Wednesday, October 14. 2009

Education Tidbits

The Challenger Center is offering a Webinar focussing on the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) and how its used to explore the continent. It's free and on October 21 at 12:00pm ET.

- press release

This sounds like an interesting paper for those considering using GIS in liberal arts. It'll be presented at the Geological Society of America’s (GSA) annual meeting beginning later this week:

Additionally, Mike Taber, professor of education and director of CC’s [Colorado College] environmental program, will present his work on “Using GIS to Support a Data Driven Construction Approach to Teaching Global Climate Change.” Taber and collaborators at Colorado State University developed a curriculum that utilizes data-driven learning modules and challenges students to thoroughly understand climate change. Their work was sponsored by a grant from the Center for Multi-scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (CMMAP).

- Colorado College News

A faculty member and students from Northern Illinois University will tackle the economic climate in Riverside Illinois this fall. It seems the city will pay for the report produced, if it likes it; I'm not sure how that jibes with "volunteered."

Six NIU students and their professor, Richard Greene, have volunteered to gauge downtown Riverside's potential for economic improvement through a method of planning known as geographic information systems.

GIS is a complex system of collecting and computing geographic data, in this case to come up with a practical and sustainable business scenario for downtown.

- Riverside Brookfield Landmark