As a follow-up exercise to A Practice in Emergency Response: Springfield, the GEOL 340 class looked at another hazardous spill situation except this time in Mecklenburg, North Carolina involving chlorine gas! Much like the previous exercise, this scenario involved a hazardous spill in a popular commuting area, and we had to take the same steps […]
Archives for January 2017
A Practice in Emergency Response: Springfield
In our second lab with one of my courses GEOL 340 Problems in Spatial Science, we looked at how emergency responders approach hazardous spill situations in populated areas or commuting routes using mapping software. The event is an overturned truck full of black powder (or gunpowder, as it is more commonly known). The setting of […]
New Years Resolutions…
It’s been a little while since I’ve visited my concentration of studies in an academic manner, so here are a few steps I’m taking to get the gears turning again. Roughly a year ago. the topic I chose for my concentration was the Political Ecology of Salmon Conservation, a very hefty topic considering all the […]
The Willapa Bay of ’95
Using land cover data collected for the 1995 study, we were able to observe and calculate the spatial distribution and relative quantity of benthic land cover types in the Willapa Bay area (at the time of data collection: 1995). The below figures are the outcomes of our attempts to display the land cover data using […]