Have you ever considered what a rock does all day? Where do they live and where do they go? In the past few months we’ve been assisting a team of sedimentary geoscientists studying these very questions– where do rocks move…
GIS Day at the SAL
Happy GIS Day! Here at the Spatial Analysis Lab celebrated with student films from our aerial cinematography class, hand drawn and printed maps, and of course, cake! We had a packed room for the mini film festival and learned about…
Smithies Around the World – lessons in geocoding
Are you a Smithie? Where in the world are you now? Well, that’s what the Smithies Around the World Map attempted to find out. In preparation for Reunion this past Spring, the SAL gathered data from the Office of Development…
Community Mapping with Project SPARC
Project SPARC (Springfield Participatory Action Research Crew) and the Jandon Center invited the SAL to participate in their community event at Chestnut School in Springfield. We came to the event with two maps of Springfield that highlight various resources throughout…
Summer at the SAL by Hannah Davis
It’s almost the middle of summer and things are heating up at the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab. This summer has seen the continuation of many exciting projects, and the start of a number more. As the Spatial Analysis Lab intern,…
Rewriting Our Campus Through Mapping
Excited voices bubbled in the basement of Forbes Library during a Monday afternoon teen after-school program: “Let’s build the bridge there!” “Oh! What if we planted some reeds and near the water?” “Okay, the blue dashed line is where the…
Inclusion in Action Conference Participatory Mapping Workshop
Who are you within the Smith landscape? The Spatial Analysis Lab is engaging the Smith Community in a participatory mapping workshop during the Inclusion in Action conference to encourage critical thinking about the campus and envision a more equitable landscape.…
New Spatial Analysis Fellow!
Hello! My name is Emma Harnisch, the new Spatial Analysis Post-Bacc Fellow. I graduated from Smith just last May and still call the Pioneer Valley home, for at least a bit longer. I studied geosciences while I was a student…
Upcoming Fall 2018 Workshops
Web Tools for Creating Fantasy Maps October 23, 2018 (Tuesday) 4:00–5:00 Explore tools to make maps of imaginary landscapes in preparation for Halloween. Web-mapping with ArcGIS Online November 6 (Tuesday) 4:00–5:00 Learn how to make interactive maps with ArcGIS Online.…
Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop – May 14 & 17, 2018
Learn to create maps that affect social change with design thinking principles at the Maps that Engage and Promote Change Workshop this coming week. Please register here. On Day One: (Monday, May 14 in the Design Thinking Studio – Capen…