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Introduction. Who Am I?. Lots of GIS experience B.S. in Geology Wheaton College in Illinois M.S. in Oceanography Texas A&M Ph.D. in Physical Geography & Marine Geology UC-Santa Barbara. Application and analytical issues in GIS for oceanographic data - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Introduction

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Who Am I?• Lots of GIS experience • B.S. in Geology

– Wheaton College in Illinois• M.S. in Oceanography

– Texas A&M• Ph.D. in Physical Geography & Marine

Geology – UC-Santa Barbara

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• Application and analytical issues in GIS for oceanographic data– data modeling, analysis, conversion, metadata

• Seafloor mapping and interpretation– volcanic, hydrothermal, & tectonic processes– analysis and interpretation of camera, submersible, &

bathymetric data• Geography of cyberspace, web GIS• Marine sanctuaries, protected areas

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Other Research Interests

• spatial data clearinghouses & metadata• web-based GIS • geography of Cyberspace• emerging technologies for higher education• marine sanctuaries and protected areas• marine data models

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Some Committee Involvement

• Geographic Information Science Certificates– www.geo.oregonstate.edu/gcert

• University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

• Association of American Geographers: Coastal & Marine, GIS & GISci, WWW specialty groups

• American Geophysical Union: Tectonophysics section

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Other Interests• Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes comics• Building Legos®

• Competitive cycling• Animation / “Art House” films• Pasta • Lydia (my dog)

• Incubus, Garbage, Dandy Warhols, U2, Erasure, Moby, Celtic music

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Topics

• An overview of GIS and GIScience• GIS software and its functionality

– analysis• How GIS data are captured, stored,

retrieved, analyzed & displayed• How to use a basic GIS• Where GIS and GIScience are going• Where to go for more information

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Bookmark this site!!!

www.geo.oregonstate.edu/ucgis

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Learning Outcomes• Understand, articulate, demonstrate:

– GIS theory and methods – Geographic Information Science– GIS ANALYSIS (more than getting data in and

displaying it)– Simple spatial analysis– Basic software skills

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StorytimeAn aviatrix was piloting a hot air

balloon. She ran into some unexpected weather and was blown about for a long time. When the weather cleared, and she was able to descend, she had no idea where she was.

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As she came down, she saw someone immediately below her and yelled, “Where am I?”

“You are 75 feet above my head.”

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“How did youknow?!?”

“You must be aneconomist.”

“Because what you have just told

me is perfectlyaccurate, butperfectly useless!”

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Moral of the Story...

“Location, no matter how precisely specified, is sterile in and of itself.

Context determines whether or not knowledge of location is invaluable. . . .”

-- Ron Abler, former executive director of the Association of American Geographers

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““Computing is not about computers Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living.anymore. It is about living.””

-- Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of -- Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of MIT’s Media Lab. MIT’s Media Lab. Being DigitalBeing Digital (1995), p. 6. (1995), p. 6.

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““GIS is not about systems anymore. GIS is not about systems anymore. It is about geography.It is about geography.””

(… and about geographic DATA)

-- Keith Clarke, UC-Santa Barbara-- Keith Clarke, UC-Santa Barbara

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