Category: #BUDSC16
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Runoff Flow Path Mapping at Bucknell–Research, Classroom, and Community Perspectives
Rich Crago, Janine Glathar, Luyang Ren, and Chanda Singoyi (Bucknell University) Precision Conservation combines high resolution, remotely-sensed land surface data with analysis through a Geographic Information System (GIS). This particular application, pioneered by the Chesapeake Conservancy, can identify precise locations where concentrated storm runoff leaves individual fields, and provides a metric that estimates how likely…
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The Discordant Harmony of Distributed Knowledge. The Yale Community Voices Archive.
Carol Chiodo, Michael Lotstein, Monica Ong, Douglas Duhaime (Yale University) How do you build consensus around establishing an institutional archive which seeks to record voices of discord? How might multiple stakeholders strongly disagree, and still work together to record that disagreement? This presentation outlines the blueprint of a distributed knowledge model used to create the…
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Shaping the Future by Engaging the Past: Preserving the Stories of a Discarded Symbol
Rob Sieczkiewicz, Ryan Ake, Rachel Baer, and Jess Deibert (Susquehanna University) If history is written by the victors, what can students learn from hearing the stories of the other side? When an institution changes its identity to reflect contemporary values, how does a community preserve its discarded traditions? In 2015, Susquehanna University’s Board of Trustees decided…