Welcome!
This is the GIS Hub for Dartmouth College’s Department of Geography. You can visit our department’s main website here: https://geography.dartmouth.edu/
What is GIS?
Geographic Information Systems, or GIS, are technologies (software + hardware) designed to create, capture, manage, analyze, and visualize geographic data, with the help of personnel. The data is made up non-spatial and spatial components, which are related to the earth’s surface (or even other planets!).
How can GIS be used?
GIS is used in nearly every discipline, field, and industry type, from geography to environmental science, archaeology, building management, and even hospitality. While it can be used to create beautiful maps, GIS is also essential in analyzing spatial patterns, modeling phenomena, planning infrastructure, and revealing change.
GIS at Dartmouth
Department of Geography
Teaching
The Department of Geography teaches a variety of GIS classes, from introductory (GEOG 9.01) to advanced. We teach with a broad range of GIS software, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, QGIS, R/RStudio, Google Earth Engine, and more. For more information about our courses and when they are offered, visit our website: https://geography.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/courses
Research
Faculty in the Department of Geography conduct research on various topics related to GIS, including spatial epidemiology, change in land use and vegetation cover, its economic impacts, and more. For more information about faculty research, visit our website: https://geography.dartmouth.edu/research
Students looking to get involved in GIS-related research can reach out individually to professors who match their interests.
Research Computing and Data Services
Research Computing provides consulting, programming, and software development for researchers across the campus. Stephen Gaughan, the GIS Informatics Specialist at Research Computing, has expertise with many GIS platforms and is one of the college’s Esri administrators. Steve holds open office hours to help support spatial analysis and visualization projects, which can be found here: https://rc.dartmouth.edu/index.php/office-hours/
Research Computing offers workshops and training courses for GIS and data analysis throughout the academic year, which can be viewed and registered for at this site: https://rc.dartmouth.edu/index.php/training/
For more information about Research Computing’s GIS offerings, visit their website: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/rc-gis/
Research Data Services support data management, analysis, and visualization across the campus. Jeremy Mikecz has expertise in GIS and geovisualization among other platforms, and offers one-on-one consultations to support researchers: https://libcal.dartmouth.edu/appointments?lid=3991&g=12688.
Evans Map Room
The Evans Map Room is the campus hub for all things map related, with a collection of over 189,000 sheet maps and 3000 atlases, books, journals, CD-ROMS, computer software, globes, and aerial photos. ArcGIS Pro and other GIS software is available on the Map Room’s computers. Lucinda Hall, the map librarian, runs the Evans Map Room and supports questions with her expertise on maps and GIS software.
For more information, visit their website: https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/maproom/