{"id":1348,"date":"2014-10-08T23:10:35","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T03:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2014-10-08T23:44:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T03:44:13","slug":"gis-tools-teaching-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/gis-tools-teaching-research\/","title":{"rendered":"GIS Tools for Teaching and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Baynard Bailey<\/p>\n<p>Anthropology Professor April Beisaw is a very active user of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and other technologies in her research and in her classroom. ACS recently produced a video featuring Professor Beisaw employing mobile mapping devices in the field (devices she was able to purchase via the <a title=\"Technology Exploration Fund\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/fdftef\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frances D. Fergusson Technology Exploration Fund<\/a>). Using the GPS mobile mapping device makes it easy to collect data that can then be imported\/loaded into GIS to make nice maps. The video features April Beisaw using mobile mapping devices for field research.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Field Research and Mobile Mapping: Interview with April Beisaw\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s65q48pBrfE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor Beisaw continues to be a dynamic user and an advocate for using\u00a0various GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies in her classroom. Last year she asked that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/en\/site\/\" target=\"_blank\">QGIS<\/a> be added to the base image for public computers on campus. I didn&#8217;t know about QGIS until April pointed it out to me. QGIS is a free and open source tool that empowers users to &#8220;create, edit, visualize, analyze\u00a0and publish geospatial information&#8221;. It is also cross-platform, so that means you can use it on your Mac, Windows or Linux machine. (As an educator, I really appreciate it when software is free and cross platform!)\u00a0Not too long ago, April gave a little demo in her office showing me and a couple Economics professors how to import maps\u00a0into QGIS and how to get started creating your own customized maps. It seemed like a great tool for teaching and research, although there is a bit of a learning curve.<\/p>\n<p>All of these maps were made with free QGIS:<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fgroups%2Fqgis-screenshots%2Fpool%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fgroups%2Fqgis-screenshots%2Fpool%2F&#038;group_id=2327386@N22&#038;jump_to=&#038;start_index=\"><\/param><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=1811922554\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/slideshow\/show.swf?v=1811922554\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"offsite=true&#038;lang=en-us&#038;page_show_url=%2Fgroups%2Fqgis-screenshots%2Fpool%2Fshow%2F&#038;page_show_back_url=%2Fgroups%2Fqgis-screenshots%2Fpool%2F&#038;group_id=2327386@N22&#038;jump_to=&#038;start_index=\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><br \/>\nI should also mention that Vassar has a <a title=\"GIS Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/earthscienceandgeography.vassar.edu\/facilities\/gis-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\">GIS lab<\/a> (using ArcGIS) in Ely Hall 114 and that GIS is available on the SciVis Lab machines. Vassar GIS users can also arrange a consultation with Stephanie LaRose, who is a GIS specialist\u00a0that comes to campus a couple days a week. If faculty or students are interested in pursuing any of these technologies or resources and would like help, please contact Academic Computing Services by emailing acs@vassar.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Baynard Bailey Anthropology Professor April Beisaw is a very active user of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and other technologies in her research and in her classroom. ACS recently produced a video featuring Professor Beisaw employing mobile mapping devices in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/gis-tools-teaching-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11445,200,9704,60634,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baynard-bailey","category-blogging","category-classroom","category-gis","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/acs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}