Services & Projects at The GISCRF

Services will be provided to any member of the UMB faculty who is working on a research project in which spatially-referenced data must be integrated, analyzed and communicated. Investigators developing pilot projects to gather preliminary data for subsequent grant applications are also invited to request services. To date the GIS CRF has provided the following services:

Services

Geocoding

Creating maps for specific schools within the university

Internet research for data

QA/QC on data sets

Projects

Research Center for Urban Cultural History: Working with Professor Elizabeth Fay and 3 graduate students, the GISCRF created a set of posters of neighborhoods in the Boston area, which include Cambridge, the North End, the West End and Jamaica Plain. A timeline was placed across the orthophoto of these areas and students researched important events across the timeline. These events were then linked to the timeline. The posters were on display during the inaugural week of the new Chancellor Michael Collins.

Jamaica Plain Urban Cultural History Map: Available in PDF format 

Community Relations: Gail Hoben, requested a map of Dorchester with all of the businesses geocoded showing the zoning districts. This map will be presented to the Dorchester Board of Trade at their June 6th meeting.

Trotter Institute. Continuing the Black History project, during the summer of 2006, a student intern will be geocoding a database of approximately 5, 000 Blacks who lived in Boston from 1630 to 1799 using historic maps from the Map Library at the Massachusetts State Library.

Registrar’s Office. A series of maps was generated using the Fall 2006 enrollment data showing where students, faculty and staff were from in Massachusetts, the United States and the world.

UMass Boston - Student Enrollment By Zipcode - Fall 2006

MA Office of Dispute Resolution. A series of maps was generated showing the service locations of Mediation Centers across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Mediation Centers

College of Nursing. Staff of the GISCRF presented “GIS and Health” to a class from the College of Nursing.