Facilities and Labs
The teaching and research facilities of the Department of Geography and the Environment are housed in the Geography Building, centrally located on campus. Each of these facilities is designed to accommodate the most recent advances in appropriate technology. Most are accessible to qualified Geography students and faculty. Students should obtain permissions and reservations to use the facilities from the listed Managers. Faculty members wishing to use facilities for their own projects should make prior arrangements directly with the listed Directors, or with the Manager if no Director is listed.
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The Environmental Information Systems Laboratory
Geography Building, Room 302
Directed 2001-2005 by Department Computer Committee, Jennifer Miller, Chair
Manager and System Administrator M. Anwar Sounny-Slitine
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The Environmental Information Systems Laboratory (EIS Lab) provides comprehensive resources for learning and research involving geographic information systems, remote sensing, spatial analysis, hypermedia authoring, and related digital technologies. The facility supports the department's broader mission as a center for the study of Geographic Information Science, the science of generating, managing, analyzing, and visualizing data in the context of the major thematic concerns of geography.
Since it was founded in 1985 by Kenneth Foote (lab director for 15 years from 1985 to 2000), the laboratory has received over $1.5 million in extramural grants and equipment donations to expand its capabilities. These included three major grants from the National Science Foundation for projects to develop hypermedia educational materials in the Worldwide Web, including materials for the internationally renowned Geographer's Craft and Virtual Geography Department Projects.
Many demonstrations and workshops have utilized the lab, including:
* Web Workshop, 1995 annual meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education
* GIS Texas Web Workshop, 1996 Texas GIS Forum
* College of Liberal Arts, Parent's Day Internet in Education Overview, 1997
* Virtual Geography Department summer workshops for nationwide college faculty, Summer 1996, 1997 (two workshops), and 1998 (two workshops)
* Ancient Cultures of Our World June 28 - July 2, 1999, Summer worshop for Central Texas K-12 teachers
* Technology in Social Studies May 30 - June 1, 2000, Summer worshop for Central Texas K-12 teachers
