1. Introduction

2. Who Am I? Lots of GIS experience B.S. in Geology – Wheaton College in Illinois M.S. in Oceanography –Texas A&M Ph.D. in Physical Geography & Marine Geology – UC-Santa Barbara

3. Application and analytical issues in GIS for oceanographic data –data modeling, analysis, conversion, metadata Seafloor mapping and interpretation –volcanic, hydrothermal, & tectonic processes –analysis and interpretation of camera, submersible, & bathymetric data Geography of cyberspace, web GIS Marine sanctuaries, protected areas

4. Other Research Interests spatial data clearinghouses & metadata web-based GIS geography of Cyberspace emerging technologies for higher education marine sanctuaries and protected areas marine data models

5. Some Committee Involvement Geographic Information Science Certificates –www.geo.oregonstate.edu/gcert University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Association of American Geographers: Coastal & Marine, GIS & GISci, WWW specialty groups American Geophysical Union: Tectonophysics section

6. Other Interests Snoopy, Calvin and Hobbes comics Building Legos ® Competitive cycling Animation / “Art House” films Pasta Lydia (my dog) Incubus, Garbage, Dandy Warhols, U2, Erasure, Moby, Celtic music

7. Topics An overview of GIS and GIScience GIS software and its functionality –analysis How GIS data are captured, stored, retrieved, analyzed & displayed How to use a basic GIS Where GIS and GIScience are going Where to go for more information

8. Bookmark this site!!! www.geo.oregonstate.edu/ucgis

9. Learning Outcomes Understand, articulate, demonstrate: –GIS theory and methods –Geographic Information Science –GIS ANALYSIS (more than getting data in and displaying it) –Simple spatial analysis –Basic software skills

10. Storytime An aviatrix was piloting a hot air balloon. She ran into some unexpected weather and was blown about for a long time. When the weather cleared, and she was able to descend, she had no idea where she was.

11. As she came down, she saw someone immediately below her and yelled, “Where am I?” “You are 75 feet above my head.”

12. “How did you know?!?” “You must be an economist.” “Because what you have just told me is perfectly accurate, but perfectly useless! ”

13. Moral of the Story... “Location, no matter how precisely specified, is sterile in and of itself. Context determines whether or not knowledge of location is invaluable....” -- Ron Abler, former executive director of the Association of American Geographers

14. “Computing is not about computers anymore. It is about living. ” -- Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of MIT’s Media Lab. Being Digital (1995), p. 6.

15. “GIS is not about systems anymore. It is about geography. ” (… and about geographic DATA) -- Keith Clarke, UC-Santa Barbara