{"id":1650,"date":"2025-04-02T10:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:38:48","slug":"flores-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/2025\/04\/02\/flores-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Flores week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My name is Daniela Flores and I&#8217;m from Pennsylvania. I&#8217;m a sophomore, environmental science major.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m familiar with arcGIS since I took GIS 291 before spring break. I was familiar with the website and found it rewarding that I already knew how easy it was to navigate. It was cool to explore the new website and sort of start over in a way, learning the basics but through a different lens. The online basics training helped me go back into my memory at the start of 291 and really grind the foundational skills into my brain so I could learn them. Meow I really enjoyed the format of the basic training, it was simple information you could learn along with the quiz that helped confirm you learned the topics. I liked learning about things we had used in arcGIS, and learning what they are used for.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of my favorite ways GIS mapping is used is shark and sea life tracking. The website OCEARCH is a website that tracks sea life like turtles, seals, sharks and dolphins, with this they are able to see things like migration patterns that we have never seen before. Another GIS application is ASPCA to look at the locations of animals in their shelters, and most at risk to reduce shelter intake, and help the shelters that need it more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1651\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-11.30.11-AM-300x136.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-11.30.11-AM-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-11.30.11-AM-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-11.30.11-AM-768x349.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-02-11.30.11-AM.png 1308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1652\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/img-3-1-300x149.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"342\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/img-3-1-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2025\/04\/img-3-1.png 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Daniela Flores and I&#8217;m from Pennsylvania. I&#8217;m a sophomore, environmental science major. I\u2019m familiar with arcGIS since I took GIS 291 before spring break. I was familiar with the website and found it rewarding that I already knew how easy it was to navigate. It was cool to explore the new website and sort of start over in a way, learning the basics but through a different lens. The online basics training helped me go back into my memory at the start of 291 and really grind the foundational skills into my brain so I could learn them. Meow I really enjoyed the format of the basic training, it was simple information you could learn along with the quiz that helped confirm you learned the topics. I liked learning about things we had used in arcGIS, and learning what they are used for.\u00a0 One of my favorite ways GIS mapping is used is shark and sea life tracking. The website OCEARCH is a website that tracks sea life like turtles, seals, sharks and dolphins, with this they are able to see things like migration patterns that we have never seen before. Another GIS application is ASPCA to look at the locations of animals in their shelters, and most at risk to reduce shelter intake, and help the shelters that need it more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}