Director Note: SAL Associate, Waleska Reyes ’23 brought home a fine mapping effort (book title forthcoming) that continues not only the fine tradition of student / faculty mapping collaboration, but connects back to a previous SAL Associate who designed maps…
Drawing Delicate Lines
Director Note: SAL Associate, Kate Nash ’23 follows in a fine tradition of students collaborating with faculty to prepare maps for print publication. This practice dates back to 2007 when the SAL worked with Ann Zulawski, now Professor Emerita of…
Smith Stars’ Day Constellation Map
By Waleska Reyes ’23 Over the past several weeks, I have worked on creating a star map for the Office of Alumnae relations. The map’s purpose is to celebrate “Smith Stars”—alums who have donated to the college five years in…
A Tofurkey Experience
By Kate Nash ’23 In resurrecting the Tofurkey map for another year, I wanted to try out new techniques to make the map exciting, engaging, and user-friendly. StoryMaps provides an easy to build website creation platform, but for…
Fall 2022 Workshops (So Far)
Registration Ethics of Drones 10/7 Friday 12:15-1:15 Spatial Analysis Lab (Sabin-Reed 104) We are in the process of revising our Drone Code of Ethics and your concerns, ideas, and just forming thoughts will help inform our practice. During the workshop…
Summer 2022 GIS Reflections
Frances Li ’23J, Environmental Science & Policy I was studying the effect of campus road salt management on the water quality of the Mill River and Lyman Pond. I collected water samples from drainages, pipes, ponds, and rivers and tested…
Haley’s Semester Recap Spring 2022
By Haley Schmidt ’22, with commentary from Tracy I’m so excited that I finally got to work with the SAL in my last semester at Smith! Working with Jon and Tracy has been a great experience. I have really enjoyed…
Investigating Conditions for Species Viability in Virginia
By Wayne Ndlovu ’22 This semester I worked on a project with John Berryhill, the Landscape curator for the Botanic Garden of Smith College, where he was studying a tree species’ viability at different elevations. John’s study sites are in…
Spring 2022 Workshops
Registering is agreeable Q&A Spatial Interpolation 3/3 Thursday 4-5 Sabin-Reed 104 With Wayne Ndlovu ‘22. This exercise is designed to introduce the concept of interpolation and how to use this method in ArcGIS Pro. In this exercise we will be…
Wayne’s Semester Recap Fall 2021
By Wayne Ndlovu ’22 The Fall semester went by so fast!! I am glad we got to be on campus once again and had the chance to work with Jon and Tracy in person. I got the opportunity to design…