Quality through the Design and Assembly of an Open-source, Low-cost Mobile Sensor to Test in Juba, South Sudan, Dr. Justin Henriques, Department of Engineering
- Writing for Nonprofits course project incorporating geospatially encoded photography, community interviews and "spatial writing"; techniques, Dr. Sean McCarthy, The school of Writing, Rhetoric & Technical Communication
- A Mapping Project for the Study of Rural Homelessness, Dr. Margaret Sloan, School of Strategic Leadership Studies, and Dr. Karen Ford, Department of Social Work
- Incorporating GIS into courses on: Economic and Community Development, Urban Policy and Regionalism, and Tools for Public Management, and to attend the Federal GIS Conference. Dr. Nick Swartz, Department of Political Science
- Organizing and sponsoring May Symposium 2013 activities
- Joining the Virginia Geographic Information Network (VGIN) Geospatial Archive Resource and Data Exchange Network (GARDEN) to gain access to, and share, official geospatial data of the Commonwealth
- Setting up university-level mapping server for publicly sharing geospatial data and applications
- Working with CISE Lab Operations to setup a shared geospatial data repository for campus access
- ESRI site license funded at university level
- Student Award Program
- JMU students
- Geospatial Semester program awards to high school students
2011-2012 tasks
- Mini-grant program
- A Remote Sensing Field Trip for Geographic Science Students, Dr. Zachary J. Bortolot, Department of Integrated Science and Technology
- Little Change Through Time?: Mapping Socioeconomic Legacies of Soil Fertility Differences Across Central Virginia, Dr.Tony Hartshorn, Dept. of Geology & Environmental Science
- The Use of High Resolution Topographic Data to Quantify the Effects of Deep-Seated Landslides on the Width of Valleys and In-Stream Fish Habitat Dr. Christine L. May, Department of Biology; Dr. L. Scott Eaton, Department of Geology and Environmental Science
- Training
- An Introduction to KML Scripting for Google Earth, Dr. Steve Whitmeyer
- Mapping a Difference: Internet-based Tools for Making and Analyzing Digital Maps, Dr. Bob Kolvoord
- Building and Analyzing Digital Maps: Introduction to GIS, Dr. Bob Kolvoord
- Publishing Your ArcGIS Maps Online, Dr. James Wilson
- UCGIS Membership Application
- Planning for 2012-2013 speaker series
- Setting up university-level mapping server
- Expanding committee membership
- ESRI site license funded at university level
- Geospatial Semester program awards to high school students
2010-2011 tasks
- Dr. Michael Goodchild as visiting scholar (co-sponsored by Geographic Science Program, see resources for link to video)
- Spatial Thinking Across the Curriculum, a 1/2 day workshop at the annual May Symposium (see resources for link to video)
- ESRI site license funded at the university level
- Purchases
- Mapping server for university-wide use
- Additional 1 TB of network storage for data sharing
- Logo & website prototype development
Quicklinks
JMU-ESRI Site License Information
- Center for Instructional Tecnology: Geospatial
http://cit.jmu.edu/media/geospatial