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Final Projects

Final Projects. Week 8. Today’s Work. Talk about Final Project Check WWU Timetable for time of final https://www.admin.wwu.edu/pls/wwis/wwskcfnd.TimeTable All must participate in final presentations and as a courtesy to your fellow classmates kindly remain through the end

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Final Projects

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  1. Final Projects Week 8

  2. Today’s Work • Talk about Final Project • Check WWU Timetable for time of final https://www.admin.wwu.edu/pls/wwis/wwskcfnd.TimeTable • All must participate in final presentations and as a courtesy to your fellow classmates kindly remain through the end • Also treat this like a final (ie. tell your boss if you have job that you won’t be coming in during this time)

  3. Past Final Projects • Building a Geologic Map • Mercury Pollution in Bellingham Bay • Trail Construction/Location in Parks • Driving Map from Place to Place • Archaeological Site Map • Illustrate the route and extent of my attempted climb of Mt. Baker • Find best site for residential construction • Look for Salmon Habitat and Culverts • Make a Historical Study • Create a Better Understanding of the Middle East • Cross Country Courses for a meet • Lewis and Clark • Locating habitat like duck nesting sites • Create Maps for a Study Plan in K-12 • Le Tour de Whatcom (Bike Race) • Frisbee Golf Course • Study Population Patterns • Analyze Aerial Photographs • Document an Archeological Site • Create a Classroom Assignment • Field Study of Invasive Species • Illustrate Historical Events • Analyze Election Results • Analyze Socio-Economic Data across space • Layout a Mass Transit Network • Impacts of Clearcutting • Huck Finn’s Mississippi • Ranges of Bat Species • Before and after study for Elwah Dam removal

  4. ESRI Web Site for Social Studies • The url below takes you to a web site where social studies teachers have posted exercises. Each has some very interesting data http://edcommunity.esri.com/arclessons/search_results.cfm?topicSearch=Social%20Studies

  5. Website of uses of GIS in Transportation Planning http://www.gis.fhwa.dot.gov/ GIS Definition & Key Elements

  6. Website of uses of GIS in K-12 Education http://oregonstate.edu/~rynersoe/ GIS Definition & Key Elements

  7. Website of uses of GIS in National Park Management http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/standards/CRGIS/katrina.htm GIS Definition & Key Elements

  8. Local Data Sets • City of Bellingham • Bellingham GIS data: http://www.cob.org/services/maps/gis/index.aspx • Washington State DOT GIS data: http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/geodatacatalog/default.htmAnd finally, here is the link to the old historical maps in both GIS and Google Earth: http://www.davidrumsey.com/

  9. General Outline on Final Projects Your Project Title • GOAL • what are you planning on accomplishing • define the project

  10. General Outline on Final Projects DATA • Data acquiring -- what do you need, where can you get it • Data preprocessing -- how do you need to change/adjust it to make it useful • Database management -- how do you need to store it, update it, add to it...

  11. General Outline on Final Projects • ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION • How will you extract answers • Tool and model implementation • PRODUCT GENERATION • What maps, charts, diagrams, tables... do you need

  12. Discussion and Critique Discuss what your final products show Critique your work and talk about further work

  13. General Outline on Final Projects • FINAL REPORT WRITE-UP • Brief overview of all the above steps • Discussion of results -- what you know and how you know it • Critique -- what could be improved or done better • Future directions -- where does this lead you next • Realize that although this appears in a linear fashion it is actually an iterative and recursive process.  You may have to jump backwards and forwards between steps as the work proceeds.

  14. PowerPoint for Final Presentation Organized in same way as reports Use Bullet points instead of prose Include all maps within the Powerpoint

  15. General Outline on Research Projects • Your Project • GOAL • what are you planning on accomplishing • define the project • DATA • Data acquiring -- what do you need, where can you get it • Data preprocessing -- how do you need to change/adjust it to make it useful • Database management -- how do you need to store it, update it, add to it... • ANALYSIS AND MANIPULATION • How will you extract answers • Tool and model implementation • PRODUCT GENERATION • What maps, charts, diagrams, tables... do you need • DISCUSSION • What did you learn • What could you improve, what might you do next time • FINAL REPORT • Brief overview of all the above steps • Discussion of results -- what you know and how you know it • Critique -- what could be improved or done better • Future directions -- where does this lead you next • Realize that although this appears in a linear fashion it is actually an iterative and recursive process.  You may have to jump backwards and forwards between steps as the work proceeds.

  16. Tools • Electronic Atlas • Thematic Mappers • GIS • Map Making • Digitizing • Use of Air Photos • Use of Projections • Simple Analysis • GPS • Etc…

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