Education

Conference chairman and Directions Magazine editor in chief Joe Francica provides and overview of the upcoming GEO Huntsville Conference. He's interviewed by WHNT's Carrie Marchese during a recent news broadcast.

After nine bank robberies over the past few months, FBI officials say the Bearded Bandit [Providence, RI] is finally behind bars -- and local law enforcement may have had a little help from a Rhode Island College student, recognizing the patterns.

Animated heat map of Bruce Springsteen touring locations from 1973-2012. The heat effect is generated by a) the location of the show, b) the size of the venue, and c) the overall population within 40km of the show location (e.g. a single arena show in Omaha, NE generates more

Chair of Austin Community College's GIS Department Sean Moran spoke to KVUE about the growing field of GIS.

Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests underway in Peru of a new system being developed at Vanderbilt University go well.

Matt Wilson's GIS Workshop at the University of Kentucky builds connections to the community through partnerships with non-profit organizations such as Seedleaf and the Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice.

The president praised the value of geography and then asked a question during the finals of the 2012 National Geographic Bee, Courtesy of National Geographic Channel.

National Geographic Education staff ask why geo-literacy is important.

National Geographic Education staffers discuss the meaning of the term.

Video of a sandbox equipped with a Kinect 3D camera and a projector to project a real-time colored topographic map with contour lines onto the sand surface. The sandbox lets virtual water flow over the surface using a GPU-based simulation of the Saint-Venant set of shallow water equations. We (the UC Davis W.M. Keck Center for Active Visualization in the Earth Sciences, http://www.keckcaves.org) built this for an NSF-funded project on informal science education. These AR sandboxes will be set up as hands-on exhibits in science museums, such as the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) or Lawrence Hall of Science. Project home page: http://idav.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox