GEOG\/ENVR 250 – Intro to Earth Systems and Physical Geography –\u00a0Dr. Todd Lookingbill<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course learn how GIS and other geospatial technologies are used in fieldwork to study the physical landscape. Students contribute to the Campus Tree Inventory using the Collector for ArcGIS App, use GPS units to collect data around campus, use data loggers and GIS software to measure and analyze urban heat island effects on campus, and much more.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 260 – Introduction to GIS – Professor Kim Browne<\/strong><\/p>\nTaught every semester by SAL Director Kim Browne, this class introduces students to GIS through hands on lessons and student driven projects. The students work in the SAL to complete their assignments and work together to become familiar with the many different applications\u00a0of GIS. We believe building a community of students learning together in a central meeting place allows students to teach and learn from each other during and outside of class time.<\/p>\n
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Spring 2017<\/span><\/h2>\nFYS 100 – What Does Sound Say – Dr. Andy McGraw<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a continuation of a project started in 2013 with Dr. McGraw. Students in his music courses use the Collector for ArcGIS app to record different music and sounds they encounter across the city of Richmond. Students record the artists, genre, venue, sound level (dB), \u00a0and take a video recording of each location they capture. This is done to examine the diversity of the music scene, and is often accompanied by a in depth\u00a0anthropology of a venue as a final project.<\/p>\n
MUS 229 – Anthropology of Music – Dr. Andy McGraw<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a continuation of a project started in 2013 with Dr. McGraw. Students in his music courses use the Collector for ArcGIS app to record different music and sounds they encounter across the city of Richmond. Students record the artists, genre, venue, sound level (dB), \u00a0and take a video recording of each location they capture. This is done to examine the diversity of the music scene, and is often accompanied by a in depth\u00a0anthropology of a venue as a final project.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 260 – Introduction to GIS – Professor Kim Browne<\/strong><\/p>\nTaught every semester by SAL Director Kim Browne, this class introduces students to GIS through hands on lessons and student driven projects. The students work in the SAL to complete their assignments and work together to become familiar with the many different applications\u00a0of GIS. We believe building a community of students learning together in a central meeting place allows students to teach and learn from each other during and outside of class time.<\/p>\n
SOC 279 – ST: Environmental Sociology –\u00a0Dr. Yetkin Borlu
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GEOG 320 – \u00a0Geographies of Political Change –\u00a0Dr. Mary Finley-Brook<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course used the EPA Environemtnal Justice app EJ Screen to explore disparities in health and exposure to toxins in the Richmond region. They then proposed small grant solutions that could alleviate the pollution affecting marginalized communities in the region.<\/p>\n
BOIL 336 – Eco Epidemiology\u00a0–\u00a0Dr. Jory Brinkerhoff<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course complete two lab activities designed to show how epidemiologists use GIS to study the geographic dimensions of disease and health indicators. Students use CDC data in ArcGIS to analyze disparities in Richmond and in their hometowns.<\/p>\n
BIOL 351\u00a0– ST: Field Ecology\u00a0–\u00a0Dr. Kristine Grayson and Dr. Amy Treonis<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents learned how GPS units and mobile apps are used for field data collection as well as analyzed their data using GIS software. Students also completed a storymap of their trip to Belize, describing their fieldwork in great detail.<\/p>\n
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Fall 2016<\/span><\/h2>\nBIOL 199 – Invasions in Biology\u00a0–\u00a0Dr. Carrie Wu<\/strong><\/p>\nDr. Wu’s intro biology class completes a GPS and GIS based lab each semester she teaches it. The lab was created as a collaboration between our lab and her research into invasive species. Students spend one lab period identifying and recording the locations of invasive species on campus using GPS units. During the next lab period students analyze the data they collected using ArcMap to identify patterns, make inferences about species location, and most importantly cartographic design for creating scientific figures for papers and reports.<\/p>\n
BIOL 199 – Biodiversity and Conservation Biology\u00a0–\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Peter Smallwood<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course take part in a GIS activity examining inventory of over 1500 trees on the University of Richmond campus. Students analyze species distribution, differences in carbon storage, presence of invasive species, and consider how GIS can be used for conservation and management.<\/p>\n
GEOG 210\u00a0– Geographic Dimensions of Human Development\u00a0–\u00a0Dr.\u00a0Mary Finley-Brook<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course create storymaps to show global supply chains for certain products, learning how they get from origin to our grocery stores.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 250 – Intro to Earth Systems and Physical Geography –\u00a0Dr. Todd Lookingbill<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course learn how GIS and other geospatial technologies are used in fieldwork to study the physical landscape. Students contribute to the Campus Tree Inventory using the Collector for ArcGIS App, use GPS units to collect data around campus, use data loggers and GIS software to measure and analyze urban heat island effects on campus, and much more.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 260 – Introduction to GIS – Professor Kim Browne<\/strong><\/p>\nTaught every semester by SAL Director Kim Browne, this class introduces students to GIS through hands on lessons and student driven projects. The students work in the SAL to complete their assignments and work together to become familiar with the many different applications\u00a0of GIS. We believe building a community of students learning together in a central meeting place allows students to teach and learn from each other during and outside of class time.<\/p>\n
RHCS 279\u00a0– ST: Intro to Digital Humanities – Dr. Lauren Tilton<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course utilized the Spatial Analysis Lab to explore GIS as a tool for digital humanities projects. Justin Madron demonstrated several methods of simple analysis to prepare data for visualization using other software.<\/p>\n
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Spring 2016<\/span><\/h2>\nMUS 116\u00a0– Music Scenes\u00a0–\u00a0Dr. Joanna Love (2 sections)<\/strong><\/p>\nThis is a continuation of a project started in 2013 with Dr. McGraw. Students in his music courses use the Collector for ArcGIS app to record different music and sounds they encounter across the city of Richmond. Students record the artists, genre, venue, sound level (dB), \u00a0and take a video recording of each location they capture. This is done to examine the diversity of the music scene, and is often accompanied by a in depth\u00a0anthropology of a venue as a final project.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 250 – Introduction to Earth Systems and Physical Geography –\u00a0Dr. Todd Lookingbill<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course learn how GIS and other geospatial technologies are used in fieldwork to study the physical landscape. Students contribute to the Campus Tree Inventory using the Collector for ArcGIS App, use GPS units to collect data around campus, use data loggers and GIS software to measure and analyze urban heat island effects on campus, and much more.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 260 – Introduction to GIS – Professor Kim Browne<\/strong><\/p>\nTaught every semester by SAL Director Kim Browne, this class introduces students to GIS through hands on lessons and student driven projects. The students work in the SAL to complete their assignments and work together to become familiar with the many different applications\u00a0of GIS. We believe building a community of students learning together in a central meeting place allows students to teach and learn from each other during and outside of class time.<\/p>\n
GEOG\/ENVR 280 – ST: Maps and Geovisualization\u00a0–\u00a0Professors Kim Browne and Justin Madron<\/strong><\/p>\nThis special topics course taught by the Intro to GIS professor and Justin Madron from the DSL introduced students to web mapping, cartography, and data visualization as the future of geospatial technologies. This was a hybrid course of students who had already taken GIS and those with no experience.<\/p>\n
BOIL 336 – Eco Epidemiology\u00a0–\u00a0Dr. Jory Brinkerhoff<\/strong><\/p>\nStudents in this course complete two lab activities designed to show how epidemiologists use GIS to study the geographic dimensions of disease and health indicators. Students use CDC data in ArcGIS to analyze disparities in Richmond and in their hometowns.<\/p>\n
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