Monday 19 Feb
UC Santa Barbara: A campus with a number of innovative programs, most
notably the Global
and International Studies Program (whose mandate is "to actively encourage
an interdisciplinary global perspective within the university") and the
Center for Spatially Integrated Social
Science. Last year I spent a morning in the Alexandria Digital Library
Project in the UCSB library and learned about efforts to establish a statewide
data network (see details in the report
of that trip ). The programs I propose to visit this year seem to address
many issues relevant to our planning. And Jim Kahn mentioned Frank Davis
(GIS and watershed ecology) as somebody I might contact. Here's a link
to the Global Studies Handbook.
It turns out to be Presidents' Day at UCSB, but I have a breakfast meeting with Don Janelle of CSISS, and I have active correspondence with Rich Appelbaum of the Global Studies Program, and Michael Goodchild of CSISS and NCGISTuesday 20 Feb
Appointments arranged with Wu and Garver and Cheryl Hickam, director of the Center for GIS ResearchWednesday 21 Feb
Thursday 22 Feb:
Cal State Hayward: Meet with Gary
Li, who teaches Interdisciplinary
Applications of GIS (Library 2000) to discuss the problems and methods
of interdisciplinary teaching. The library location of this course is an
interesting precedent, and suggests that there may be other GIS-using instructors
to whom Gary Li can direct me. I hope also to revisit Branner Geological
Library at Stanford, where I spent a morning of last year's trip, and get
an update on developments in their continuing support of GIS for the campus.
Appointments with Gary Li and David Woo (interim chair of GIS Committee) at CSHaywardFriday 23 Feb:
Appointments with Meredith Williams and Julie Sweetkind at Stanford
Active correspondence with Richard Harris, who will be away on the 23rd; meeting with Robina Bhatti in the worksAnother that I would add if time allows: The Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS) at UC Santa Cruz. Their Global Information Internship Program might be of particular interest to our Journalism folks.
Active correspondence with Paul Lubeck, who will be away on the 23rd