Jun 07
June 7, 2018 By Lauren Scheffey ’20 Today we met Kimberly Wolfe in the Digital Scholarship Lab in the library to learn how to convert physical maps to a digital form. We used the university’s high-tech, super-expensive camera and a program Kimberly called “photoshop on steroids” to take a photo of the map and adjust …
Apr 06
University of Richmond students from the Advanced Spatial Analysis course took home 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Undergraduate Web Map competition at the 2018 VAMLIS Virginia GIS Conference in Virginia Beach. Congratulations to these amazing students!!! Check out their web maps below! 1st: Emily Routman ’20 Immigrants account for around 17% …
Apr 28
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 …
Jul 07
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 …
Jul 06
Post by Marissa Parker ’16 This summer, the SAL is hosting four rising 10th grade students from Richmond Public Schools in the Richmond Math Science Investigators (MSI) program. The goal of MSI is to increase the number of students pursuing a career in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The students are interested in …
Aug 25
Post by Andrew Loesch ’17 Hey all! My name is Andrew and I am a rising junior studying environmental studies and geography at the university. This summer I’ve been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Todd Lookingbill and Professor Kimberley Klinker in the Spatial Analysis Lab this summer via the S4 internship. Since …