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National Science Teachers Association - Fast Approaching!

Join ESRI and its educational partners in a "Geospatial Zone" of 6 exhibits at the NSTA convention! We will also host two workshops on how to integrate GIS into Earth Science, and two workshops on how to integrate GIS into Environmental Science. Learn Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:32 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Traveling to Antarctica with ArcGIS Explorer, Part 3

Robyn Johnson's adventure continues. For approximately a week, she and others on a National Geographic expedition have meandered through the geography of the Antarctic Peninsula—on board ship, in Zodiacs and kayaks, and on foot. She has been documenting Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:45 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Traveling to Antarctica with ArcGIS Explorer, Part 2

We’re tracking the experiences of our friend Robyn Johnson on a trip to Antarctica. This is the second post in what might turn into a broader series. As I was working on the first entry , a quick glance at the sweeping eastward arc of the tip of South Read More...
Posted Friday, January 16, 2009 2:10 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments
Attachment(s): AntarcticpeninGNIS_summit.csv

Teaching About Watersheds With Online and 3-D GIS, Part 2

Another excellent resource to teach about watersheds from a spatial perspective is the EPA’s Surf Your Watershed site ( http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm ). For each watershed, environmental threats, streamflow, citizen-based action groups, and Read More...
Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 1:18 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments

Teaching About Watersheds With Online and 3-D GIS, Part 1

Why teach about watersheds? As the area of land that drains all of the water falling into it into a common waterway, watersheds are connected to a larger system. Furthermore, each is a part of a larger watershed. Thus, watersheds (or drainage basins or Read More...
Posted Friday, September 19, 2008 1:08 AM by tbaker | 0 Comments