PPT-GIS and Health Geography

Perspectives on health geography Why Geography and Health As Dr Trevor Dummer 2008 stated Geography and health are intrinsically linked Where we are born live study and work directly influences our health experiences the air we breathe the food we eat the viruses we are exposed to and the health services we can access The social built and natural environments affect our health and wellbeing in ways that are directly relevant to health policy Spatial location the geographic context of places and the connectedness between places plays a major role in shaping environmental risks as well as many other health effects. Applications in marketing. Austin College. April 2014. Dr. Ronald Briggs. Professor Emeritus. The University of Texas at Dallas. Program in Geospatial Information Sciences. briggs@utdallas.edu. Overview. Department of Geography. GeoINT. Workshop 2013. 8 Professors. 5 GISP. Specialists. Physical Geography. Biogeography. Urban Planning. Climatology. Cartography. Economic Geography. GIS. Remote Sensing. PREPARED FOR:. WVAGP SEMINAR. Jared D. Wilson. Instructor of Land Surveying. Glenville State College. Glenville, WV . SURVEYING & GIS. What is surveying?. Surveying is the art and science of locating points on, above, or below the earth’s surface. A Progress Report by. L. Joy Mercier. on Tuesday, November 22, 2011. *. Luminant. reclaimed land near Monticello Mine (. Luminant. , May 2011). Questions to Answer. What is lignite, and why do we care?. Perspectives on health geography. Why Geography and Health?. As . Dr. Trevor . Dummer. . (2008) stated: . Geography and . health are intrinsically linked. Where we are born, live, study and work directly influences our health experiences: the air we breathe, the food we eat, the viruses we are exposed to and the health services we can access. The social, built and natural environments affect our health and well-being in ways that are directly relevant to health policy. Spatial location (the geographic context of places and the connectedness between places) plays a major role in shaping environmental risks as well as many other health effects. Tuesday, October 21, 2014. 4:00 – 5:30 PM. Skaneateles, New York. NYS GIS Association Annual Meeting. Welcome. GAC Update. Association Budget. Approval of Annual Meeting Minutes from 2013. Association . Hoalst. Pullen, PhD. Mark W. Patterson, PhD. First … . a brief look the consolidation!. THE Consolidation. Consolidation KSU-SPSU in January . 2015. New . University Called…. Kennesaw State University. Michael F. Goodchild. University of California. Santa Barbara. GIS is hard to learn and use. Geographic information is complex. discrete objects, continuous fields. rasters, vectors. social, environmental phenomena. James Cueno. 596 A Peer Presentation - Spring 2 ‘15. Introduction to GIS and Disaster Management. Findings . from Previous Implementations. Integration . of GIS and Disaster Management . Study. Potential . Preview. African Geography. - . Africa is a large continent surrounded by oceans and seas. It is divided in two by the Sahara Desert. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region south of the Sahara Desert.. Farming, Herding, and Trade. Frank Lafone. Trevor Harris. Department of Geology and Geography. West Virginia University. Issues of unofficial trash sites. Unknown sources. Random . Riparian trash gyres. Spatially disjoint. Difficult to police and clean up. GEOGRAPHY HANDBOOK GEOGRAPHY HANDBOOK Objectives : The student will . . . 1. E xamine the five themes of geography. 2. Explore how they aid geographic observation and analysis 3. Identify some ways in which the geography of the United Why Geography and Health?As Dr. Trevor Dummer(2008) stated: Geography and health are intrinsically linked. Where we are born, live, study and work directly influences our health experiences: the air Tim . Loesch. GIS Section Manager. Camp Ripley. 191 miles (red). 157 miles (black). Wildlife Tracking - Wolves. GIS Service Delivery and Governance. Background. Long established GIS program in DNR. High number of users (200+ArcGIS, 900+LandView).