Location Matters: NPR Story links Plankton to Politics
A recent NPR story was shared with me by a Skidmore College Geologist, Dr. Amy Frappier. The article makes a link between ancient seas and plankton to modern presidential voting patterns, telling the story of how the land’s ancient sea led to fertile soil, to cotton production and plantations, to current voting patterns. What a...
GIS Center Adds Some Mystery to the Skidmore Campus
In Fall 2010 the Skidmore College GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research decided to add a little mystery to the Skidmore Campus. Alex Chaucer coordinated with his student assistants, Sarah Llewleyn ’12, Greg Lloyd ’11, Aaron Miller ’12 and Andrew Noone ’11 to create a series of mystery maps for the campus to try and figure...
