W&M’s Center for Geospatial Analysis recently brought Peter Bol, professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, to campus. Bol’s ...

In the innovation age, Geographic Information Systems are central to many of society's most essential functions. Imagine what it can do for a generation of tech-literate learners. On a crisp day in ...

From drones to data to discovery, geology is high-tech. OHIO’s online MS in Geological Sciences gives professionals and ...

GIS and Data Management Technician Phil Abegg conducts fieldwork in the Smokies using a handheld GPS unit. Points marked in the field can be mapped onto the park’s complex geography using GIS ...

“Historians and history students are used to working with words on the page, says Professor of History Patrick Rael, “but for many years I had been wanting to incorporate a more spatial and ...

GIS has always suffered from a crisis of identity. Indeed, some still argue over the acronym itself. Perhaps it is our need to distinguish ourselves from other technologists. After all, our knowledge ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

No one can predict when an emergency will occur or what shape it will take. It could look like a hurricane causing widespread power outages and downed trees, or it could be a chemical fire that takes ...

Twenty years ago, the map room in Great Smoky Mountains National Park might have been dedicated to heavy, flat-file drawer cabinets — each one filled with stacks of intricately detailed maps of the ...