Jason's GeoJourney

For part of my internship activities, I am developing curricular materials for use in World Regional Geography, a course currently proposed to be offered by Gulf Coast State College starting in Fall 2024 that I anticipate teaching. I have an interest incorporating GIS into class lessons and student assignments, and I have been exploring Navigating the World with GIS:  A Companion for World Regional Geography (2015) by Sean Crotty and Kyle Walker. I may assign this text as a companion along with  Finlayson's World Regional Geography . Crotty and Walker's book includes nine chapters each with its own exercise. Topics include global population change, aging in Europe, political and ethnic geography in the former Soviet Union, segregation in North American cities, economic inequality and migration in Mexico, social and spatial context for the 2014 World Cup, combating Malaria in Ghana, electoral geography and the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, and mapping maritime disputes in the So...

To support my internship, I ordered three books that I believe will be helpful in guiding my research and GIS-related activities. Maps for Time Travelers (2022) by Mark D. McCoy, professor of anthropology at Florida State University, is a recent book that provides a brief, but comprehensive exploration into the ways that archaeologists use geospatial technologies, particularly GPS, GIS, and various remote sensing techniques in the study of the human past.  In this work, McCoy provides an overview of the use of these technologies by archaeologists from early studies over a century ago up through the present time.  He discusses how these technologies can be used to understand human patterns of migration, food procurement and production, and how ancient societies can be "reversed engineered" through these approaches. While I am familiar with many of the technologies discussed in the book and some of the cases studies where they have been applied, this work serves a good refresh...