We help researchers work with geospatial data for all their research needs.
Contact Information: Steve Gaughan, GIS Applications Specialist
stephen.p.gaughan@dartmouth.edu. (questions, schedule a meeting)
603-646-9524
Locations: By appointment / Zoom / remote, 4 Currier Place, Hanover, NH 03755 map location
Services (see also examples toward the end of this page) :
- Mapping
- Historical map scanning, data extraction, and transformation
- Geocoding street addresses
- Workshops
- Guest lecturing
- X-hour teaching
- Web-mapping
- Data transformation and data visualization
- ESRI / ArcGIS
- Spatial processing and visualization with R
- Spatial processing and visualization with Python
- SQL database extraction and loading
Geographic Information Systems are systems to create, store, view, edit, analyze, visualize, and export data that is tied to locations on the earth’s surface.
We support and provide GIS software and training, and our GIS Application Specialist offers expert consultations and assistance.
We teach workshops, typically announced in the first week or two of the term. For a list of workshops, see https://rc.dartmouth.edu/index.php/training/our-courses/
Research Contributions
Companion website to “National attribution of historical climate damages”
Published 12 July 2022 in the Journal Climate Change
volume 172, Article number: 40 (2022)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03387-ythese
https://rcweb.dartmouth.edu/CMIG/national_attribution_2022/prod/
Footprint evidence of early hominin locomotor diversity at Laetoli, Tanzania Published 01 December 2021 in the Journal Nature
Nature: volume 600, pages 468–471
Ellison J. McNutt, Kevin G. Hatala, Catherine Miller, James Adams, Jesse Casana, Andrew S. Deane, Nathaniel J. Dominy, Kallisti Fabian, Luke D. Fannin, Stephen Gaughan, Simone V. Gill, Josephat Gurtu, Ellie Gustafson, Austin C. Hill, Camille Johnson, Said Kallindo, Benjamin Kilham, Phoebe Kilham, Elizabeth Kim, Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, Blaine Maley, Anjali Prabhat, John Reader, Shirley Rubin, Nathan E. Thompson, Rebeca Thornburg, Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Brian Zimmer, Charles M. Musiba & Jeremy M. DeSilva
Nature Volume 600, pages 468–471 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04187-7
Surface Contour Extraction, Transformation, and Visualization
New Guinea bone daggers were engineered to preserve social prestige
Nathaniel J. Dominy, Samuel T. Mills, Christopher M. Yakacki, Paul B. Roscoe, and R. Dana Carpenter
Published 25 April 2018 in the Journal Royal Society Open Science
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.172067
Publication-quality maps
The Dialogues Bioregional Project: Landscape Ecology in Central Italy from the Sixth Century to the Present
Damiano Benvegnù
Published 31 December 2019 in the Journal Humanist Studies & the Digital Age
https://journals.oregondigital.org/index.php/hsda/article/view/4542
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/hsda.6.1.5
Web Mapping with Leaflet.js
Machine Learning and Image classification with ArcGIS & Python Code
Data Extraction from scanned historical Maps
Shimásání dóó shicheii bi’ólta’ – My Grandmother’s and Grandfather’s School: The Old Leupp Boarding School, A Historic Archaeological Site on the Navajo Reservation. Two Bears, Davina Ruth. Indiana UniversityProQuest Dissertations Publishing, Degree Year2019. 22616943. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2305191109/abstract/6EE7BC5D6DC840DAPQ/1?accountid=10422
Google Earth Engine
Google Earth Engine Sentinel-2 Remote Sensing time-series data – Scripting with Javascript and Python to analyze satellite imagery
Geocoding street addresses to base maps
We support developing reproducible workflows for research using R and Python with spatial libraries and spatial data.
Workshops
Pre-recorded:
- Spatial Data in R – videos are sequential and ‘chunked’ into short, manageable bites:
- Intro (runtime, 7 minutes, no exercises) https://dartmouth.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=11563e03-6e31-4620-a264-acb100723a75
- Getting ready to code in R with Spatial (runtime 3 minutes, 10 min with download and install) https://dartmouth.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=1a01b1c9-fc65-4190-9c45-acb1007238bc
- Coding in R (runtime 5 minutes, no additional exercises) https://dartmouth.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=c3f3aaaa-ebdb-4ea7-8cab-acb10072397c
- Spatial analysis with R (runtime 19 minutes, ~ 25 minutes total to complete) https://dartmouth.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=860298e6-78b8-45ce-a171-acb10072448
- ArcGIS – Geographic Information Systems – videos are sequential and ‘chunked’ into short, manageable bites:
- Geographic Information Systems – Slides (runtime 8.5 minutes) https://drive.google.com/file/d/14hXSxjvBRiddwaz2z8hdepMb_gkKtxPx/view?usp=sharing
- ArcGIS Online hands-on tutorial (runtime 12 minutes, ~ 18 minutes to complete https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dsOQBO6U_8UaWkdfyY-hBS0e1jiH1Pmo/view?usp=sharing
Current-term workshops, in-person or via Zoom: https://dartgo.org/RRADworkshops
supported software:
Software as a service: Software-As-A-Service browser-based applications
ArcGIS 10.8 link for instructions and to download ArcGIS Desktop (network and standalone licenses available)
ArcGIS Pro link for instructions and to download ArcGIS Desktop (network and standalone licenses available)
ArcGIS Online browser-based Software-As-A-Service available to Dartmouth through a web browser. Visit this link for Dartmouth’s ArcGIS Online system. Click “Sign In” > Dartmouth College, and sign in with your Dartmouth Single-Sign-On credentials to create an account. For more details on ArcGIS Online, see https://services.dartmouth.edu/TDClient/1806/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=123163
Google Maps / MyMaps from Google Suite is available through a web browser. Log in to Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/). In the upper right, click the Google Apps ‘waffle’ icon, and click “Maps”. In the upper left of Maps, click the three-line ‘pancake’ icon, choose “Your Places” > Maps > Create Map
Stephen P. Gaughan
GIS Applications Specialist
603-646-9524
Stephen.P.Gaughan@dartmouth.edu
or visit GIS Office Hours: https://rc.dartmouth.edu/index.php/office-hours/