Guoping Huang
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Oct 09
GIS Day 2017
This year we are celebrating our 10th year of GIS Day at the University of Richmond! We have alumni returning and our famous cake contest will be lit!
Aug 25
Fall 2018 Walk In Hours
After an exciting summer on the river and in the lab with our high school MSI students, it is time for the school year to start yet again! This year we will be clustering project work days and walk in hours to increase productivity and foster collaboration among various users of geospatial technology across campus. …
Jul 24
East End Cemetery – Mapping Forgotten Gravestones
By Ethan Burroughs ’18 East End Cemetery is located on the border of Henrico and Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1897, and an estimated 13,000 people are believed to be buried in East End. The neighboring Evergreen Cemetery often overshadows its presence, which is another African-American cemetery that has fallen into disrepair in Richmond. …
Apr 28
American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2017 Annual Meeting
The American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting is a chance once per year for our department’s students, faculty, and staff to present their research to peers and learn about what other universities all across the world are doing with geography. For many of our students, it is an eye opening experience to see the …
Oct 28
GIS Day 2016: ANNEXED
GIS Day 2016: Wednesday November 16 Join us for GIS Day 2016 as students from the Intro to GIS classes explore the Annexation of Chesterfield County by the City of Richmond in 1970, as featured in Dr. John Moeser’s book Politics of Annexation: Oligarchic Power in a Southern City As always we will have our …
Sep 13
Week 4 Update
Hello Everyone! We’ve had a busy first few weeks in the Spatial Analysis Lab this fall. From wrapping up our summer projects to starting a new workshop series and everything in between, we’ve barely had a second to sit back and reflect on all the great work going on. Here’s a summary of some of …
Aug 08
First Look: Taylor’s Trip to Tanzania
Happy August Everyone! Hope your summers have been as lively and exciting as our’s have been in the Spatial Analysis Lab. As you already know we hosted 4 fabulous high school students for 5 weeks of learning how GIS is in fact at STEM field. However, we have had many other things going on as …
Jul 22
Unpacking the Census: Mapping Poverty in Metro Richmond
Post by Olivia Mobayed ’16 There is no doubt that poverty is a big issue in Richmond. A high proportion of Richmond children grow up in households that live below the poverty level, and a majority of Richmond Public School students receive free or reduced price lunch. Dr. John Moeser has been studying trends relating …
Jul 08
MSI Week 3 – Field Work
This week our wonderful MSI students took their experience outside the lab and completed some fieldwork. They contributed to our campus tree inventory, which I actually started 4 years ago in the summer after my freshman year. We collected species, diameter, height, and location for over 800 trees on campus and estimates how much carbon …
Jul 07
Do These Buttress Roots Make My Trunk Look Big?
Post by Kim Browne The past four summers I’ve had the good fortune of leading students to Australia for an intensive field experience which includes visits to two World Heritage sites: the Wet Tropics of North Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef. These sites are connected (literally and littorally) by the rain that falls along …