Digital and Field Techniques
for Coastal Environment Studies (CE/NR797)
Week One : June 24- June 28
Monday ( June 24): Introduction to
the Great Lakes and GIS
Tentative schedule for the
day:
8:00
am: Collaborative
jigsaw activity: How much do you know about the
Great Lakes?
[from ES-EAGLS: Land and Water
Interactions in the Great Lakes] (Dr.Fortner
& Duan)
9:00 am: PowerPoint
program overviewing Lake Erie characteristics,
with discussions
about lake aspects in relation
to the course objectives (Dr. Fortner)
10:00 am: Break
10:15 am: Matching
images with reality: GPS and map explorations of
Gibraltar Island
(Dr. Merry
& Lin )
12:00 Lunch
1:00
pm: Introduction
to GIS [lecture] (Dr.
Merry)
2:00 pm: Understanding
Geodata [interactive lab on Earth perspectives] (Dr.Merry
& Lin)
Activities