Thinking globally and mapping locally

404132862 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:02:51 -0500

Akiyuki Kawasaki thinks globally and maps locally.

To do that, the Japanese researcher, who is spending the academic year as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, has developed software that allows researchers to predict how changes in population, land use, climate, urbanization, agriculture and other variables will affect water flow in a given area.

Geography center launched

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:27:25 -0400

Those of us who remember grammar-school geography lessons as a tedious affair involving a pink and green window shade map and a chalky wooden pointer would probably never guess that, in fact, it is estimated that 80 percent of all data contains a spatial component. That point was made clearly and colorfully at the launch of the new Center for Geographical Analysis (CGA), held May 5, 2006 at the Tsai Auditorium in the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South building on Cambridge Street.

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Thinking globally and mapping locally

Geography center launched