The Middle East - How it Came Together

My Professor suggested that since my poster came together quite nicely that the judges at poster day might not assume that it was contructed from scratch. I put together a small 11x17 mini poster to attach to the side of my large Middle East map. Titled "The Cartography Behind the Map" this run through details the process of putting together a map of this caliber.

Geography of the Middle East and North Africa

In 1972 National Geographic published a map describing the mosaic of human culture throughout the Middle East and North Africa. After many years and multiple wars the Middle East has hugely changed not only physically but culturally as well. The class as a whole set out to re-create this map updated for our modern time. The poster like my Advanced GIS project is quite large and can viewed and downloaded in detail on MediaFire.

Final Advanced GIS Project

The wrap-up of Advanced GIs consists of making a poster. Instead of just making a poster we decided to get it done in time for Research Day. This is a gathering of all majors throughout the University to show off your research to others. Our poster/research consisted of trying to determine if the new social networking website Twitter could potentially predict elections. We chose the Ohio primaries and gathered tweets referring to the candidates names. The details and research can be viewed below. However the poster is quite large and be downloaded with detail on Media Fire.

Toolsets within advanced GIS Spring 2012

Advanced GIS is an awesome class that allows us to learn and implement a larger tool set within ArcGIS. We learn everything from network analysis, stream networking, interpolation (below), geo-coding, and many many more.

Below is a lab that instead of making the required table in Microsoft word, I took a cartographic approach and made in Adobe Illustrator. Interpolation is the process of taking a few points and mathematically determining the space inbetween those points to create a surface similar to those you see everyday on something. There are many ways to calculate the surfaces between points which you can see above.

Environmental Adventure Center Spring Break Trip 2012

A step away from the GIS lab at UWEC I also work at the Environmental Adventure Center (EAC) on upper campus. March 2012 a geology colleague and myself planned, organized, and put into action a spring break trip to Moab, Utah. This was our second time taking a group of 9 students to Utah and had the chance to do a variety of activities. We visited Canyonlands National Park, Arches National Park, hiked, rafted a beautiful 15 mile section of the Colorado River, and mountain biked some of the best single track in the country. This was a great chance for me to test out my brand new ContourROAM HD point of view camera. The following is a quick edit of what our group got into while hanging out in Moab!

Spring 2011 Capstone

          Spring 2011 I had taken Capstone (Geography 401) and chose to use the Mountain Pine Beetles damaging presence throughout the West. The Mountain Pine Beetle has been growing within mainstream media and directly affecting many industries in Western forests. Scientists are currently testing many different theories ranging from global climate change to diminishing bear habitat to CO2 carbon sinks. In my project for Capstone I chose to create a descriptive model based on many of the methods used in Bio-Geography in which we as a class created a descriptive model for boa constrictors in Cayos Cochinos, Honduras. The following is a result of my findings and with more time could be used to create a predictive model for Helena National Forest. Hosted on Media Fire a file sharing and backup website, it's a great way to insure your files are safe.
         -A GIS Analysis of the Mountain Pine Beetle