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85.743
http://gis.uml.edu/abrown2/85.743
84.653
http://gis.uml.edu/abrown2/84.653
Obama
http://www.youtube.com/v/AdrXh7wunMM
Modern times
Pirates are cool
"Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?"
Endless war on the installment plan
- Monday 9/8
- Monday 9/15
- Monday 9/22
- Monday 9/29
- Monday 10/6
- Wednesday 10/15
- Monday 10/20
- Monday 10/27
- Monday 11/3
- Monday 11/10
- Monday 11/17
- Monday 11/24
- Monday 12/1
- Monday 12/8
- Monday 12/15
EEAS 87.504 Introduction to GIS - Fall 2007
EEAS 87.504 Introduction to GIS - Fall 2006
EEAS 87.506 Introduction to Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
AKA: IT supervisor for Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) http://www.turi.org, tel (978)934-3199
- Sonification for exploration of time series and other complex datasets
- Adaptations of NASA WorldWind and other open source tools
- NDVI spatial time series and spectrum
- Hyperspectral data analysis products
Happy Valentine's Day
A Map of the World
One of the ancient maps of the world
is heart-shaped, carefully drawn
and once washed with bright colors,
though the colors have faded
as you might expect feelings to fade
from a fragile old heart, the brown map
of a life. But feeling is indelible,
and longing infinite, a starburst compass
pointing in all the directions
two lovers might go, a fresh breeze
swelling their sails, the future uncharted,
still far from the edge
where the sea pours into the stars.
Visualizing Science Data on Climate Change
As part of UMass-Lowell's observance of "Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America" the Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences offers a collection of images and information links on the science of climate change.
See the postings between Rooms 210 and 212 in Olney Hall, and visit our Climate Change Visualization web pages!
Past events
Open House Sunday 10/21, Monday 10/22
The Department of Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences participated in UML's fall student recruiting day on Sunday 10/21 at Tsongas Center; we offered a tour of the GIS Lab and the Meteorology Lab.
Alex 22:02, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
GIS Social Sciences meeting Tuesday Sept 25
This was a meeting of UML faculty concerned with social sciences instruction or research using or relating to GIS and related software tools for working with spatial information. The topic was software tools for GIS instruction and research across social science disciplines -- and specifically, need for Mapinfo software for Criminal Justice and RESD, and possible alternatives.
Alex 15:39, 17 September 2007 (EDT)
Penguin Day Lowell, June 22, 2007
http://penguinday.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Lowell:Penguin_Day_Agenda#3:00pm_-_Breakout_Workshops
3:00pm - Breakout Workshops
Public GIS access and open source GIS -- Facilitated by Alex Brown
Cities and towns are moving rapidly to publish their GIS data on web mapservers, and with free and open source GIS software tools, the dialogue between citizens and planners can become more equal. This talk will demonstrate some of these tools and help you decide whether open source GIS is right for your project.
Grassroots Use of Technology 2007 - June 23
GIS at the grassroots (noon roundtable session)
http://organizerscollaborative.org/conference07/sessions3
4:00pm to 5:15pm - Breakout Sessions 3
Using Online GIS Mapping as a Grassroots Environmental Justice Organizing Tool
Mike Patek and Mike Ewall
Energy Justice Network
http://www.energyjustice.net
PS: Someone has contributed this helpful link:
- Copy & Paste Excel to Wiki Converter To add a table to the wiki, cut/paste from an Excel worksheet, cut/paste into the wiki
Alex 22:02, 14 October 2007 (EDT)
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Bulletin: WARNING! Fragile LCD screen!
GPS USERS -- PLEASE HANDLE THESE THINGS WITH CARE! The LCD screen is especially fragile; the screen of #4 was damaged today without any accidents or abuse -- it was even inside a case, but apparently there was excess pressure on the LCD surface. I'd recommend carrying it in a firm bag or briefcase.
We may be able to get these replaced with a later model.
Alex 16:25, 1 December 2007 (EST)
GPS #1 became inaccessible in USB File Transfer Mode several days ago; I've tested it with fresh batteries, and there's no change. It looks like these devices are just not rugged and reliable enough for student field use. :(
Alex 01:10, 11 December 2007 (EST)
Climate change "teach-in" 1/31/08
Open House Sunday 10/21, Monday 10/22
The Department of Environmental, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will participate in UML's fall student recruiting day on Sunday 10/21 at Tsongas Center, and will offer a tour of the GIS Lab and the Meteorology Lab, with buses leaving the Center for North Campus about 11AM. The student and family tour group will be in the lab briefly but I will be in the lab for about two hours, and all who are interested are welcome. (The building's doors may be locked after the tour group leaves; I will check into access times -- but Olney Hall is accessible on weekends via the second floor overpass walkway from Ball Hall. Enter at the Campus Police office entrance and go up one flight of stairs to reach the walkway.)
I will also be on hand the afternoon of Monday 10/22, with much the same set of demonstrations available, for anyone interested in stopping by then.
TURI - please support continued funding!
I'm also a part-time IT supervisor for the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at UMass-Lowell -- this pays some bills. The Breast Cancer Risk Project work (above) was done by me in a research assistant role with TURI.
The Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute provides services and grant programs to reduce the use of toxic chemicals, energy and water while enhancing the economic competitiveness of local businesses. It was established by the Commonwealth's Toxics Use Reduction Act of 1989 (TURA), funded by fees collected from industry for registration of toxic chemicals used in production, to assist planning of improved industrial operations. TURI's reputation for success in this innovative program is nationally and internationally known, as well as within Massachusetts. TURI operates the TURAdata web database of industrial chemical use in Massachusetts which shows that over the 20 year history of the program, industrial toxics users are generating 34% less byproducts or waste per unit of product and have reduced releases of TRI reported on-site chemicals by 44%. This database supports research at UML into important public health problems such as pediatric asthma. Among other activities, TURI now assists Massachusetts manufacturers in planning for compliance with European regulations of hazardous substances in products, in areas such as lead-free electronics manufacturing, to ensure their global competetiveness.
This funding source, of about $3M annual industrial user fees, was initially directed into a special fund and released to the small programs providing these support services -- primarily TURI at UMass-Lowell, and the Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) in the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. In recent years, the fund was dissolved and a line item in the Massachusetts budget, usually about $1.2M, funded most of TURI's operations and small staff. (Grants and a small amount of income from training course registration provided additional income.)
In the current budget crisis this line item has been eliminated, and responsibility for TURI has been given to UMass-Lowell, currently as an unfunded mandate. Industry fees under TURA now flow into the state's general fund, with no specific funding allocated to UMass-Lowell for operation of TURI. Although very strong support from legislators for the TURA programs has been expressed, and a plan for supplemental funding advanced, it was absent in a supplemental funding bull at the end of July. At this point TURI's future is unclear, and I urge Massachusetts resident readers to contact their legislators to take action on this supplemental funding at every opportunity.
Please see the following links for press coverage of this issue:
- "Agency focused on cutting toxics loses funding", Boston Globe, July 1
- "When haste makes toxic waste", Boston Globe, July 14
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More toxic stuff
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http://gis.uml.edu/abrown2/87.504/
Uses of GIS
(Under construction - see http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html for a good overview)
Visualization
Analysis
Planning
Presentation
Engineering
Cartography
Interactive spatial information systems
Current GIS Lab activity
Instructional resource development
Access to ESRI GIS software and training
Open source GIS software
MassGIS, USGS, NOAA, and other data archives
Internet mapservers: ArcIMS, UMN Mapserver (Win32, Linux)
WebCT instruction support for 87.504 Potential future self-study alternatives
Service learning project and internship development support
Spatial time series analysis and presentation
NDVI response to variation in precipitation and hydrologic flux in semiarid regions Global NDVI archive 1981-2003
Regional studies
Horn of Africa
Central Asia
Presentation of time series animation and analysis products with NASA WorldWind Mapserver delivery as well as local cache storage of data archives
Global vegetation satellite data archive 1981-2003
Sonification for exploration of time series and other complex datasets Adaptations of NASA WorldWind and other open source tools
NDVI spatial time series and spectrum
Hyperspectral data analysis products
Computational resources for time series analysis WinXP mixed-use lab (scheduled instructional, student, computational use) Nagios cluster network management
Condor cluster process management (evaluation in progress)
GRASS raster and vector GIS computational toolset
MS VS2005 or Cygwin tool development environment MPI interprocessor control
Quantum GIS desktop visualization and authoring for mapserver presentation
Central Asia climatology
NDVI time series analysis of 1998-2002 drought in Central and Southwestern Asia (with Prof. M.Barlow, UML Dept of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) Central Asia NDVI 1981-2003 animation (AVI) (110MB)
Drought climatology, impacts: http://iri.columbia.edu/climate/impact/swasia
http://iri.columbia.edu/outreach/publication/irireport/SWAsia
CA climatology resourcesn via UML-EEAS ArcIMS Mapserver: Central Asia Mapserver (HTML)
Central Asia Mapserver (Java) (Internet Explorer required)
USGS-ESRI Global GIS project overview (2001)
Dataset descriptions and metadata
Other current work
Graphic samples
Environmental science and engineering
Detail, toxic waste diffusion plumes, Otis-MMR Massachusetts Military Reservation (Sources: USAF Center for Environmental Excellence http://www.afcee.brooks.af.mil, US Environmental Protection Agency http://www.epa.gov/superfund/programs/nrrb/pdfs/otis.pdf, MMR Installation Restoration Program http://www.mmr.org/cleanup/plumes_fs.htm)
Earth science
(TBS)
Atmospheric science
(TBS)
Transportation and civil engineering
(TBS)
Spatial time series analysis and presentation
(TBS)
Climatology
Central Asia flow gauges - detail map - see Central Asia Mapserver
