Course Schedule

Color Codes Presentation & Discussion Technology Workshop Project Work Travel Outdoor Activity
 
Week 1
Day Time Where Activity Staff
1/5 Mon 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Orientation Scott, Greg, Andy
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00 Going Wild!
Presentation by Jan Dizard
Andy
11:30
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to Quabbin Park & Visitors Center  
1:30 Quabbin Park &
Visitors Center
(B'town)

Tour

Andy; Dave
2:00 The Quabbin Ecosystem
Presentation by Clif Read
2:30
3:00 Quabbin Scientific Data
Presentation by Thom Kyker-Snowman
3:30
4:00 Travel Return from Quabbin Park  
4:30 End
1/6 Tue 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Discussion Scott; Andy
9:30
10:00 Seeley Mudd 014
& Campus
Geocache Experience:
Quabbin and iPhone Students
Andy, Miodrag
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Working with GPS Data
and Google Maps
Andy, Miodrag
1:30
2:00 Seeley Mudd 014 iPhone Data Collection App Design
Meeting with iPhone Students
Scott, Miodrag, Andy
2:30
3:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Introduction to GIS 1:
An Overview of GIS
Andy
3:30
4:00 End
1/7 Wed 9:00 Delayed Opening Due to Inclement Weather
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00
12:30
1:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Introduction to GIS 2:
Creating Maps with Prepared Data

(Quabbin Forestry Data)
Andy
1:30
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30
4:00 End
1/8 Thu 9:00 Travel Visit to Harvard Forest (Petersham)  
9:30
10:00 Harvard Forest (Petersham) The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
Presentation by David Orwig, Forest Ecologist
Museum Visit
with John O'Keefe, Museum Coordinator
Andy, Dave
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00 Travel Return from Harvard Forest (Petersham)  
12:30
1:00 Valentine Lunch  
1:30
2:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Introduction to GIS 3: Understanding and Using Named Data
(Adelgids Town Data)
Andy
2:30
3:00
3:30
4:00 End
1/9 Fri 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Introduction to GIS 4:
Working with Coordinate Data
(GPS)
Andy
9:30
10:00
10:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Discuss Field Work:
Adelgid, Deer, Moose, Soils
Andy
11:00
11:30
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to Quabbin Reservation  
1:30 Quabbin Reservation Meet with Steve Ward, Forester;
Using a GPS Receiver;
Field Work
Andy, Dave
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30 Travel Return from Quabbin Reservation  
4:00 End
 
Week 2
Day Time Where Activity Staff
1/12 Mon 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014
Videographic techniques and video equipment
John, Sara
9:30
10:00
10:30
11:00
11:30
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Talk with Prof. Tanya Leise about Intelligent Agents Scott, Andy
1:30
2:00
2:30 Seeley Mudd 014 or 1st Floor
Project Work
ATS
3:00
3:30
4:00 End
1/13 Tue 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Creating Web Sites 1 Paul
9:30
10:00
10:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Work ATS
11:00
11:30
Seeley Mudd 014
Project Discussion
Scott, Andy
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to USFWS  
1:30

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
(Hadley)

Meet with Wildlife Biologists
John McDonald and Paul O'Neil
Andy
2:00
2:30 Travel Return from USFWS  
3:00 Seeley Mudd 1st Floor Project Work ATS
3:30
4:00 End
1/14 Wed 9:00 Seeley Mudd 002 Introduction to Video Editing with Final Cut Sara
9:30
10:00
10:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Work ATS
11:00
11:30
Seeley Mudd 014
Project Discussion
Scott, Andy
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to Quabbin Reservation  
1:30 Quabbin Reservation Field Work  
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30 Travel Return from Quabbin Reservation  
4:00 End
1/15 Thu 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Creating Web Sites 2 Paul
9:30
10:00
10:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Work ATS
11:00
11:30
Seeley Mudd 014
Project Discussion
Scott, Andy
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to Quabbin Reservation  
1:30 Quabbin Reservation Field Work  
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30 Travel Return from Quabbin Reservation  
4:00 End
1/16 Fri 9:00 Seeley Mudd 014 Introduction to GIS 5:
Using Raster Data

(Quabbin Topographic and Terrain)
Andy
9:30
10:00
10:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Work ATS
11:00
11:30
Seeley Mudd 014
Project Discussion
Scott, Andy
12:00 Valentine Lunch  
12:30
1:00 Travel Visit to Quabbin Reservation  
1:30 Quabbin Reservation Field Work
 
2:00
2:30
3:00
3:30 Travel Return from Quabbin Reservation  
4:00 End
 
Week 3
Day Time Where Activity Staff
1/19 Mon All Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1/20 – 1/23
Tue – Fri
9:00 – 9:30 Seeley Mudd 014 Project Discussion Scott, Andy
All Day Seeley Mudd 002, 014, or 1st Floor Project Work ATS
Quabbin Field Work