Team Members: Jesse Simpson and Perri Pond
In this lab we used Google Earth to create a photo tour of our data we collect last week in lab in River View Natural Area (RVNA). To get familiar with this process, we began by each making an individual tour on Google Earth. We each selected various places that were important to us and inserted a place-mark onto the map. After adding description, a link, and an image, to each place-mark we then connected each of these place-marks by way of a tour. Perri’s geotagged post can be found here, and mine is found here.
For our exploration of the photos from RVNA from last week, we imported our geotagged flickr photos from last week’s lab into Google Earth, and selected twelve photos that best reflected the narrative we wanted tell. We decided to investigate the impacts of logging, English Ivy presence, and English Ivy removal in RVNA, as shown through a series of photos. In our tour we have an audio recording describing what is in each photo and how it relates back to our narrative of the lingering visible effects of the eliminated ivy, even as it grows back in select areas of the park. You can watch our tour either in the embedded plugin below, or by downloading the tour and playing it in Google Earth. Running the embedded tour requires the installation of the Google Earth Plugin for your browser.