About
I am a doctoral student in geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara studying spatial information science and geographic networks. In 1999, I co-founded the Western Kentucky University Hoffman Environmental Research Institute, and served as its Assistant Director until 2003. From 1998-1999, I worked as a Research Hydrologist for the Center for Cave and Karst Studies. I received my Bachelor of Science from Texas A & M University, and Master of Science in Geoscience at Western Kentucky University. I worked eight years as a ranger naturalist at Mammoth Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, and Great Basin National Park.
News
Spatial Tech Lunch: MarineMap
May 5, 2009 -- On May 5th, spatial@ucsb hosted a lunch discussion on the MarineMap project. Will McClintock and his team outlined the project, its technology, management, and engineering. Chad Burt also provided a lightning tutorial on GeoDjango. I hope to get an encore of Chad's presentation so I can record and post it online. If you would like to receive an invitation to the next lunch, drop me a note. Spatial@ucsb hosts them every three weeks, Tuesdays at noon. My contact information can be found at: glennon.tel.
Facebook: Spatial Technology Group
April 18, 2009 -- I created a group on Facebook to maintain a calendar of UCSB-centric spatial technology and engineering activities. If your profile is in Facebook's UCSB network, the group is discoverable from the search bar using the terms: spatial technology.
Spatial Tech Lunch: Android Drew
April 18, 2009 -- On April 14th, spatial@ucsb hosted a lunch discussion on spatial technology and engineering. Drew Dara-Abrams led the discussion by outlining his work on cognitive navigation skills and mental maps. He is using an Android T-mobile G1 for some of the data collection. We had a turnout of about 18 people, comprised of faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students.
photo: Drew Dara-Abrams leads the discussion at the 14 April 2009 lunch.
MarineMap Field Trip
April 3, 2009 -- Will McClintock invited our small group of spatial technology enthusiasts / graduate students to his lab so we could learn more about MarineMap. The project is largely built on a Geoserver, PostGIS, OpenLayers stack. Some of the interesting user generated drawing and editing portions apparently were woven in GeoDjango, and GRASS performs the GIS calculations. The project was created as a decision support system to help stakeholders come to consensus on resource management decisions related to Marine Protection Areas -- the university press release has more background. Here's a photo of our crew talking to one of the MarineMap guys (Chris, I think).
photo: Drew Dara-Abrams, Matt Niblett, Edward Pultar, and Chris MacDonald
AAG Photos
March 28, 2009 -- I placed a few pictures online from the recent AAG Annual Meeting (Las Vegas, March 22-27). I would like to thank the small, but attentive crowd who attended my Friday morning talk on pre-eruptive geyser activity. The photo gallery is online at: http://picasaweb.google.com/glennon/AAG2009.
photo: Mike Goodchild and Karl Grossner at AAG2009.