Introduction: My name is Rheigna Gullatte and I am an environmental studies, geography major with a sociology minor. This is what I did this week.
Poking around the website:
- I started exploring and clicked on community and forums. This is a cool little place where people can talk and post their findings about GIS related stuff. There is also a blog. When clicking my settings and my profile, it just has the basic necessities like every app or website does.
Get Started: What is ArcGIS Online:
- With this, you are able to create maps, apps, scenes, and even notebooks
- With ArcGIS Online you are able to look at 2D and 3D maps and data. You can even share and collaborate with other people. It’s meant to be very accessible and you can even have this on your phone so you’re able to work in the field as well.
Training:
- These are the two screenshots from basic training
- I learned that there are different access levels so everyone has a chance to use this software.
- I also learned that web scenes can show 3D geographic data
- The other training I did was called GIS Basics.
- In GIS Basics, I learned that GIS is made up of five different components including hardware, software, data, people, and workflows.
- Workflows can be used to improve efficiency by defining processes and repeatable tasks.
Google Scholar:
- One of my keywords was “poverty”. I found an article called, “Contraception Deserts:The Effects of Title X Rule Changes on Access to Reproductive Health Care Resources”. The article is essentially about how access to contraception has been a struggle and supported in a bipartisan way. Title X is the main funding source for affordable reproductive care and it is simply not enough causing contraception deserts.
- I read the article “Forest Understory Monitoring Protocols for Stanley Park Ecology Society Vancouver BC”. My keyword was “weather”. The article is about the native plants and vegetation in the forest and how they are trying to save the plants from climate change and environmental stressors.
Other: I was in GIS 291 so I believe I completed the Delaware date inventory and know how to navigate around this account.