Project Status

-Galapagos-

I wandered around the Internet for a while and found a couple of places that had data on the Islands. The only problem is that the data was not access-able for me to view. Also I did not find a ton of different data sets and of the ones I did none were about animal populations.

-Alum Mapping-

I have not done any further investigating on this topic because Dr. Krygier wants to do this together, so that the university does not think that some guy is not wanting random information on people. I would like to look into this more in the future because this seem like the most doable project currently.

-Genealogical GIS-

I talked to my dad about the book that we own and he said that it does not really have locations of people at a given year, but it has most birth and burial places of individuals. I thought that this was cool and that it could work out. The book contains about 500 family members in it, going back a couple hundred years. The only problem is that he can not find the book. This project is pending on if the book is found or not. Also no large scale genealogical data on the Internet was found, just individual places, such as certain counties that would not help me, is all that I found.

Project Ideas

I talked to my Island Biology instructor about the possibility of doing GIS work down in the Galapagos and she said that it probably would not work out.  So if that does not here are a couple of other ideas for a project:

1. Use data from OWU to map hometowns of students at the university each year all the way back to 1842 when the University opened.  See how the distance between hometowns and OWU has changed over the past centuries.
2. Use data from a family tree (possibly mine) and plot the distributions of the family over the past couple hundred years until the present where all descendants are mapped in their present location.

Galapagos

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