LTS Expands Supports for GIS
Research with New Servers
Three new geographical information
system (GIS) servers have recently been acquired to support
GIS applications in the College of Education, the Earth and
Environmental Sciences Department, and elsewhere as they develop.
The IBM equipment will provide a web
server, an applications server, and a database server all
housed in the E. W. Fairchild Martindale Computer Center.
The applications server will be running a new version of
ESRI’s ArcGIS software and the database server will use
Oracle as its database manager.
Recently LTS also purchased an Oracle
site license. The equipment is expected to be operational
soon.
Partial funding for this purchase,
about ten percent, came from the Toyota USA Foundation. The
purpose of the Toyota grant to Lehigh University is to
promote environmental literacy in the nation’s middle
schools.
The funds will be used to create
professional development materials for teachers, as well as
to update science curriculum using a package of innovative
instructional technologies that is part of Lehigh’s WELIM
initiative—Web-enhanced Environmental Literacy and Inquiry
Modules, a collaborative effort between COE and the
Environmental Initiative.
The lead PI is Alec Bodzin, associate
professor of teaching, learning and technology in the
College of Education.
