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This website is preserved as an Archive for the NSF-funded SPACE program (2003-2007). Current resources in support of Spatially Integrated Social Science are now available at the following:
SPACE Sessions and Conference WorkshopsThis page provides information on presentations given at SPACE sponsored sessions and conference workshops. The National Society of Black Engineers 35th Annual National Convention, March 25-29, 2009 The National Society of Black Engineers 35th Annual National Convention Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Remote Sensing Applications in Support of Analyzing Urban Accessibility Issues and Emergency Preparedness and Response Instructors:, Dr. David A. Padgett,Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory, Tennessee State University.  Workshop instructor David A. Padgett arrives at the 2009 NSBE convention. Preliminary Networking with NSBE: Organization: Support from Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI): Work Objectives: Workshop Attendees: Workshop Agenda:  Dr. Talia McCray presents her research involving GIS applications assessing transportation equity access in South Africa to the NSBE attendees. Dr. David Padgett followed with a presentation on the importance of geospatial technology in emergency planning and response, especially in inner-city areas. He then shared opportunities for - training in GIS, obtaining GIS software, and developing GIS-based curriculum. He then gave a "crash course" in the basics of GPS. Next, the group moved outside for a GPS exercise simulating inner-city community-based efforts to site and locate emergency shelters. Each participant had a chance to work with a hand-held GPS receiver. Point locations of "potential emergency shelters" were logged and pertinent shelter attribute data were recorded on a worksheet. Points were later mapped using ArcGIS and overlain onto a high resolution DOQQ covering Las Vegas, Nevada (see the photos in the Workshop Report). Lessons Learned and Future Plans: Read the Workshop Report for detailed information. Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University GeoPortals for assisting research in the Humanities and Social Sciences: A one day Workshop to introduce and evaluate AfricaMap. For details on the Workshop, read the AfricaMap_SPACE_Workshop_Handout.pdf.
The Organization Instructors Ben Lewis, Senior GIS Specialist, CGA Sumeeta Srinivasan, Preceptor in Geospatial Methods, Department of Government, Harvard University Objectives Many countries in Africa have been underserved in geospatial technologies. Spatial data exists, but it is difficult to find. In addition, gathered data is often lost because central archives are lacking. To address these problems, AfricaMap will:
National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management Panel Discussion on Teaching of GIS and Remote Sensing Organized by Shobha Sriharan (Department of Agriculture and Human Ecology at Virginia State University). Shobha participated in SPACE workshops in 2006 at the University of Oklahoma and in 2007 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Panelists included:
Panelists discussed course content and strategies for offering hands-on software experiences for “1890 Institutions” and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), how to avail the assistance from providers of software (ArcGIS by ESRI and Erdas Imagine by Leica Geosystems) and GPS (Garmin), the design of user-friendly exercises, and drawing on the expertise of GIS educators from nearby institutions and agencies. They also reviewed the current enrollment of students in GIS courses; strategies to publicize courses across campus; and ways to advise students from the sciences, liberal arts, and business. Valentina David (participant in SPACE workshop in 2008 at the University of California, Santa Barbara) sent her abstract for her participation as a Panelist. Due to family reasons, she could not participate in the conference. The panel was followed by a poster session, featuring the research of undergraduate students from the institutions represented on the panel. In addition, high school students and teachers from the local Dover area attended the session and focused on issues of building awareness of GIS opportunities for precollege audiences and discussed successes and limitations of teaching introductory-level GIS at schools. The National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management is an initiative of the College of Agriculture and Related Sciences at Delaware State University to bring agriculture and natural resource faculty and students together for exchange of ideas. The conference solicits basic and applied work for discussion among agriculture and natural resource communities, and publishes the peer- reviewed Proceedings of the National Conference on Agriculture and Natural Resource Conservation and Management. 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Environmental History Workshop on Using GIS for Environmental History Spatial analysis is an important part of environmental history. This half-day workshop seeks to expand the interest in and awareness of GIS as a tool for teachers and scholars. Central goals are to make participants more aware of what GIS offers and how it works and to give them personal experience analyzing spatial datasets and files so that they are more prepared to incorporate the tools into their own classrooms. Organized by Kevin R. Marsh, Dept. of History, Idaho State University. Kevin participated in the SPACE workshop at UCSB in 2005. In addition to support from SPACE, the workshop is sponsored by Bionomics Environmental, Inc. Workshop Instructors: Management at ISU. The American Society for Environmental History (ASEH), founded in 1977, is the leading scholarly organization in the interdisciplinary field of environmental history. It supports scholarship and teaching and seeks to connect the work of its members with broader Communities. Along with an annual conference, the organization publishes the peer-reviewed journal Environmental History. The 2008 ASEH annual conference (March 12-15, 2008) is hosted by Idaho State University, Boise State University, and the University of Idaho. This year's theme is titled, "Agents of Change: People, Climate, and Places through Time." The annual meeting is the most prestigious and largest gathering in the field of environmental history. Participants come from a wide variety of countries representing several disciplines, including geography, geology, climate science, environmental studies, and history. For more information, see http://www.aseh.net/. The NONAP Community GIS Technology Workshop Michelle M. Thompson, (SPACE participant in 2004) is the founder and Director of the New Orleans Neighborhood Analysis Project (NONAP) to help with the recovery of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of City & Regional Planning Cornell University. The "NONAP Community GIS Technology Workshop" provided students and Community Based/Neighborhood Organizations with GIS Mapping through hands-on exercises and demonstrations. NONAP is developing an information portal with geospatial tools, training and technology that can be adapted for use by communities but also expandable to support academic research and education. The objectives of NONAP are to:
For more Information, see: http://courses2.cit.cornell.edu/nonap/. For more Information on NONAP, see: Public Service Announcements NONAP American Sociological Association - Claudia Scholz, Research Programs Coordinator at Trinity University in San Antonio, has organized a panel session on Integrating Spatial Thinking into the Sociology Curriculum. Panelists and summaries of their presentations follow: Beyond the Field Trip: On Tourism as a Pedagogical Strategy Many teachers incorporate field trips as a part of their curriculum. Even so, their potential to serve educational ends is probably underexploited due to insufficient consideration of the nature of field trips as a spatial practice. The sociology of tourism offers an empirically-grounded conceptual framework for thinking about the use of travel for pedagogical purposes. We will outline this framework and explore its practical implications drawing from our experience teaching a course that used tourism to teach the sociology of tourism. Note: This draft is being written as the class is beginning. It will be substantially revised to reflect the knowledge gained over the course of the Spring 2007 semester. Spatial Sociopoly: Understanding the Role of Space in Inequality using “Monopoly” Board Game After discovering Jessup’s (2001) design of Sociopoly, I have used this simulation in my courses to demonstrate social inequality. Despite success in using Sociopoly, I have run into two challenges. First, there was a need to incorporate spatial dimensions of inequality. Another challenge was the lack of a local context in exploring stratification within the classroom. With these constraints in mind, I hoped to redesign Sociopoly in order for it to provide both a spatial, yet localized context for racial and class stratification in the city of Syracuse. The redesign focuses on two elements. The first is to provide a local context by incorporating the geographic and sociodemographic information of greater metropolitan area of Syracuse apply it to the layout of the Monopoly⁄Sociopoly board. The second design element was to revise the Jessup's rules of Sociopoly to reflect spatial processes, including the modeling of discriminatory mortgage lending, restrictive covenants, etc. This paper/presentation chronicles the two design elements needed to revise Sociopoly to meet the new challenges. The city of Syracuse will become the foundation of the revised edition, entitled Spatial Sociopoly. In its conclusion, I will offer some strategies for assessment and present the results of my first attempt at assessment in undergraduate courses on US racial residential segregation and urban sociology. Teaching Residential Segregation in Undergraduate Classes Using Spatial Methods Teaching undergraduate students that residential segregation is created by social factors is difficult because many of them believe that having people of different socio-economic status live in different residential areas is ordinary and natural. Doing so requires that students recognize that residential segregation is an important social problem, understand its consequences, observe its existence, engage in the issue by relating it to their own lives, and employ their new knowledge to identify the same social problem in a different locality. Race and Space: Crime, Joblessness and the American Apartheid This lesson is designed for a graduate course in social stratification, with students coming from a wide variety of backgrounds and majors, usually including Applied Sociology, Criminology, Public Administration, and Political Economy. I bring to bear criminology, sociology, and geography/Geospatial Information Systems on the topic of “Race and Space.” I introduce the Social Disorganization theory (Shaw and McKay, 1942), and draw a bullseye on the board in front of the students. I explain each of the zones and focus on the interstitial zone. Next, I bring maps to mind of old Chicago, where the “Chicago School” got started. Shaw and McKay clearly demonstrated that regardless of ethnicity, crime rates remained high in particular parts of Chicago - despite turnover. Thus, we begin to really discuss the concept of race. I explain that ethnicity in the early Chicago School was different, but we examine it in our modern time frame. I then turn the discussion to Dallas, TX. The students are familiar with the problems in parts of Dallas. We bring in all of our articles, one at a time - examining how these social phenomena are overrepresented in particular parts of Dallas. We talk about social policy. What can the police do? What should city managers do? The lecture always ends with the question of whether or not the situation, as it is in our community, can or will be changed. It is a terrifically interactive lesson and the students become very interested in space. Integrating GIS Across Disciplines in a Liberal Arts College I discuss strategies we are using at Alverno College, a liberal arts college for women, to integrate geographic information science across multiple disciplines. Course outcomes for an introductory, multi-disciplinary GIS course are also presented. Examples of assessments will be available to participants. Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences (MANRRS) David A. Padgett, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory at Tennessee State University, will led a half-day workshop with the following objectives: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and Remote Sensing Applications in Support of Community and Urban Forestry The workshop will expose MANRRS faculty and students to geospatial technologies and will encourage the incorporation of GIS in teaching. It will cover:
MANRRS is a national society that welcomes membership of all racial and ethnic groups to promote careers in agricultural and related sciences. Its annual career fair and training conference attracts hundreds of participants from academia, industry and government who are interested in diversity and in career opportunities for students and young professionals. The membership is multi-disciplinary, including representation from the agricultural and resource sciences, the social sciences, journalism, and business. For more information on MANRRS, see www.manrrs.org Thirteenth National HBCU Faculty Development Symposium Workshop on Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis Methods in Social Sciences Teaching and Research David A. Padgett, Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory at Tennessee State University, led a half-day workshop with the following objectives:
Presenters in the workshop included SPACE workshop participants (UCSB 2005):
The workshop featured several examples of class projects (see below) involving GIS applications in the social science and other disciplines and an interactive session in which attendees used spatial data from online sources and then mapped the data using GIS software. The workshop concluded with a question-and-answer session. An informational handout was distributed along with CSISS/SPACE materials. Partial support for this workshop was provided by the SPACE ACCESS.
The HBCU Faculty Development Network is an organization that serves 105 HBCUs. It promotes educational opportunities for underrepresented students, effective teaching and student learning, and collaborative activities for faculty enhancement. To learn more about its missions, goals, and objectives, see http://www.hbcufdn.org. SFSU SPACE/UCGIS 2005 workshop presentation at the 2006 UCGIS Summer Assembly Instructors and participants in the SFSU SPACE/UCGIS 2005 workshop at San Francisco State University (SFSU) made a plenary presentation to the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Summer Assembly in Vancouver, Washington on July 29, 2006 describing the workshop. Delegates from 70 UCGIS member institutions, students, and others attended the presentation. The presentation to the UCGIS Summer Assembly consisted of a description of the workshop by Richard LeGates (workshop PI and Professor of Urban Studies at SFSU) and XiaoHang Liu (workshop Co-PI and Assistant Professor of Geography at SFSU), a video that describes the workshop experience, presentations from three faculty workshop participants, and discussion. LeGates and Liu reported that 19 faculty members and two graduate students participated in the six-day workshop. They came from universities across the country from departments of sociology, political science, geography, urban studies, and urban planning. Workshop activities consisted of about one-third lectures, one-third lab work, and one-third other activities, described in the following:
Jeana Abromeit (Professor of Sociology at Alverno College) described how she used workshop material to help create the college’s first GIS course, establish a GIS lab, and create materials to integrate spatial thinking into Alverno’s curriculum.
Supporting resources for Abromeit’s course: Chris Holoman (Associate professor of Political Science at Hilbert College) described his use of workshop material and a CSISS Instructional Development award to help create Hilbert’s first two GIS courses, establish a GIS lab, expose every Hilbert student to basic spatial thinking concepts in a course that he teaches, and organize a one-day faculty development workshop on GIS and spatial thinking for Hilbert faculty. Benjamin Forest (Associate professor of Geography, at McGill University) described an exercise he developed using material from Houston, Texas to teach Dartmouth University students about the politics of gerrymandering and how he will use information from the workshop and support from a CSISS Instructional Development award to develop a new module using ArcGIS’ redistricting extension to teach McGill students about redistricting in Quebec city and simulate spatial consequences of sovereignty for Quebec.
Society for American Archaeology (SAA) 71st Annual Meeting 2004 and 2005 SPACE workshop participants, Veronica Arias, Heather Richards, and Judith van der Elst (Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico), organized a symposium entitled Integrating Geospatial Perspectives and Education in Archaeology. The symposium is to be held at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The SAA is an international organization that focuses on research, interpretation, and protection of cultural heritage resources in the Americas. The symposium is supported, in part, from the SPACE ACCESS program. The objective of the symposium is to bring together archaeologists and other social scientists from varying fields, such as ethnology, geography, sociology, architectural and community planning, and others, who are currently applying geospatial analysis in their own research and who integrate geospatial concepts, technologies, and analysis into their teaching. Symposium participants include scholars from many disciplines, universities, and organizations. The symposium will focus on pedagogical approaches, innovative teaching methodologies, instructional development, and dissemination of teaching strategies, and it will provide undergraduate students an opportunity to discuss their educational experiences and present their own geospatial research. In general, the symposium gives special attention to new teaching approaches that are more suited for teaching geospatial methods and techniques.
Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Annual Conference Richard LeGates, Professor of Urban Studies at San Francisco State University, and coordinator of the 2005 SPACE workshop at SFSU, has organized a set of events related to curriculum development for the annual meeting of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning - the national organization of universities teaching urban and regional planning. The objective is to encourage greater use of spatial concepts in planning courses and to introduce resources and tools to make this possible. The following sessions are supported, in part, from the SPACE ACCESS program. In addition to LeGates, other participants in this program included Ayse Pamuk, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at SFSU; Brian Paar, Workbook project manager for ESRI Virtual Campus; and Stuart Sweeney, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, U.C. Santa Barbara, and Coordinator of the 2004 and 2005 UCSB SPACE summer workshops. Introducing GIS and Spatial Analysis into the Planning Curriculum, The Think Globally, Act Regionally Instructional Module, Instructional Demonstration Workshop at NTSSC, Las Vegas, NV, April 7, 2005 2004 SPACE workshop participant, David Padgett, organized a workshop session for the National Technology and Social Science Conference (NTSSC) in Las Vegas, Nevada. The session received support from the SPACE ACCESS program. The NTSSC membership includes history, geography, education, economics, psychology, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies, women's studies, interdisciplinary studies, political science, and other related studies. Panel Session at ASBS 70th Anniversary Meeting, Nashville, TN, March 11, 2005 2004 SPACE workshop participants, David Padgett and Nikitah Imani, organized a Panel Session for the 70th Anniversary Annual Meeting of the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists (ASBS), in Nashville, TN. The panel session received support from the SPACE ACCESS Program (Academic Conference Courses to Enhancement in Spatial Science). The ASBS is comprised of “social and behavioral scientists and other professionals whose research has implications for improving national status and societal conditions.” The membership is drawn primarily from academics representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), spanning a broad range of disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. UCGIS Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C., February 11, 2005 The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) is a collaborating partner in the SPACE program and is responsible for offering one of the program's three annual workshops. A feature of the UCGIS workshop is that participants may be invited to give presentations and to participate in mini-workshop sessions in conjunction with the UCGIS Assemblies and Meetings. Some of the results of the 2004 SPACE workshop at San Diego State University were showcased at the UCGIS Winter Meeting.
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