{"id":1701,"date":"2016-08-08T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2016-08-08T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T18:59:04","slug":"first-look-taylors-trip-to-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/sal-sandbox\/2016\/08\/08\/first-look-taylors-trip-to-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look: Taylor’s Trip to Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 well!<\/p>\n

Director Kim Browne taught her study abroad course on the physical geography of Australia and New Zealand, we have continued supporting\u00a0Dr, Ransom with her Uganda project, worked with our Facilities, Police Department, and Office of Advancement on some campus GIS projects, but by far the most exciting part of my summer was a 3 week trip to Tanzania!<\/p>\n

Earlier this spring I received a staff Weinstein Summer Grant<\/a> to travel to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for three weeks. For most of the month of June I visited alumni and nonprofits in Tanzania with the mission of seeing how our GIS students could work with them in the future on internships and\/or research projects. I met with: Financial Sector Deepening Trust<\/a>, Tanzania Open Data Lab<\/a> at the University of Dar es Salaam, the Department of Geography at the University of Dar es Salaam, and got to visit the Noloholo Environmental Center<\/a>, which is run by UR alumni Dr. Laly Litchenfeld. I will be making more in depth posts describing what these wonderful organizations do, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n

Super Rough Overview of Trip:<\/p>\n